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Real-time data integration and other IT/OT convergence practices will become increasingly important to Tucson Electric Power as it continues to expand its renewable energy portfolio. TEP is working to ...

Industry 4.0 and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) have placed information technology (IT) and operation technology (OT) convergence at the heart of business processes, crucial to a company’s ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

When OT systems are brought into the IT security realm, there are more devices that need network connectivity and greater segmentation is required to isolate those devices. Zero-trust architectures ...

Today, as companies in the manufacturing, energy and a wide variety of other industries begin to plan a wide-scale digital transformation, many quickly realize that to be successful, edge computing ...

Heiko Claussen is SVP of AI at AspenTech, responsible for the company’s industry 4.0 strategy, industrial AI research and data science. The recent convergence of information technology (IT) and ...

As businesses refine their digital strategies, experts recommend integrating IT with operational tech. According to Lynda Stadtmueller, research vice president and global practice area leader at Frost ...

This month marks the first anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown — a hugely impactful ransomware attack against critical US infrastructure that has had significant diplomatic and legislative ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Not all that long ago, the cybersecurity ...

In 2016, when I wrote about IT/OT convergence as one of the key mantras in Smart Manufacturing, my opinion was that IT/OT convergence was not only a technical issue, but an organizational one. In ...

In light of recent incidents that impacted both information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments, organizations are increasingly evaluating the risks associated with growing IT ...