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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

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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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

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It’s a project that has earned Dow a CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. Now, they access that information in a secure cloud via a safety-hardened device connected to a site-wide private 4G wireless network. The IT organization also had to skill up for the project, adding cloud, networking, and security expertise.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

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They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success.

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This Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Enterprises much take charge, provide clear leadership, and anoint official social network(s) as appropriate. While Social CRM is the official buzzword for this approach and is the industry where you can find the most applicable technology support, you really only need some community software, a simple strategy, and some community managers.

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Why Flexibility Is Driving the Future of Business Success

CIO

A cloud-based, platform approach is fundamental to overcoming silos between roles and personas and achieving the flexibility necessary to deliver a total experience. . Cloud as a toolset, not a destination. Greater flexibility means leveraging the cloud as a set of tools to drive greater intimacy with customers and employees.

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What We Know About Making Enterprise Social Networks Successful Today

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Just like you’d never let your organization operate without a well-articulated vision, a relentless focus on growth and development, regular investment in better performance, careful strategic oversight, and passionate involvement by leadership as well as the rank and file, your ESN can’t lack for these elements either.

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