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The Inside Startup: Meet Cisco’s Emerging Technologies and Incubation Group

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Startup” means risk. Cisco sets aside space for an innovative team operating with a startup mindset. More than an experimental group, they hold themselves accountable the same way any startup should. Like any startup, delivering on expectations is job one. Why not both? The alternative is shuttering for good.

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US lawmakers advance bill to close loopholes in AI export controls

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The House Foreign Affairs Committee has advanced a bill that would enhance the White House’s ability to regulate the export of AI systems, amid ongoing efforts to tighten grip on key technologies. We must understand that whoever sets the rules on its application will win this great power competition and determine the global balance of power.”

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Dawn of a new day for Africa: building a modern digital economy

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Africa has the natural advantage that largely, it is not saddled with expensive legacy IT systems. Rather, it has a “green field” IT landscape open to taking advantage of the very latest technological advancements and directly adopting innovations such as mobile payments, green energy, and global online commerce.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. That helps me plan.”

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

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In an IT marketplace marked by turbulence, inflation, and economic uncertainty, the process of contracting with vendors for technology products and services has gotten significantly more challenging for CIOs. What’s more, technology contracts are often multilayered. There are an increasing range of technologies and providers.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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A wider world of IT partners “We are witnessing a paradigm shift where enterprises are not just increasing their number of partnerships but also diversifying the types of partners they work with,” says Harshul Asnani , president of technology, media, and entertainment at Tech Mahindra. D ue diligence pays off.

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

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Digital technology is infiltrating our business in ways we never thought of ourselves,’’ he says. So it is imperative the C-suite have digital literacy” not only to protect and enhance the customer value proposition but to understand new technologies and how they can be applied in their business. Rizwan, CIO of Z2C Ltd.,

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