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Jeff Bezos Spends 6 Hours A Year Courting These Investors

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 22, 2014, 10:17 am EST

Jeff Bezos explains why he doesn't spend much time talking to traders, and instead focuses his attention on long term investors. Produced by Devan Joseph Follow BI Video: On FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »

Texas Wants to Be a Cloud Model for Other States

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 17, 2014, 10:30 am EST

The Lone Star State is leading its government agencies in a major reform effort to accelerate cloud adoption.

Acquiring the smart way: Why IT must be prioritised in any M&A activity

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 17, 2014, 10:25 am EST

Getronics group CEO Mark Cook offers advice and discusses M&A ambitions for the year ahead. 2014 has been a bumper…

How Disgruntled Employees Can Damage The Business

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 16, 2014, 9:47 am EST

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LEAKED: Sony's Secret List Of Spider-Man Characters That Never Got Screen Time

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 15, 2014, 9:58 am EST

A new set of Sony files was posted online by hackers over the weekend. Among corporate planning documents and accounting spreadsheets is something pretty amusing — a series of internal memos and spreadsheets reveal prolonged negotiations between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Comics over the rights for hundreds of different superhero characters in the Spider-Man franchise. Marvel Comics owns the rights to the fictional characters in the Spider-Man comic books, but can sell the film rights to various studios.

Advance Group Targets SMBs with IaaS Based on Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 15, 2014, 9:55 am EST

Service provider enters cloud market to deliver SMBs IaaS with self-service capabilities, extensive metering and billing and application deployment

Flexiant today announced that Advance Group, a leading technology services provider in Spain, selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to power its...

Leadership Lessons From War: 7 Leadership Takeaways From The Battlefield To The Boardroom

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 15, 2014, 9:51 am EST

Competition connotes a different meaning for business as it does for the military, the principles of defeating the competition through a sound strategy and detailed execution are the same. Below are 7 leadership takeaways from the battlefield for the boardroom...

The 'Way Forward' to the Cloud

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 11, 2014, 10:39 am EST

The US Defense Department's is poised to release a new cloud computing policy, opens the door for commercial firms to host military data and applications, and allows the services and combat support agencies to procure cloud services themselves.

Is it Time for Hadoop Alternatives?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 8, 2014, 3:03 pm EST

Hadoop has progressed from a large scale, batch-oriented analytics tool used by a handful of webscalers to a multi-application processing platform for webscale and enterprise users. The vendors of Hadoop’s three major distributions uniformly characterize it as a modern architecture for Big Data that will integrate with and [...]

Addressing the Inadequacies of Master Data Management

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 8, 2014, 10:28 am EST

by Jelani Harper In theory, Master Data Management (MDM) systems provide a number of tangible benefits such as: A single version of the truth—By compiling all of the relevant data for specific business objectives into a single repository, organizations can effectively aggregate a multitude of data sources to reach the proverbial single version of the…
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