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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

One need only look within Ford’s executive ranks to see the technology talent driving its digital future: Doug Field, Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV) and digital systems officer, and Rob Bedicheck, executive director of platform architecture, were both recruited from Apple.

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Volvo’s new electric concept car is a ‘manifesto’ for the future

The Verge

Henrik Green, chief technology officer at Volvo, said it was likely that a “version” of the Concept Recharge could become reality within the next three years — excluding the dramatic suicide doors, unfortunately. But the concept won’t necessarily appear in this form as a production vehicle.

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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Acquires Open Data Leader Pentaho

CTOvision

The Hitachi shared analytics platform will be a reference architecture that brings together and orchestrates different technologies from Hitachi, partners and the open source community. It will allow developers to add new capabilities on top of existing technologies for faster response to business needs. All rights reserved.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. CTO - Amazon.com. They have run thousands of instances of complex Monte Carlo simulations at night to determine how to be ready at market open. until today.

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Broadcom Software and Google Cloud: What’s Next for Software

CIO Business Intelligence

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software Last month at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Many industries, from manufacturing, to automotive or financial service are becoming increasingly software-driven, changing their traditional portfolio mix and business models.

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12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

But it’s also important to recognize that pressures like these are an immense opportunity to rethink IT organizations’ strategic goals and execute a scalable architecture that expands with growing business needs.”. The work that is not repetitive is changing at a remarkable pace,” says Jon Walden, Blue Prism’s CTO for the Americas.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Forrester estimates about a third of organizations have either made or are in the process of orchestrating the shift to product-centric structures with more to follow as cloud migration gives IT a platform to retool for greater business agility, according to Charles Betz, vice president and research director for enterprise architecture at Forrester.