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• BrandPost: Microsoft Azure Migration Guide - Key Planning and Decision Points Before Migrating to Azure

  19-03-2018 20:34
  With such an increased interest in Cloud computing, and with companies like Microsoft expanding their datacenters to Canada, now’s a great time for organizations who are looking at a datacenter refresh to consider migrating to Azure. Migrating a datacenter to Azure is a cost-effective alternative for many organizations.By migrating to Azure, you can reduce your capital and operational expenditures and improve your organization’s elasticity, scalability, and overall security.But wher
  
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• BrandPost: MDM Tamed the Explosion of Mobile Devices. But What About SaaS?

  19-03-2018 20:03
  There seems to be a recurring pattern in enterprise IT. It looks something like this:
  Incredible new technology is introduced. It changes the way people work. Organizations rush headlong into it and adoption soars.  
  Unforeseen risks and challenges arise. People take a step back and start to realize, “Hmmm. Actually, we don’t know what we don’t know.”
  Solutions emerge to address those challenges and are widely adopted.It Happened With MDM Let’s take mobile dev
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Moving toward outcome-based intelligence

  19-03-2018 19:20
  Amidst all today’s talk about machine learning, an important point is often forgotten: because true machine learning should be hidden, the actions taken based on machine learning should be the key measure of the technology’s effectiveness.It is not just that machine intelligence can predict failures, it is how many failures are prevented because of it. It is not just that machine intelligence can detect API structures based on call traffic, it is how many more APIs get built because
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Banking on devops: some banks are getting it right

  19-03-2018 18:28
  Banks, especially retail banks, have to be very risk-averse, especially when it comes to their IT ecosystems. For anyone who has ever worked in IT at retail banks, their deployment model is notorious. Firstly, system changes are implemented six to ten times a year, usually with a “freeze” over periods of high retail activity, such as Christmas and Thanksgiving.Secondly, the movement from development to finally entering production is a long and slow path; some banks have as many as t
  
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• HR: The CIO’s new best friend

  19-03-2018 18:25
  The CIO agenda for 2018 is bigger and bolder than ever. Modernization. Automation. Transformation. Digitization. Acceleration. Innovation.CIOs have to be bold — the landscape is littered with what were previously great companies that found themselves disrupted out of existence. You know their names, and so do the CIOs who are racing to ensure that their companies continue to separate themselves as disruptors, rather than the disrupted.Having studied CIO-led transformations over the past t
  
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• BrandPost: Join Kimberly-Clark and MARS to optimize with Windows-as-a-Service

  19-03-2018 18:14
  With the current focus of organizations on digital business transformation, and the security landscape that exists, IT teams are being tasked with spending time on strategic new business initiatives and less time on “business as usual” activities.For Kimberly-Clark, like many organizations, business as usual used to involve a deployment process “that relies on custom applications and a lot of manual work. Lengthy software upgrades cost both our IT staff and our users, who have
  
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• BrandPost: Competing against the accelerating evolution of cyber threats

  19-03-2018 18:14
  From C-level executives to Security Operations professionals, businesses are overwhelmed with the rapid pace that new cyber threats are released in the wild. Endpoint security is a key boardroom-level concern.  In November 2015, 71% of C-level IT and security executives put endpoint security at the top of their most vulnerable list [1].The growing concern is attributed to an emerging threat of sophisticated attacks targeting intellectual property and high business impact (HBI) information.
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: SaaS matters: key caveats for SaaS contracting

  19-03-2018 16:52
  There is no doubt that the emergence of cloud, and specifically Software as a Service (SaaS), has been one of the most profound technology developments in the last decade. Enterprises in a wide range of industries are turning their attention to, and adopting, SaaS solutions at a rapidly growing rate.SaaS solutions offered by cloud vendors such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, as well as larger IT vendors like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, have become popular within enterprises over the last few
  
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• BrandPost: Cloud vs. On-Prem ERP: Which One Will Rule?

  19-03-2018 16:47
  For some time now, industry pundits have maintained that cloud-based ERP will eventually rule and on-premises software is destined for legacy status.As CIO observes, this is a big change from just a few years ago, when cloud ERP was met with outright skepticism, particularly among large companies with big investments in on-premises systems.So what’s behind the big change in attitude?“The original advantages of cloud ERP were faster deployments, immediate enterprise-wide availability
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How the State of Georgia provides innovative digital services to citizens

  19-03-2018 16:39
  If you have an Amazon Alexa, you can now find out how to renew your driver’s license with a simple question to Alexa. The State of Georgia is the first state to integrate Amazon Echo into its digital services platform. Calvin Rhodes, CIO of Georgia, recognized this trend a number of years ago, and appointed Nikhil Deshpande to lead the Office of Digital Services for the State of Georgia. Over the past few years Nikhil has made remarkable progress on improving digital services to digital c
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Ad networks should be decentralized to make a better internet

  19-03-2018 16:21
  The world of online advertising has largely become a one-way highway that travels through centralized advertising networks.These structures were created out of necessity at first but have since become a major barrier to competition and free flow of revenues. The situation has been left mostly untouched out of convenience—people still make money advertising, even though part of their earnings is skimmed off in fees, commissions, and other costs related to using these networks.Nevertheless,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 ways to balance RSA risk and opportunity

  19-03-2018 15:31
  Forward-thinking companies of all sizes are adopting robotic process automation (RPA) to help speed up routine processes while keeping costs low and freeing up human workers to focus on innovation and customer services.RPA is revolutionizing every industry, from banking to manufacturing, and has become a core part of the line-up of technologies driving digital transformation of products and services, taking its place alongside ground-breaking technologies like AI, the Internet of Things and big
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 ways to balance RPA risk and opportunity

  19-03-2018 15:31
  Forward-thinking companies of all sizes are adopting robotic process automation (RPA) to help speed up routine processes while keeping costs low and freeing up human workers to focus on innovation and customer services.RPA is revolutionizing every industry, from banking to manufacturing, and has become a core part of the line-up of technologies driving digital transformation of products and services, taking its place alongside ground-breaking technologies like AI, the Internet of Things and big
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Multi-cloud is here, and you’re probably already doing it

  19-03-2018 15:08
  One-cloud-fits-all may work for a small few, but most organizations are leveraging multiple clouds already.Now that we seem to have moved beyond the “do or don’t” phase of enterprise cloud adoption, the question that is frequently asked is “What’s next?” I’ve seen several articles recently about how multi-cloud is the next big thing, or the next step in cloud for 2018.In my experience, most organizations have been multi-cloud for years already. Accordin
  
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• IoT, Corfu and the future of research at VMware

  19-03-2018 11:30
  At the heart of VMware’s research organization, Chief Research Officer (CRO) David Tennenhouse champions research and innovation, assuming an anticipatory stance towards technological investment and customer experience. To have any impact on the strategic direction of the enterprise, research-based insights must be actionable, advocated for, and assimilated across the entire enterprise.At VMware, Tennenhouse and his team work to make the link between a host of technologies — notably
  
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• Shell Downstream leans on low-code tools to drive app dev efficiency

  19-03-2018 11:00
  Coding is dead. Long live coding. It’s an exaggeration, but Shell Downstream’s IT department has heavily reduced custom coding in favor of commodity software built on, and connecting to, cloud services. Developers for the oil product and chemicals providers are building anything from customer portals to marketing and analytics services by fitting together application components like Lego pieces.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IT’s most wanted: 16 traits of indispensable IT pros

  19-03-2018 11:00
  On a good tech team, cross training and clear documentation keep projects humming along — even when colleagues need to be away — averting disaster. That said, have you ever noticed that when certain people in your office aren’t there, work tends to stall, deadlines slip, and sprints seem less … agile?These standout IT pros know how to make themselves invaluable. They're the coders, project leads and managers the organization can’t do without. We asked a dozen IT e
  
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