36 Shades of Hybrid IT | @CloudExpo #PaaS #SaaS #AI #DigitalTransformation
Everyone has heard of the 50 Shades of Grey. But do you know the “36 Shades of Hybrid IT”? These shades are a new way of describing the 36 point solutions across a hybrid IT environment. Enterprises...
View ArticleDigital Transformation Driven by ITaaS | @CloudExpo #Cloud #ITaaS...
When executing an effective digital transformation strategy, management is tasked with placing the right workload into the most appropriate IT environment. This represents a shift from buying parts for...
View ArticleHow Quantum Computing with DNA Storage Will Affect Your Health | @CloudExpo...
Moore's Law, which states that processing speeds will double every two years as we cram more and more silicon transistors onto chips, has been faltering since the early 2000s when the law started to...
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Blockchain Business Innovation
Is there more than bitcoin to blockchain?Absolutely, because today’s blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the delivery of trusted online services.To understand this statement, you need to see...
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Crisis Response Using Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is more than servers and storage. In a crisis situation it can actually be a lifesaver. BlackBerry, in fact, has just become the first cloud-based crisis communication service to...
View ArticleCloudy Thinking and Digital Transformation | @CloudExpo #DX #Cloud #Analytics
There's a lot to gain from cloud computing, but success requires a thoughtful and enterprise focused approach. Cloud computing decouples data and information from the infrastructure on which it lies. A...
View ArticleManaging Your Hybrid Cloud | @CloudExpo #AI #ML #Cloud #Cognitive Computing
Runaway cloud computing cost may be causing an information technology industry crisis. Expanding requirements, extended transition schedules and misleading marketplace hype have made “Transformation” a...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing | @CloudExpo #AI #Cloud...
Did you know that the reservations systems of the biggest carriers mostly run on a specialized IBM operating system known as Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). Designed by IBM in the 1960’s it was...
View ArticleATMs Are IT Too | @CloudExpo #ITaaS #Cloud #FinTech
That world of homogenous IT technology managed entirely by the internal IT organization has long disappeared. Operations today require efficient and global management of technologically heterogeneous...
View ArticleDigital Transformation Asset Management | @CloudExpo #DX #Cloud #Analytics
Today’s businesses run in the virtual world. From virtual machines to chatbots to Bitcoin, physical has become last century’s modus operandi. Dealing with this type of change in business even has its...
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The Endpoint Imperative: IT Spending: Setting Priorities in a Volatile World
Fast-evolving trends are changing the way IT thinks about security. To stay secure and productive, IT operations must excel at the fundamentals: PC refreshes for security, and optimizing end-user...
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The Endpoint Imperative: Global Security Compliance. Are you ready?
China has its Cybersecurity Law. Next May, the General Data Protection Regulation– or GDPR –goes into effect for the European Union. Research shows most organizations just aren’t ready for these and...
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The Endpoint Imperative: The Perimeter is Dead; Long Live the Perimeter!
Cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things have obliterated the traditional perimeter that protected organizations. The result: Higher productivity, but bigger challenges for security, data protection,...
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Top 1000 Tech Bloggers
The Rise "Top 1000 Tech Bloggers" leaderboard recognizes the most inspiring Tech journalists and bloggers active on social media. They use Klout scores (50%) and the blogger's twitter conversations on...
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IBM - The Power of Cloud Brokerage
Hybrid cloud adoption is now mainstream and you are making decisions every day about how to transform application and infrastructure architectures, service delivery, DevOps, production operations and...
View ArticleMore SMB Love Needed | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #BigData #Analytics
In a recent post, titled “10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace: Cloud Computing...
View ArticleCloud Collaboration Reaches New Heights for Fujitsu and Citrix | @CloudExpo...
Long-term partners Fujitsu Limited and Citrix Systems Japan have announced a new virtual desktop service based in the cloud. Designed to take some of the pain out of digital transformation, the new...
View ArticleThe Data Storage Explosion | @CloudExpo #Cloud #BigData #Storage
Cloud computing innovation will power enterprise transformation in 2018. Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and...
View ArticleDigital Transformation Drives Mainframe’s Future | @ExpoDX #DX #FinTech...
Digital Transformation is amplifying mainframe as mission critical to business growth more than ever before. With 70% of the world's corporate data and over half of the world's enterprise applications...
View ArticleIndustry Verticals Tackle Unstructured Data | @CloudExpo #Cloud #BigData...
Organizations around the world are struggling to cope with the current data explosion. A vital characteristic of this data is that it is unstructured and represents things like email, images, and...
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Top "Cloud Musings" Posts For 2017
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The Endpoint Imperative: ID’ing and Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks to...
Digital Transformation is the No 1 priority for organizations large and small. It’s imperative that IT remove any obstacles to digital transformation success – including outdated PCs and mobile...
View ArticleCloud Storage 2.0 Set to Dominate Market | @CloudExpo #GDPR #Cloud #Storage
The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to...
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The Endpoint Imperative: A Form Factor Renaissance
Workplace expectations are changing, and along with them, the devices we use to do our jobs. In this episode of "The End Point Imperative", Intel’s Sarah Wieskus tells us about how Intel is driving...
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The Endpoint Imperative: In a Software World, Hardware Does Matter
Hardware matters. From productivity to security to innovation, make sure your machines can keep up. Intel’s Sarah Wieskus joins The End Point Imperative: A Podcast series from Intel to discuss the...
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The Deer Hunters: An Information Technology Lesson
by Kevin Jackson & Dez BlanchfieldIn episode four of the “Pioneers Of Possible” podcast series, Dez Blanchfield caught up with Max Michaels, General Manager, IBM Network Services in the studio....
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Digital Transformation & Intelligent Automation
By Kevin Jackson & Dez BlanchfieldDigital Transformation often needs Intelligent Automation. This type of change is the focus of a recent “Pioneers of Possible” podcast. In discussion with Elli...
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The Ascent of Object Storage
Over the past few years, the data storage market has changed radically. The traditional hierarchy of directories, sub-directories, and files referred to as file storage has given way to object storage,...
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IT Transformation with Watson
Credit: Shutterstockby Kevin Jackson & Dez BlanchfieldIBM recently launched an exciting new project in the form of a podcast series produced and hosted Dez Blanchfield, appropriately titled the...
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Experience “The Big Pivot”
Graeme Thompson, SVP/CIO InformaticaThe Big Pivot Podcast explores Digital transformation and its effect on every business in every industry. In exploring the business benefits of data-driven...
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Innovation At The Seams
byKevin L. Jackson & Dez BlanchfieldToday’s real business innovation is happening at the seams of industries. Moreover, after listening to this podcast between Sanjay Rishi, GM Global Cloud...
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(Lack of) Patch Management Highlighted in US Congress
According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress, one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source...
View ArticleDigital experience tool catches end user IT problems before they escalate
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Wasabi Hot Innovations Tour: How "Hot Cloud Storage" Changes Everything!
Digital storage requirements are growing exponentially. Budgets simply can’t keep up and existing Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), “Cloud First” Policy, Federal IT Acquisition...
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#DigitalTransformation Means Hybrid IT and Multipath
The cloud is ubiquitous in today’s business world. This operational model is changing both data center operations and application development processes across multiple domains. As the manager of data...
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Taking the Canadian Insurance Industry Digital
“Digital disruption isn’t just for hip start-ups. Incumbents can notonly compete but actually lead radical industry change if they pay attention to the way their business model is shifting and act...
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Procurement in a Virtual Business World
Today, companies are undergoing a dramatic change in their environment and processes. Many groups these changes together as “Digital Transformation,” but that industry buzzword fails to describe the...
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A Path to Hybrid Cloud
Cloud computing is now an operational reality across every industry. Organizations that fail to leverage this economic, operational and technology consumption model are merely consigning themselves to...
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Human-Led Collaboration with Machines
When charged with managing large and complex efforts, an overarching project management task is risk assessment. It involves documenting the current situation, comparing it to the past, and...
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Sensomorphic
240 million results are returned in 1.06 seconds (as of May 28, 2018) when you search for cloud computing in a Google search. With that much information available, and that many conversations active...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Project Manager
Organizations use teams to create wealth, market share, customer service, competitive advantage, and organizational success. Effective teams accomplish their assigned end goals by engaging in...
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Building A Collaborative Team
Recently, Harvard Business Review cited some insightful research into team behavior at 15 multinational companies. It found that although these teams tended to be large, virtual, diverse, and composed...
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Welcome the New Project Manager!
According to CIO.com, the six traits of highly effective project managers are:Be a strategic businesspartner who can offer higher-level strategic leadership skills, not just technical management...
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Cloud Migration Part One: An Overview
Cloud Migration Part One: An OverviewBusiness is all about efficiency and effectiveness. In today’s world, however, those twin goals almost always lead to cloud migration. This anecdotal observation...
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Skills Gulf Is Cloud’s Biggest Peril
Ian Moyse, Cloud Industry Thought Leader & Cloud Sales Director at NatterboxCloud is undoubtedly the driver of the new tech economy. Be it SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Public, Private or Hybrid clouds,...
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Cloud Migration Best Practice: Classifying Your Data
In my first post of this series, “CloudMigration Part One: An Overview,” I provided a high-level summary of how enterprises should migrate applications to the cloud. In this installment, the focus is...
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Cloud Migration Best Practice Part 3: Application Portfolio Analysis
In part three of this series on cloud migration best practice, I will focus on migrating the application itself. If you haven’t had the opportunity to read our recommendations from part two,...
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Cloud migration best practice Part 4: Executing the migration
This series has stepped through cloud migration best practices. After providing an overview, we discussed:Classifying business-critical data.Updating organizational IT governance policies.Application...
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6 Reasons Why Unity is the Best Game Engine Out There!
What makes Unity the most popular game engine? Find out below.The game development space is overflowing with game engines offering capabilities for a diverse range of requirements. There’s the Unreal...
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What Is The Most Important Part of Architecture?
I always find it interesting to hear what people view architecture as. A lot of people think it’s just about the design aspect, where you get to put pen to paper and create a solution. Even more people...
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