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• BrandPost: CIO Interview with Jim Nelms, CISO at LabCorp

  13-09-2018 23:06
  Can you describe some of the unique challenges to securing sensitive patient healthcare data?Financial data is volatile and recovery is easier. Healthcare data is static—protecting that is critical because it’s unchangeable and irreplaceable. Medical devices are now like the Internet of Things. An infusion pump is just a computer that puts medicine into your body. And now, new regulations like GDPR and the California Consumer Protection Act are invasive. They have integrated privacy
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to build for change in a cloudy world

  13-09-2018 21:31
  The cloud market is on the rise, with organizations drawn to the promise of increased agility, reduced costs and improved operational efficiency. According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent, from $153.5 billion in 2017 to $186.4 billion in 2018. Yet, while most organizations are using multiple clouds or deploying hybrid cloud environments, it is rarely part of a thought-out strategy. More often than not, various parts of the business adopt
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 risks CIOs must assume in the digital age

  13-09-2018 19:00
  For too many people, the concepts of “acting as a responsible CIO” and “taking risks” are mutually exclusive. A Traditional CIO is accustomed to a world where if nothing breaks, their job is safe. If they don’t touch anything, they can’t break anything. In this paradigm, taking risks is unwise.In my opinion, rampant risk avoidance is the reason CIOs now lose their jobs at the second highest rate among the C-suite. Inaction—or maintaining the status quo&
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT budget advice for midmarket organizations

  13-09-2018 18:30
  Midmarket organizations face unique challenges when they invest in technology. Unlike their enterprise counterparts, midsize firms often lack the capacity to absorb cost overruns. So, when a project goes over budget, it can cripple the organization’s ability to turn technology investments into better business outcomes.I’ve helped some of the world’s fastest growing companies achieve digital transformation, so I appreciate the role budget plays in the success of ecommerce initi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The ripple effect

  13-09-2018 15:26
  In quantum mechanics, the action of one sub-atomic particle in one location can impact another in a distant location even though they did not directly affect one another – relatively speaking of course. For those of you not so quantumly inclined (don’t feel bad because Einstein wasn’t a big fan either) you can think of this phenomenon using the old adage about interrelated consequences that that a butterfly flapping its wings in South America ultimately resulting in a typhoon
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 reasons for containerizing your legacy Windows Server applications

  13-09-2018 14:07
  Applications are the lifeblood of your business and keeping them alive and well on modern infrastructure is essential to maintaining operational excellence. With Microsoft no longer supporting Windows Server (WS) 2003 and support for WS 2008 officially being discontinued in January of 2020, the reasons to modernize your legacy applications are only growing. Cost of maintenance will skyrocket, while security and compliance risks will increase without regular patches. So, the inevitable challenge
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Maximizing your training strategy

  13-09-2018 13:30
  Digital transformation is a major challenge facing organizations in 2018. For most, the ability to successfully navigate the challenges of accelerating innovation and shifting market dynamics will be defined not by technology, but the capabilities and skills to carry those initiatives forward.In the digital business landscape, the need for skilled practitioners to successfully migrate applications and architect secure cloud solutions has never been more important. Organizations in most industri
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The workforce awakens: insights for the service desk

  13-09-2018 13:15
  In this series, I talk about three insights that will help you unleash the potential of your workforce. Whereas the first piece was about what it is that makes employees satisfied and how IT can help in that perspective, this second and third insights are about how to enable the new work environment employees are requesting, while juggling with the challenges of a changing IT environment as well.Let’s first look at the changing IT landscape.Keeping the lights on has been and will always b
  
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• SAP’s cloud analytics update offers insights in seconds, not months

  13-09-2018 12:04
  With a refresh of its cloud analytics tools, SAP hopes to bring users new insights into their data more quickly and take some of the workload off the IT department.It’s not that the previous analytics tools were all that slow; it’s just that to get the most out of some of their features, you needed a team of data scientists to build the right reports.[ Learn the secrets of highly successful data analytics teams. | Beware the 12 myths of data analytics and the sure-fire ways organiza
  
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• Top 10 GRC mistakes — and how to avoid them

  13-09-2018 12:00
  Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) — the very words cause groans among employees and leadership alike. They conjure thoughts of expansive spreadsheets and endless meetings where acronyms like KRIs and KPIs are bandied about. Quite often, GRC exercises are seen as a waste of time or the purview of the CFO and internal audit.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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