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• IDG Contributor Network: Profiting from free and underused data

  12-04-2019 21:00
  Data is rightly seen as a valuable asset that companies should guard carefully. Having access to unique data sets and possessing the ability to use advanced analytics techniques to process them can separate winners from losers in the 21st century – just ask Google or Facebook about how profitable that can be.However, many firms are sitting on data assets that are not being utilized effectively or even used at all. There is also an abundance of freely accessible data made available by publ
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to be an edgy CIO

  12-04-2019 13:57
  Edge computing is not new, but its applications for business have rapidly evolved over the past decade. I initially implemented an edge solution for ACI Specialty Benefits back in 2010 because we were collecting petabytes of wearable and biometric data. The delivery, processing, and storage of this data became too expensive and latent to ship and translate into usable real-time analytics. With the need to reduce network latency, bandwidth requirements and cost, it made sense to process this dat
  
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• Stopping workplace violence is everyone’s responsibility

  12-04-2019 11:30
  April is Workplace Violence Awareness Month, and while recent events like the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand and the synagogue attack in Pittsburgh took place in houses of worship, these events are part of a larger climate of hatred, discrimination, intolerance, and violence on the rise worldwide. The U.S. alone saw a 57% increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017, according to the Anti-Defamation League. What makes you think this kind of hatred and intolerance isn’t already
  
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