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• Spring 2018: Secrets of highly innovative CIOs

  23-04-2018 22:00
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  Secrets of highly innovative CIOs
  Forward-looking CIOs are not only modernizing legacy systems, but redefining how IT works. Here’s a look at how to shift from being an IT order-taker to a next-gen technology leader.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Today’s competitive digital marketplace will drive policy changes

  23-04-2018 21:00
  In an almost perfect illustration of the new competition policy thinking that is gaining ground among advocates and antitrust practitioners, Tim Wu recently advised his New York Times readers “Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace it.” What we need, he said, are new “social media platforms that are fundamentally different in their incentives and dedication to protecting user data.”Today’s digital marketplace is open enough to allow the emergence of social media se
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Healthcare IT: reading the tea leaves, part 2

  23-04-2018 20:20
  I am back for round two of reading the tea leaves (read round one of my predictions here). It may be fun to speculate as to whether or not consciousness can be programmed into a robot, but such speculation is not very useful for creating a strategy that leads to success in today’s world of high velocity change. So I will continue to focus on near-term future trends along with the challenges and opportunities they present to organizations. One thing is sure, technology will get smaller, fa
  
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• Linium Readies Its Largest-Ever Presence for ServiceNow’s Knowledge18

  23-04-2018 20:14
  It’s that time of the year again - Knowledge18 will be taking place in Las Vegas at the Venetian from May 7-10. Linium will be making our biggest appearance ever this year as a platinum sponsor. The Linium team will showcase a digital experience you won’t want to miss.
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 hot and high-paying tech skills for 2018

  23-04-2018 19:00
  As advanced technologies like AI and machine learning and complex fields like data science continue to be integrated into our daily lives, they’re also reshaping the way companies do business. Considering the business benefits these technologies provide and the emerging cybersecurity concerns facing companies in every industry, it’s no surprise that tech-based skills and roles are leading the pack as some of the hottest and highest-paid skills for 2018.Companies like yours looking t
  
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• BrandPost: 4 Most Common Types of Phishing Attacks & 6 Security Best Practices

  23-04-2018 16:52
  We’ve recently been told by many of our clients that they want to be better informed about prevalent phishing attacks so that they can proactively educate their team and protect against such attacks.It’s clear to see where their concern is coming from. From an overall industry standpoint, 91% of security breaches begin with phishing or spear-phishing (Source: Wired), and Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report has said that one in 14 people clicked on a link or opened
  
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• BrandPost: Take an Artful Approach to Attracting and Retaining Talent

  23-04-2018 15:00
  You’ve committed to digital transformation, now you just have to figure out how to hire and retain the top IT talent needed to pull it off.Many companies are finding they don’t have the right skills in-house to make the transition, CIO reported in a feature article. A study by Hackett Group, the article noted, “found that for midsized and large businesses, one of the biggest roadblocks with digital transformation has been actually finding and sourcing talent with the right ski
  
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• Internet exchange points team up to bring better MANRS to the internet

  23-04-2018 14:05
  Spreading bad routing information to your neighbors on the internet isn’t just bad manners, it could be bad for business.That, at least, is the message that the Internet Society (ISOC) wants to spread, as it calls on internet exchange points (IXPs) to help eliminate the most common threats to the internet’s routing system.If they do so, then it’s good news for their members, the ISPs that interconnect there, and for those ISPs’ customers, who will benefit from more secur
  
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• BrandPost: Capturing Value from IoT Data with Federated Analytics

  23-04-2018 13:56
  As the Internet of things comes of age, industry observers warn that we need to get ready for exponential growth in the numbers of connected devices. Are you ready for a really big number? The predictions say we will have a trillion connected IoT devices in service by the end of the century. Sooner than that is the estimated 20 billion – 30 billion connected devices that are expected by 2021.[1]With all those connected devices at work, we won’t have any shortage of data. The challen
  
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• The new rules of IT-business alignment in the digital era

  23-04-2018 12:00
  Dell and VMware CIO Bask Iyer has a complaint. He wants IT industry experts, speakers at IT conferences, and publications like this one to stop telling CIOs that if they don’t move with the times they are likely to lose their jobs. “Every meeting, every year, they say CIOs who don’t do something are going to get fired,” he says. “That narrative has to change.”Instead, he thinks experts and executives should recognize that CIOs may have the most difficult role
  
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• The biggest AI startup deals of 2018

  23-04-2018 12:00
  The biggest AI startup deals of 2018Image by Peter Sayer/IDGTotal investments in U.S. venture-capital backed artificial intelligence companies topped $1.9 billion in the first quarter of 2018, the highest ever. Some of the biggest checks were written for robotic process automation, autonomous vehicles, and predictive analytics, according to the MoneyTree report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and CB Insights. Here are six well-funded companies that will be bringing you the next wave of AI technology.T
  
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• Is your digital transformation mobile-first? It should be

  23-04-2018 12:00
  Your mobile strategy — both for internal use and in support of your customers — is a bellwether of your approach to digital transformation. It is an opportunity to take more digital-native approaches across your technology portfolio, particularly on the front end where your employees and customers engage with you through computers, websites and mobile devices.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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