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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

The first is to run transaction-intensive banking applications, including bank statements, deposits, mobile banking, debit-card processing, and loan payments. The second is to host mobile applications, containers, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications — what Sonnenstein calls “acting as a full-fledged member of the modern universe.”.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in.

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

CTOvision

An autonomic computing system would control the functioning of computer applications and systems without input from the user, in the same way that the autonomic nervous system regulates body systems without conscious input from the individual. Agile Software Development. Application Streaming / Virtualization.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Tools such as Michael Porter’s five forces model of competition are still applicable, but their value is fading because they are based on the concept of an industry as something static and defined. Despite being historically a software firm rather than hardware vendor, it was easy for it to outsource manufacturing of the console.

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Transforming IT for cloud success

CIO Business Intelligence

Leaving behind linear processes Holden’s reorganization focused in part on eliminating linear software development, a linear project process and the department team structure that accommodated that linear approach to getting work done. Here, four IT leaders detail how they have taken action on this front.

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John Deere turned tractors into computers — what’s next?

The Verge

There’s hardware, software, services that I think of as sort of traditional computer company problems. Is that something you develop internally? It might surprise you, we have more software development engineers today within Deere than we have mechanical design engineers. We do utilize third parties.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Perforce Software buys Puppet. Perforce Software, a privately held provider of software development tools, has agreed to buy the infrastructure automation software platform Puppet. Perforce already owns development tools such as Helix and the testing tools, including Perfecto and BlazeMeter.