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• 61% off Anker Keyboard Case for iPad Air 2 with 6-Month Battery - Deal Alert

  25-07-2017 15:42
  Enjoy more comfortable, efficient typing on your iPad and keep it protected as well with this smart folio keyboard case. Opening or closing the cover triggers your iPad's sleep or wake modes, and the keyboard connects automatically when needed via Bluetooth. With the one of the highest capacity battery of any iPad keyboard case, it lasts half a year between charges. The typical list price of $69.99 has been reduced 61% to just $27. See this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to
  
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• BrandPost: VMs and Containers: Not Necessarily Exclusive

  25-07-2017 14:35
  Not long ago, the growth of virtual machines (VMs) completely changed how organizations addressed evolving business needs. VMs provided enterprises and service providers with a creative new way to add flexibility to infrastructure and introduce the entire concept of IT as a service. Containers have since joined the fray, in particular adding convenience as organizations have heavily focused on enhancing the development process, while realizing new levels of performance and efficiency over tradit
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Has big data reached a tipping point in the cloud?

  25-07-2017 12:23
  There is no doubt that big data analytics is fast becoming integral to business intelligence. Besides many initial failed projects, primarily due to the massive infrastructure needed to store, process and analyze big data in-house, there is an increasing number of success stories. This gives pause to completely discount the paradigm.Moving big data analytics to the cloud seems to accompany these successes. It is impossible to ignore the competitive edge gained by organizations leveraging big dat
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Splunk’s CIO on DevOps, APIs and the evolving role of IT

  25-07-2017 12:14
  The role of IT has evolved from a centralized delivery model to IT as a service, where IT-owned capabilities are being offered as a service throughout the business to drive new levels of agility. One CIO embracing the changing role is Declan Morris of Splunk, which enables organizations to turn massive streams of data into operational intelligence. (Disclosure: Splunk is a customer of my employer, MuleSoft.)In this Q&A, Declan explains how Splunk’s IT team is driving value across the o
  
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• How to choose the best Salesforce consultant: 25 key questions

  25-07-2017 12:00
  Customer relationship management is the lifeblood of many businesses. But not every company has the in-house expertise necessary to configure and maintain a complex Salesforce implementation. Here’s where a Salesforce consultant comes in. Steeped with experience and know-how, a Salesforce consultant can pay significant dividends — assuming you choose the right one in the first place.References are a great place to start. But in screening any cloud consultancy, you need to look for bu
  
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• 10 old-school IT principles that still rule

  25-07-2017 12:00
  The more things stay the same, the more they change.That’s not exactly how the saying goes, but it is the phrase that should be engraved over every door leading to IT. It’s certainly better than “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”Not a lot has changed since our early days, when IT was EDP and programmers were the high priests of the glass house.Except for everything.Luckily, much of the fundamental wisdom of the early days of IT still applies, just in a different, mode
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Three ways to make sense out of dark data

  25-07-2017 11:57
  As the parent of a sixth grader, I am inundated with emails detailing upcoming school activities and tons of related information. For instance, if I want to organize an event for my son’s birthday, in order to plan well, I have to sort through emails, text messages, school calendars, last year’s invitations, a Google list of local caterers, and commitments on my work calendar. And part of the problem is that data is strewn across different places, in different formats, and is general
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 18F co-founder and former Presidential Innovation Fellow Rob Read’s tips on government IT modernization

  25-07-2017 11:45
  Recently, Robert L. Read, who left his post as the director of development at Planview Inc. to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013 and helped create 18F and 18F Consulting, shared his thoughts on modernizing government legacy systems. Rob is currently chief scientist at Skylight, a government contracting firm, and is creating Public Invention, a charity for public open source invention whose first project is a polymorphic robot. Rob has a PhD in computer science and speaks Esperanto flue
  
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