Moor Insights & Strategy: Hybrid IT Helps Businesses Navigate Through Digital Transformation
In this era of digital disruption, businesses must be more agile to capture opportunities. Many viewed cloud computing technology as the way to do this, promising to address agility, scalability, and cost. But in moving to the cloud, many found that its security, compliance, and performance did not fully meet their needs. Additionally, previous common thought was public cloud is less expensive than private cloud. We now know that is not true in all cases. Savvy businesses realize hybrid IT, which includes both off-premises and on-premises services, enables better agility. After initial experience with public cloud offerings, businesses learned that many workloads are best hosted on-premises, primarily due to security, compliance, performance, control, and cost issues.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
IDC Technology Spotlight: Digital Transformation Trends in IT Services
In today's business environment, CIOs and business leaders are challenged to move their enterprises to the next level through digital business transformation, thereby providing the agility required to succeed in dynamic global markets. New technologies such as cloud, mobile, and business analytics, coupled with the right kind of organizational innovation, can create new business models and drive business opportunities. To succeed, enterprises need to assess their current stage of maturity in digital transformation to identify areas and capabilities that require strengthening. In addition, they should evaluate internal capabilities and maximize existing and potential third-party relationships. This Technology Spotlight examines these important trends and discusses the role that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) can play in helping companies achieve these goals.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Artificial Intelligence: Competitor or Partner?
Once the province of science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a reality. Companies are turning to AI technologies for a multitude of functions, from adaptable smartphone assistants to self-parking automobiles to life-saving medical equipment. As is true of most technological advances, AI’s business appeal boils down to three major goals: streamlining operations, improving productivity, and enhancing the bottom line. But applying AI to these goals in any substantive way is easier said than done, because organizational talent capable of leverage AI technologies lags behind the technologies themselves.
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Bob Concannon
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Korn Ferry
Adobe: Digital Transformation: At the Intersection of Strategy and Technology
Tight collaboration between the CIO and line-of-business partners can identify business processes that can be enhanced by technology and deliver differentiated customer and employee experiences that accelerate business outcomes.
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HMG Strategy
Adobe
CenturyLink: Revisiting the Cybersecurity Protection Myth
In this environment, it’s all about offense - how fast you can detect and respond to these threats. Yes, you still need to close the digital doors but you also have to add alarms and monitoring services in case they do get in - and they likely will. This paper revisits the protection myth and looks at practical countermeasures that deliver an economical but effective level of threat detection and response.
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CenturyLink