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• BrandPost: The Cloud Journey, Part 2: Are You Ready for the Cloud?

  19-07-2017 22:24
  
  Cloud is maturing and scaling rapidly, with most organizations implementing multiple cloud initiatives. On one side, they are deploying cloud-based solutions, while on the other side they are migrating legacy infrastructure to the cloud. However, KPMG director Corey Jacobson says migrating to any cloud provider can be daunting, while organizations often overlook the governance required to keep their multitude of cloud initiatives coordinated and integrated in order to generate the most value. Ma
  
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• BrandPost: Utility and Mobility Bring About the Elastic Edge

  19-07-2017 21:29
  
  People are discovering that work is becoming possible from any location, not just the office.  This, combined with the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, is altering the way in which enterprises are operating—and LTE is an essential component.IoT also has a hand in the large amounts of information being generated, causing more data to be pushed to the utmost edge of the network, and depending on business’s needs, that edge is stretching and pulling to encompass networ
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Better marketing requires knowing your entire customer base

  19-07-2017 21:11
  
  The larger a company gets, the harder it is to personalize interactions with customers, especially in a time when so many transactions are conducted online. Once you reach hundreds of thousands of sales, it can be easy to think of your customer base as a whole, rather than homing in on any one individual.Unfortunately, that approach has led to a backlash for many companies, which find that customers eventually choose a smaller, more local business that treats them as a name rather than a number.
  
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• BrandPost: Digital Transformation’s Connective Tissue

  19-07-2017 19:00
  
  Strategic CIOs are well aware of the symbiotic relationship between data and digital transformation. Yet, that relationship often proves hard to manage. For example, concerns about where data is stored is the No. 1 barrier to cloud adoption among IT decision-makers in IDG’s 2016 Cloud Computing study. This indicates that a key step in data-driven digital transformation is re-thinking traditional approaches to governing data.Your existing data warehouse, for instance, may not provide the fl
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Next-generation M&A IT integration

  19-07-2017 18:09
  
  The odds of a successful post-merger IT integration used to be truly daunting. Whether it was a “merger of equals” or a pure acquisition, realizing target synergies was difficult, if not impossible to achieve.This dynamic appears to be changing. Companies are learning how to face the IT integration challenge through several key changes in the overall effort. Through a combination of innovative technologies, highly-visible and inspiring strategy, a keen focus on stakeholder management
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How can CIOs extend the life of public corporations?

  19-07-2017 18:01
  
  Alan Murray, the Chief Content Officer of Time Inc. and President of Fortune Magazine, shared last year that in 1955 the average life of public corporation was 55 years. He said next that this number had dropped to 20 years several years ago, and was now moving toward 10 years.Think about the impact of this change upon stock portfolios and more importantly, upon careers. Take my father as an example. He worked at TRW for his entire career. The company was started in the early 1950s and was purch
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What you need to know about single sign-on

  19-07-2017 17:57
  
  Separation of concerns has been an important phenomenon in all modern organizations. The result is that monolithic stacks are being broken into multiple services for more granular control. Some of these services can then be outsourced to other providers as well, who often have expertise in handling that particular service. This is not confined to the development teams in the organization either. Each team has different a set of requirements and use different tools and services to do their job.Wi
  
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• Get $100 off Amazon Echo When You Buy 2 Right Now - Deal Alert

  19-07-2017 15:43
  
  Put 2 Echo devices in your cart and Amazon will credit you back $100 right now, effectively pricing each one at $129.99 vs. the typical $179.99 list price. But you'll have to use a special code at checkout, to activate the discount: ECHO2PACK. Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask. Echo has seven microphones
  
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• CIO Career Coach: Courage to be an enterprise leader

  19-07-2017 13:00
  
  Welcome back to “CIO Career Coach,” a video series I created with CIO.com and IDG.tv. This season, we’re discussing the competencies required of CIOs to be successful in the new era of IT. The CIO competency we are talking about today’s is the courage to become an enterprise leader. Scott McKay, CIO of Genworth Financial, once shared a great metaphor with me about corporate boardrooms. He said, "In the boardroom, there are chairs around the table and there are c
  
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• ServiceMaster goes digital to stave off Amazon.com

  19-07-2017 12:00
  
  Wary of an ever-hungry Amazon.com lurking on the horizon, one home service giant is fighting back. ServiceMaster Global Holdings, whose brands include Terminix, American Home Shield and Merry Maids, is rushing headlong into the so-called Uberification of the industry, a digitization of services intended to bolster the quality of service it delivers.“The challenge for us was, how do we leverage digital technology to transform our experience and ensure a consistent experience every time 75,0
  
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• 7 hot IT outsourcing trends — and 7 going cold

  19-07-2017 12:00
  
  As IT organizations become more strategic, so too do their partnerships with IT outsourcing providers. Digital transformation, automation, and the data revolution are not just shaking up how IT operates, they are greatly impacting the kind — and quality — of services under contract with IT outsourcing firms.
  Here is a look at the technologies, strategies and shifting customer demands shaking up IT outsourcing right now and the once-hot developments that are beginning to cool. If you
  
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