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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation became a key strategic initiative in the mid-2010s, as mobile communications, cloud, data analytics, and other advanced information technologies took off, enabling businesses and consumers to easily engage via digital channels.

Strategy 137
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DARPA offers $42 million for ‘revolutionary’ research on social media analysis

Trends in the Living Networks

sharing technology (such as YouTube), and further accelerated by the proliferation of mobile technology. The effective use of social media has the potential to help the Armed Forces better understand the environment in which it operates and to allow more agile use of information in support of operations.

Analysis 144
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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

Data 79
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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan.

Cloud 112
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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

At Düsseldorf-based fashion retailer Peek&Cloppenburg, for example, the business, development and IT functions are increasingly cooperating with each other because they realize that isolated departments and rigid hierarchies can slow down the organization's innovative strength and speed. Two things are crucial here.

Company 84
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Drivers of IT transformation and the role of multi-cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Improving business agility and quickly adapt to change. Managing and operating multiple applications and workloads across multiple clouds can create increased complexity and additional silos if not planned properly. There are several reasons why large enterprises are moving quickly to a multi-cloud environment, including: .

Cloud 52
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IDC: 4 cloud investment predictions

CIO Business Intelligence

As cloud adoption has continued to rise in recent years in response to businesses’ need for agility, cost savings, innovation, and digital transformation, organizations are faced with new challenges and opportunities that impact business operations. Or, quite honestly, just develop new features faster.

Cloud 97