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Retailers Stock Up on a Smart New Skill: AI

Kroger, The Home Depot, Kinetic Vision, and other leaders share how AI is reinventing the retail industry, bringing agility and efficiency to every step in the value chain.

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MLPerf Benchmarks: The Secret Behind Successful AI

Reasons why everyone from developers and IT managers to CIOs and CEOs should care about MLPerf benchmarks

Manufacturers Need a Converged Private Network – Not a 5G Tech Island

To maximize the ROI, private 5G needs to converge with existing access options, integrate with existing IT and OT networks, and operate with advanced automation capabilities.

Simplifying the Multisiloed Landscape to Achieve Data-First Modernization

Beyond a shared governance model and data strategy, the right platform can reduce inefficiencies and ensure that business insights are securely delivered at scale.

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3 Ways Natural Language Processing is Changing Cybersecurity

NLP is changing how machines communicate and how organizations think about implementing cybersecurity.

Multicloud Is Here, But Complexity Doesn’t Have to Be

Aligning with the right platform and partner can help IT leaders achieve the needed flexibility and agility to drive a data-first business.

Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks

Doing More with Less: The Case for SOC Consolidation

By Niall Browne, CISO – The traditional security operations center (SOC) is based on a model that has persisted for decades, yet it’s no longer effective. Too much has shifted in organizations and in the threat landscape for the “old ways” to work. Now is the time for a change to enable a modern SOC—taking on SOC consolidation to achieve better outcomes, with faster remediation, reduced risk and an overall stronger security posture.n

IDG Tech Talk influencers: Hybrid Work Demands a Balance of Tech and People Skills

Making the case for context, empathy, and better tools and processes.

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AI is a Team Sport

The success of AI initiatives often depends on including the right people.

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How to Build an AI Infrastructure to Support NLP

Language understanding presents huge opportunities, as well as significant challenges.

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Become More Data-Driven by Evolving Analytics Workloads

Capitalize on the massive amounts of data generated and captured every day, to keep them innovating and competitive.

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The Convergence of High-Performance Compute and Sustainability

The era of exascale and super-compute is here, adding to IT’s burden of a growing sustainability challenge. As most governments have aggressive goals for decarbonization, is HPC in danger of going in the wrong direction as far is sustainability is concerned?

Dimension Data: Delivering the Hybrid IT That Africa’s Distributed, Fast-Paced Organizations Need to Succeed

Part of the NTT Group, Dimension Data has a distinguished history of providing organizations with the multi-faceted IT solutions and services they need to address business imperatives, whether it’s streamlining operations or lowering the costs associated with a connected and distributed global workforce.

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Building a Beautiful Data Lakehouse

Aging data warehouses can’t deliver on AI’s promise, yet newer data lakes have data management drawbacks. The situation is fueling new architectures blending the best traits of both.

The Canadian Cloud Difference

In the wake of the pandemic and the broad-based adoption of digital services by businesses and consumers, there is a critical need to provide accessible, nationwide digital delivery of services to every corner of Canada.

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Three Things Every CIO Must Know About Digital Twins

Real-time simulations promise increased productivity, enhanced efficiency, innovation

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Is Your Data Center Ready for the Age of AI?

Top 10 NVIDIA Conference Sessions for IT Decision Makers to Learn How to Modernize Their Data Centers

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Prescription for Advancing Healthcare: Artificial Intelligence

From Drug Discovery to Triage, AI Deployed Against Top Challenges

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5 Ways Remote Work is Changing How IT Leaders Approach Networking

By: Eve-Marie Lanza, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Aruba. The shift to remote work is creating challenges for IT network architectures and management. IT teams now must provide connectivity, security, and support to remote locations that are on par with the on-campus experience.

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Put STaaS at the Center of Your Multicloud

How enterprises can maximize the value of explosive data growth with cost-effective solutions.

Sponsored by Dell Technologies and Intel®

The Future Is Computer Vision – Real-Time Situational Awareness, Better Quality and Faster Insights

Over the past few years, organizations across the globe have moved from piloting to operationalizing enterprise-wide computer vision solutions at scale. Breakthrough technologies that were destined to take 5 to 10 years to appear in the market are being implemented today, and this trend of adapting to the latest advanced technologies shows no sign of stopping.

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Serverless Data Architecture: The Modern Path to Digital Transformation

By Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer, DataStax – When it comes to digital transformation, data architectures have gotten short shrift. Many enterprises have focused on modernizing by moving applications to the cloud, or building ecommerce offerings (if they are retailers). But in many cases, data has been left out of the digital transformation story because data systems tend to be large, monolithic, fragile, and difficult to deal with—in other words, there are significant risks to the business if the modernization process doesn’t go as planned.

The Legacy Shift: How to Accelerate Business Value with Mainframe Modernization

Legacy solutions slow the business. Here’s how organizations are using mainframe modernization to gain multiple benefits.

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2022 is the Year of the Edge

In 2022 the edge will dominate—and data lakehouse and data fabric will emerge as key enterprise storage architectures.

Scaling Agile a Challenge? Maybe Customer Engagement Is the Roadblock

Improve agile projects by moving to a product-based focus to deliver scalability and value.

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How Data Fabrics Build Trust for Data and Analytics Success

Learn how data fabric can help you deliver better business value and stay one step ahead of the competition.

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Can Security Really Be Open Source?

Open-source software will play a more significant role in protecting organizations—and their stakeholders—from advancing cyberattacks.

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How AI and Analytics Help Organizations Deliver a Better Customer Experience

It’s time to start using an enterprise-class data fabric to expand the power of analytics and AI and evolve the customer experience.

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5 Benefits CIOs Need to Know about SD-WAN

By: Gabriel Gomane, Sr Product Marketing Manager, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Five benefits CIOs and their respective organizations can enjoy through the implementation of SD-WAN.

Data-Driven Companies Outperform Their Peers

Learn how leading companies are achieving digital resilience through data-driven decision making.

The Role of the Cloud in Building a Modern Day Analytics Platform

Members of IDG’s Influencer Network zero in on what it takes to be a truly data-driven organization.

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It’s Go Time for Real-time Data

By Thomas Been, Chief Marketing Officer, DataStax – The concept of real-time data has been around for a while. “Reactive apps” were promoted in the early 2000s as the next big thing that would drive customized experiences for customers and increase enterprise competitiveness. Back then, it was a great vision–but it was just that, a vision.

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The Pull of Data Gravity

Why mass data infrastructure strategy must be built with this powerful force in mind.

What is Insight-based Customer Experience and How Do You Compete on It?

Insight-based customer experience is effectively managing valuable customer information, and then building your infrastructure around what they want.

Sponsored by Dell Technologies and Intel®

Learning from Industry AI Leaders

Learn from AI leaders successes and failures at mlcon 2.0.

Navigating the New Cybersecurity Paradigm

As businesses consider their post-pandemic hybrid workplace strategies, they need to re-evaluate security from the ground up.

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Hello, Simplicity. Goodbye, Complexity—Standardize the Real-Time Data That Matters

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax – Data is critical to enabling developer productivity, building powerful customer experiences, and driving revenue. But many of the enterprise technology leaders I speak with face the same obstacle when it comes to harnessing their data: complexity.

There’s a Mainframe Skills Gap. Here Are Three Ways to Address It

Addressing the IT skills gap in today’s ultra-competitive hiring landscape means looking at non-traditional candidates and offering non-traditional opportunities.

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CapEx vs OpEx: New Opportunities for Data Transfer and Edge Storage

Many organizations manage their storage budgets more effectively by shifting from a CapEx model to a more optimal OpEx model.

Axians’ Commitment to Sustainability Is Inherent in the Solutions It Offers

In addition to making aggressive commitments to reduce its emissions and achieve a zero-carbon footprint, Axians’ sustainability vision comes to life in many of its projects for customers.

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Extracting Greater Value from the Data You Have: A Key to Improving Cybersecurity Outcomes

By Sean Duca, Regional CSO, Palo Alto Networks – It’s not about collecting everything. It’s about collecting what you need and having the right people, process and technology to help improve cybersecurity outcomes. Learn more about the steps used to collect the right data and extracting the highest value from it.

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Why Secure SD-WAN Should Be Delivered from the Cloud

By Kumar Ramachandran, SVP, Products – "Software-defined WAN, better known today as SD-WAN, is not the same technology that it was when it first got started. Learn more about how enabling reliable connectivity is still a key promise of SD-WAN and how but next-generation SD-WAN can do much more than just that."

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Establishing Trust with Your Board—Advice for Security Leaders

By David Faraone, Sr. Consulting Director, Unit 42 – A board of directors can and should be thought of as the fourth line of defense for an enterprise’s security. Read more about how you can establish trust with your board and enable them to partner with you to maintain your security posture.

How the Hybrid Workplace is Reshaping Enterprise Networks

While efforts to accommodate people’s preference for hybrid work are welcome, they’re also adding an unprecedented burden on the network.

What the mining and metals industry can gain from predictive analytics

Discover how predictive analytics can help mining and metals companies optimize operations, save costs, and work towards ESG goals, writes Fernanda Martins, Process Industries Expert, at AVEVA.

Product Engineering: Amplified on the Cloud

Infosys provides multiple opportunities for manufacturers to optimize systems, accelerate business value, and overcome existing challenges.

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How the Decade of Data Makes Digital Economics Even Better

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax – With today’s talk of inflation, it’s worth taking a moment to acknowledge the relentlessly favorable economics of our industry. Since well before my father was programming mainframes and I was learning to code on a Commodore 64, we in tech have benefited from continuously improving price-performance.

Why Leading IT Organizations Choose Cloud Backup

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