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• IDG Contributor Network: Breaking up is hard to do: Why the Bell System breakup isn’t a model for tech

  02-04-2018 20:53
  Recent discussions of tech antitrust such as those in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times  often refer to the breakup of the Bell System in the 1980s as an attractive example of successful antitrust action.  Readers are encouraged to think, well if it worked so well for telephones why not for tech? It’s true that many people think the Bell System breakup was a great success, spurring innovation and competition in long distance cell service and internet access.&nb
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Facebook: in need of governance and agile architecture

  02-04-2018 20:37
  I have nothing but admiration for Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.  He has started from nothing a worldwide icon company in just 14 years. According to recent statistics, about 2.1 billion people use Facebook regularly in most countries of the world. Facebook users can be rich, poor, young, old, Muslim, Christian, Jews, Buddhist, Hindus, atheist, right wingers, lefties, middle of the road, Spanish speaking, Danish speaking, etc. You name it, odds are high that they are usi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 must-ask questions for complying with GDPR’s ‘Right to be Forgotten’

  02-04-2018 19:40
  If you’re like me, you’re still waiting for a check from Google and all the other companies that benefit from using my data. While I understand the premise is that I give up my data for the ease of use Google provides, it’s still my data…isn’t it?Well it turns out that in the US, I in fact do not own my data. Instead, it belongs to the data collector, like Google. Conversely in Europe, it’s quite the opposite as the ownership of data goes to the entity who t
  
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• BrandPost: Why HPC Matters: Pushing the Boundaries of Advanced Robotics

  02-04-2018 18:12
  A few years ago, a colorful children’s book called Robots, Robots Everywhere was published. This book depicted robots doing everything from planting crops to exploring the underwater world. And while those depictions of happy-go-lucky robots were entirely playful, the story itself was spot on. In today’s world, robots really are everywhere.In many manufacturing facilities, robots now do the bulk of the work, placing parts, assembling components and welding things together. In distri
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Merging with the machine

  02-04-2018 18:00
  As a long time CTO, I’m often asked about technology trends. Before I talk about the trends, it’s important that we understand that the rate of technological change driving these trends is accelerating exponetially. Exponential growth of technology capability is something hard for humans to grasp. 30 linear steps of advancement is just that, 30 steps forward, or across the room. 30 exponential steps is the equivalent of more than 25 times around the world! This is why you hear so ma
  
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• The most interesting things from Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference

  02-04-2018 17:47
  Over the past five years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded, giving rise to several new conferences on the topic. However, the premier event has become Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the latest of which was held in San Jose, California, last week. Attendance was a whopping 8,500, about 2,000 more than GTC17. (Note: Nvidia is a client of ZK Research.)While the show is hosted by Nvidia, it has become more of an industry show where some of the biggest
  
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• BrandPost: Fill the Gap Between Your Business Needs and IT Capabilities

  02-04-2018 17:13
  As a CEO, have you ever experienced frustration because it seems that there’s a disconnect between the strategic level of your business and its technology layer? This feeling of disconnect is understandable. You’re an executive. You need to maintain a high-level view of the business in order to keep it operating smoothly. It’s impossible to have your finger on the pulse of everything going on within your organization.Or, does your company have your IT team reporting to the fin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What to look for when choosing an email service provider for your small- or medium-sized business

  02-04-2018 17:05
  Local small businesses using Gmail or Yahoo for all their business communication is not exactly uncommon. But there are many reasons why this does not scale.First, an @gmail.com address does not sound professional. If you want to scale beyond your neighborhood, a professional email set up on your own domain is highly desirable. An email system on your business domain also becomes inevitable when you grow and have different departments within your organization. Even a small team of sales executi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Forward planning in the age of disruption – lessons from Patty McCord and John Harvey-Jones

  02-04-2018 15:59
  “Powerful,” by the former chief talent officer at Netflix, Patty McCord, came second on the Washington Post’s list of leadership books to read in 2018  – and it’s becoming an influential text about how to manage rapidly expanding businesses in an age of technological change.There is much about the book which I agree with, and in fact it is a great read, full of personal stories –  but I want to take issue with one aspect. McCord argues that we are n
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT governance critical as cloud adoption soars to 96 percent in 2018

  02-04-2018 15:27
  In 2018, cloud computing went mainstream. Virtually all organizations (96 percent) use it in one way or another. However, studies show that as users gain cloud maturity, they tend to move from hybrid cloud scenarios – which comprise both private and public clouds – toward multi-cloud landscapes spread across a multitude of service providers. Indeed, according to Rightscale’s 2018 State of the Cloud Report, 81 percent of enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy in place.
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Natural language processing and the promise of limitless knowledge management

  02-04-2018 14:23
  The significance of natural language processing
  Natural language processing (NLP) is currently gaining and maintaining widespread attention, generally in relation to its significance to the continued development of ever more advanced artificial intelligence, or AI.This is for good reason; historically, natural language, although easily understood by human beings, has been an unprecedented navigational challenge for computers. However, although the degree is up for debate, there is no question t
  
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• BrandPost: What It Took for Me, as a CIO, to Consider Rimini Street

  02-04-2018 12:00
  Having spent most of my work life as a Chief Information Officer, I can’t help seeing the irony in now being in the position of trying to get past all the barriers CIOs erect to avoid having to listen to sales pitches.You see, I’m a former Rimini Street customer who made a late career change to work as a sales executive. And I know too well that having a system of filters and gatekeepers is a CIO survival skill. I always understood that if I spent all day listening to someone tell m
  
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• 8 IT management productivity killers

  02-04-2018 12:00
  There are two types of productivity killers in the modern workplace: small distractions that sap your focus and big productivity killers that push you into applying time and effort in all the wrong places. Like it or not, weak IT management practices are what cause the more significant productivity killers.Following is a look at eight such practices that are derailing your IT department — and how to adjust for success.1. Neglecting to prioritize strategic projects
  IT has to put out fires
  
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