Features Information Technologies

One company supplies jet fuel to 70 bases and terminals throughout the United States. Another is responsible for warehousing industrial fluid in million-gallon tanks for dozens of seaside facilities. There’s a Hawaiian natural gas company and a cutting-edge wind and solar energy company. Together, these businesses are serviced by one company: MIC Global Services. All […]

He’s heard stories about the most hard-to-please celebrities storming out of world-class resorts because the flowers on the table or the art on the walls weren’t to their liking. And how much angrier they were if the wet bar lacked the right beverages or the menu was too bland. That’s not to say many of […]

By the time you finish reading this sentence, Amazon will have delivered 100 packages to mailboxes and doorsteps throughout the United States. That’s 1.6 million packages per day, or nearly 5 billion every year—all opened with faith the wares inside are as good as advertised. Yet even in this digital age, there are products that […]

The simple idea of situational awareness—literally being aware of our surroundings and using that information to help make decisions and calculated predictions—has been around for nearly as long as human life itself; historians and scientists point to it as one of our most enduring survival advantages. In today’s technology-driven world, the concept has been amped-up […]

William Tran wants to be known as a transformational leader, and in his book that calls for collaborating with and challenging his team and extending due credit when it carries out a mission. Thus, he’ll take a modest bow for the way he’s been modernizing info-tech at Berkley Risk since coming aboard as CIO in […]

There’s something major in the high-tech mix that’s soon to be unveiled by Sharp Electronics Corp., but Associate Vice President and CIO Tom McElligott wasn’t about to let the details slip during a chat with Toggle in early August. Still, while listening to the Irish-born McElligott expand on what a dynamic industry info-tech is, one […]

When it comes to cyberdefense in that perpetual war between the white and black hats of info-tech, there’s no Great Wall of China. So reminds Gregory J. Turner, the CIO and senior vice president of services for IT seller and solutions provider MTM Technologies in Stamford, Connecticut. Even if there were, he explains, it would […]

Whether he’s on a business trip or just vacationing with his young family, Esteban R. Velez will look up the hotel’s info-tech director and ask him or her to lunch. “My kids hate me for that,” the jovial Velez tells Toggle. “But in this line of work, it’s essential that we all share ideas. The […]

Turning paper manufacturing by-products into “green” products; transforming sawdust from furniture manufacturing into activated carbon to help reduce car emissions. Ten years ago, such advances would’ve seemed the stuff of science fiction. For Michael Mullis, they’re the reason he comes to work every day. And why, after more than 20 years working for some of […]

Shopping online for groceries has been slow to catch on, the reasons being easy to understand. Most of us, after all, want to examine perishables before loading them into the cart. Especially if we’re heeding the doctor’s advice about eating more fruits, vegetables, fish and lean meats. But that doesn’t mean the grocery industry’s modus […]