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• IDG Contributor Network: Low-code: today’s latest buzzword or technology worth the buzz?

  18-10-2017 22:26
  “Low-code” technology is certainly receiving its fair share of press recently. So much so that even leading analyst firms are weighing in with their opinions on the trend; in fact, Forrester predicts more than a 68 percent revenue growth in low-code, making the overall market size $15.5 billion by 2020.So why are low-code solutions getting so much attention lately? And is it warranted?These days it’s difficult to cut through the constant buzz to determine which technological tr
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Cybersecurity is every IT leader’s job

  18-10-2017 20:15
  October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a campaign created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to reinforce the importance of Internet security. This year, we hardly need reminding.We have the history-making Equifax breach of late September to thank. The breach of the credit reporting company’s repositories compromised personal data of more than 145 million people, potentially affecting nearly half of the U.S. population. During a handful of congressional hearings on the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Don’t let complexity cripple your business

  18-10-2017 19:17
  Complexity is bad for business. As business leaders, we know this to be true. Yet organizations of all sizes, across all industry sectors are struggling to control layers of complexity that are stifling innovation, hampering customer service, slowing productivity, and ultimately inhibiting growth.Faced with a complex, confusing workplace, business teams tend to retreat into silos and just focus on trying to get their specific jobs done. Complexity kills collaboration and impacts the ability to s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is technology spending a cost of doing business or a source of alpha?

  18-10-2017 17:54
  There is a growing trend of taking the technology spending away from the enterprise IT organizations into the business and to the third-parties —  such as pure-digital service providers and Fin-tech companies — with a hope of stimulating innovation, improving agility, and reducing cost. Meanwhile, as business relevancy and technology spending are drifting away, enterprise IT is becoming increasingly consumed by wrestling with the legacy issues, pursuing efficiency with a diminis
  
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• BrandPost: How to Use Container Stacking to Drive Cloud Savings of Up to 80%

  18-10-2017 17:33
  As enterprises push more application workloads into public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, high cost is emerging as a major pain point. Purchasing separate cloud instances for each workload takes the efficiencies created by workload stacking away from the end customer. Optimizing and right-sizing instances based on workload patterns are the main levers cloud customers are left with to control costs and increase efficiency. But there’s an advance
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Cybersecurity considerations for outsourcing software development

  18-10-2017 16:23
  The continued vigilance required by CIOs and their staff for cybersecurity is, frankly, exhausting. Threats to the integrity of the systems we manage are no longer limited to “cyber attacks” or “cyber theft”. Now, even small business owners are targets of “cyber terrorism”: attacks that are orchestrated by organized groups, or even formally organized teams within a foreign government!Yet, despite the daunting rise in attacks coming directly from shadowy figure
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs are getting serious about machine learning sooner, not later

  18-10-2017 16:03
  Most of the discussions around artificial intelligence, machine learning and intelligent automation tends to occur under the conceit that the changes anticipated by their adoption lie off a few years away as part of some future scenario that we really don’t have to worry about just yet.The latest evidence that this is not true came this week from ServiceNow, the cloud software company that specializes in helping companies get simple things done. The company surveyed CIOs in 25 industries a
  
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• AI and machine learning are forcing CIOs to rethink IT strategies

  18-10-2017 15:39
  Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the world around us faster than ever before. We’re closer to having cars that drive themselves, natural language processing and computers that play chess with Grand Masters. As widespread as AI and machine learning have been, they have yet to impact corporate IT in any significant way. Recently, the IT service management firm ServiceNow conducted a survey of over 500 CIOs in 11 countries and 25 industries about the state o
  
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• 48% off Kidde Carbon Monoxide Alarm with Display and 10 Year Battery - Deal Alert

  18-10-2017 15:32
  Carbon Monoxide is odorless, tasteless and invisible, and it accounts for over 72,000 cases of poisoning each year. Kidde calls their C3010D model "worry free" because its sensor and sealed battery provide 10 years of uninterrupted CO detection, and a digital display that updates every 15 seconds. The unit will chirp when its reaching the ends of its life, so you don't have to wonder. The Kidde C3010D alarm is currently discounted down to just $27.93. See this deal now on Amazon.To read thi
  
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• How to select a SaaS vendor

  18-10-2017 12:15
  Kendra Von Esh spent her entire career in the IT organization. She started out developing HR applications, then moved into project management, and then continued up the IT ladder until she landed the role of senior vice president and CIO for Veolia North America, a division of the $25 billion French-owned utility company.When Veolia NA needed a new spend management solution, Von Esh decided to depart from a packaged ERP application and go with Coupa, a SaaS company.“Veolia had a number of
  
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• 7 training companies primed to upskill your IT pros

  18-10-2017 12:00
  It’s smart to invest in IT training — you can address skills gaps, inspire innovation and strengthen your department’s confidence. But you want to make sure employees get the most out of any corporate training program. Going with a third-party vendor can ensure your employees receive the best training for the price, while taking away some of the burden for the company.These seven vendors offer a variety of IT training options — in-person courses, online classes and even c
  
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• 6 steps to devops success

  18-10-2017 12:00
  Since its inception, devops has been debated in IT circles. Some have considered it a marketing fad; others have believed it will revolutionize IT operations. Year after year, analysts predict rapid growth, and while the devops movement has grown at a steady pace, it hasn’t yet caught fire among more mainstream organizations. Here, the blame largely falls on those businesses that have failed to understand devops and how it can provide significant value to their operations.Devops has evolve
  
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