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• BrandPost: Intent-Driven Networks - The New Hot Datacentre Tech

  17-07-2018 22:54
  Intelligence is the next holy grail of the datacentre. It is also the solution to the extreme challenges the modern network architect faces. The ability to understand everything that goes on within an environment, and then design and manage a network that can fully meet the needs of the enterprise, is reaching the point where it’s too complex for even a well-resourced team of engineers to achieve with certainty.The problem has become critical enough that without investing in intelligence
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What’s disrupting supply chain and procurement?

  17-07-2018 21:19
  Digital technologies are impacting specific industries, both through internal change and competitive threats. In "How to jumpstart digital transformation in healthcare," I proposed a healthcare IT transformation strategy. But these forces also are transforming standard business functions, such as finance, marketing and HR. Also undergoing transformation are the key areas of supply chain and procurement.Like many business processes, supply chain and procurement have their own inertia. A case in
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: GraphQL: The API technology to watch in 2018

  17-07-2018 20:35
  Let’s say you’re a developer working for a retailer who’s built out a catalog of 250 commerce-related APIs, exposing every granular piece of data (product, category, price, inventory, etc) and functionality (add to cart, calculate discounts, reserve inventory, etc). Say you’re re-designing your website and need to build a new product detail page. Today’s product detail pages need to access data (products, related products, inventory, pricing, etc) from dozens or ev
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: On the ledge with blockchain? 3 reasons why diving in is better than holding off

  17-07-2018 19:54
  The buzz on blockchain has certainly hit fever pitch. Name an industry, from supply chain to Cannabis, and you will find a business out there looking to build a supply chain platform for it. Are we seeing Gold Rush mentality? Pure hype? Or is blockchain the path forward? The Gartner 2018 CIO Survey, found that “only 8 percent of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain.” The 2018 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey found similar results with only 9% of 3,95
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Challenges and opportunities in California’s new privacy law

  17-07-2018 18:45
  Legislative sausage-making is always messy, but the process whereby California passed its new privacy law should make the U.S. ashamed before the world. A rich California developer funded a publicity campaign on a ballot initiative for his pet policy peeve and blackmailed the entire California government into passing it into law, essentially unexamined, in a matter of days. The only saving grace is that it has a two-year implementation delay, which will give the legislature a chance to fix it i
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Backbone not wishbone – have you got the nerve to secure the future of retail?

  17-07-2018 16:34
  Ask any retail CIO what keeps them awake at night and, as well as the ever-present security and data management concerns, most will come up with a list that includes:
  how to ensure the business sees IT as a facilitator of change rather than a barrier to it
  how to transform infrastructure and operations at the same time as reducing costs
  demands on them to facilitate new business opportunities at the same time as implementing an agile, flexible, scalable digital platform
  how to nurture innovatio
  
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• BrandPost: 3 Optimization Strategies of Successful CIOs

  17-07-2018 15:00
  By Brian Day, Velocity Technology SolutionsAs CTO of Velocity Technology Solutions, I have the great pleasure of speaking with many CIOs every month – listening to their challenges, understanding their strategies for meeting them, and learning more about what is working and what isn’t.With the amount of innovation and disruptive new solution offers hitting the market every quarter, the pressure has never been greater on CIOs to take the reins of leadership in guiding their companies
  
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• At GM, self-service analytics drives business results

  17-07-2018 12:00
  General Motors has built a predictive analytics platform that generates insights into several core business strategies, including anticipating market demand for autonomous vehicles. Maxis — shorthand for maximizing insights — represents a multi-million-dollar investment in data-crunching technologies that coincides with the company's IT strategy overhaul.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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