Bloomfield, NJ – February 10th, 2021 — Alloy Software, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Asset Management solutions, announced today a new version of the Alloy Navigator app on Android and iPhone. The mobile app update is available now and includes several new features to support change management and approval workflows.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has quickly become a huge part of how people live, communicate and do business. All kinds of everyday things make up this network – fridges, kettles, light switches – you name it. If it’s connected to WiFi, it’s part of the Internet of Things. IoT raises significant challenges that could stand in your way of fully realizing its potential benefits.

I have seen many junior data scientists and machine learning engineers start a new job or a consulting engagement for a telecom company coming from different industries and thinking that it’s yet another project like many others. What they usually don’t know is that “It’s a trap!”. I spent several years forging telecom data into valuable insights, and looking back, there are a couple of things I would have loved to know at the beginning of my journey.

The data center is a remarkably complex structure. However, they are crucial to the everyday running of even the smallest businesses and enterprises. Whether in-house, cloud, or hybrid, the average data center management requires specialist knowledge and meticulous oversight for max efficiency. That is one reason, at least, why machine learning is emerging as an ideal partner for centers of the future.

The next-generation of mobile connectivity is rapidly bringing supercharged mobile gaming, Internet of Things technology, and a smarter, better-connected world to consumers’ fingertips. As 5G rapidly evolves and brings new possibilities, it presents a wealth of opportunities for mobile network operators (MNOs) to differentiate their services with high performance applications; and for wireline operators to deliver differentiated backhaul transport services, but they need to act quickly.

In a previous life as an Android developer, a customer reported a nasty bug that we didn’t know how to fix. After what felt like countless hours of debugging and writing back and forth to customer support, our only option left was to get our hands on the users’ local database. However, for a variety of reasons, we couldn’t ask the customer to root the device, copy the database, and send it to us.