What's Innovative?
What's Changed?
- Silwood enhances catalogues
- Moving towards a defined reference architecture for Edge Computing - Equinix and others are beginning to focus on the need for a robust reference model for the whole IoT, Edge, 5G environment
- SentryOne gets pragmatic
- 3 IT infrastructure enablers for Industry 4.0
- Worlds Apart - The nascent threat to the existing data centre market from the Open Compute Project
Where's The Value?
Expert Opinion
- DevOps Orchestration - the Morpheus tool integration platform looks interesting
- KPIs for Innovation - Managing Innovation for the Mutable Business
- Managing Collaboration - As usual, it’s going to be a culture thing for the Mutable Business, not just a technology thing.
- IB(No)M - IBM underplays the important value and differentiators their hardware architectures still provide
- Future starting here? - Looking at DevOps processes beyond simple software development
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Revolutions are by their nature disruptive. They create winners and losers. Businesses need to be implementing IoT projects now and be developing their 5g networks and edge computing strategies to win in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Seize GDPR as an opportunity to build “Privacy by Design” into your processes, thus de-risking mutable change as it affects personal data. Leverage this for increased customer trust, customer loyalty and market-share.
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If you care about analytics – and who doesn’t – then a data catalogue is a fundamental requirement for creating a data-driven business and supporting self-service.
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Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Our infrastructure practice aims to articulate the infrastructure story to make it meaningful for the CIO
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Developers and data scientists may not be allowed to see detailed personal information but at the same time they may need that data, or its equivalent.
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