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Building the Right Enterprise Infrastructure for Machine Learning

By Blair Hanley Frank

Artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI recently released a report that shows the amount of compute power needed for training runs in the largest machine learning systems has increased by 300,000 times since 2012.

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Microsoft, Google and ServiceNow launch automation services that accelerate digital transformation

By Blair Hanley Frank Alex Bakker

Last week, a group of major technology vendors showed off new examples of how enterprises can use automation as part of their digital transformation.

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Microsoft’s ‘Intelligent Edge’ Strategy Tackles Workloads that Won’t Move to the Cloud

By Blair Hanley Frank

Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off Monday, and the tech titan spent its time addressing one of the key problems with cloud transformation.

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Shaping the Digital Future of Business: 12 Stories of Successful Enterprise-Provider Partnerships, a new book that profiles 12 organizations that represent the best examples of achieving digital transformation.

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From Applications to Data Centers, Digital is Driving the Global Sourcing Market

By Steve Hall

The data center is going digital. Not in the binary-code sense, but from the standpoint of being based in the cloud.

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Digital Transformation Must Empower CFOs

By Namratha Dharshan

Technologies such as automation, analytics and cloud platforms have fundamentally changed how finance and accounting (F&A) services are delivered today.

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Seven Key Trends in Application Testing

We’re seeing more and more organizations resorting to more-evolved forms of testing services to improve their software delivery speed and quality.

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Spectre, Meltdown, and Security Uncertainty

Patches and Uncertainty are the two key takeaways in the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws.

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Key Differentiators in Large Enterprise Managed Digital Workplace Services

By Mrinal Rai

ISG’s work with large enterprise clients and service providers suggests that workplace managed services are undergoing a paradigm shift, from being device-centric to user experience-centric.

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Mid-market Enterprises - Distinct Requirements for Managed Digital Workplace Services

By Mrinal Rai

Managed workplace services requirements for mid-market companies are quite different from those for large enterprises.

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As Digital Business Accelerates, Need for Graceful Integration Layer Never Greater

By Stanton Jones

It’s one of the hardest jobs a CIO has to do: keep legacy technology up and running while embracing a torrent of new applications and services.

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Cryptocurrencies – From Fiat to Fundamentals

By Alex Bakker

We’ve seen more and more discussion about crypto-currencies – i.e., blockchain-based digital assets - among enterprise clients, IT providers, and pundits.

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Amazon in Healthcare – What’s the Disruptive Model?

Historically, Amazon has by far had the most success when it places itself in a position to profit from as many business transactions as efficiently as possible.

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The Amazon Healthcare Alliance Will Disrupt – But When and How?

By Bob Krohn Peter Magagna

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan fired a very loud shot heard ‘round the markets this week when they announced an alliance aimed at helping to reduce their own healthcare costs.

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Online Maps Reveal Secrets - Should Enterprises Worry?

By Ron Exler

News reports this week revealed some unintended consequences of personal but publicly available mapping data.

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Callidus As SAP’s Digital Engagement Front End – and Data Mine

SAP America has announced that it is acquiring Callidus Software, providers of the CallidusCloud software platform for human resource, sales, “lead-to-money” (quote-to-cash), marketing, and customer experience solutions.

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Sifting Through Dell + VMware Rumors and Reinvention

Less than five years after Dell Technologies’ own and at-times contentious privatization effort, we’ve begun hearing rumors that the company might pursue a reverse-merger with VMware Inc., in large part to resolve EBITDA woes.

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IT Market and Provider Re-invention: Birlasoft + KPIT to Merge, Split, Disrupt

The business and technology nature(s) of the merger-to-split between Noida-based Birlasoft and Pune-headquartered KPIT Technologies provides a great example of how both the pace and nature of tech-firm M&A are being disrupted.

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Automation, Autonomy and the Messy In-Between

By Stanton Jones

We’ve made incredible gains when it comes to autonomous vehicles, but today the market finds itself in a messy interim period.

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