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Perfecting the cryptocurrency market comes at a hefty price for Jeremy Gardner, a college dropout-turned millionaire, who gained wealth and fame through bitcoin trading since 2013. It may look squeaky clean at his Crypto Castle — the office and residential housing for …
Alliances shape the fabric of Fortinet’s network success
There’s truth to strength in numbers: Fortinet Inc. acquired nearly 18,000 customers in 2017 alone. The network security company exceeded the half-billion-dollar mark in the fourth quarter of the same year and also announced 11 additional fabric alliance partners. Jon Bove, vice president …
Fortinet reduces risks, increases vendor diversity in network security fabric
During AT&T’s massive frame-relay outage in 1999, Kevin Kealy was an engineer behind the scenes fixing the crash for the far-reaching telecommunications system. At the time, AT&T’s senior vice president and chief security officer, Edward Amoroso, decided to make significant changes. “[Amoroso] decided he …
The big data debacle: Creating insights while protecting privacy, ensuring compliance
Late adopters to big data, analytics, cloud and artificial intelligence may be losing out in becoming a successful 21st century organization. The push for these newer digital technologies, however, has led to major concerns over data compliance, privacy and governance. “Each and every …
How animal waste can help power up remote villages
Who knew that horses would become the key source for a new invention that creates light? The idea came from a horse-loving husband-and-wife team at SEaB Energy Ltd.: Chief Executive Officer Sandra Sassow and Chief Technology Officer Nick Sassow. The duo was trying …
Extended reality, ‘internet of thinking’ enable new ways to work
Automation enables a personal connection between a work environment and communities, but it can also bring isolation. How technology is shaping society and how people are changing to adapt to that situation was recently explored by Accenture PLC in a recent report in which …
Progressive marketing, team culture drives innovation
Traditional marketing has evolved over the decade with the constantly changing Digital Age. To stay successful, companies must keep pace with new innovations while still maintaining a human touch to business, including a face-to-face connection during client engagements, according to Robson Grieve (pictured), chief …
Crypto creeps into US regulations, but there’s a long road ahead
When the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cracked down on Munchee Inc. in December 2017 after it embarked on an initial coin offering, it was a wakeup call for any company marketing digital tokens. Munchee was selling digital tokens to investors to raise $15 …
A deeper look at taxing cryptocurrency and regulating ICOs
Since federal tax reform was approved in December 2017, it has been an uphill battle for businesses to understand its effect on implementing popular but still unregulated initial coin offerings. That’s according to Kelsey Lemaster, tax partner at Goodwin Procter LLP. Lemaster sits on …
Network operators: The game-changers in cloud migration
Network operators have experienced a major transition in their role over the past decade, according to Ivan Pepelnjak (pictured), network architect, celebrity blogger and webinar author. Known in the blogosphere as that “grumpy networking guy,” Pepelnjak has been around business functions for more than 30 years and wants …