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• IDG Contributor Network: You are what you say

  07-05-2019 16:26
  The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change a defeat into victory, and to save an empire. –Emile de GirardinThe exact right words can convey a tremendous amount of meaning and can bring clarity to a murky situation. Who had ever heard of "airplane mode" a few years ago?  How about "ransomware"? These are words that were created to, so we didn't have to explain the concepts each time.How clunky would it be to say in the first c
  
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• What is a digital twin? A real-time, virtual representation

  14-12-2021 11:00
  
  Digital twin definition
  Digital twins are real-time, virtual representations of objects, processes, and systems. While digital twins can represent purely digital things, they most frequently serve as a bridge between the physical and digital domains. For example, a digital twin could provide a digital view of the operations of a factory, communications network, or the flow of packages through a logistics system.“The implementation of a digital twin is an encapsulated software object or mo
  
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• Cross-functional teams: The new IT imperative

  14-12-2021 11:00
  
  Cross-functional teams that blend IT and business professionals are nothing new, but now they have become almost a mandate.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 8 myths about IT veterans looking for new work

  13-12-2021 11:00
  
   A common misconception about tech workers of a certain vintage is that they’re caught in the past and either overqualified or unable to adapt to future technology. As with most conventional wisdom, there’s as much fiction as fact surrounding the supposed work habits and career opportunities for veteran IT pros — even those as young as 40.For seasoned professionals looking for jobs — or looking to shake up their careers — tech leaders say to take hea
  
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• 4 steps to alleviate the QA talent shortage

  13-12-2021 11:00
  
  As the broader labor market tightens, workers in the IT sector remain scarce with an unemployment rate of 2.2%.  Along with software developers and security analysts, some of the hardest to find IT workers are QA professionals. Even more scarce is the true unicorn of the IT quality assurance world: the SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test).To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 10 hottest IT certifications today

  10-12-2021 11:00
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has seen businesses accelerating digital transformation strategies faster than originally planned. But the ongoing IT skills gap has complicated progress, with more than half of IT decision-makers reporting that hiring for essential IT positions is “somewhat difficult or extremely difficult,” according to the Global Knowledge 2021 IT Skills and Salary report.To bridge this gap, employers and job seekers alike are leaning on certifications, whether to train up e
  
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• BrandPost: Digital Sense: Delivering cloud solutions that support business growth.

  10-12-2021 00:09
  
  Digital Sense is well known among private sector enterprises and government agencies throughout Queensland for its full suite of cloud solutions. The company’s products and services address everything from data sovereignty and data protection to the demand for low-latency, cloud-native applications. We spoke with Digital Sense’s Head of Sales and Commercial Jon Pannell to learn more about the company’s offerings, the demands driving Australia’s enterprises to the cloud a
  
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• BrandPost: Supporting Open Source Software in IT Environments

  09-12-2021 23:56
  
  Any misgivings enterprises may have once had about adopting open source software for critical corporate functions is long gone. Studies show that over 90% of IT leaders consider open source software “strategically important” and that more than 87% of enterprises are running applications today that are open source. Enterprises embark on open source journeys – creating data pipelines with Splunk, using MuleSoft to connect applications, orchestrating workloads using containers &n
  
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• Kyndryl partners with Google to support customers in cloud

  09-12-2021 19:46
  
  Kyndryl, the IT services business that IBM spun off in early November, has formed a global strategic partnership with Google to support their joint customers in the cloud.The deal comes a month after Kyndryl struck a similar deal with Microsoft, encompassing Azure cloud hosting and support for products such as Office365 and Teams, and a smaller partnership with VMware, as well as a certification agreement with SAP.
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• 3 steps to better data center risk management

  09-12-2021 12:45
  
  Half a decade ago, in the wake of the rise of cloud computing, some IT evangelists, CIOs, and large tech research firms foretold the imminent death of the data center as we know it. My co-columnist at CIO.com Mark Settle at the time advised caution in writing off data centers and envisaged how they  would continue to grow based on the evolution of – you guessed it – data.Today, data centers continue to not just survive but thrive alongside hybrid and multicloud systems in new a
  
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• CIOs gear up for the long-term hybrid enterprise

  09-12-2021 11:00
  
  As most CIOs see it, the distributed, hybrid enterprise workforce is here to stay.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IT takes on a product mindset

  08-12-2021 11:00
  
  When Steven Palmese moved into the CIO role at Presidio two years ago, he found an IT department delivering technologies through a project-based approach using waterfall development methods for some tasks and agile practices for others.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 7 digital disruption myths

  07-12-2021 11:00
  
  Digital disruption is sweeping the enterprise landscape, replacing or radically transforming long-established business beliefs and practices. Besides creating new efficiencies, opportunities, and even entire markets, digital transformation has also generated a number of major misconceptions. These modern folk tales, if actually believed by business leaders, can delay or even completely derail a digital disruption initiative.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 4 trends disrupting managed infrastructure services

  07-12-2021 11:00
  
  While corporate data centers supported by managed infrastructure services were once in the background supporting business operations, they have now moved to the forefront of strategic planning and targeted investment decisions.  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) models must change to empower businesses to embrace the digital age, innovate, and integrate their cloud-first strategies.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 10 hidden benefits of hybrid work

  06-12-2021 11:00
  
  Nearly all studies and reports have called it: Hybrid is the way the business world will work from now on.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Top AWS re:Invent takeaways for CIOs

  03-12-2021 11:00
  
  This week’s Amazon Web Services’ customer conference, AWS re:Invent 2021, was Adam Selipsky’s first outing as CEO. He recently returned to AWS, where he worked from 2005 to 2016, after five years as CEO of Tableau Software, the data visualization vendor acquired by Salesforce.com. Between his opening keynote, and CTO Werner Vogels closing session, the company released an avalanche of announcements.Re:Invent opened a couple days after The Wall Street Journal published an editor
  
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• Top 13 cloud cost management tools

  02-12-2021 11:00
  
  Cloud cost management tools are a relatively new creation. Just a decade ago, the cloud was pitched as saving us the hassle of bidding, installing, and maintaining our own hardware. Prices per hour were specified in pennies. How could anything go wrong?To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 10 master data management certifications that will pay off

  02-12-2021 11:00
  
  As data and analytics become the beating heart of the enterprise, it is increasingly critical for the business to have access to consistent, high-quality data assets. Master data management (MDM) is required to ensure that the enterprise’s data is consistent, accurate, and controlled.MDM is a set of disciplines, processes, and technologies used to master an organization’s master data. Master data is data about business entities or objects around which business is conducted.
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• Six innovative cybersecurity companies in the Netherlands

  02-12-2021 06:00
  
  The Netherlands has secured its spot as Europe’s top cybersecurity hub, with thousands of companies working to develop cybersecurity technology and a supportive legal and regulatory framework based around the 2013 National Cyber Security Strategy 2.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• BrandPost: Podcast: CIO Leadership Live with Sujan Turlapaty, SVP & CIO at Optiv

  01-12-2021 20:59
  
  Sujan Turlapaty, SVP & CIO at Optiv, joins Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, which is jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They will discuss digitizing the client journey, data-driven innovation, co-creating business solutions and more.
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• 8 tips for managing low-code citizen developers

  01-12-2021 11:00
  
  The central tenet of low-code and no-code tools — that business users can be leaned on to fill the ‘app gap’ — is resonating with enterprises.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 7 tips for winning over your CFO

  30-11-2021 11:00
  
  CFOs and CIOs understand the importance of getting their relationship right. For CFOs, IT is often one of the largest budget items. For CIOs, 22% of whom report to their CFO, according to Deloitte, earning budget approval is vital to fueling transformation. Yet today the two roles often run on different tracks: one on a straight and narrow path moving at a set pace, with established milestones and the finish line in sight; the other sprinting through twists and turns with the destination still t
  
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• Lean Six Sigma: Process improvement with a purpose

  29-11-2021 11:00
  
  Lean Six Sigma combines two methodologies, Lean and Six Sigma, to help accelerate specific processes so that organizations can solve problems faster and reduce waste, while creating more value for customers. It combines the waste-reducing mentality of the Lean methodology with the defect and variance reduction focus of Six Sigma. Together, Lean Six Sigma creates a powerful methodology for keeping businesses ahead of schedule and under budget, enabling organizations to create processes that supp
  
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• 7 steps for better business-IT collaboration

  29-11-2021 11:00
  
  Break down silos. Build cross-functional teams. Bring in business partners.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 3 steps for creating a data-to-value ecosystem

  25-11-2021 11:00
  
  Although many organizations are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine language (ML) tools as core enablers in their data analytics projects, and AI spending worldwide continues to rise, the hard truth is that most data science projects are doomed to fail.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 10 strategic tech trends for the infrastructure industry in 2022

  24-11-2021 11:00
  
  Compared to early adopters on the road to digital transformation, the infrastructure industry, meaning the “built environment” consisting of the human-made places and spaces in which we live, work, and play, could be considered a laggard. But it is a laggard with enormous market opportunity—to the tune of $21T annually worldwide and an annual spend of $1.4T in the U.S., representing 4% of US GDP.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Study: Storage systems are weakest link in IT infrastructure security

  23-11-2021 19:38
  
  Storage systems have a significantly weaker security posture than the other two layers of IT infrastructure — compute and network equipment — according to a report from cybersecurity company Continuity Software.By analyzing data from more than 400 enterprise storage devices, the research revealed 6,300 discrete security issues related to 15 vulnerabilities that, on average, every enterprise security device is exposed to. The study examined equipment from vendors including Brocade, C
  
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• BrandPost: Sopra Steria Nordics: Empowering Enterprises Throughout Scandinavia to Realize the Full Potential of the Cloud

  23-11-2021 19:30
  
  With over 20 years experience in the Nordic IT industry, Odd Inge Bjørdal, has witnessed firsthand the transformative evolution of cloud services and solutions.Bjørdal began his career as a systems specialist working on infrastructure transformation projects. Later he managed deployments for many of the company’s largest enterprise customers. Bjørdal is now managing director for Digital Platform Services in Sopra Steria Nordics – a role in which he oversees more
  
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• 7 compliance mistakes to avoid

  23-11-2021 11:00
  
  Compliance is a fact of life for just about every company — especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government. And while compliance is often under the mantel of legal, compliance, risk management, or other departments, IT is certain to be involved in any organization’s compliance efforts.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 6 famous analytics and AI disasters

  23-11-2021 11:00
  
  In 2017, The Economist declared that data, rather than oil, had become the world’s most valuable resource. The refrain has been repeated ever since. Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side.According to IDG’s State of the CIO 2021 report, 39% of IT leaders say that data analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year, up from 37% in 2020. Insig
  
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