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• The 11 biggest issues IT faces today

  15-02-2019 21:54
  Each year we talk with tech leaders about the biggest problems they’ll face in the near future, and we’re starting to see some subtle and not-so-subtle shifts from the worries of 2018.Data overload, a major concern 12 months ago, has evolved as new data-hungry tools and AI help make sense of data and drive business decisions. This year CIOs say they’re more concerned with how to protect that data, as organizations grapple with new privacy regulations.[ Learn from your peers: C
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: IT forecast: Cloudy with a chance of digital transformation

  15-02-2019 19:30
  Cloud continues to undergo intense innovation. Around this time last year, I predicted Cloud 2.0—which puts heterogenous cloud at the future of application architecture—would finally go mainstream. This year, we’ll move beyond just a tipping point and onto a new era of cloud: Cloud 3.0. So, what will Cloud 3.0 look like? If re:Invent is any indication of what we can expect in the next year, we’ll continue to see impressive cloud adoption across all industries and wi
  
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• BrandPost: Unlocking Business Value: In Telco, AI-driven Solutions are Playing a Key Role

  15-02-2019 15:26
  Today’s telecommunications companies operate in an era of constantly connected users. From smartphones to smart cars, the Internet of Things has greatly increased the number of devices connected to communications networks. This expansion is driving telcos to adopt new technologies to simplify and automate processes while reducing costs. And this is where artificial intelligence enters the picture for telephone companies, Internet service providers and other players in the telco industry.T
  
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• BrandPost: Bringing Together AI and HPC to Drive Scientific Breakthroughs

  15-02-2019 15:11
  In today’s data centers, a great convergence is under way, bringing together high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence, along with data analytics, in a single system. This convergence makes complete sense, given that these technologies are designed to unlock the value of data, and it’s difficult to reach AI goals without HPC.For a real-life example of this convergence, we can look to the University of Cambridge’s latest supercomputer, called Cumulus–UK
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 reasons why your business model may need an API

  15-02-2019 14:49
  We all know the benefits that APIs can bring in getting the right data to the right people at the right time. There are enough tools out there to make offering API access to your data a relatively easy experience. However, a common problem has been too great a focus on sorting out the technical issues, often at the expense of building a compelling business case for having an API in the first place.A closer integration with core business objectives and the commercial needs of the organization ca
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Managing enterprise application architectures in 2020: the game has changed!

  15-02-2019 14:02
  Believe it or not, Salesforce.com is twenty years old. Salesforce was founded in 1999 under the then revolutionary assumption that business applications could be delivered faster, cheaper and more reliably through the cloud. By any measure Salesforce has been a huge success. It went public in 2004, achieved $1B in revenues in 2009 and surpassed the $10B mark last year. But perhaps its biggest accomplishment was to fundamentally change the application architectures enterprises employ to support
  
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• Intel’s Native Coders program offers pathway to STEM for Native American students

  15-02-2019 11:30
  Since 2015, Intel’s Native Coders initiative has provided pathways to computer science for hundreds of Native American high school students through a culturally sensitive curriculum that bridges cutting-edge technology and endangered traditions.The initiative began as part of Intel’s broader goal to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in its U.S. workforce by 2020 – which the chip maker achieved last October, two years ahead of schedule. That m
  
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