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What legacy tech teaches IT leaders about projects that last

CIO Business Intelligence

I’ve had a number of servers fail in my data centers, and then there’s our mainframe, running code that was written over 30 years ago,” he said. “It It processes hundreds of thousands of revenue-producing hotel reservations that come in each day. A CIO acquaintance of mine at a large hospitality chain gives a practical example.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness. In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand.