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• This Platform Is Making Management of Apple Devices Easy

  22-10-2018 22:24
  Whether you’re just getting your small business off the ground or growing an already successful venture, onboarding and maintaining your employees’ tech gadgets are important steps. Unfortunately, IT can be expensive — and out of the question for many small businesses. Even if you can afford to purchase reliable Apple devices for your growing staff, it can be hard to find the time to keep them updated without a specialist. That’s where Jamf Now comes into play:
  
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• BrandPost: A Practical Approach to Automating Builds & Containers

  22-10-2018 21:25
  DevOps and automation tools have undoubtedly made life easier for IT teams. But cobbling together several tools that don’t play nicely together can slow teams down and reinforce “Dev” and “Ops” silos, rather than delivering the speed and efficiency that automation promises. Whether you’re deploying traditionally packaged apps or containers, building a seamlessly automated delivery pipeline enables your team to deliver at the rate that consumers have come to e
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIO need to drive the real time enterprise

  22-10-2018 21:15
  Life for the CIO and IT was relatively easy when customers, leaders and colleagues were fine with delays in receiving data, analytics, reports or insights. There was a general understanding that it took time to process data and there was acceptance in the manual efforts it required to produce reports. Leaders got used to looking at yesterday’s or last week’s results. Customers were tolerant to some latency in applications and lived with whatever level of data transparency was expose
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 reasons why data-driven innovations fail

  22-10-2018 20:00
  Up to 90 percent of consumer-facing innovations fail in the marketplace with a slightly lower number for B2B products and services. Even Apple is not immune. The Apple Newton, the Apple xServe (anyone remember its rack-based server offering?) or its attempt at colonizing the early WWW with its eWorld online service all show innovation to be a difficult and costly business.Causes for data-driven innovation failure can vary from a bad product-market fit at launch to an inability to evolve product
  
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• BrandPost: Transforming Hybrid Cloud’s Theoretical Benefits into Operational Reality

  22-10-2018 18:04
  As growing numbers of companies pursue the benefits that hybrid cloud deployments promise, many have come to realize that the phrase “great in theory, difficult in practice” is not just a cliché. If companies lack the proper systems and support, it’s no simple matter to achieve desired payoffs from the blending of public and private cloud infrastructures, workloads, and data.Even so, there are clear incentives for organizations to tackle the hybrid cloud challenge. Afte
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How business relationship management maximizes the value of IT

  22-10-2018 16:05
  I had the pleasure of speaking with Joe Hayes and Jim Brusnahan on the topic of business relationship management (BRM). Hayes is the CIO at Prudential’s Group Insurance business unit, and Brusnahan is the Director of IT Business Partners at Johnson Controls. Both of these individuals are extremely knowledgeable and supportive of the BRM as a capability, discipline and role.Before highlighting my discussion with Joe and Jim, I’d like to begin by describing the conceptual underpinning
  
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• Inside NTT Data-Dell Services’ massive technical integration

  22-10-2018 12:00
  Most CIOs who have integrated IT systems in a merger of two large enterprises will tell you they'd rather spend an afternoon getting root canals. The challenge, which some CIOs have likened to changing the engine on an airplane while it's in flight, is to ensure that business doesn't miss a beat amid complex systems integration. After all, the business can't hit pause and employees rely on IT to do their jobs.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 11 red flags to watch for when hiring

  22-10-2018 12:00
  It’s a hiring worst-case scenario: A job candidate aces every aspect of the interview process, but after joining the company, they can’t get the job done. Or perhaps worse, the new coworker is capable but so disruptive the rest of the team suffers.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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