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The benefits of employing cloud computing include increased ease of access to resources for all employees, cost savings by avoiding the purchase of expensive data storage hardware and the on-demand availability of resources when and where they’re needed. But your business can face considerable challenges when transitioning to cloud-based computing, particularly if you already have […]

Earlier this year, I heard a presentation from Adobe regarding the need to create a mammoth repository for customer data. As someone who works in marketing, I could see the business advantages – but as someone who is concerned with data privacy, I immediately saw the red lights flashing. The fact is, today we often […]

When I started working with IT organizations, there were two centers of power: the VP of Applications and the VP of Operations. The exception, of course, was with businesses that built shared services organizations. For the not shared service organizations, the VP of Applications ran resources charged with changing the business and the VP of […]

In case you haven’t already been sold on the vision and promise of a customer data platform (CDP) by the two dozen-plus vendors pitching it, here is the summary of why it is the best thing since sliced bread. The future of marketing is a 1-to-1 conversation with customers. That is only possible if your […]

The COVID crisis has challenged everyone involved in keeping their organizations running. CIOs and their teams clearly have been on the front lines and have shown us all that the technology works and that IT can operate through a disaster – including 100% Work-From-Home (WFH). To be fair, not everything has worked perfectly. Fragile edges […]

“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens could have very well said this about COVID-19. The pandemic is causing some strange anomalies unlike any we have witnessed in our lifetimes. Companies across the board are experiencing unforeseen shocks to the system on the demand and supply side simultaneously.  […]

By Myles Suer A lot of companies are focused on products and services that make it easier for organizations to build datacenters and implement internal, private clouds. The question is: where is CIO thinking on the datacenter? More important, has the crisis and work-from-home changed their thinking between running a data center and putting workloads […]

Quality data beats quality algorithms – this simple fact underscores the problem all data scientists know too well. Without high-quality data, their models are effectively useless. Unfortunately, their colleagues who are tasked with sourcing the data don’t have too many options, and if you asked many of them off the record, they would gladly switch […]

Many midsize and enterprise companies are now tossing their business continuity plans out the window. Most companies can handle the one or two-day closures from a major storm or other natural disaster without too much pain, but with a weeks or months-long remote work and lockdown situation, the response is entirely different. Customer service, for […]

By Davide Zilli, Client Services Director at Mind Foundry Today in so many industries, from manufacturing and life sciences to financial services and retail, we rely on algorithms to conduct large-scale machine learning analysis. They are hugely effective for problem-solving and beneficial for augmenting human expertise within an organization. But they are now under the […]