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Jeffrey Brandt (@jeffrey_brandt)

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Time To Stop Forgiving Cloud Providers for Repeated Failures

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For a long time now, cloud pundits – service providers, boosters, analysts, vendors, and other mostly vested interests – have stood behind a curtain of “downtime happens, design for failure” when assessing cloud outages.It seems that with every new failure, the self-styled clouderati repeatedly implore IT leaders to believe that, despite what we are seeing with our own eyes on an almost weekly basis, cloud providers are better at IT than you are.Over and over, the pundits’ response is a yet another chorus of, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” Rather, CIOs and others are implored to simply trust the great and powerful Oz (or is

Are CMOs the New CIOs?

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Oracle announced yesterday that theyâre buying social conversation platform Vitrue, according to TechCrunch to the tune of $300 million. Following Salesforceâs acquisition of Radian6 and Adobeâs purchase of Context Optional parent Efficient Frontier, the demand for people-driven marketing enabled by technology shows no signs of slowing down.

While hot, this market will continue to see its fair share of hot air too. Analysts, consultants and agencies all have a vital role to help leaders make sense of platform options as well

Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It

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Do your employees have the skills to benefit from big data? As Tom Davenport and DJ Patil note in their October Harvard Business Review article on the rise of the data scientist, the advent of the big data era means that analyzing large, messy, unstructured data is going to increasingly form part of everyone's work. Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. To thrive in this world, many will require additional skills.Companies grappling with big data recognize this need. In a new Avanade survey, more than 60 percent