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• BrandPost: Why Saving 30% on Your Cloud Deployments May Be a Bad Deal

  24-01-2018 23:54
  Imagine that you receive your monthly cell phone bill, and you are shocked to see how much you’re spending for your family-service plan. A quick check of the bill’s details reveals one especially high-cost element: Your children are streaming a lot of television shows.Realizing this fact, you might decide to set up a new plan with your cellular service provider that includes more data. A better approach, though, might be to just tell your kids to stop streaming so many TV shows.&nbs
  
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• Winter 2018: State of the CIO — IT-business alignment (finally) gets real

  24-01-2018 21:43
  [ Download the CIO Winter 2018 Digital Magazine ]Highlights from the issue:Cover story
  IT-business alignment (finally) gets real
  After years of casual courting, IT and business are finally forging effective ways of working together to pursue shared objectives for digital transformation.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Is Ethereum’s smart contract dominance being eroded?

  24-01-2018 20:45
  Even as bitcoin commands the limelight and headlines thanks to its meteoric rise in price and disproportionate volatility, other cryptocurrencies have quietly shown themselves to have more real-world applicability. Despite its popularity, bitcoin has not fully utilized the technology that makes it possible—blockchain—the way some of its competitors have.Ethereum, for example, has carved itself a niche in the market thanks to its underlying infrastructure and use of smart contracts,
  
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• BrandPost: CIO Interview with Cynthia Stoddard, Senior Vice President of IT and CIO at Adobe

  24-01-2018 18:56
  What are some of the most compelling next-gen technologies evolving at Adobe?We’re driving cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve design and delivery of digital experiences. We have an AI/ML framework called Adobe Sensei, that tackles complex challenges, such as image matching across millions of images. We’re also using it to run internal operations better. ML and AI transform how you’re doing things. For mundane tasks, intelligence take
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data is not the new oil or the infrastructure of the digital economy

  24-01-2018 17:30
  The world is awash in data. Every minute of 2017, Americans used over 2.6 million gigabytes of data, the Weather Channel received over 18 million forecast requests.  YouTube viewers watched over 4 million videos. Twitter users sent over 446 thousand tweets. Google conducted over 3.6 million searches.Over 90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years – over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day. As the internet of things gathers more and more data from se
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs: Are you ready for the BIoT? Making sense of blockchain joining the IoT

  24-01-2018 17:21
  Last year, the infamous IoT acronym broke into the mainstream. The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the concept where everyday items are embedded with sensors and other electronic components to enable these objects to connect and exchange data.But security concerns are holding back the development of the IoT. After all, if we can’t ensure the security of our connected devices, then adoption rates will be compromised. Analyst firm Forrester predicts IoT security issues will remain a thre
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Establishing role-based access control in the workplace

  24-01-2018 15:39
  The number of security breaches has been steadily increasing year on year. As the number of systems in an organization increases, the number of interfaces to take care of also increases. Each interface increases the available attack surface. Safeguarding against security breaches is a difficult task and establishing access control schemes can help with it. This article explores what access control means, the different kinds of access control schemes, and how to implement the RBAC scheme.What is
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Missile launches, false alarms and a user experience wake-up call

  24-01-2018 14:36
  "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." —Text from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency on January 13, 2018
  As most everyone is now aware, the state of Hawaii sent its citizens into a panic earlier this month by erroneously issuing a warning that a missile attack was imminent. The state announced that the employee who triggered the false alarm had been “temporarily reassigned.“But in my opinion, they may have reassigned the w
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The revolution finally hits business software

  24-01-2018 14:04
  Enterprise software has always been sold on features. Every publisher has the huge checklist that shows how their product checks all of the boxes and the competitors fall well short. The competitor has their own list of checkboxes that show them as being superior. RFPs (Requests for Proposal) go out with pages and pages of checkboxes. Software sellers then try to stretch every definition of a feature that they can to check all of the boxes. This arms race has led to the evolution of business so
  
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• The ABCs of a singular global IT architecture

  24-01-2018 12:15
  When Chad Couch joined Brightstar as CIO in 2014, the business was organized by region, with IT resources reporting directly to regional leaders and each regional IT department autonomous in terms of IT investment and management decisions.Six months later, the $10 billion wireless services provider, appointed a new CEO, Jaymin Patel, who began reorienting the company and its go-to-market strategy around the customer.“As a result of our rapid regional growth, which included multiple acquis
  
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• Can AI predict when that new hire will quit?

  24-01-2018 12:00
  What if you knew when a job candidate would quit before you offered them the job? While the tech’s yet to predict the time new hires will spend at a job down to the minute, two startups are selling pattern matching that helps employers predict whether prospective employees will make it longer than a year. If the tech works, it could save employers billions. But is the payoff worth it?First, there’s Pymetrics, a data science startup that runs job applicants through a series of 12 onl
  
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