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• BrandPost: How to Put Docker into Production with Persistent Storage

  05-09-2017 23:11
  As the adoption of application containers, including Docker and Kubernetes, continues to experience explosive growth, the need for effectively providing persistent storage to run stateful applications in production has developers and IT departments looking for answers.Typically, applications and data are kept separate: server-side applications can be horizontally-scaled easily to increase performance, cloned in the case of a failure, or removed if no longer needed. Storage resources are decouple
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs are totally stressed out: Here’s how to help

  05-09-2017 20:27
  In the course of researching a marketing campaign aimed at IT professionals, I have interviewed dozens of such workers over the past year. Some are middle-aged; some are very young. I’ve talked to men and women in all parts of the country who worked at large and small firms.One thing that struck me is that I have not met a single one who was relaxed. They are all stressed and have no time. They are tortured souls who are constantly checking their phones. They live their lives on the edge o
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 keys to aligning executives on digital strategy and priorities

  05-09-2017 18:54
  Summer is over, everyone is back from their holidays, and most businesses will be heading into the thick of strategic planning and budgeting season. Those of you who have been proactive during the summer months have reached out to key business leaders to understand their growth objectives and operational risks. Perhaps you’ve spent some time researching new solutions, developing prototypes, and establishing business cases for investing in new technology driven capabilities.Regardless of ho
  
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• BrandPost: How Mobile Collaboration Can Drive Your Business - and 4 Tips for Getting It Right

  05-09-2017 17:24
  Mobile collaboration has evolved far beyond chat and email, but many enterprises still haven’t fully unlocked its power. As companies race to become more competitive using technology, the right mobile strategy has huge potential to kick your business into high gear.Key to understanding the power of mobile collaboration: recognizing it can improve entire workflows, not just simply make individuals more efficient. We’ll get to concrete examples in a moment, but first let’s look a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 ways CIOs can save money by capturing more data

  05-09-2017 14:49
  One of the biggest lessons from Big Data in the last decade has been just how much we didn’t know. For CIOs, the new ways that information is gathered, stored and delivered to decision-makers is impacting the scope of their job.Everything from smart cities, to pharmaceutical research is being heavily impacted by the Big Data evolution.For corporations, one of the most important applications of data that does not get sufficient attention is its role in reducing costs and protecting the bott
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs: Is your team ready for the future?

  05-09-2017 14:26
  As technology and software, in particular, become central to the future of all businesses, CEOs should be asking whether their team is ready. Since IT leaders have a big role to play in helping to define and realize the business future, I asked the #CIOChat for their thinking on this topic. These IT leaders shared many ideas that should be useful to all leaders experiencing business change.Jay Ferro, global chief information and technology officer for Examworks, said this effort “must incl
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Time to fire your frozen middle managers?

  05-09-2017 14:07
  The above sentiment would, I suspect, be widely approved. Those approving it would include many who have never been middle managers: individual contributors, team managers, consultants, and some CIOs who have risen through the ranks with meteoric speed and have had only the briefest of exposure to the middle manager role. As a management consultant I found that many of my colleagues felt particularly strongly about the “frozen middle”: those deemed unresponsive to new ideas – m
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Acquiring new technology: The data intelligence dance

  05-09-2017 13:41
  This is exciting: You finally have an approved budget to acquire new technology for your department(s) to bring your processes to the next century (or maybe, just bring them current). Perhaps it’s a business performance scorecard or an enterprise case management system or [fill in the blank]. What now? You need to bring together teams from different departments and business lines to develop a more cohesive implementation approach and achieve group consensus. This process is what I ref
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Bringing your best service delivery game

  05-09-2017 13:30
  You've heard the saying, "If you're going to do something, do it right the first time." There's a reason for doing it right, and you need to do it with passion. Of course, you need to develop a solid foundation around your service delivery process. This is more than the traditional IT metric – system uptime. This includes measurement of IT services in terms of the value and service, and now we must benchmark ourselves against these outcomes. More important is full transparency on what you
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT professionals should watch their language

  05-09-2017 13:21
  When someone’s job description is firefighter, you know exactly how they can help you. If your house is on fire, they will put it out. We don’t call a firefighter a “long hose operator.” That may be technically accurate, but incomplete and unclear to those of us outside the fire station.It is what you call it
  Naming conventions based on consumption make so much more sense than those based on operational or technical specs.IT professionals want to be recognized for creatin
  
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• Leadership training: 10 online resources for developing leadership skills

  05-09-2017 12:00
  Attaining a leadership position requires a balance of hard and soft skills, but until you hit management levels, you might not have considered how important leadership skills can be. Unfortunately, leadership skills don’t always come naturally — whether that’s communication, strategic budgeting, organizational planning or team-building.But you don’t have to look far to find effective, affordable – and sometimes free – online training. In fact, you might find t
  
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• 6 data analytics success stories: An inside look

  05-09-2017 12:00
  If data is the new oil, then knowing how to refine it into actionable intelligence is the key to leveraging its potential. To this end, CIOs are playing with predictive analytics tools, crafting machine learning algorithms and battle-testing other solutions in pursuit of businesses efficiencies and new ways to serve customers.Hyperaware that reducing costs or boosting revenues can help them shine in the eyes of the C-suite and board of directors, CIOs are spending more than ever on technologies
  
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