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• BrandPost: Managing the Multi-Cloud Environment: Understanding the Options

  06-12-2017 20:51
  As diverse requirements and the accelerated pace of innovation orchestrate a shift to multi-cloud, management of the environment becomes a complex exercise. In fact, many organizations struggle to achieve end-to-end visibility across an increasingly disparate landscape.The reason? Most IT organizations stick with the status quo and manage their complex multi-cloud environments using the native tools and services from each cloud provider. While those tools are designed to support a specific cloud
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How digital is fueling a more dynamic B2B commerce world

  06-12-2017 19:47
  More than a hundred years ago, Sears, Roebuck & Company shook up the retail industry with its innovative catalog system. By mailing catalogs to consumers and shipping products from a centralized warehouse, Sears quickly built a loyal customer base.But Sears didn’t sit on its laurels. The company then executed another industry-changing move by opening the first retail department stores in suburbs across the nation.Today’s B2B industry is experiencing a similar seismic shift. Digit
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How sports clubs can use data to secure their futures

  06-12-2017 19:30
  Data analytics are widely used in sport “on the field” to improve performance and boost results. A Formula 1 car can take hairpin bends at breath-taking speeds thanks to the analysis of data collected from sensors. Data generated by the positioning of rugby players in scrums influences coaching and play strategies. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has collected and studied data from cameras worn by athletes during the World Athletics Championships, to opt
  
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• BrandPost: Multi-Cloud Environment—The Next Stage in Cloud Evolution

  06-12-2017 18:44
  With Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), public cloud, and hybrid clouds firmly established as components of the modern IT infrastructure, the next evolution is multi-cloud computing, which combines myriad cloud technologies to meet the changing needs of business.Often confused with hybrid cloud, multi-cloud computing encompasses more than one public cloud and is generally thought of as an implementation and management strategy. Multi-cloud is not a specific technology portfolio and typically spans mu
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Pattern matching is not enough

  06-12-2017 17:00
  Did you realize something? When analysts and media write about artificial intelligence (AI), most of them unfortunately only talk about machine learning. In doing so, they mention AI and machine learning in the same breath and thus equal AI with one single technology. This is wrong and a concerning progress. In particular, it is confusing the market during a time when 58 percent of organizations worldwide (according to Forrester) are still researching AI. However, AI is more than just machine le
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 4 ways to avoid leaks in project profit margin

  06-12-2017 16:53
  You have more work than ever, you are increasing sales at record numbers, and your team is fully utilized. You may point to these facts and believe that you are running a successful services business--and yet, you can’t seem to make any money. In my experience, too many organizations are chasing top line revenue growth at the expense of margins, simply creating an illusion of success.High-margin businesses are operated from the bottom-up, one project at a time. Any business that’s th
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The ghosts of Christmas retail: data management past, present and yet to come

  06-12-2017 13:00
  We all know how the story goes – an intractable individual is made to revisit his past, look at his present and recognize what his future could be if he doesn’t change his ways. And now “A Christmas Carol” brings its cautionary tale to the behind-the-scenes business of retail.Of course, it’s wrong to cast retailers in the role of Scrooge; while they exist to make a profit, they’re in the business of giving people what they want (albeit at a price), and Christm
  
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• IT leaders reflect on 2017’s most enduring lessons

  06-12-2017 12:20
  For IT leaders engrossed in the latest implementation or training, self-reflection can sometimes seem like a luxury. Quiet introspection, however, is the impetus behind any dynamic action and is one of the key elements of effective leadership. In this year-end edition of Quick Takes, four IT leaders reflect on the most impactful lesson they learned in 2017.John W. McGuthry, vice president for Information Technology Division and CIO, Cal Poly Pomona
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• CIOs embrace SaaS-based TBM to quantify IT’s value

  06-12-2017 12:00
  CIOs have long struggled to quantify the value of IT services relative to production costs, a financial black box that sows distrust between the tech department and business divisions. As IT implements additional digital capabilities in service of the business, this disconnect is widening, inspiring more CIOs to embrace technology business management (TBM), a discipline aimed at documenting the value of IT services.“Technology business management as a discipline supports the Elite CIO by e
  
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• 7 digital transformation myths

  06-12-2017 12:00
  Digital transformation has the potential to be, well, transformative; when done right, a digital transformation can enable your business to reap significant, and well-documented, benefits. But with many things IT, there comes a tendency to get wrapped up in the hype and not think through the hard truths of execution until the promise doesn’t live up to the expectation.And of course, the underlying concepts and strategies of digital transformation are not new. The idea of rethinking of how
  
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