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• BrandPost: Maximize Business Operations in the Cloud

  28-09-2018 23:50
  More and more business leaders realize that digital transformation is not an option, but the only way to survive. According to IDC's forecast, by 2020, 46% of companies around the world will have digital business as the top priority for their strategy.Organizations that already have a digital transformation strategy, often identified similar objectives: improve customer experience, competitive differentiation, intelligent and agile business operation, and cost reduction. Technologies such as cl
  
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• BrandPost: Optimizing Government services with Big Data analysis

  28-09-2018 23:45
  Data is the new gold. And like gold, it needs to be mined and processed to become valuable. Gold that sits in the ground is free for anyone who finds it. But only after excavated and used to make jewelry or industrial equipment will its potential value will be realized.Data is the same. It is everywhere, but until it is captured and analyzed it holds no value. The real value comes from the insights that are generated from analyzing the Big Data. These insights help organizations optimize their
  
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• BrandPost: The Evolution towards Digital Disruption — and the impact on the IT Service Industry

  28-09-2018 21:04
  IntroductionThroughout history the world has been disrupted repeatedly in many different ways. Across millions of years freezing temperatures or giant meteors caused profound changes to nature, casually wiping out entire species. Within the past 400 years, technological inventions such as electricity (1600), the steam engine (1712), the telegraph (1836), and the internal combustion engine (1859) all disrupted industries and society. During the last century the frequency of disruption has increa
  
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• BrandPost: How Fortune Global 500 Companies Are Grappling With Technological Disruption

  28-09-2018 20:07
  When you look at the current Fortune Global 500 list, [1] one common trend that shows itself across all sectors and nations is that those companies that have embraced technology have better revenue and a more secure position in the market. Companies as varied as BMW, CMB and Enel have all solidified their position in the Fortune Global 500 thanks in significant part to their pioneering focus on digital transformation.Following those digital transformations, the respective organisations are then
  
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• BrandPost: How Software-Defining Your Datacenter Can Be as Easy as Ordering a Pizza

  28-09-2018 17:38
  What does it mean to software-define something, or to move into the digital age? These phrases may sound strange at first, but if you look around, companies all over the world are doing these things every day.Take pizza, for example. You might not think you can software-define pizza, but it has already happened, and you probably didn’t even realize it. Domino’s Pizza has distilled the pizza ordering experience down from calling the pizza store, to ordering pizza
  
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• BrandPost: Self-Driving Cars are Here. Where’s the Self-Driving Data Center?

  28-09-2018 17:32
  What makes the future exciting? Simplicity. In all of our wildest imaginings in stories and movies about what the future will be like, a simpler life is almost always a central theme, driven by amazing technologies. The world today is getting closer and closer to these imaginings. The smartphone gives us one place to do pretty much anything, anywhere. You don’t necessarily have to get out of bed to turn the lights off if you’ve equipped your home with “smart lights,” and
  
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• BrandPost: Making Multi-Cloud, Hybrid IT Less Complex

  28-09-2018 17:28
  Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist, famous in the 1890s for introducing the concept of a conditioned response – the theory that our brains can be trained to associate certain stimuli with a response.In today’s enterprise data center, public cloud is a stimuli that has conditioned developers and lines of business to expect immediate availability of resources using a simple, self-service, on-demand infrastructure. IT is expected to respond by transforming on-premises infrastructur
  
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• BrandPost: The Journey to Digital Transformation in 4 Steps

  28-09-2018 17:22
  As I travel the world and talk with customers, each has a similar yet different story: Their business is changing and often factors completely out of their control are disrupting the status quo. These businesses understand that they need to rethink IT and make some dramatic changes, but there is no one-size-fits-all solution.Instead of letting infrastructure hold them back, these companies are succeeding by implementing today’s newest technologies and partnering with industry experts. And
  
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• BrandPost: How do you trim IT complexity without sacrificing quality? Hyperconverged can help.

  28-09-2018 17:17
  World renowned consultant, educator, and author Peter Drucker said, “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” When it comes to IT operational efficiency, doing things right means streamlining IT. By doing so, IT organizations can save time and expenses – devoting more resources to strategic activities. But, it’s not about cutting corners. There is still a lot of work to do. IT needs to be sure that the changes we make don’t sacrif
  
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• BrandPost: A look at hybrid IT challenges and solutions from 3 different perspectives

  28-09-2018 16:49
  Digital transformation is ushering in a new era of hybrid IT– a combination of both public and private cloud – that allows businesses to innovate while meeting their own unique organizational needs. Yet, a hybrid IT environment can create complexity and operational friction that can slow a business down and hold them back.As businesses seek ways to remove IT friction, streamline operations, and accelerate business innovation across their hybrid environment, it’s impo
  
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• BrandPost: Survey Says: Cost and Security are Top Hybrid Cloud Concerns

  28-09-2018 16:40
  Businesses are embracing hybrid cloud in record numbers because it lets them choose a mix of applications, services and platforms -- all tailored to their needs. Yet, many struggle with the complexity of operating different private and public clouds in conjunction with traditional infrastructure. Often, they don’t have the right skills to oversee and manage their cloud implementations and that can lead to unrestrained cost and risk.Earlier this year, almost a thousand professionals were a
  
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• CMMI certifications: A complete guide

  28-09-2018 12:00
  The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) helps organizations streamline process improvement and encourage behaviors that decrease risks in software, product and service development. The model provides businesses with a framework for developing better products and services, starting with a series of appraisals of process and service development, service establishment and management, and product and service acquisition.Professionals seeking to improve their organization’s developmen
  
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• Asana review: Intelligent, adaptive project management

  28-09-2018 12:00
  Companywide visibility and accountability are of great importance to stakeholders seeking successful project outcomes. Asana helps makes this possible by offering a strong feature set that helps teams remain in lock-step, meet deadlines and achieve goals.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• More tech companies drop college degree requirement

  28-09-2018 11:30
  The most important factor in IT hiring is — or at least should be — skills. Does a candidate have the technical ability to do the job?While college degrees are one indicator of this, some of the best engineering and programming talent out there comes from non-traditional educational backgrounds: boot camps, vocational programs and/or self-taught skills. There are loads of examples of IT and tech workers who received an unrelated college degree and used boot camps and online blind co
  
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