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• 25% off SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC UHS-I card with Adapter - Deal Alert

  16-10-2017 15:52
  SanDisk has discounted some cards today on Amazon. Their Ultra 32GB microSDHC UHS-I card with Adapter is currently listed for $11.19, which is $0.61 cheaper than the 16GB model. Today they've also priced the 64GB model at $17.99, 128GB for $36.99, and 200GB for $62.99. See these discounts on Amazon, today only.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Stop talking about mission, vision, strategy and tactics

  16-10-2017 15:14
  Executives, leaders, managers, and consultants love talking about mission, vision, strategy, and tactics; all concepts that are widely discussed but also widely misunderstood. Challenge someone to define what a company mission really is, and you’ll end up in an endless discussion about what constitutes the right definition. Google doesn’t solve your problem: you’ll find dozens of conflicting definitions of what a mission is on the internet. I don’t claim to know any
  
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• Capital One banks on burgeoning multi-cloud ecosystem

  16-10-2017 12:00
  Capital One last month unveiled a deal to use data warehouse software from Snowflake Computing to process anything from fraud alerts to credit reviews. That the credit card company, which showed its appetite for risk by migrating most of its computing workloads to Amazon Web Services, embraced a red-hot startup is hardly any surprise. But the company also uses Amazon Redshift, a competing data warehouse from AWS. The irony? Snowflake’s software runs on AWS.To read this article in full or t
  
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• 6 hard truths IT must learn to accept

  16-10-2017 12:00
  Sometimes the truth hurts.It can be hard to admit that you've lost control over how your organization deploys technology, or that your network is porous and your code poorly written. Or no matter how much bandwidth you've budgeted for, it never quite seems to be enough, and that despite its bright promise, the cloud isn't the best solution for everything.In a world where anyone with a credit card and keyboard can spin up their own data center, it's easy for CIOs to feel irrelevant and redundant.
  
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