Automotive IT News and Facts
Trust and data security are more important than saving money when it comes to cloud computing, a study by BearingPoint concludes. The consultants looked at why adoption of cloud-based services continues to be dogged by fears over data security, reliability and compliance. What they found was that companies are tempted by the scalability and relatively [...]
European Union Commissioner Neelie Kroes this week made an impassioned plea for a European Cloud strategy, saying a coordinated approach to the new technology could generate major savings for businesses and private individuals. The EU commissioner, who is in charge of the 27-nation bloc’s so-called “Digital Agenda,” said at a Brussels conference that a European [...]
Sanjay Rishi is CIO and group vice president, information technology, at Automotive Experience, the biggest division of US-based Johnson Controls. Rishi runs a global IT operation with between 400 and 500 people worldwide, not including a “partner ecosystem” of companies that provide a broad range of IT services to JCI. The automotive division employs 80,000 [...]
Companies in emerging markets are leading the way when it comes to adoption Cloud-based application, according to a survey conducted by Tata Consulting Services. The US and Europe remain conservative about putting mission-critical and customer data in the Cloud, the survey of 606 managers in global companies with sales of more than 1 billion dlrs [...]
General Motors’ OnStar and Verizon Wireless showed a research vehicle at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that provides users with access to Cloud-based streaming content. The US carmaker’s telematics unit has teamed up with Verizon, a major US mobile network operator, to bring fast 4G connectivity into the automotive environment. The aim was [...]
The global IT community expects a growing range of data and applications to move to the Cloud sooner rather than later. But, according to a German university study, the migration to the Cloud is moving more slowly than many have predicted. Researchers at the SRH University of Applied Sciences Berlin, in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom, [...]
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology has developed a data encryption solution to make Cloud computing safer. The Institute’s OmniCloud software, which runs at a customer’s site, encrypts all data before they are sent to the Cloud. In addition, the software can “translate” between different Cloud application program interfaces. That means companies can access [...]
With the help of Cloud computing, analytics and Google’s predictive software, the car of the future can learn a driver’s habits and help improve vehicle performance. Ford researchers are testing whether a car can be made smart enough to independently change its performance to deliver optimal driving characteristics and fuel efficiency. They presented some of [...]
Toyota aims to build a “complete global cloud platform by 2015″ and it is soliciting Microsoft’s help to get there. The Japanese carmaker and the US-based software giant announced Thursday that they plan to jointly build a global platform for Toyota’s next-generation telematics services. The infrastructure will be based on the Windows Azure platform. As [...]
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes last week called on CIOs to help improve Europe’s IT infrastructure by together building an EU-wide digital single market. In a speech on the occasion of the European CIO of the Year award, Kroes said CIOs from both the public and private sector need to contribute their expertise to reduce the [...]
