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• IDG Contributor Network: It’s time to think seriously about regulating platform content moderation practices

  14-02-2019 12:50
  Something funny happened at the recent University of Colorado Law School Silicon Flatirons conference on Internet Platforms' Rising Dominance, Evolving Governance.  One moderator asked the audience whether they thought the current legal regime, which largely protects platforms from liability for user content, should be left alone or whether they thought it was time to consider some reforms.  The relatively libertarian audience, which included lawyers, economists, technologists, and in
  
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• Arapahoe County develops document system into beneficial platform

  14-02-2019 12:00
  Under pressure to drive revenue and digitize services, CIOs are increasingly shifting to product-based IT as a means for delivering business results quickly, improving customer experience, and providing opportunities to transform in-house solutions into marketable services. That’s the case for Fortune 500 companies and local government IT alike — as Arapahoe County’s experience in streamlining its welfare benefits processes attests.To read this article in full, please click her
  
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• BrandPost: Working together to solve the challenges of hybrid and multi-cloud

  14-02-2019 01:15
  According to a recent report, the hybrid cloud market is exploding. It is expected to grow from $44.60 billion in 2018 to $97.64 billion by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.0% during the forecast period.As hybrid cloud deployments enfold, organizations can expect to encounter some long-term challenges. In a recent podcast, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions and John Abbott, Vice President of Infrastructure and Co-Founder of The 451 Group, discuss the grow
  
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• BrandPost: Two IT industry analysts discuss taming multi-cloud complexity

  14-02-2019 01:02
  Much has changed for businesses in the last 40 years. In the 1980s, personal computer growth lead to microcomputers (servers), and by the 1990s, data centers were commonplace. Then, virtualization and the need to process an explosion of data fueled data center growth in the early 2000s. When Amazon launched its commercial web service (EC2) in 2006, cloud computing dramatically changed how businesses handle their data – and their businesses.As an IT industry analyst, Martin Hingley, Presid
  
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• BrandPost: Stumbling with your public cloud deployments? An industry analyst offers advice.

  14-02-2019 00:35
  As many organizations rush headlong into public cloud, IT continues to adjust to the complexities these environments create. Cost concerns, security, and a widening skills gap seem to consume today’s agenda, but is there a more basic issue at play here?According to one industry analyst, the answer is yes. A cultural solution to cloud adoption may hold the key to greater success.In a recent podcast, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, discusses this topic with Edwin Yu
  
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• BrandPost: What If You Could Get 54 Minutes Back on Every Hour?

  14-02-2019 00:17
  In all corners of the world, people are looking for ways to spend more time on what’s important to them. Businesses are responding with efficient, consolidated services and devices. Online superstores provide one-stop shopping, dinner-in-a-box services deliver meal prep kits for the entire week, and smart watches deliver a GPS locator with a fitness tracker that links to your phone. The trend toward consolidation and convergence is giving people much more than multi-functional solutions &
  
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• BrandPost: Reducing infrastructure complexity: There has to be a better way

  14-02-2019 00:00
  Most people manage numerous financial accounts such as checking accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, mortgages, and various other reoccurring bills. Historically, we needed to deal with each account separately by mailing in payments, keeping a record of each transaction, and ensuring the correct funds were available. This process was cumbersome and took too much time. Today’s online banking technology has solved those complexities. Now people can remotely manage all their accounts fr
  
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