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The hybrid cloud offers the best of both worlds. It combines the benefits of public cloud – agility and low costs – with the control, performance and security of the private cloud. This has huge potential to help businesses, however many still struggle to understand what a true hybrid cloud really is. With 2015 heralded as the year of the hybrid cloud and with uptake on the rise, businesses need to get on board, or else be left behind. To help, I’ve debunked the top five myths surrounding hybrid cloud below.…

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The communications industry is undergoing a massive transformation. It is so fundamental; it will affect every person and every business on the face of the planet in the next 10 to 15 years. You can look at it as the third wave, comparable with the way railroads, automobiles and planes transformed life in the 20th century. Every application of BSS/OSS will move from legacy to one global, virtual, seamless IP world, based on IP and wireless. The internet that emerged as a mass medium in the 1990s wasn’t designed for…

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  Apple Inc., which has been working secretly on a car, is pushing its team to begin production of an electric vehicle as early as 2020, people with knowledge of the matter said. (Bloomberg) –-The timeframe — automakers typically spend five to seven years developing a car — underscores the project’s aggressive goals and could set the stage for a battle for customers with Tesla Motors Inc. and General Motors Co. Both automakers are targeting a 2017 release of an electric vehicle that can go more than 200 miles on…

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New report finds that most companies undergoing a digital transformation lack appropriate support Senior executives and project leaders in Europe have heard the message loud and clear: it’s time to invest in the digital transformation of their companies. According to the newest Nimbus Ninety Digital Enterprise Trends Research, almost nine in 10 companies are either currently preparing or undertaking a digital transformation. The decision to undergo a digital transformation was sparked out of changes in customer behavior or customer expectation in over four out of five cases. Shouldn’t we then…

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 Telenor Group is launching a company-wide retail roaming initiative in a move to eliminate high and unpredictable costs for data-hungry consumers using mobile services while abroad. The company will gradually introduce roaming initiatives across the group, starting with Europe in 2015. (Fornebu/Barcelona – 3 March 2015) –“We want to encourage our customers to use data services wherever they are when on international travels.  There shouldn’t be any reason for Telenor subscribers not to use mobile data services also when they are abroad,” says Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO of…

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Businesses are becoming increasingly tech-led and innovation is being hailed as the fuel for Europe’s next growth spurt. The pace of innovation is dictating whether firms win or lose as they transform into digital businesses. Forward-thinking companies are recognising the importance of diversity in driving their creative and operational processes. It might be tempting to create teams of like-minded employees, with similar ages, education and experiences, but without diversity, the team will be missing out on new ideas and efficiency. Diversity sparks innovation. By bringing together people from different cultural…

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“The Third Platform” – Big Data, cloud computing, mobile, and social – is having a tremendous positive impact on government and citizens alike. Analyzing trends in real time, and capturing all data sources where they originate is game changing. This past fall at the EMC Federal Summit, Federal leaders gathered to discuss how to “Redefine Federal IT.” In my morning keynote, I looked at how to utilize the third platform in the rapidly changing IT environment. Here are some takeaways: According to the recent IDC Digital Universe study, the digital universe is enormous…

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With the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit kicking off in Las Vegas, March 30 – April 1, we asked Kurt Schlegel, research vice president at Gartner and conference chair, to share his views on the outlook for the business intelligence (BI) market and the key trends that will be discussed at the Summit this year. Q: What are the key areas in BI that CIOs should focus on in 2015 and why? A: Putting the right team together. CIOs need to make sure there is a cross functional team of technical and…

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Connected devices are changing the workplace. Organizations must adapt to support the evolution of mobility. The explosive growth of connected mobile devices is in no way slowing down, and neither are the network speeds users will demand to support these devices. In recent years, the conversation around mobility and the workplace has revolved around the influx of smartphones and tablets and an organization’s ability to support employee-owned devices to enable a new way of working. However, with the new wave of high-speed mobile devices coming quickly online and into workplaces, a new…

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In an ornate hall in the Philadelphia State House in 1787, a few dozen men drafted the US constitution. For four months, they debated and revised the document until they had something they could generally agree on. Today, they wouldn’t even have to leave their homes. A new site could let any diplomats-to-be work on drafting a new constitution in real time over the web. Constitute is a repository of all the world’s constitutions, run by the Comparative Constitutions Project, and funded by Google Ideas and the Indigo Trust—a British…

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