Explore the relationship between IoT governance and privacy
Privacy protection is one of the most critical elements within IoT governance. With IoT devices continuously collecting vast amounts of personal and sensitive data, privacy considerations must be embedded in an organization’s governance structures rather than treated as an afterthought. “Privacy first” should be the message to all who engage in business or personal […]
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Informatica enhances IDMC with AI-powered MDM, governance, and compliance tools
Informatica is adding new AI-based capabilities to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform to help enterprises manage their data more efficiently for generative AI and agentic applications and use cases. IDMC sits on top of enterprise databases, ingesting and cataloguing from various sources and applying data governance rules as it goes. It includes tools for […]
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Top 12 IoT applications and examples in business
The world now has twice as many connected devices as humans, and the number of IoT-enabled endpoints is expected to climb even more exponentially in the years ahead. In a May 2025 report, German data collection and visualization firm Statista put the number of IoT devices worldwide at 19.8 billion in 2025 and predicted it […]
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Google’s new toolset to help connect AI agents to BigQuery
The new toolset contains tools that will allow AI agents to execute queries inside BigQuery as well as fetch metadata from the cloud-based data warehouse. These tools include the list_dataset_ids tool, which retrieves all dataset IDs within a Google Cloud project; get_dataset_info tool, which provides detailed metadata about a specific dataset; list_table_ids tool, which lists […]
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What is an IoT gateway?
An IoT gateway is a physical device or software program that serves as the connection point between the cloud and internet of things devices, such as controllers, sensors and smart devices. IoT is used in enterprises and industries and can be found in consumer products. IoT gateways act as a central hub, connecting IoT devices […]
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Snowflake brings analytics workloads into its cloud with Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark
Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark is Snowflake’s take on that technology, enabling enterprises to run their Spark code on Snowflake’s vectorized engine in Data Cloud. For Snowflake customers, the new capability will make it easy for developers to move their code to Snowpark, essentially offering a combination of Spark’s familiarity and Snowflake’s simplicity, according to […]
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The importance of memory for AI
Persona memory stores the agent’s identity, personality traits, roles, expertise, and communication style. Toolbox memory contains tool definitions, metadata, parameter schemas, and embeddings for the agent’s capabilities. Conversation memory stores the history of exchanges between the user and the agent. Workflow memory tracks the state of multistep processes. Episodic memory stores specific events or experiences […]
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What public cloud gets wrong with AI
AI is not cheap. During the past year, public cloud giants have significantly accelerated their investments in AI. By the close of 2024, Microsoft had invested more than $80 billion in AI infrastructure, partnerships, and development. AWS is on track to spend nearly a year’s worth of its revenue on AI in 2025, with AI […]
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11 IoT security challenges and how to overcome them
From smartwatches to smart streetlights, smart home devices to smart manufacturing, the internet of things has revolutionized how people and organizations operate, improving efficiencies and optimizing processes. With these benefits, however, comes a major challenge: IoT increases the number and types of security risks businesses and consumers face. Any device that connects to the […]
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JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language
JetBrains, creator of the popular Kotlin programming language, is developing a new programming language intended to make AI and code much more controllable and transparent. In a July 23 interview with InfoWorld, JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan elaborated on company plans for an as-yet-unnamed language that would describe a program at a higher level of abstraction. […]
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