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Aflac virtualizes the customer enrollment experience

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Aflac’s efforts to re-invent its policy enrollment experience, led by its Hatch innovation lab, garnered the insurer a CIO 100 Award in IT Leadership and Excellence. Virtualizing policy enrollment. Hosted on AWS, the Virtual Enrollment Experience developed by Aflac includes a microsite customized for each account. “We

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

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When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. SoftIron introduced VM Squared , a virtualization platform focused on ease of deployment, in March.

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Accelerating sustainability to build stronger businesses

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Hear from international experts on ESG leadership and how the future green economy will take shape. We were first in the industry to set a 100% renewable energy goal in 2015 and deploy renewable energy buying concepts​ like Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs), which contribute directly to greening the grid. PUE at full load.

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Right-Sizing Data Center Resources

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One of the perennial problems of data centers is monitoring server utilization to ensure right-sizing of resources. Having too few resources can lead to overprovisioning, which can cause downtime as virtual machines become starved for compute, memory, and storage. Nlyte: For Data Center Infrastructure Management (ctovision.com).

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

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Kevin Grayling, CIO, Florida Crystals Florida Crystals It’s ASR that had the more modern SAP installation, S/4HANA 1709, running in a virtual private cloud hosted by Virtustream, while its parent languished on SAP Business Suite. One of those requirements was to move out of its hosting provider data center and into a hyperscaler’s cloud.

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9 traits of great IT leaders

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Here, veteran CIOs and executive leadership experts highlight the essential traits required to be a standout IT leader today. It allows them to set up their teams for success,” Bloom says — a mark of real leadership. Additionally, they are part of executive teams that are likewise virtual and distributed.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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The standards, for instance, enable CIOs to determine scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions levels and report exactly how much energy their data centers are using and how much power their cloud workloads are consuming, Koushik says. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.