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This VP says journey to cloud is never-ending. Should you be worried? | #AWSSummit
All-on-premise infrastructure is about as in-style as a BlackBerry Curve these days. If you haven’t at least started moving applications to the cloud, your IT team must be living under a rock. Companies are capitalizing by promising customers the easiest, most secure journey to cloud, but here’s the catch: That journey may not have a ...
What can the Department of Defense teach you about your company’s IT? | #MITCDOIQ
Are you a business leader? Are you finding the digital transformation a headache for you and your staff? Is it hard to compete with more flush companies for the best developers and data scientists? An organization that has to do those things, as well as fight wars on the side, might have some advice for ...
So you want to be a chief data officer? This college now offers CDO track | #MITCDOIQ
As much as we hear about the uncertain role of chief data officer — its variation from one company to another; its lack of clear standards or best practices — some are already betting that the role is here to stay. During the MIT CDOIQ Symposium at the MIT Campus in Cambridge, MA, theCUBE team, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spoke ...
Is a single Chief Data Officer better than a gaggle of data scientists? | #MITCDOIQ
You may have noticed by now that simplifying Big Data is a challenging proposition for most companies. Even as software developers introduce tools that promise to automate processes and make analytics easier, sources of incoming data continue to multiply and the need for human intelligence to figure out what to do with them is growing. ...
What giveth taketh away: Retail tech innovation might be bad for Amazon | #Inforum16
According to some analysts, there is a 20-year cycle of change in retail: Every two decades some new technology or invention enters the scene and shifts the paradigm. Last time around, it was the rise of e-commerce giants like Amazon. Interestingly, this cycle could see the small physical stores that took a huge hit last ...
Is your benchmarking comparing apples to oranges? | #Inforum16
The Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) has been around for a long time in various forms. Market competitors have always sought the gray area in which they could mimic a successful company’s formula without violating patent or copyright laws. Big Data has analysts excited about the future, with some believing that CMAs will hit new highs ...
Why is this tech company hiring doctors instead of developers? | #Inforum16
In earlier days of computing technology, consumers and enterprises who bought products knew what they did, but not so much how they did it. They knew they could streamline work processes and increase productivity, facilitate communication among employees, etc. — but most didn’t know a client from a server or a SAN from a LAN. ...
Is the ’boutiquing’ of large companies the next trend in IT? | #Inforum16
Is getting acquired always just code for selling out? Are you just handing over your business to a big, faceless conglomerate so it can strip-mine your assets and toss your unique approach and branding in the dustbin? At the least, most deep-pocketed companies will want to remake acquisitions in their own image — at IBM, they ...
It takes a village: Can many hands make light work of your move to cloud? | #Inforum16
A whole slew of solutions providers have cropped up to help companies make the sometimes daunting transition to an all-cloud infrastructure. In the tradition of good, old American capitalism, their sales pitches have consisted of loudly touting their own advantages and claiming themselves superior to the competition. One company has taken a different tack, claiming ...
New York state of mind: Redesigning the startup Big Apple style| #Inforum16
The current wisdom conferred to startups by IT gurus is: If you want to be successful, don’t try to read customers’ minds; get your product to market and lap up every ounce of feedback to make version 2.0 better, faster, stronger. The “land-and-expand” model is undoubtedly a winning strategy for most Silicon Valley startups. But ...
