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• What is CMMI? A model for optimizing development processes

  16-03-2018 21:34
  What is CMMI?
  The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process and behavioral model that helps organizations streamline process improvement and encourage productive, efficient behaviors that decrease risks in software, product and service development.The CMMI was developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as a process improvement tool for projects, divisions or organizations. The DoD and U.S. Government helped develop the CMMI, which is a common r
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Firefighting: How do we know when IT and cloud organisations have gone over the tipping point?

  16-03-2018 20:33
  The rate of technology change and voracious competition for market share are producing cloud organisations that are seriously overburdened, and it’s going to get worse if Kevin Casey’s "5 cloud computing trends for 2018" materialize.Trends such as multiple hybrid cloud models require multivendor management, in addition to the integration of the technologies. This all comes at a time when the industry is still driving cloud adoption to gain scale. The drive for growth often occurs at
  
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• BrandPost: 3 Ways to Reshape Your Organization to be More Agile

  16-03-2018 20:11
  We live in a world of constant change -- globalization, automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are rapidly transforming industries. Corporate departments are evolving to be more cross-functional, and the pace of work and information sharing is faster than ever before. Organizations need to not only adapt to this change, but also harness it as an opportunity to quickly meet market and customer demands and “out change” the competition.Therein lies the need for organ
  
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• BrandPost: The Digital Workplace: Making Technology Productive Again

  16-03-2018 19:07
  Is technology still making us more productive?Workplace productivity and output have plateaued since email, standalone applications, and document sharing reached saturation. In addition, the modern workforce is fickler than ever. Employees are more mobile in their careers, staying less time in jobs and then moving on. Thus training, retraining, and knowledge-leakage are major problems, especially in light of the fact that worker productivity is largely driven by user acceptance.When technology
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Build vs buy for your next-gen data center network infrastructure?

  16-03-2018 18:19
  As you implement digital transformation strategies, you need to plan for an explosion in traffic growth. Consequently, you need to build data centers using the same state-of-the-art principles the hyperscales have adopted:
  A leaf spine Clos design, which accommodates large amounts of east-west traffic, is essential to support today’s web applications
  A multi-hardware vendor strategy, leveraging both established hardware vendors (Arista, Cisco, Dell, Juniper, Mellanox), and open alternativ
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How blockchain empowers artificial intelligence

  16-03-2018 17:50
  Data remains in silos in a digital environment and there is no real incentive to share it. This results in the hoarding of consumer data which emanates from Google, Facebook, Alibaba and Baidu. Presently, artificial intelligence (AI) platforms give power to those few organizations that process a bulk of data. With sensors embedded in connected cars and devices across the Internet of Things, there is the exponential rise in consumer data generated by these devices and stored in databases. A race
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A magic matrix of software service provider integration

  16-03-2018 14:38
  Whenever launching a new software project, one of the first decisions every executive has to make is to choose the right software service provider and to define its integration strategy. This is always a difficult decision coupled with multiple challenges.For decades, I’ve been on the side of those who expect the client’s final decision. I’ve also been on the side of decision makers. I realize how much it takes to set all things right since to choose wisely, it is important to
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why CIOs should get control of visual display technology

  16-03-2018 14:26
  As a growing number of companies around the world incorporate visual display technology, chief information officers are finding a spaghetti bowl of solutions already in existence across their organizations. The conundrum for CIOs is best summed up by three words—department credit card.Imagine a company whose departments, from marketing and human resources to facilities, are each keen to use display technology for different applications – and they will pull their individual
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Using mobile location data to track the Amazon bump, and other retail data innovations

  16-03-2018 14:16
  Innovative retailers are experimenting with all sorts of novel ways to increase shopper foot traffic in their bricks and mortar locations. In today’s retail environment, it’s no easy task. Data shows that some such initiatives, such as a recent partnership between Kohl's and Amazon could have a positive impact, and I expect that as time goes on consumer data and insights will also be what propel a lot of tomorrow's retail innovations.Over the past several months I’ve thought a
  
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• Super Seducer shows how deeply misogyny is ingrained in tech culture

  16-03-2018 11:30
  The first time I scrolled past an article about Super Seducer, I thought it was satire. I’m aware of pick-up artist (PUA) “culture” and its demeaning, sexist foundations, but I guess I wasn’t cynical enough to believe that a major gaming platform would release such a thing in 2018 given the current climate and the conversations arising around #MeToo and #TimesUp.Once again, I underestimated the depths of misogyny.Vice’s Motherboard describes Super Seducer as a &ldq
  
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• Diversity and inclusion: 8 best practices for changing your culture

  16-03-2018 11:00
  Diverse and inclusive companies drive innovative results. Yet the tech industry still struggles with diversity and inclusion, often failing to attract diverse talent due to inclusivity issues in the workplace. For organizations looking to shape up their diversity and inclusion practices and policies, the change can be challenging — and rewarding.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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