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Renewable energy in action: Examples and use cases for fueling the future

IBM Big Data Hub

As more countries, companies and individuals seek energy sources beyond fossil fuels, interest in renewable energy continues to rise. In fact, world-wide capacity for energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources increased by 50% in 2023. What is renewable energy? trillion in 2023. trillion in 2023.

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The Significance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Information Management

AIIM

of Energy SPR. Information managers possess the skills to gather and utilize resources effectively. My friend Rene Shonerd came up with the idea after attending a professional event for IT leaders in the association community held several years ago, where only 10% of attendees were women.

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Dept. of Energy announced the Liberty Eclipse exercise to test electrical grid against cyber attacks

Security Affairs

This is the first time the Department of Energy will test the electrical grid’s ability to recover from a blackout caused by cyberattacks. According to the E&E News website, the Department of Energy plans to conduct a weeklong experiment, dubbed ‘Liberty Eclipse,’ that will take place starting Nov.

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INSIGHTS from SENTINEL

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

At Sentinel Insights 2021, the Thales flagship software monetization conference, industry-leading experts shared their insights on why and how innovative software licensing and packaging—the infrastructure behind the subscription economy—can be rocket fuel for your revenue. .

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. And we’ll hear about the ICS Village, not just at DEF CON but RSAC and other conferences. It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. Environmental effects caused by pollution.

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DB2 Dispatch from Vegas: IOD, Day One

Robert's Db2

The sun is starting to set in a typically cloudless sky in Nevada's southern desert, and day one of IBM's annual Information on Demand conference (aka IOD) is just about done. The conference got over 10,000 registrants this year. The arena-like events center in which this morning's grand opening session was held was pretty well packed.