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Google depends heavily on advertising for its revenue, so the thought of it installing an ad-blocker inside the Chrome web browser might seem counterintuitive at first. But what Google is really out to block—and moreover, prevent from being created in the first place—are advertisements that simply put, are annoying.
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Introducing the AstroChartâ„¢ of Business Trends for The New C-Suite
Aimed directly at executives, leadership, and key decision makers, Constellation’s brand new AstroChart™ of Business Trends for The New C-Suite provides an accessible visual guide to the highest order business trends and their journey of adoption in the digital enterprise. The vertical axis rates adoption from mainstream to early adopters to bleeding edge. The horizontal axis estimates the impact on an organization’s business model,
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Cisco has been trying to reorient its business around software for years, and may have just taken a step that will prove more important to that goal than any single acquisition or new product innovation.
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Steve Wilson talks Identity and Blockchain. What the advantages are (or aren't) over existing systems, the role of Distributed Ledgers, Hyperledger Fabric, and the profitability of these systems facing their pitchmen.
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"Amazon is quickly becoming an A.I. company" stated R "Ray" Wang, Chairman and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research on CNBC's Squawk Box in this video clip. He noted that Amazon drives not only in the retail but the cloud computing sectors. It's been using its data and insights to drive recommendations and forecasts and enable it to reach its current position.
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SAP Leonardo will harness machine learning to help customers drive automation and innovation. Here’s a closer look at what’s available and what’s coming.
When SAP introduced Leonardo on May 18 at its Sapphire Now event in Orlando, executives insisted that “no single technology can deliver digital innovation on its own.” Yet it’s clear that machine learning is a cornerstone technology that SAP is counting on to help customers come up with innovative new products, new business processes and even new business models.
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It's been estimated that there will be 1.8 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2022, even as the number of high-profile attacks and hacks continues to mount and billions of IoT (Internet of things) devices come online. IBM is betting it can help avert this trend by promoting new ways to train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
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Human-Centered Innovation, Organizational Agility, and Sustainable Transformation | DisrupTV Ep. 63
In Episode 63 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three thought leaders who bring diverse perspectives on innovation, organizational change, and sustainability:
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Learn how to be a kickass boss without losing your humanity live from the main stage at Constellation's Connected Enterprise 2017. We are excited to share that Kim Scott, author of “Radical Candor,†will be joining us at this year’s event in Half Moon Bay.
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We had the opportunity to attend Ceridian’s yearly analyst meeting in New York, held May 24th till 25th 2017, at the W Union Square in New York. The analyst meeting was very well attended with close to 30 analysts in the audience.
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I wonder what the gender ratio was for attendees at this week’s Infosys Confluence in San Francisco? To my eye, it seemed typical of technology events; perhaps at best 15% women in the crowd. And yet Confluence turned out to have the most gender-aware content I have ever seen in an IT conference.
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While biometrics are coming into serious vogue for device security, volunteer researchers at the Chaos Computer Club say they've already cracked into Samsung's red-hot Galaxy S8 smartphone, which uses an iris recognition system for security.
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Microservices have become a favored means of building next-generation applications over the past couple of years, even though broad industry standards and consensus haven't yet been reached.
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We had the opportunity to attend Infosys’ yearly user conference Confluence in San Francisco, held from May 24th till 26th 2017 at the Moscone West. The conference was well attended with a good mix of customers, partners and influencers.
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In the following 4 minute video I discuss Infosys's artificial intelligence (AI) platform NIA and Infosys.Digital.
And here is a Storify review of my Tweets about the event
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Oracle had its Media Day earlier in the month and used the opportunity to unleash nothing less than 6 (six!) press releases on its momentum in cloud [Apologies for the gun metaphor, for the ones who don’t know – revolvers mostly have 6 chamber for 6 bullets).
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The Hyperledger blockchain consortium is continuing to gain momentum, adding eight new members including Deloitte and Ernest & Young. Hyperledger now has 142 members, up substantially from the initial 30 who joined the project at launch in February 2016. Here are the key details from Hyperledger's announcement:
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Qlik highlights upgrades and the roadmap to high-scale, hybrid cloud and ‘augmented intelligence.’ Here's my take on the long-range plans.
Big data scalability, hybrid cloud flexibility and smart “augmented” intelligence. These are the three plans that business intelligence and analytics vendor Qlik officially put on its roadmap at the May 15-18 Qonnections conference in Orlando, Florida.
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It's not often that a single technical hire at a vendor merits news coverage, but when it involves a tech luminary of the likes of Java "father" James Gosling, proper attention should be paid. Gosling announced this week on his personal Facebook page that he has taken a position with Amazon Web Services, after a stint as chief software architect of Liquid Robotics.
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I rarely write a blog based on personal opinion as my engineering background always favors researched factual reporting. Opinion pieces are, by necessity, based on subjective views; to have value must be insightful. Having prepared and published research presenting the ‘Big Picture’ view of Digital Enterprises functioning in the Digital Economy it became all to clear while individual technologies might be understood by IT; the deployment into Digital Business was not understood.
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[South Africa has 11 official languages – and as I start blogs on a new IaaS locations with the local language ‘being learnt’ by the provider, I took the alphabetically first and last language.]
Microsoft made the announcement to bring Azure to South Africa recently. Data Center locations mater from both a constitutional and data residency – as well as a performance perspective.
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Informatica had its user conference Infa17 this week in San Francisco, from May 15th till May 18th2017. We had the chance to be there on Monday, and actually speak about MDM trends (see the Storify here).
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The KNOW Identity Conference in Washington DC last week opened with a keynote fireside chat between tech writer Manoush Zomorodi and Edward Snowden.
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