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• BrandPost: Creating a Truly Immersive, Connected Fan Experience

  04-10-2017 19:19
  Last year, I wrote about an exciting project our team at Connection completed at TD Garden. Along with a team from Cisco, we were able to create a world-class, state-of-the-art Wi-Fi network for the entire arena.It's world famous as a sports and concert venue, hosting fans from all around the globe, so it needed up-to-the minute technology to encourage fan engagement and provide world-class service.Recently, the teams at Connection, TD Garden, and Cisco completed a video that will
  
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• 5 highest-paying jobs for every stage of your IT career

  04-10-2017 18:00
  5 Top-Paying IT Jobs for Every Stage of Tech CareersImage by ThinkstockHighly successful careers in IT take careful planning. Sure, demand for highly skilled IT workers isn't slowing down, but some in-demand IT skills and roles pay more than others. Here, using data from cloud compensation software and solutions provider PayScale, we've put together the top five highest-paying IT jobs for every stage of your IT career — whether you're just starting out, have a few years of experience under
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOaaS? How IT partners must now have the flexibility of a yoga master

  04-10-2017 17:17
  "We need an IT supplier with the flexibility of a yoga master!"This is what a prospective client told me recently and it chimed with me as my wife had been taking yoga classes. The client was right, with the same ease with which I watch my wife move from a standing forward fold into a downward dog, IT providers must now transition as smoothly between what their customer wanted yesterday and what that customer's business needs today.This is a reality that many of us grasped years back, but now th
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Everything-as-a-Service: seizing the next big cloud opportunity on the horizon

  04-10-2017 15:45
  The leading corporations of the 20th century were rigid and clunky. As they expanded, they added organizational functions and created more infrastructure to support their operations. Many of them optimized their capabilities over decades – but when experiencing stormy waters, these organizations could not turn the tanker fast enough (think Kodak). In contrast, 21st century business champions are adaptive and lean. They scale up and down more rapidly by subscribing to services ins
  
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• Building shared services in a culture of fierce decentralization

  04-10-2017 12:15
  In March of 2016, I interviewed Paul Bellack, vice president of global IT and CIO of Magna International, about his plans to develop and execute a centralized IT strategy for the aggressively decentralized global auto parts manufacturer. During that first discussion, Bellack said, “We are a $35 billion company, but we operate more like 300 $100 million companies with IT resources in every one.” And he described the initial stages of the ambitious IT transformation, which centere
  
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• Remote work: A productive perk worth keeping

  04-10-2017 12:00
  Digital transformation, innovation, disruption — it all starts with IT talent. So, if you’re thinking it seems counterintuitive to curtail benefits and perks that position you as an employer of choice for elite IT talent, you’d be right. Yet companies continue to roll back remote work polices, spurring talented IT pros to reconsider whether they want to work there.Four years ago, Yahoo’s then-CEO Marissa Mayer learned this lesson the hard way, when she revoked the company
  
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• Remote work: A productive perk not worth taking away

  04-10-2017 12:00
  Digital transformation, innovation, disruption — it all starts with IT talent. So, if you’re thinking it seems counterintuitive to curtail benefits and perks that position you as an employer of choice for elite IT talent, you’d be right. Yet companies continue to roll back remote work polices, spurring talented IT pros to reconsider whether they want to work there.Four years ago, Yahoo’s then-CEO Marissa Mayer learned this lesson the hard way, when she revoked the company
  
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• BrandPost: What Today’s Overburdened Cloud Architect Needs to Succeed

  04-10-2017 04:45
  Moving some or all of your computing operations to the cloud is seen by many as a good way to reduce many of the management and resource demands associated with IT operations. Still, while public cloud may remove the burden of hosting the infrastructure, the resulting changes required to operations, governance, and management structures can be as significant and far reaching as the move to virtualization itself was.  To tackle these changes, organizations are turning to a new role &nda
  
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