Features Region: Northeast

Guiding IT at a small institution that delivers big results is not what Karen Warren expected as an undergraduate English major. Now it’s a point of pride for Warren as deputy CIO at Wesleyan University. In helping meet the needs of faculty, students and administration, Warren emphasizes resourcefulness and practicality—this in keeping with the history […]

There’s a lot happening by the shores of Lake Erie in western New York, and Brice Bible loves being in the thick of it. For nearly a decade, the city of Buffalo has been enjoying an economic resurgence, Bible says, changing from a Rust Belt manufacturing center to a high-tech hub as both state and […]

For students in the high-poverty Niagara Falls City School District, computer-based learning starts in pre-kindergarten. This head start helps give students the same opportunities as their counterparts in more affluent districts, who likely have computers and internet at home, says Mark Laurrie, Niagara Falls superintendent. That approach worked just fine until the COVID-19 pandemic sent […]

It was a hectic day at Mather Hospital in December when Toggle caught up with Dr. Joseph Ng, as he rushed in and out of the emergency room to address the post-Thanksgiving Day surge of COVID-19 patients. As a critical care intensivist, NG cares for critically ill patients. His second duty is serving in the […]

Previously known as Reckitt Benckiser, RB products are quite visible at any supermarket or pharmacy. In the post-COVID-19 world, being seen on a shelf is not nearly enough. Digital Commerce 360 reports consumers spent $861.12 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2020. That’s a 44 percent increase from 2019 and means more than 20 percent […]

The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed. So wrote William Gibson in 1993. A sci-fi writer of some renown, he is even credited with coining the term “cyberspace,” which, of course, is sci-fact. Anyway … Joseph Hemway, CIO and vice president of infotech at the Pratt Institute, is one to quote […]

The U.S. continues to expand access to cannabis in many states and in November 2020, five more states voted by overwhelming majorities to legalize cannabis. Despite this, in more than two dozen states, a person can be arrested and thrown in jail for possessing or trying to sell marijuana. In the other 15 states where […]

So evolves the economic model of payments provider Planet. What had been business to business is now business to business to consumer, and there’s literally a world of possibilities for continued growth thanks to diversified revenue streams for both domestic and international transactions. Especially as cabin fever sufferers everywhere again take to traveling when COVID-19 […]

Most people have come to expect that companies will recommend similar products to them after buying—or even looking at—something online. Phrases such as “others who bought this also liked…” have become commonplace. Sarah Foss, however, doesn’t give people what other consumers want. She knows the value of tailoring suggestions specifically to individuals to give them […]

The call came while Aaron Leiberman was attending an industry conference in Las Vegas for partners and customers. A ConRes client had been hit with a ransomware attack, and he and his team of solution architects and engineers were urgently needed on-site to guide incident response and recovery efforts. Leaving the conference immediately, Leiberman, the […]