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Accelerating VMware’s growth

CIO

By Hock Tan, Broadcom President & CEO Innovation comes in many forms. In Broadcom’s case, it has been through a combination of organic growth and growth through acquisition, which has created Broadcom today – a company built from a heritage of American technology pioneers such as AT&T Bell Labs and Hewlett Packard, among others. Broadcom has grown by building on the innovations of businesses with critical products, a strong track record, and significant long-term growth potential.

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Content Marketing Trends 2023

mention

Did you know that from 2021, the global content marketing industry is worth over $400 billion? With the ever-increasing importance of digital marketing, content marketing has become an essential part of any successful marketing strategy. However, with so many businesses jumping on the content marketing train, it’s more important than ever to get ahead of the competition and keep up with the latest trends.

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5 ways IT pros can accelerate webpages in a day at no cost

CIO

Over the years, hundreds of techniques have been introduced to optimize website speed. And for good reason – a mere one-second delay in page load time can lead to a 7% loss in conversions. There’s no room for complacency, but unless web performance is your day job, it’s probably not obvious which recommendations are going to have the largest impact on your site.

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Deadly Sins in Proposals: We have a deep bench!

FedSavvy

“We have a deep bench” and “We have great corporate reachback” are some of my favorite lies. While this is not always flawed, it can most definitely boomerang around to kill your bid. Let’s take a journey down the yellow brick reachback road to see examples of the good and the bad. In this blog we will feature a good use of reachback and a case in which reachback did not work out as intended.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Top reasons for implementing NaaS

CIO

By Cathy Won, Consultant with eTeam, HPE Aruba Networking Contributor In a recent IDC NaaS survey 1 , sponsored by HPE, 71% of respondents agree or strongly agree as-a-service (aaS) consumption models offer better IT agility compared to traditional consumption models. Typically, flexible consumption, also known as paying based on usage, has often been touted as the top reason for implementing aaS today, whether for storage or computing.

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The DR essential IT leaders can’t overlook

CIO

Several years ago, an earthquake struck a West Coast community and threw almost everyone’s data center offline. There were regional electrical outages and communications disruptions, and systems failed. It’s a vivid memory because I was the CIO of an area financial institution at that time. We went into disaster recovery failover mode, with everyone in IT focused on getting systems back up and running.

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How Does Microsoft Fabric Change the Enterprise BI Game?

Paul Turnley

Microsoft Fabric (#MicrosoftFabric), the new Unified Analytics platform, was announced this morning, literally moments before the Build Conference. Satya made the official announcement in the keynote address. Why is this big news and why is it important? In a few words, this is the most significant expansion to the Power BI and the analytics platform since the product was introduced.

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Transition Troubles: Successfully Getting from Here to There

CIO

Compelling insights shared at CIO ’s roundtable events lead to excellent information sharing and learning among all attendees. During a recent program, attendees shared their collective challenges with visibility into critical issues that vendors often overlook, leaving IT professionals to resolve them. An excellent example is the transition process to new solutions or platforms.

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Why Traditional Threat Prevention Is Insufficient for Insider Threats

Dataversity

Security teams can be so focused on blocking cyberattacks from external actors that they forget the potential threats within their organizations. Verizon reports that insider threats cause almost 20% of all breaches. Insider threats are difficult to defend against using traditional threat prevention measures because insiders inherently require elevated trust and access to get their jobs done. […] The post Why Traditional Threat Prevention Is Insufficient for Insider Threats appeared first

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Uncover Your Competitors’ Digital Transformation Strategies Using Contify

Contify

The post Uncover Your Competitors’ Digital Transformation Strategies Using Contify appeared first on Contify Market and Competitive Intelligence Platform - Blog.

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Why employers should offer options for individual life insurance

Wink Intel

Since the 1940s, employer-provided life insurance has been a staple of company benefits packages. These are typically group policies packaged by licensed benefits brokers who specialize in creating benefits packages for employees, and the policies usually provide guaranteed coverage and payouts for the insured’s beneficiary. While group insurance policies are easy to put together and available to all employees at an organization, they have some major downsides.

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How enterprises get ahead using hybrid cloud for innovation overlay

CIO

A 2022 survey of innovation and business strategy conducted by the International Monetary Fund found that 40% of innovation-oriented companies (SMBs to large enterprises) reduce costs as a result of new product innovations which, on average, account for 20% of all sales. How can your organization see similar benefits from its innovation pursuits? Only so much ideation can be done before innovation gets down to brass tacks of technology.

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The Fast-Evolving EV Landscape in 2023 and Beyond

Alpha Sense BI

A major pillar of the energy transition and in reaching a global net-zero state , electrical vehicles (EV) are posed as the fix to reducing, and eventually eliminating, the carbon dioxide vehicles emit each year. In 2020 alone, personal cars produced approximately three billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. ​Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation account for about 27% of total US greenhouse gas emissions, making it the largest contributor to US GHG emissions.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Ahead: Look for a partner, not a service provider

CIO

Todd Fortwengler, senior director of managed services sales at Ahead, wants to sound the alarm on an issue he sees too frequently among enterprises that begin their cloud journey alone. “I often encounter companies that moved to the cloud too quickly without a plan,” says Fortwengler. “For too many, their vision of ‘land and expand’ evolved into an unwelcome reality of ‘land and sprawl’ before they got help that drained budgets and failed to meet expectations.

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Annuity sellers jockey for position in a record-breaking 1Q, LIMRA reports

Wink Intel

The income annuity market saw its highest quarterly sales ever, topping $4.2 billion in the first quarter 2023. Single-premium immediate annuity sales more than doubled (127%) in the first quarter to $3.3 billion. The majority of the SPIA sales growth came from independent and full-service broker-dealers, whose sales increased 352% and 209%, respectively.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Today’s next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), which must protect all areas of enterprise, can filter layer 7 applications, block malicious attachments and links, detect known threats and device vulnerabilities, apply patching, prevent DDoS attacks, and provide web filtering for direct internet access.

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