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• IDG Contributor Network: AI becomes the game changer in the public cloud

  26-01-2018 16:38
  After more than 10 years, cloud computing has evolved into a fertile business for providers such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft. However, competition is getting stronger from laggards like Google and Alibaba. And with the massive and ongoing introduction of AI-related cloud services, providers have increased the competitive pressure themselves, in order to raise attractiveness among their customers.The cloud backs AI…and vice versa
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• IDG Contributor Network: How big data is disrupting the gaming industry

  26-01-2018 16:24
  Big data plays a big role in online gaming. Generating $40.6 billion in global revenue last year on mobile devices alone, the electronics art industry is set to boom in the next five years. One of the biggest reasons for the proliferation of online and social gaming is big data. Yes, we’ve been able to collect it for a long time now, but the capabilities of understanding how to use big data for monetization and optimization are just coming to fruition.The big players, like Microsoft, are
  
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• BrandPost: Eliminating Blind Spots – Why Visibility is Key

  26-01-2018 15:47
  As organizations head down the inevitable path to a multi-cloud world, they increase the chances for visibility gaps, subjecting the enterprise to undue risk and undermining the potential benefits of increased agility and optimization.According to an exclusive IDG Research survey, managing complexity is the most difficult challenge of a multi-cloud environment. While the majority of organizations surveyed were positive, if not practical, about the growing trend of shadow IT groups engaging clou
  
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• BrandPost: How to Avoid Gaps in Security Through IT Team Changes

  26-01-2018 15:42
  It’s a well-known fact: IT staff shortages exist throughout the corporate world. And practitioners with expertise in security are especially sought after. Unfortunately, that means some of your key staff may eventually get lured away by a better offer.Filling the void of expertise when key individuals leave can be a challenge—regardless of the expertise at stake—but this type of loss takes on greater importance when it might expose your organization to additional threats or se
  
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• 94 women entrepreneurs on how to fix sexism in the VC world

  26-01-2018 12:15
  In late 2017, Amanda Greenberg, an entrepreneur familiar with tech venture capital (VC) financing, set out to amplify the voices of other women business founders and entrepreneurs who continue to be shut out of the discussions around representation, equality, gender bias and harassment.Greenberg, a founder and CEO of Balloonr, a cloud-based platform that helps organizations launch and vet ideas and improves team dynamics and collaboration, surveyed 94 (that’s right – ninety-four) wo
  
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• VITAS improves hospice care with mobile transformation

  26-01-2018 12:00
  Few health-care sectors are more taxing than hospice operations, whose doctors and nurses have limited time to provide the best care for terminally-ill patients. VITAS Health, a $1.3 billion provider of hospice care, met this challenge by enabling its 8,000 clinicians to quickly admit patients at bedside via iPhones, iPads and mobile applications.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Snowflake, now a unicorn, eyes global growth for cloud data warehouse

  26-01-2018 12:00
  Fueled by a capital injection of $263 million making it the first cloud-native data warehouse startup to achieve "unicorn" status, Snowflake is set this year to expand its global footprint, offer cross-regional, data-sharing capabilities, and develop interoperability with a growing set of related tools.With the new round of funding, announced Thursday, Snowflake has raised a total of $473 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Founded in 2012, the company has become a startup to watch because
  
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