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• BrandPost: Don’t Have Reservations About Your Reserved Instances

  23-01-2018 22:37
  On the face of it, reserving cloud capacity in advance seems like a no-brainer. After all, the promised cost savings can be compelling. Customers purchasing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, for example, can save up to 75% of the costs of buying on-demand instances when needed.As is so often the case with such tantalizing benefits, however, the cost savings of reserved instances come with a catch: purchasing the wrong types or the wrong number of instances can, over time, prove confining and even
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Immersive learning transforming education

  23-01-2018 18:24
  As all major tech giants converge in London this week for Bett UK – arguably the biggest event in the EdTech calendar – many companies like Microsoft are keen to showcase how immersive technologies can be powerful aids to learning. “We know technology has the power to unlock limitless learning, and lesson plans that encourage hands-on and visual learning drive deeper engagement from students,” says Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. In fact, studies
  
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• BrandPost: Infographic: 3 productivity-killing tasks your employees want you to automate

  23-01-2018 18:16
  Your competition is doing it. Your employees are asking for it. And in industries across the board, business and IT leaders are talking about it: Automating repetitive tasks can obliterate wasted time and drive improvements to process and profits. By removing manual steps from everyday work, automation can help knowledge workers become more efficient, in turn saving countless hours, freeing them from the boring tasks they hate — and giving you a happier workforce and a healthier bottom li
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Key cloud trends for 2018

  23-01-2018 18:08
  The rate of cloud adoption will continue to rise in 2018. As more CIOs remain plagued by the enormous costs of managing infrastructure while dealing with high costs of delivering availability, security and performance, cloud services will become harder to ignore. With the economy booming, enterprises can often overlook inefficiencies and real infrastructure costs. However, forward-looking CIOs will start preparing for the inevitable downturn by focusing on reigning in costs and reducing operati
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How BRMs can tap into the value of business architecture

  23-01-2018 17:43
  Walk into a leadership meeting and ask the following question: “Who here has experience working with business architectures?” You’ll get about the same response as you would by asking, “Who could use a coffee right about now?” Everyone knows, but no one can explain.Business architecture is an enterprise blueprint. It defines the organizational structure of governance, business process, and business information. Business architectures offer a holistic view of strate
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Most ICOs are dubious – but it’s still the future of software economics

  23-01-2018 16:29
  Yes, I know. Many ICOs, which allow for blockchain-enabled sales of tokens to be used in a variety of projects, are the subject of much controversy, and even contempt in some circles – especially by those who would be disrupted by them such as Jamie Dimon.Still, the idea that a community can build its own platform via a blockchain-enabled fundraise, by selling tokens to its own users in advance has some profound implications: Who needs a venture capitalist or a corporate sponsor – o
  
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• Amazon Is Offering a $40-Off Deal On Its Echo Spot Devices

  23-01-2018 16:14
  Amazon's Echo Spot brings you all the features of its Echo, with a screen for displaying weather forecasts, news updates, sports scores, song lyrics and much more. All you need to do is ask Alexa. It fits comfortably on a nightstand and works well as an alarm clock and bedside calendar as well. Watch videos, call your friends, control your smarthome -- new features are added all the time. Right now, if you buy two, Amazon will activate a $40 discount in your cart. See this deal now on Amaz
  
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• BrandPost: Digital Transformation: Five Critical Success Factors

  23-01-2018 15:00
  Digital transformation is not likely to come easily for most CIOs. When the CEO and the board call you in to ask, “How are you going to contribute to our growth and transformation?” you don’t want to have to hesitate and talk about how most of your budget is going to keep the lights on and the growing maintenance costs for your ERP system.R “Ray” Wang, author of the best-selling Disrupting Digital Business, offers up five critical success factors to digital transfo
  
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• Get 2 USB-C to USB 6-foot Cables For $9.49 Right Now On Amazon

  23-01-2018 13:57
  When you find a good cable for a cheap price, it never hurts to grab it. Anker's USB-C to USB cables feature a double-braided nylon exterior, toughened aramid fiber core and laser-welded connectors, which Anker says makes them more reliable and longer lasting.  With this deal, you'll get two 6-foot cables for $9.49, which is a healthy discount from its average list price. See Anker's discounted cables now on Amazon, where they currently average 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 300 customers.To
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Advances in augmented reality will require closer bond between CIOs and CMOs

  23-01-2018 13:30
  The way that CIOs support their CMOs is evolving as new technologies drive more advanced user-experiences. Omnichannel marketing is putting pressure on the c-suite. Customers expect informative content to be delivered in a more engaging, personalized way. This is leading to increasing reliance on video streaming and augmented reality to stand-out from the competition. CIOs need to be prepared to support these initiatives.The explosion in video, and conversion improvement is causing a battle ove
  
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• The 8 most common IT training mistakes

  23-01-2018 12:00
  Whether you are seeking incremental productivity gains or pursuing digital transformation, training is critical. Unfortunately, many organizations treat training as an afterthought, relying too heavily on self-direction and theory with few opportunities for practical application.Because experts often forget what it is like to be a beginner, IT has earned a reputation for assuming all new technologies are intuitive and easy to learn. That assumption lurks behind many IT training failures. After
  
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