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Tech Giants create new industry standard to protect business drives from failure. [shutterstock: 162675194, Sergey Nivens]
Founding Members Brocade, Cisco, Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Juniper, NetApp, SAP, Suse and T-Systems join forces to develop a common framework aimed at improving quality and reliability.
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Brexit to Have Most Impact in Western Europe [shutterstock: 105421988, Pressmaster]
Gartner forecasts that IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will total $1.25 trillion in 2017, a 1.9 per cent increase from 2016. IT spending across all the constituent regions of EMEA will be almost flat in 2016, increasing 0.6 per cent year on year.
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CEOs expect their industries to be substantially or unrecognisably transformed by Digital [shutterstock: 293450465, Rawpixel.com]
Gartner 2016 CEO and senior business executive survey shows that half of CEOs expect their industries to be substantially or unrecognisably transformed by Digital.
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Lean Thinking Sign [shutterstock: 422622697, oemanjiArts]
Digitalization and its consequences for companies are currently the key topics at top management level. Digitalization is not a new phenomenon and disruptive technologies have always required companies to make considerable modifications.
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Business man writing VALUE CHAIN over the cloud with office background , business concept , business idea [shutterstock: 364841714, zaozaa19]
Joseph Reger is CTO at Fujitsu. He is well-known because his enlightening analyses give structure to the innovation processes of IT. The editor-in-chief of E-3, Peter Faerbinger, spoke to him.
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Simplicity Clean Clear Minimal Normal Simple Concept [shutterstock: 392326627, Rawpixel.com]
E-3 Editor-in-Chief Peter M. Faerbinger spoke to Otto Schell from DSAG, the German-speaking SAP user group’s management board for industry and business processes, about the future topics of digital transformation and real time.
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