Fidelity's top IT exec sees potential in A.I.

	Review: Spark lights a fire under big-data processing | New IBM service shines a light on mobile device and app performance
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	Fidelity's top IT exec sees potential in A.I. For several years, Stephen Neff, enterprise CTO at Fidelity Investments, has been focusing on the cloud, social tools and mobile. Now he's turning his attention to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, gamification and wearables. Read More WHITE PAPER: Binary Tree SMART: Best Practices for Migrating the Corporate Directory A cornerstone of any IT infrastructure, Microsoft Active Directory plays a central role, determining access to and usage rights for IT resources. Migrating AD to a new environment must be planned and managed carefully using best practices, while maintaining operations and user functionality. Learn More In this Issue INSIDER Review: Spark lights a fire under big-data processing New IBM service shines a light on mobile device and app performance DT and Informatica service links cloud, on-premises apps, data INSIDER 8 significant software releases of 2014 SMBs get their very own Salesforce app store Doing digital right Good to know there are things you can count on INSIDER Analytics app uncovers untapped sales opportunities Study says social-media analyses are off target INSIDER IT modernization project makes the grade at North Carolina colleges INSIDER Pharma company prefers vertical industry cloud How to navigate big data in healthcare WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Enterprise Mobile Management This report details Forrester's findings about how well each vendor fulfills their criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help infrastructure and operations professionals select the right partner for their enterprise mobile management. Learn More INSIDER Review: Spark lights a fire under big-data processing AMPLab designed Spark to help developers perform interactive analysis of large data sets and to run iterative workloads, such as machine-learning algorithms, that repeatedly process the same data sets in RAM. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More New IBM service shines a light on mobile device and app performance With mobile devices rapidly becoming the tools of choice for enterprise work, IBM wants to help IT departments make sure they can serve all users. Read More DT and Informatica service links cloud, on-premises apps, data European CIOs looking to integrate applications across public and private clouds will soon have a new option with a data orchestration service from Deutsche Telekom and Informatica. Read More INSIDER 8 significant software releases of 2014 Interesting, annoying and possibly game-changing releases from Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple and more. Read More SMBs get their very own Salesforce app store A data integation feature will allow users to add customer information stored in the apps to their Desk.com portal. Read More Doing digital right When it comes to going digital, companies often make three big mistakes. Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault Enhancing Application Protection and Recovery This CommVault Business Value and Technology White Paper explains how Simpana IntelliSnap® Recovery Manager can make your application recovery fast and reliable. Learn More Good to know there are things you can count on This IT support pilot fish dreads Monday mornings. "They always, without fail, bring the oddest cases," he says. "There is just something that happens to people that arrive back and attempt to be productive while their brain is still sleeping in." Read More INSIDER Analytics app uncovers untapped sales opportunities Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services deployed a mobile sales analytics application to identify new sources of revenue. Here's how the company found untapped opportunities. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More Study says social-media analyses are off target The things people say on Twitter or share on Facebook are pretty trivial individually.When you collect the 5 billion or so items posted to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks every day into one massive database, those bits of individual drivel combine into a massive pointillist masterpiece that is already changing the way governments and corporations relate to individual humans, allowing marketers to tailor products more precisely to the customer preferences (and target spam campaigns more effectively) with up-to-the-minute insight into the thinking of their constituents. Read More INSIDER IT modernization project makes the grade at North Carolina colleges The opportunity to save money, power and space is driving a multi-campus infrastructure modernization project within North Carolina Community Colleges, a network of 58 institutions serving more than 800,000 students. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More INSIDER Pharma company prefers vertical industry cloud Biotech company Questcor Pharmaceuticals relies on a cloud service tailored to the specific needs of the life sciences industry -- and its regulations. (Insider - free registration required.) Read More How to navigate big data in healthcare Kaiser Permanente CMIO John Mattison cautions healthcare organizations to take a hard look at the way they approach data to ensure that health information is an asset, not a liability. He also cites the need for a new role: a health data concierge. Read More
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