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• BrandPost: Achieving a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure with Cloud Verified

  26-03-2019 19:08
  Ken Marr is not a fan of technology for its own sake. The CTO of First National Technology Solutions (FNTS) is quick to note that there is no one “one-size-fits-all” digital transformation (DX).He believes that any transformation is about delivering the capabilities enterprises need to effectively do business and overcome real-world challenges. And those of course are unique to every company.“In all honesty, if there isn’t some form of digital transformation taking place
  
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• BrandPost: How to avoid being a lonely CIO

  26-03-2019 18:55
  For people looking in from the outside, the job of a CIO or other top IT executive might look like a lonely job.In my years as an executive, I’ve rarely felt that way. While a popular perception about CIOs, CTOs and other C-level executives is that they’re often alone in a room making decisions by themselves, in most cases, that’s far from the truth.The modern CIO is a master of encouraging collaboration, both with other executives and among members of his or her team. A big p
  
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• BrandPost: How Data Can Transform a Brand's IT Department

  26-03-2019 17:02
  Just one in three IT leaders believes his team plays a role in generating new revenue, according to a global survey of chief information officers. Four in ten say that they don't play any role in developing new products and services.This isn't surprising. At too many companies, IT departments are seen as costly service providers. But this image doesn't make sense. Today's IT departments have the power to deliver insights to every single department within every type of organization -- and thus h
  
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• You can use this powerful online meeting solution for free

  26-03-2019 14:05
  The conundrum of business meetings: as much as they allow for dispersed teams to connect and hammer out issues and propose solutions in real-time, it can be equally difficult to find an easy-to-use solution that works for everyone. We’ve all been there: getting booted off a call, only to find it impossible to join later, or dealing with frustrating limits to the number of people who can join the conference — the list of issues goes on. Now is the time to get an easy-to-use online me
  
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• Moving IT closer to the action at Ryder System

  26-03-2019 14:00
  When technology no longer supports your business strategy, but instead informs or even defines it, IT innovation can no longer belong to one function. Rajeev Ravindran, CIO of Ryder System, exemplifies this concept by moving tier one RPA work out of IT and assigning full-time product ownership to business leaders.Martha Heller: What does “digital” mean to Ryder?Ryder SystemRajeev RavindranTo read this article in full, please click here
  
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• BrandPost: Wi-Fi 6 Is Here — Industry’s First Wi-Fi 6 AP Performance Evaluation Results

  26-03-2019 13:10
  What Is Wi-Fi 6?On October 4, 2018, the Wi-Fi Alliance officially announced the new name of the next-generation Wi-Fi technology 802.11ax — Wi-Fi 6.Compared with previous generations of Wi-Fi standards, Wi-Fi 6 supports 8x8 UL and DL Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission, higher-order 1024-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (1024-QAM), Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), and spatial reuse through Basic Service Set (BSS) coloring. These new techno
  
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• BrandPost: Architecting for AI: Overcoming System Bottlenecks

  26-03-2019 13:10
  For today’s IT organizations, data analytics, artificial intelligence and high performance computing no longer live in separate worlds. These complementary technologies are rapidly converging as private and public enterprises work to gain greater value from the data they capture and store. In this new data-driven world, performance is king, because many applications now need to generate insights and automated responses in real time — within milliseconds in some cases. This need for
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to create a data-driven culture – and why it matters

  26-03-2019 13:05
  CIOs, CDOs and CAOs across industries wrestle with establishing a data driven culture and maximizing the value from data while managing the risk. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Randy Bean and Thomas Davenport reported alarming findings from the NewVantage Partners’ 2019 Big Data and AI Executive Survey of about 64 C-level technology and business executives. They reported that:
  72% of survey participants report that they have yet to forge a data culture
  69% report that they h
  
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• Mercer streamlines operations with machine learning

  26-03-2019 11:00
  Every year, human resources consulting firm Mercer collects more than 30,000 compensation and benefit surveys to help its clients better serve their employees. For years, the process of preparing and cleansing the data required weeks of administrative oversight and back-and-forth communication with clients.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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