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• BrandPost: Streaming Analytics Use Cases

  05-07-2017 23:10
  
   Since the advent of Hadoop, enterprises have made remarkable progress on big data analytics. Massive amounts of stored data is “batch” processed to extract the hidden value. More recently, we are witnessing a surge in demand for real time analytics on continuously streaming data. Enterprises are finding “stream” processing very useful in applications such as detecting anomalies and urgent conditions, automating timely actions, uncovering hidden business values, prev
  
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• CIO Quick Takes: How IT leaders employ agile and DevOps for strategic advantage

  05-07-2017 19:49
  
  “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything,” President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously remarked. Plans of any sort require retooling once they collide with the hard reality of execution. But the act of planning—and, by extension, the creation of a strategic environment where such rapid iterations are possible—is paramount.Agile and DevOps are disciplines that can undergird this sort of strategic environment in an IT department. They represent the rapidity and quality
  
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• BrandPost: Customer Engagement: A Data-Driven Team Sport

  05-07-2017 18:46
  
  For organizations that have a big data strategy and a team of analysts in place, a critical next step is building a customer-centric view with the data. Most organizations are seeking this customer-centric, data-driven approach with their digital transformation initiatives.The CIO is best positioned to provide this customer-centric view across the organization, says Graeme Thompson, Informatica CIO.“You have to think about [digital transformation] in a connected way across the entire compa
  
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• BrandPost: Transformation of the Branch WAN

  05-07-2017 16:51
  
  Over the past twenty-five years, Branch and Wide Area Networks (WANs) have been based on a “build-your-own” methodology, but it is starting to transition from purely build-your-own to a consume model. A good analogy for this transition would be the music industry transformation.  Twenty-five years ago, I used to buy a lot of vinyl records and would pick and choose the songs I liked, then build mix tapes.  I was buying and owning everything; building my own, by selectin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Can 'things' be social?

  05-07-2017 15:33
  
  Everyone has some concern about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on our human job force – it’s in the news everywhere. But, what if it goes beyond jobs? What if it completely changes the meaning of other aspects of our lives and businesses that we haven’t thought much about yet? Like, how we communicate socially and who, or what, we interact with in a social network. What if this current generation of social media networks and apps is the end of social media as
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The dos and don’ts of data lakes

  05-07-2017 15:29
  
  “In 3 keys to keep your data lake from becoming a data swamp” Thor Olavsrud provides CDOs, CIOs, and other business intelligence leaders with relevant guidance on preventing the so called ‘data swamp’. This includes:Collect less data to start with
  Adopt a machine learning strategy
  Determine the business issue you’re trying to address.
  These are great suggestions — in particular, having a business mission for your data lake.Why does this matter?
  Clearly, delive
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What CIOs need to know about authentication

  05-07-2017 15:19
  
  Over the past two or three decades the internet has enabled humans to reach far beyond their physical constraints. We log into our company from home, use banking services located thousands of miles away, store our photos who knows where in the cloud, and email our friends and coworkers across the globe.Meanwhile, the organizations in whom we used to place our trust, such as banks, credit card processors, newspaper publishers, even the U.S. Postal Service have largely been replaced or supplemente
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Human liability in security

  05-07-2017 15:10
  
  Cyber attacks are in the news daily. Often the headlines sound alarms about hacktivists or hackers from across the globe, but shocking headlines overlook a key statistic. According to a 2016 report published by IBM (registration required), up to 60% of all cyber attacks result, often unwittingly, from the actions of people inside or closely connected to the company.Some estimates put the global cost of cybercrime at 2.1 trillion by 2019, with 20% of cyber attacks directed at
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Automation technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence in the workforce

  05-07-2017 15:06
  
  A few weeks ago McDonald's shares hit an all-time high, buoyed by Wall Street's expectations that investments in automation technologies will drive business value: As part of its "Experience of the Future" initiative, McDonald's announced plans to roll out digital ordering kiosks that will replace cashiers in 2,500 of its locations. The company will also extend its customer self-service efforts, deploying mobile ordering at 14,000 locations. Given McDonald's bold bet, where does your c
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IoT's interoperability challenge

  05-07-2017 15:03
  
  IoT promises to improve daily life in a number of ways. Interconnectivity between devices enables increased productivity at home or within industrial settings. This interconnectivity comes at a price, as the popularity increases and the number of devices and networks expands, the lack of interoperability between them becomes an issue.The primary problem is that there are too many players in the game. Technology companies are developing solutions independently of each other, utilizing different p
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Seven secrets of CIO success as taught by the CIO 100

  05-07-2017 14:54
  
  CIO.co.uk recently published its Top 100 most transformative and disruptive CIOs in the UK.Each name on the list has given a neat interview that gives a unique insight into the thinking of this country's leading CIOs. I wondered if common threads and themes appeared in these interviews, might we have stumbled upon the keys to success?I have had the pleasure of working with several who have made this year’s list and previous lists, so I am massively proud of their inclusion.As I suspected t
  
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• How to find focus and crush the competition in the age of distraction

  05-07-2017 14:52
  
  The ability to tune out the constant barrage of pings and popups emanating from apps and focus on what really matters for our businesses and careers has become a competitive advantage.That's the message from author Jocelyn K. Glei, whose work centers around finding meaning, creativity and focus in daily work. Her latest book is "Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 10 ways you’re failing at IT audits

  05-07-2017 12:00
  
  Nobody likes an audit. Even in the best of outcomes, audits take up valuable time that can be used to improve services and grow the bottom line. But a failed IT audit can ruin your week faster than a denial of service attack. Worse, a negative IT audit can feel like a report card on your management ability — and future.But it doesn’t have to be that way. The next time an internal or external audit group comes sniffing into your IT infrastructure, policies and operations, it can go we
  
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