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• BrandPost: Attaining True Elasticity in the Cloud

  15-11-2017 23:27
  One of the greatest strengths of cloud computing is that many of its benefits are easy to conceptualize and articulate. That’s certainly true for the benefit of cloud elasticity and agility. Your cloud-based application suddenly needs more or less computing power or storage? Simply tap some additional cloud resources – or release unneeded capacity – and problem solved!At a fundamental level, every cloud customer gains improved IT elasticity and agility. But fully exploiting the
  
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• BrandPost: Accelerate Data Delivery to Support Developers and Make Better Decisions

  15-11-2017 21:05
  Some of the world’s largest companies are making huge efficiency gains by adopting DataOps to eliminate data friction that is slowing innovation. DataOps is the alignment of people, process, and technology to enable the rapid, automated, and secure management of data. It improves individual and team outcomes by decreasing the distance between data sources and users and accelerating data flow. In this five-part blog series, I will examine the process enhancements I have witnessed
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Counting database costs: inflexible databases are unaffordable databases

  15-11-2017 20:45
  “Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death.” —Virginia Woolf
  In the previous post we talked about the mega-trend towards elasticity in the enterprise software stack, and how the database layer is not keeping pace with developments in the web, application and storage layers. We also asserted that this limits business agility and constrains innovation. Most importantly we referred to the serious cost implications of an inflexible database layer. In this
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Future of the workplace is exciting, technologically innovative — and imminent

  15-11-2017 20:15
  The year is 2027, and you’re ready for your morning commute to work. You’re dressed casually, because the business world long ago realized comfort inspires creativity. You head toward the car. It’s the same car that takes you to work every day, only you don’t own it. Why would you? There’s no need since you bought an annual commute subscription from the car service company that emerged out of Uber’s ashes. The car is always on time and gets you to work efficie
  
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• BrandPost: Highways England: Driving Toward Intelligent Disruption

  15-11-2017 20:14
  Highways England is laying the foundation for the United Kingdom’s most significant highway upgrade in a generation. But its core building blocks are not just concrete, steel, and asphalt; the government-owned company is also utilizing a large fiber network, hundreds of thousands of connected sensors, and a cloud-based data analytics and management platform designed to bring intelligent data management to the modern highway.Highways England is steering several data-driven initiatives to ad
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The CEO’s guide to transforming the IT workforce through M&A

  15-11-2017 19:53
  Authors: Seth Van Winkle, McCree LakeThe goal of any company’s merger, acquisition, or divestiture is always value creation. While there may be various levers and underlying motivators, the ultimate goal is to create sustained shareholder value. As leadership calculates whether transactions will achieve this goal and how they will do so, there is a tremendous opportunity for businesses to also reassess and transform the IT organization’s profile, capabilities, and workforce to create
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: With digital health apps, we can't always get what we want

  15-11-2017 19:35
  A famous song by the Rolling Stones refers to the protagonist going down to the Chelsea drugstore to get someone’s prescription pill, and standing in line with a Mr. Jimmy who looked really ill.Well, not anymore. The standing in line part, at least. With a couple of touches on a smartphone, one can order and refill prescriptions and simply drive up to a window at the drugstore to collect it. Online prescription medication ordering and refill is one of the most successful use cases of mobil
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IS ETL dead? In the age of AI, not quite

  15-11-2017 19:16
  Recently, there has been a lot of talk about whether ETL is still a necessary activity in the modern data architecture and whether ETL should be abandoned in favor of modern techniques such as data wrangling, in memory transformations and in memory databases. Turns out, ETL is more important than ever and though it can look slightly different (e.g. data warehouses can be too restrictive), it continues to play an extremely important role in the data value generation process.ETL – short for
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The cloud is changing IT. But not really…

  15-11-2017 19:07
  The cloud has been the swiss army knife of IT departments for over a decade. The cloud is secure, extensible and cost-aligned. Managing the cloud is easy, you just move the slider over for more or uncheck the box to delete it. The cloud changed how IT works without actually changing anything at all.15 years ago, you would hear senior IT people talk about capacity and redundancy. Today you hear those same people talk about containers and zone resiliency. Years ago, discussions would be had about
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT productivity through project failure

  15-11-2017 16:30
  All too often when projects fail, people are reassigned, project managers and key team members fall from favor, and the company quickly moves forward toward other new and important business initiatives.This phenomenon, at least the “quickly moving forward” part, also often happens to a lesser degree when production systems fail, backup/restore procedures don’t work, security breaches occur and other bad things happen.  In these cases, however, because they are ongoing acti
  
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• 11% off August Smart Lock Pro With Connect Bundle - Deal Alert

  15-11-2017 15:46
  With August Smart Lock Pro, you can lock and unlock your door, control keyless access, and keep track of who comes and goes, all from your phone. The 24/7 activity log means you’re always in the know. With your phone in your pocket, simply open the door and you’re in your home. Heading out? August Smart Lock Pro will also automatically lock the door behind you after you leave. The smart lock currently averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, where the list price on the Lock and Conn
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is this ITIL’s last gasp?

  15-11-2017 15:09
  You probably missed it, but earlier this month something significant took place. Its significance is less about what happened, but rather because of what didn’t.At FUSION 17, one of the industry’s largest IT Service Management conferences (produced by itSMF USA and HDI), AXELOS announced its planned update of ITIL in 2018.And the industry gave a collective shrug.According to AXELOS, owner of the framework, ITIL is “the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Establishing business architecture standards: an industry imperative

  15-11-2017 15:00
  This article is a summary of a whitepaper by William Ulrich and Daniel Lambert with the same title.Standards, based on the collective experiences of communities of practice, form the basis for advancing the maturity of a given discipline. As that discipline matures and the community of practice grows, standards serve as a critical foundation for enabling scalability and ensuring the integrity of the results.Standards form the fundamental building blocks for a wide variety of fields. Accountants,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 ways to kill your digital transformation program

  15-11-2017 14:53
  Think your organization can beat the odds? I have talked to many CIO and business leaders about their digital strategy and digital transformation programs. With so many CEO lagging in digital transformation and many CIO feeling the pressure to innovate and execute, it’s very easy for leaders to ignore some of the best practices that make transformations successful.For those that have started digital transformation programs, it’s easy to drive digital too fast and miss many best pract
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Facebook takes on non-consensual intimate images

  15-11-2017 13:15
  Recently, Facebook announced a pilot program in Australia to block its users from uploading or sharing non-consensual intimate images, colloquially referred to as “revenge porn.” In conjunction with activists and the Australian eSafety Commissioner’s Office, this new program would create a digital fingerprint of these images and block matching images before they are uploaded or shared.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Fall 2017: Hot trends in data analytics

  15-11-2017 12:28
  [ Download the CIO Fall 2017 Digital Magazine ]To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How to strengthen IT’s connection to your business

  15-11-2017 12:15
  Two weeks ago, we polled Heller Search’s network of IT leaders to learn how satisfied they are with their team’s knowledge of the business and what they are doing to improve it.In answer to our first question — “How knowledgeable is your IT team about their how their work drives business value?” — 66 percent said their business-facing teams connect their work to business value, but the rest of the IT organization does not. Only 10 percent respon
  
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• 10 hot startups targeting today’s key IT initiatives

  15-11-2017 12:00
  Enterprise startups have always played a crucial role in IT portfolios. As much as CIOs would love to centralize technology purchasing decisions with a handful of strategic partners, incumbents can't always meet all of their needs, especially when it comes to emerging technologies.To become better acquainted with startups, many CIOs regularly travel to Silicon Valley to participate in "speed dating," in which venture capitalists invite them to meet the members of their portfolios. Some CIOs host
  
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