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• BrandPost: Maximizing the Benefits of Software Defined Storage in a Hyperconverged Data Center

  28-08-2017 18:34
  Businesses pursuing digital transformation strategies are looking to IT as an enabler of market growth and new revenue opportunities. Lines of business need apps that enhance the customer experience and enable a customized self-service environment.  Success depends on how effectively IT empowers the business to utilize data – meaning the impetus is on IT to find ways to make data more accessible without compromising security.Scott Sinclair, storage analyst with the Enterprise Strategy
  
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• How to build a cybersecurity team

  28-08-2017 17:56
  Cybersecurity professionals are bracing for continued attacks this year, effectively boosting their budgets by an average of 21%, according to the 2017 Cybersecurity Trends Report published by the National Center for the Midmarket.These cybersecurity professionals are focused specifically on cloud infrastructure, training and educating end users, and securing mobile devices.While concerns around cybersecurity are high, more than half of midmarket companies operate with limited to no strategy at
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Enterprise team management is evolving to support a mobile workforce

  28-08-2017 17:53
  Microsoft has a team of 120,000 people, Google relies on a team of 72,000 employees, Yahoo has 8,500 and Netflix has 3,500 team members scattered around the world.The power of the internet has allowed for these massive teams to work closely together from virtually anywhere with a stable internet connection. For recruiters and bean counters, this is great news – cheaper and/or more talented workers can be sourced from a much larger pool of talent.For CIOs, the list of challenges is endless,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What the FDA’s new pre-certification program means for digital health and medical device industries

  28-08-2017 16:14
  The digital health ecosystem is all excited about the FDA’s recently announced pilot program to offer pre-certification (pre-cert) options for digital health technologies, bringing them under the purview of what is being referred to as software as a medical device or SaMD. This is seen as an opportunity to accelerate innovation without the stifling controls and processes normally associated with the approval of medical devices.The FDA’s announcement inviting applications for the pilo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How automation is reshaping how businesses engage with customers

  28-08-2017 16:10
  Infrastructure and operations leaders have traditionally targeted and implemented automation technologies to cut costs, but the new automation opportunity in the age of the customer is engagement: deploying technologies that will help customers receive better service automatically or better serve themselves. Working with marketing and business leaders, technologists are playing a critical and growing role in driving the testing, piloting, deployment, and measurement of automation technologies li
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to fix the data integration mess

  28-08-2017 16:01
  Data integration represents a big issue for most enterprises especially as enterprise architecture becomes brittle and complex. CIOs and enterprise architects clearly believe they are responsible for architecture across all components of what is becoming an increasingly extended enterprise ecosystem. This includes on-premises, private cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS applications, and storage. In fact, Paul Wright, CIO, Vice President of Information Technology at Accuride Corporation, said “if you&
  
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• AmazonBasics 6-Foot HDMI Cable 2-Pack Discounted To $7.96 - Deal Alert

  28-08-2017 15:42
  The AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable quickly connects a wide range of HDMI devices. Use it to connect a small mobile, home-entertainment, or gaming device to a big-screen HDTV, large projector, or computer monitor, for example. Delivering clear, vibrant video, the AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet meets the latest standards, which means it considerably expands bandwidth up to 18 Gbps, offers 4K@50/60 (2160p) video resolution (four times more clarity than 1080p/60), and
  
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• What is business process management (BPM)? The key to enterprise agility

  28-08-2017 12:00
  Business process management is the practice of aligning goals and processes as businesses evolve. BPM software helps organizations define the steps required to carry out a business task, mapping these definitions to existing processes and then streamlining or improving these processes so that the steps are taken more efficiently.Business processes are the key to the way that almost every company operates. That's because they are the blueprints that are followed to achieve all kinds of business f
  
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• 12 bad habits that slow IT to a crawl

  28-08-2017 12:00
  It’s time to face a cold, hard fact: Your IT department is too slow. It’s the result of good intentions gone bad, but in business, intentions don’t matter.When is IT too slow? Whenever any part of the business has to wait for IT to deliver the goods, that’s when. The magic buzz phrase these days may be “time to value,” but the true guiding principle is “ahead of your competitors.” If IT keeps that from happening, you can bet your organization&rsquo
  
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• Supply chain management (SCM): Definition and FAQs

  28-08-2017 00:12
  What is supply chain management?
  Supply chain management (SCM) enables enterprises to source the raw materials or components needed to create a product or service and deliver that product or service to customers. The six components of SCM include:Planning—Enterprises need to plan and manage all resources required to meet customer demand for their product or service. They also need to design their supply chain and then determine which metrics to use in order to ensure the supply chain is ef
  
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