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• 50% off SanDisk Extreme PRO 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Speeds Up To 260MB/s - Deal Alert

  06-06-2017 23:05
  
  The SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive features a sizable 128GB of storage, and read speeds of up to 260MB/s lets you easily transfer a full-length movie in seconds. The sophisticated design and durable aluminum metal casing help to protect against every day wear and tear on the outside, while the included SanDisk SecureAccess software provides 128-bit AES file encryption and password protection on the inside for your private files. The SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.0 Flash Drive is backed
  
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• Define your organization’s culture before it derails you

  06-06-2017 21:12
  
  Culture is what guides and drives a business, for better or worse. The set of values, mission, attitude and atmosphere that shape your work environment has a significant impact on results. But if you allow your company culture to evolve organically without guidelines from executives, and without input from workers about what's important to them, you could wind up with exactly what you don't want: a toxic environment that no longer attracts and retains top talent and has difficulty functioning.He
  
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• BrandPost: 5 Key Steps to Take Once Your Security Has Been Breached

  06-06-2017 20:26
  
  The recent WannaCry ransomware attack is more proof that it’s just not possible for any organization, regardless of size, to entirely prevent professional cybercriminals from breaching their data networks. There will always be someone out there with the skills and motive to figure out how to penetrate even the most expensive, most comprehensive, most state-of-the-art cybersecurity system. The U.S. Department of Justice has even released a guidance document outlining best practice
  
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• BrandPost: Building a Global Meta-data Fabric to Accelerate Data Science

  06-06-2017 18:02
  
  Building a Global Meta-data Fabric to Accelerate Data Science
  By Patricia Florissi, Ph.D.In an earlier blog post, Distributed Analytics Meets Distributed Data, I wrote about the concept of a World Wide Herd (WWH), which creates a global network of Apache™ Hadoop® instances that function as a single virtual computing cluster. WWH orchestrates the execution of distributed and parallel computations on a global scale, even across multi-clouds, pushing analytics to where the data resides. T
  
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• Openboek-calculatie stimuleert eerlijk zakendoen

  06-06-2017 17:23
  De digitale transforma­tie is in volle gang. Ook engineering- en constructiebedrijf Huisman onderzoekt hoe kantoor­automatisering, roboti­sering en het internet of things de bedrijfsvoering verder kunnen stroom­lijnen.Het Schiedamse familiebedrijf grijpt het expirerende contract met de huidige... lees meer
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Starting a consulting firm: What I’d do differently the second time around

  06-06-2017 17:00
  
  Recently I did some quick napkin math and figured I’ve spent 85 percent of my professional life in consulting. Although I’m no longer a consultant, some of my best friends are. And I meet tons of people who share the intention, often whispered, to one day leave their jobs and go out on their own.I also keep in touch with many of my former clients who relate recent experiences with management consultants, both good and bad. Hearing these stories either makes me happy I left consulting
  
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• 14% off LEGO Marvel Super Heroes for PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360 - Deal Alert

  06-06-2017 16:41
  
  Smash, swing and fly in the first LEGO videogame featuring more than 100 of your favorite super heroes and villains from the Marvel Universe. In single and multiplayer modes, travel across a LEGO New York and visit key locations from the Marvel universe such as Stark Tower, Asteroid M, and X-Mansion.
  
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• Lease-to-own-programma voor dedicated servers en netwerk infra

  06-06-2017 16:26
  IaaS hosting provider 3W Infra heeft een financieringsprogramma gelanceerd gericht op de grotere hosting-infrastructuren voor bedrijven gericht op margeverhoging en kostenreductie.Het programma is bedoeld voor de grootzakelijke markt, CSP’s, system integrators, MSP’s en andere bedrijven met een vraag naar... lees meer
  
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• De grote belofte van low-code

  06-06-2017 16:10
  Door Bart Meursing – Software en technologie hebben het speelveld van veel bedrijven veranderd. Banken, verzekeraars, energiemaatschappijen, pensioenfondsen, in feite zijn het allemaal software­ bedrijven geworden die sterk op technologie leu­nen. Maar hoe blijf je in het huidige digitale tijd­ perk... lees meer
  
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• Echo Dot and New Echo Show Discounted When You Buy Multiple - Deal Alert

  06-06-2017 15:55
  
  It's your alarm in the bedroom and your assistant in the kitchen. It gives you news and weather in the living room, and maybe music and sports updates in the basement or garage. Multiple Echo devices work seamlessly around your house. Just ask, and Echo uses spacial perception to determine which device should respond. It makes sense to have Echo in multiple rooms, and when you buy multiple devices right now you'll be rewarded with a discount. If you buy three Echo Dots @ $49.99 per Dot, You'll g
  
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• BrandPost: How SDSN Can Control & Protect IoT

  06-06-2017 14:51
  
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised for massive growth, posing significant challenges in both scale and security.Much like data — which has been around forever, but got put into overdrive with Big Data and the digitize-everything revolution — industrial automation has been around for decades, but the proliferation of cheap compute and network connections is fueling the IoT momentum.Controlling the rapidly increasing number of smart, connected devices and the ridiculous amounts of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is shadow IT something CIOs should worry about?

  06-06-2017 14:29
  
  Pervasiveness of shadow ITI talked to several CIOs in the #CIOChat recently about shadow IT.Their collective wisdom is shared in this post. The first thing that impressed me in this chat is that the CIOs know the numbers. CIOs shared what they had learned from Cisco, Gartner, and Brocade. Cisco found that shadow cloud use was greater than 15 times higher than estimated by CIOs. CIOs said that Gartner’s research found that more than 40 percent of IT spend is in fact shadow IT. And Brocade,
  
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• BrandPost: Why "I'm Just Not Technical" is No Longer an Excuse in the C-Suite

  06-06-2017 14:29
  
  I cannot tell you how many board meetings I’ve been in and heard "I am just not technical." Not being “tech savvy” is no longer a valid excuse for not understanding the threats your organization faces, nor what needs to be done to provide protection. If you’re in the budgeting, decision making or approval process for technology investments, you have no choice. You need to be plugged into the technical aspects business operations.You don’t have to understand the tech
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Have you had your Bezos moment? What you can learn from Amazon

  06-06-2017 14:28
  
  When people and companies grow wildly successful, we often forget that they have the same number of hours in the day as everyone else. Yet, we often find ourselves speculating, how do they do what they do…and how do they do it so well? For Amazon, the answer might not be so clear-cut to the everyday user. Yes, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos is a visionary and fearless leader. However, his company–as big as it has grown–seems to change, bend and release new products and ser
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: An executive overview of the Deep & Dark Web

  06-06-2017 14:21
  
  Like most cybersecurity professionals, I’m no stranger to the Deep & Dark Web (DDW). For us, the DDW is both a treasure trove of invaluable data and a necessary evil that powers many of the threats from which we were hired to protect our companies. We also recognize why it’s so important to invest in services and technologies that give us greater visibility into the DDW. The problem is, these services and technologies often come with hefty price tags, and with hefty price tags of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why CIOs need their head in the cloud

  06-06-2017 14:19
  
  The cloud presents one of the biggest industry disruptions in years. And while you may be sick of talking about it, CIOs need to get their heads in the cloud in order to help their company safely and successfully navigate the journey.The cloud is a great equalizer. The trick is that not all companies are startups; few enterprises can simply move everything into a cloud system without concern for security or privacy. But the reality is, sooner or later, we will all be in a situation with one foot
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 Tips to Secure Your IoT Deployment

  06-06-2017 14:12
  
  After years of delays and false starts, 2017 is supposed to be the year where the Internet of Things (IoT) truly starts to become a ubiquitous part of our lives. But while progress has been made, deploying IoT devices has been slowed by various concerns, of which the biggest are the very real security concerns around any IoT network.Any IoT breach can carry serious consequences. A survey released today found that “Almost half of all companies in the US using an IoT network have been the vi
  
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• Don't be left behind by IPv6 deployment, ISOC warns enterprises

  06-06-2017 14:00
  They have the resources, the expertise and, though they may not realize it, the need -- but it turns out that enterprises are often the ones that don't yet have IPv6.That's the finding of the Internet Society its latest report on IPv6 deployment, published five years after the organization began a worldwide push to deploy the new addressing protocol and almost 20 years after the protocol was defined.Around 13 percent of the top one million websites is inviting IPv6 traffic today, it said, citing
  
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• Rob Fijneman (KPMG): De gedroomde digitale-leidersrol

  06-06-2017 12:28
  Succesvolle CIO’s hebben vaak een businessachtergrond en een dito oriëntatie. Ze kunnen hun verhaal goed communiceren naar zowel RvB als RvC, om de koppeling met business en bedrijfsvoering te maken. Maar ook leiders vanuit de traditionele IT kunnen zich ontpoppen tot digitale vaandeldragers. Zolang... lees meer
  
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• 7 ways AI will revolutionize business travel

  06-06-2017 12:05
  
  In April, United Airlines hit a huge pocket of public relations turbulence after a passenger was forcibly removed from one of its partners’ airplanes. The incident raised questions about blindly following procedures, passenger rights, and United’s executive leadership.Here’s another question it raised: Could artificial intelligence (AI) have prevented the embarrassing drama from even happening?[ Find out whichwhich deep learning network is best for your organization. | Get the
  
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• Reverse mentoring: A unique approach to rejuvenating your IT culture

  06-06-2017 12:00
  
  CIOs often lament the IT talent shortage, and unless you’re able to lure young techies with stock options, perks and too-good-to-pass-up pay, you may find yourself leading a department stuck in its legacy ways. One solution is to train your veteran IT staff to evolve with the times by tapping a hidden teacher pool: millennial “digital natives.”Aflac CIO Julia Davis has made great strides on this front by creating a reverse mentoring program that pairs veteran IT staff with &ldq
  
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