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How to manage data integration during an acquisition

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Innovation is crucial for business growth. Easily said—but let’s throw in a curveball, something that happens in business all the time: a merger or acquisition (M&A). Implementing hybrid-cloud solutions also dismantles data silos that have plagued businesses for years.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

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Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center. Saving money is a top priority for many organizations, particularly during periods of economic uncertainty.

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Salesforce launches Starter to ward off competition in the SMB segment

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With all the tools, solutions, and cloud offerings, the classic SMB got confused, lost, and possibly overlooked in the Salesforce ecosystem,” said Liz Miller, principal analyst at Constellation Research. So, what is Salesforce Starter? With Starter, we rethought everything — from how people use the product to how they buy and get started.

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Savvy CIOs step up to support business hypergrowth

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Supporting business objectives has long been IT’s mantra, but how to go about doing that when the objective is aggressive business growth isn’t always cut and dry. For Jim McCullen, CIO of Century Supply Chain Solutions, doing so effectively for the past several years has meant a lot of IT work on the fly.

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Equinix goes partner prospecting with AI

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But as the company evolved since the launch of that project, so did its reliance on channel partners to accelerate customer acquisition and expansion. Case in point: the federal sector, where it is critical to identify partners with necessary clearance and previously established relationships.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. It’s not a stretch to say that across the board, CIOs are continuing to invest in some form of AI.

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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

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Over time, we became an email-based payment solution, so just by having an email address, you could receive money,” says Sri Shivananda, PayPal EVP and CTO. Soon, the brand became an unofficial third-party service provider that eBay users included as a payment method in item descriptions. Stability is another objective.

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