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• BrandPost: Why HPC Matters: Feeding the Planet

  27-03-2018 23:04
  Could high-performance computing (HPC) help feed the planet? The European Commission thinks so.In a recent article, the Commission, which is the executive arm of the European Union, noted that HPC is one of the keys to increased agriculture production. The Commission said that HPC is becoming critical in agricultural activity, plague control, pesticides design and pesticides effects.1 For example, it notes that HPC enables numerical simulations of plant growth that help seed companies achieve s
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Nearshoring and the human advantage: The risks and relationship-based rewards of nearshoring

  27-03-2018 20:28
  Ready for some truth? I lead an IT consulting and software engineering firm, and I’m here to tell you that hiring an outside vendor is hard. The risk transfer and cost savings associated with hiring an outside vendor make it worthwhile, but ultimately those benefits are hinged – more so than most of us would like – on the value of your human relationships with vendors.The growing digital transformation imperative and the emergence of automation and artificial intelligence are
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How CIOs can empower today’s digital native workforce

  27-03-2018 18:38
  The last thing any CIO wants to hear is “I’m leaving this job because the company’s IT infrastructure and policies make my work too difficult to accomplish.” If you’re not preparing for this issue, you should be: a 2017 Gallup poll found over half of employees will change jobs for a position that offers more flexibility and company-wide communication and collaboration. I believe that technology can either enable or hurt these employee
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Are the greatest IT change managers now facing the greatest change?

  27-03-2018 18:21
  "As IT project managers we've managed some change over the years,” one of my oldest IT project management friends said in an email this week.“Now it's us facing a great change and if we don't we'll become increasingly irrelevant."In spite of this seemingly negative line, the theme of his email was really upbeat. He was telling me that he had realised that his traditional project management methodologies had been delivering diminishing returns and so he had taken a helicopter view of
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Ecommerce will be safer than ever thanks to blockchain technology

  27-03-2018 18:07
  The field of ecommerce has always exhibited a tense relationship with cybersecurity.Despite its massive need for better safety measures due to the sensitive nature of the data it collects and stores, ecommerce remains an easy target for hackers. The 2014 hack of eBay, which compromised almost 150 million users’ private information, and even the Target hack in 2013 which did the same for nearly 110 million individuals, demonstrate the very real threat of an ecommerce site being hacked.For
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Your employee is as important as your customer

  27-03-2018 17:30
  Employees are consumers too—they fly JetBlue, ride Uber, shop on Amazon, stay at high end hotel chains and spend money with Apple Pay. On a regular basis, they interact with companies that deliver a great customer experience. But when they come to work, they don’t find this same great experience from their company’s service desk, which hurts their productivity and overall work satisfaction. Poor productivity leads to frustration, which is often projected onto customers. To ove
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Yin and yang: business and IT

  27-03-2018 17:20
  Like the balance between yin and yang, the two opposite but complementary forces espoused by traditional Chinese culture, the technology and business sides of your company often have opposite yet complementary needs and directions. When the yin and yang of your business are in harmony, you can reach your goals. When they are out of synch … dozens, or hundreds, of problems can arise.There’s a continuing belief that something is always tugging at yin or yang to destabilize equilibriu
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Healthcare IT: reading the tea leaves

  27-03-2018 16:33
  It is perilous to attempt to predict the future during a time in history like this where so many disruptive technologies, legislations, and population dynamics have made change the new normal. However, I will try to divine what might become new realities in healthcare and business in general. My predictions are not wildly futuristic, but instead focused on the near-term future. My tea leaves are observations of trends and known possibilities:1. Healthcare organizations will compete more and mor
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Trust, partnership and agile

  27-03-2018 16:22
  We all want to be trusted. Trust takes the CEO to a new level with the board she reports to, enables the salesperson to close his big deal, and is essential in doctor-patient relationships.  Trust in technology is no different. We all would like to be trusted, respected as partners, and valued in our work. This is part of a joyful, fulfilling career.In software and technology development, how does trust work? Should we expect trust in new relationships? If not, how can we foster trust and
  
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• 8 common resume mistakes (and how to fix them)

  27-03-2018 15:18
  Writing a resume is not an easy task, no matter how long you've been in the game or how confident you are in your skills and experience. But there are steps you can take to make the process easier and turn your resume into a document that gets noticed for the right reasons.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The evolution of devops from ‘Kumbaya’ to value

  27-03-2018 13:30
  As a technologist who has spent most of my career in the Silicon Valley scene, I’m used to the kind of progress that can put the “next big thing” out of fashion the very same day it was conceived. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but the New York Minute has nothing on the San Francisco Second — a moment in time where innovations and ideas start and end. It can be hard to keep up with, and in many ways is a false reality.Although the news, analysts and our own passion as tec
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Cryptocurrency and blockchain investor gives suggestions to global governments regulating new technologies

  27-03-2018 13:05
  Miko Matsumura founded crypto exchange Evercoin and is a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital. Miko is also an investor in the Pantera Capital ICO Fund (a $100M ICO-only fund). He is personally invested in FileCoin, Brave, CIVIC, Propy and Lyft. As Chief Evangelist for th  e Java Language and Platform, Miko participated in the first wave of the Internet and is now fully engaged in the crypto-fueled Internet of value. As a 25-year operating exec in Silicon Valley, he has raised over $5
  
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• Essential skills and traits of elite data scientists

  27-03-2018 12:00
  Data scientists continue to be in high demand, with companies in virtually every industry looking to get the most value from their burgeoning information resources.“As organizations begin to fully capitalize on the use of their internal data assets and examine the integration of hundreds of third-party data sources, the role of the data scientist will continue to expand in relevance,” says Greg Boyd, director at consulting firm Protiviti.“In the past, the teams responsible for
  
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• What is low-code development? A Lego-like approach to building software

  27-03-2018 11:49
  In an effort to better compete in the digital era, enterprises are swapping traditional software development approaches in favor of Agile and DevOps, which enable programmers to build and continuously upgrade software in coding sprints. But these methodologies are just a couple of many options CIOs have at their disposal to fuel faster application creation.Enter low-code development, which as the name suggests requires minimal coding to compose applications.[ Learn how Shell Downstrea
  
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