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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. These network, security, and cloud changes allow us to shift resources and spend less on-prem and more in the cloud.”

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What we’re most thankful for in tech, science, business, and innovation

GeekWire

On this special holiday episode, we offer our gratitude for some of the technologies, trends and hopeful developments of the past year, as reflected in news coverage on GeekWire. Commercial space tourism: Sure, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about billionaires blasting themselves and a chosen few into low-Earth orbit.

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Journey Beyond transforms its contact center to deliver better customer journeys

CIO Business Intelligence

Journey Beyond, a part of Hornblower Group, is Australia’s leading experiential tourism group. These challenges forced the company to transition to a modern cloud-based communication platform. The other major advantage is the scalability and remote capabilities of the cloud-based platform.

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Staying Ahead of Cyber Attacks

CTOvision

occurred within the business sector (retail services, hospitality, tourism, professional, trade, transportation, etc.). In the same month, QuintessenceLabs announced their partnership with cloud-based document and email management provider NetDocuments. Roughly 9.8% of breaches were in the banking, credit and financial sector.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

Of course, making this distinction can be challenging, and is a skill that can take time to develop, says Mittal, whose company is taking a tech-first, cloud-native approach to transforming loan servicing. “It Giving an example of this approach, Mazumdar says, “We have got absolute clarity on pursuing a cloud-first strategy.

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‘Best day ever!’ Blue Origin sends Jeff Bezos on suborbital trip with oldest and youngest spacefliers

GeekWire

Retro rockets fired just before touchdown, cushioning the impact and kicking up a cloud of dust. The crew capsule touches down, throwing up a cloud of dust. Check back for updates in this developing story. Soon afterward, Blue Origin’s recovery team picked up the newly minted spacefliers. Blue Origin via YouTube).

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5 (more) IT trends to watch in 2019 and beyond

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Instead, it has found tons of use cases from marketing campaigns and classroom education to tourism and remote work, meaning it’s not just cool, it’s useful. IT companies are developing ever more powerful quantum processors,” says Yaroslav Lunev, CEO of the Cellframe protocol. And that’s what technology is all about.

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