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Jason Bloomberg

President at Intellyx

Suffolk VA, United States

Jason Bloomberg is a leading IT industry analyst, Forbes contributor, keynote speaker, and globally recognized expert on multiple disruptive trends in enterprise technology and digital transformation. He is ranked #5 on Onalytica’s list of top Digital Transformation influencers for 2018 and #15 on Jax’s list of top DevOps influencers for 2017, the only person to appear on both lists.

As founder and president of Agile Digital Transformation analyst firm Intellyx, he advises, writes, and speaks on a diverse set of topics, including digital transformation, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, devops, big data/analytics, cybersecurity, blockchain/bitcoin/cryptocurrency, no-code/low-code platforms and tools, organizational transformation, internet of things, enterprise architecture, SD-WAN/SDX, mainframes, hybrid IT, and legacy transformation, among other topics.

Mr. Bloomberg’s articles in Forbes are often viewed by more than 100,000 readers. During his career, he has published over 1,200 articles (over 200 for Forbes alone), spoken at over 400 conferences and webinars, and he has been quoted in the press and blogosphere over 2,000 times.

Mr. Bloomberg is the author or coauthor of four books: The Agile Architecture Revolution (Wiley, 2013), Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business (Wiley, 2006), XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002), and Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996). His next book, Agile Digital Transformation, is due within the next year.

Available For: Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Virginia

Jason Bloomberg Points
Academic 0
Author 339
Influencer 239
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 578

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Company Information

Company Type: Service Provider
Media Experience: Since 2001

Areas of Expertise

Agile 32.34
AI 30.13
Analytics 30.07
Big Data 33.57
Blockchain 31.24
Change Management
Cloud 43.09
Cryptocurrency 31.51
Culture
Customer Experience 30.04
Cybersecurity 30.39
Design Thinking
Digital Disruption 30.14
Digital Transformation 32.54
Emerging Technology 33.08
ERP
FinTech
Innovation 30.09
IoT 30.07
Leadership
Marketing
Mobility 41.67
Open Innovation
Predictive Analytics
Social 30.23
Startups
Quantum Computing 30.53
Retail 30.26
Data Center 30.22
RPA 30.27
Ecosystems 30.07
DevOps 33.40

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Agriculture & Mining
Automotive
Consumer Products
Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Hospitality
Insurance
Manufacturing
Media
Oil & Gas
Other
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services
Retail
Telecommunications
Utilities

Publications

99 Article/Blogs
Cloud-native disruption comes into focus at VMworld
SiliconANGLE
August 30, 2019
VMware Inc.’s diverse enterprise infrastructure product line has found its way into the vast majority of information technology shops around the world. Uncover the company’s DNA, however, and it’s clear VMware is a hypervisor company at its core.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation

With Zowe, open source and DevOps are democratizing the mainframe computer
SiliconANGLE
July 29, 2019
The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and for hybrid information technology strategies in general.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, DevOps

Low-code app development: a surprising boon for professional services
siliconANGLE
June 11, 2019
Low-code platforms simplify and streamline the work of professional developers, enabling them to deliver enterprise apps in a fraction of the time of hand-coding, often with higher quality. What’s not to love?
If you make your money billing development hours for enterprise clients, however, low-code may very well look like a wolf in agile sheep’s clothing. Sure, delivering better-quality apps will keep customers happy, but losing all those billable hours has got to be tough on the bottom line, right?
Not so fast. From the large system integrators or SIs to hotshot boutique consulting firms, low-code platforms are a godsend, for a variety of reasons. The conventional wisdom that any tool that lowers billable hours is bad for business simply doesn’t apply in the digital era.

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Tags: Emerging Technology, Agile

At KubeCon, the Kubernetes ecosystem goes all-in on cloud-native
siliconANGLE
May 24, 2019
The Kubernetes ecosystem was on full display at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona this past week. But many of these providers weren’t simply supporting customers’ Kubernetes efforts to implement cloud-native architectures. They were also taking advantage of cloud-native approaches themselves.

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Tags: Cloud, Ecosystems

Is Ripple A Scam?
Import from forbes.com
March 01, 2019
At its core, the Ripple business model is a pump and dump scheme, as it undergoes numerous activities to increase the value of the XRP cryptocurrency (crypto). Unlike most crypto pump and dumps, however, Ripple takes numerous steps to obscure this basic fact.

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Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

JPM Coin From JPMorgan Chase Vs. Crypto Fans: Who's Missing The Point?
Import from forbes.com
February 22, 2019
Given that there’s little motivation to create a single-bank digital token and even less of a motivation to use a competitor’s, it’s not clear if the whole idea of JPM Coin is inherently flawed. Only time will tell.

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Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Can Blockchain Help 'Fast Fiction' Disrupt The Streaming Media Disruptors?
Import from forbes.com
February 18, 2019
Fiction Riot isn’t a blockchain company that hopes to apply the technology to fast fiction. It’s a fast fiction company that hopes to leverage blockchain to disrupt the behemoths in the streaming video marketplace.

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Tags: Blockchain

New IBM Cloud Integration Platform Highlights Confusion Over Hybrid Integration
Import from forbes.com
February 16, 2019
Hybrid integration means a mix of different integration technologies and such a mishmash may very well work at cross purposes to the very hybrid IT strategy that it is meant to support

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Digital Transformation

Are Hackers Winning The Denial Of Service Wars?
Import from forbes.com
February 12, 2019
DDoS attacks may not be the quickest route to profitability for bad actors, but given the importance of this attack technique to nation-state cyberwar adversaries, we can expect continued innovation on the part of the hackers. Enterprises cannot afford to relax their efforts to combat such attacks.

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Have Private Clouds Finally Found Their Place In The Enterprise?
Import from forbes.com
February 02, 2019
Distinctions of public vs. private vs. hybrid eventually become implementation details that organizations can configure as a matter of policy, while supporting the changing needs of customers in the digital era.

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Tags: Cloud

Think You're Cloud Native? Only If You're Doing This
Import from forbes.com
January 27, 2019
Cloud native architectures can clearly depend upon Kubernetes deployments that maintain state properly by leveraging HCI technology, but how do such architectures help with legacy modernization?

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation

The Six Ways To Make Money Mining Cryptocurrency Are Equally Surprising
Import from forbes.com
January 20, 2019
Legal crypto mining using electricity at market rates is now becoming increasingly unfeasible even in places like Iceland which have exceptionally low electricity rates combined with temperatures conducive for data centers filled with heat-generating computers

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Tags: Cryptocurrency, Digital Transformation

The Eight Most Popular Cryptocurrency Transaction Types Are Not What You Expect
Import from forbes.com
January 19, 2019
Some crypto fans would have you believe that using crypto at your local coffee shop or even sending funds to your relatives in Venezuela for buying food there will be the prominent use of crypto at some point in the near future Dont believe it

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Tags: Cryptocurrency, Digital Transformation

Whatever Happened To Business Process Management Software
Import from forbes.com
January 15, 2019
If you believe that BPMS was really all about empowering all manner of business people to take greater control over the processes they participated in then low-code is the clear successor to BPMS

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Tags: Analytics, Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption

Cybercrime So Simple Anyone Can Do It
Import from forbes.com
January 06, 2019
Hacker groups are too numerous to count and the easy inexpensive availability of malware quickly disseminates the sophisticated work of one malefactor to a broad audience of less savvy script kiddies who are all too willing to exchange their hard-earned crypto for malware on the Dark Web

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation

Seven Remarkable Takeaways From Massive Kubernetes Conference
Import from forbes.com
December 13, 2018
Containers represent the reinvention of virtualization for the cloud Virtualization was the core innovation that transformed enterprise IT in the last decade and containers promise the same for the next

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Tags: Cloud

Why Low-Code Is The Secret To Enterprise Tax Transformation
Import from forbes.com
December 11, 2018
Retailers tax function is so complex because it is so multifaceted from sales and VAT tax calculations at the point of sale to tax reporting for shareholders to calculating income property and other taxes tax challenges are inherently diverse and dynamic

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Blockchain Internet Of Things And Artificial Intelligence Battle Hype At Expo
Import from forbes.com
November 30, 2018
It may seem that AI IoT and Blockchain are three disparate corners of the tech world but when it comes to the enterprise solutions I featured here there is an obvious common thread data

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Tags: AI, Blockchain, IoT

Bernie Madoff Move Over: 'Stablecoins' Have You Beat
Import from forbes.com
November 25, 2018
With the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the doldrums, a new scam is rising to the top, like bits of toilet paper in sewage: stablecoins.

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Tags: Cryptocurrency

Three Things IBM Must Do To Keep Red Hat Acquisition From Sinking The Company
Import from forbes.com
November 18, 2018
This acquisition is all about OpenShift which I believe IBM sees as the key to hybrid IT Hybrid IT a workload-centric abstraction across multiple public clouds private clouds virtualized infrastructure and legacy assets is the modern enterprise IT paradigm for the next decade

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Seven Enterprise Startup Standouts At Massive WebSummit Conference
Import from forbes.com
November 09, 2018
My goal discover the most disruptive enterprise-focused tech startups Given WebSummits policy of featuring a vast throng of startups with numerous focus areas rotating daily during the four-day event uncovering these gems in the rough took some digging

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Why You Should Think Twice About Robotic Process Automation
Import from forbes.com
November 06, 2018
RPA works best when application interfaces are static processes dont change and data formats also remain stable a combination that is increasingly rare in todays dynamic digital environments

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Tags: AI, Emerging Technology, RPA

Secret To DevOps Success? Be Like Lennon And McCartney
Import from forbes.com
October 27, 2018
Whether DevOps will finally bring the two sides of the enterprise together is still an open question. But the fact that the industry is recognizing that at best, the relationship among the players will remain contentious is a good sign.

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Tags: DevOps

NetApp Brings Clarity And Simplicity To Hybrid Multi-Cloud For DreamWorks
Import from forbes.com
October 25, 2018
DreamWorks has been a NetApp customer since the Shrek days and the vendor now provides far more of the animation houses infrastructure than merely its prodigious storage capacity NetApp data fabric helps us make better business decisions Swanborg said

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Tags: Cloud

Hurricane Florence Vs. The Cloud. Guess Who Won?
Import from forbes.com
October 22, 2018
Where before, companies’ fixed landlines at best supported limited call forwarding capabilities, RingCentral’s UCaaS gives its customers all the flexibility of a software-based communications solution in the cloud.

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Tags: Cloud

Two Knotty Problems That Blockchain Promises To Solve
Import from forbes.com
October 12, 2018
The first most promising area for blockchain is in complex multiparty supply chains Blockchain is potentially well-suited to keep track of the current state of any business interaction across multiple parties and geographies while providing an immutable audit trail for all concerned parties

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Tags: Blockchain

ASG Technologies: Enterprise Software Phoenix
Import from forbes.com
October 05, 2018
Given the many dozens of products in ASG’s portfolio, it was important to focus the company’s efforts on the most strategic ones. “We focus where we have an unfair advantage, and map that to the industry tailwind,” said Swamy Viswanathan, EVP and Chief Product Officer at ASG.

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'Pulverize' Your Monolithic Legacy Apps With Low-Code And Modern Architecture
Import from forbes.com
September 28, 2018
Rosado is sanguine about OutSystems’ newest release. “We deliver the architecture of the future,” he said. “These pieces you build, and you control the continuous delivery lifecycle. With OutSystems, you pulverize the monolithic architectures.”

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Not Your Parents' SOC? Building The Modern 'Cyber Command Center'
Import from forbes.com
September 21, 2018
With the use of Securonix, AmerisourceBergen is able to address its three core challenges: identifying both known and unknown threats, doing so in real-time, and providing SOC analysts with a ‘single pane of glass’ that gives them the functionality they need to analyze and mitigate any threats.

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Don't Trust Artificial Intelligence? Time To Open The AI 'Black Box'
Import from forbes.com
September 16, 2018
Despite its promise, the growing field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is experiencing a variety of growing pains. In addition to the problem of bias, there is also the ‘black box’ problem: if people don’t know how AI comes up with its decisions, they won’t trust it.

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Tags: AI

Enterprise Blockchain Struggles To Carve Out A Niche
Import from forbes.com
September 09, 2018
Blockchain fanatics around the world refuse to believe it but the long-term opportunity for blockchain falls well short of Internet-level disruption that would indicate that this technology is anything close to revolutionary

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Tags: Blockchain

You'll Never Believe The Disruptive Innovation At VMworld
Import from forbes.com
September 03, 2018
The large vendors who mount these extravaganzas all have skin in the game in the form of partner ecosystems – an advantage Comdex lacked. This year’s VMworld was no different, although the ‘reduce dependence of VMware’ story was almost as prominent on the floor as ‘work with VMware’ was.

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Tags: Cloud, Innovation

VMware Extends Strategy From Data Center To Cloud To Edge
Import from forbes.com
August 30, 2018
VMware is hoping its customers use its gear in all environments thus getting consistent manageability as well as the vMotion live workload portability that VMware is famous for only now among all of the hybrid cloud environments beyond just on-premises

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center

'Dr. Doom' Economist Nouriel Roubini Bearish On Everything Crypto
Import from forbes.com
August 25, 2018
When the scammers have milked the crypto insanity for all its worth and they and their marks have all gone home, permissioned blockchain solutions – what I refer to as ‘enterprise blockchain’ – will be all that remains.

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Tags: Cryptocurrency

Despite Denial, Cryptocurrency's Decline In Full View At BlockShow Conference
Import from forbes.com
August 22, 2018
The blockchain/crypto community is no closer to its Libertarian vision than they were several years ago when I first started writing about it. Scratch the surface, and the real story of BlockShow turned out to be pathetic sleight-of-hand games with worthless tokens.

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Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Bias Is AI's Achilles Heel. Here's How To Fix It
Import from forbes.com
August 13, 2018
Questions like whether it’s OK if policing software is biased against black people if it also helps keep murders off the street is the sort of ethical question that AI brings to the fore – but neither AI, nor the technologists who create it, are in a position to answer such questions by themselv

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Tags: AI

Don't Let Your Cloud Migration Become A 'Clusterf*ck'
Import from forbes.com
August 05, 2018
At the center of this ill-fated initiative was a migration from a mishmash of legacy apps to a modern suite of applications in the public cloud. Nevertheless, in spite of the noble goal to migrate legacy apps to the cloud, the effort was as one insider described, “a clusterfuck in the making.”

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Tags: Cloud

Low-Code/No-Code? HPaPaaS? Here's What Everybody Is Missing
Import from forbes.com
July 30, 2018
The distinction between code generation and model-driven execution platforms is important, but by no means the only decision point that impacts the proper choice given a particular set of requirements.

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Cryptojacking Displaces Ransomware As Most Popular Cyberthreat
Import from forbes.com
July 29, 2018
Cryptojacking can no longer operate under the covers Every CISO must understand the significance of this threat and rank cryptojacking among the top cyberthreats facing the enterprise Complacency is no excuse

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Congressman: 'Prohibit US Persons From Buying Or Mining Cryptocurrencies'; Crypto World Erupts
Import from forbes.com
July 21, 2018
Faced with a credible threat to their flawed worldview and no rational counterarguments to present, many crypto fans resorted to angry attempts to smear Congressman Sherman’s name.

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Tags: Cryptocurrency

Digital Transformation Four Years On: Hype Or Reality?
Import from forbes.com
July 15, 2018
Given that digital transformation is more about how people deal with change than about the tools that they use, the bar is clearly set: the companies that will survive and thrive in the digital era are the ones that deal with change better and faster.

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Tags: Digital Transformation

Think You Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is? Think Again
Import from forbes.com
July 07, 2018
A ‘lights out’ enterprise will be more efficient, cost-effective, and deliver higher quality products and services than their human-populated competition could ever hope to aspire to – thus putting its competition at a disadvantage.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption

Seven Lies ICO Fans Tell Themselves (And Anyone Else Who Will Listen)
Import from forbes.com
June 29, 2018
Issuing tokens does not itself create anything of value. It’s worse than printing Monopoly money, because at least you can play Monopoly with that.

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The Surprising Secret To High-Performance Multicloud
Import from forbes.com
June 25, 2018
Given the tough performance requirements of todays digitally savvy customers no organization can afford for blind spots in their infrastructure to allow performance issues to impact the customer experience Ops teams must thus manage every element of their organizations multicloud infrastruct

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Tags: Cloud

Don't Let Your Application Backlog Sink Your Digital Transformation
Import from forbes.com
June 21, 2018
No improvement in traditional hand-coding software development methodologies will resolve the worsening backlog problem – only collaboration across the organization will do that. And furthermore, low-code/no-code platforms are an increasingly strategic part of this end-to-end collaboration story.

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Tags: Digital Transformation

The Secret To Nationwide's Digital Transformation
Import from forbes.com
June 13, 2018
Digital transformation requires enterprises to transform all aspects of IT, including how they support, manage, and update their legacy assets. On-premises assets are all still part of a comprehensive transformation effort that touches every corner of the organization – slow as well as fast.

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Tags: Digital Transformation

Can DevOps Really Shift Everything 'To The Left'?
Import from forbes.com
June 08, 2018
The sequence of tasks individuals may undertake will depend upon both the context of the challenge at the moment, as well as the contributions of other individuals. This tool-supported collaborative vision for full-lifecycle software development is at the heart of DevOps, now rechristened DevSecOps.

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Tags: DevOps

'Smart' Vendors Make Splash
Import from forbes.com
May 30, 2018
It’s not simply these vendors’ use of AI that makes them smart, but rather, the innovation they have brought to the AI story – either in the application of AI or how they support their customers’ AI initiatives.

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What If All Data Were Hot Data? Flash Storage Hits Two Inflection Points
Import from forbes.com
May 29, 2018
Within the enterprise data center, today’s state of the art is the All-Flash Array, which depends upon non-volatile Flash storage to provide high performance and durability, as compared to the spinning disk technology that preceded it.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center

Massive Consensus Conference Succumbs To Blockchain 'Echo Chamber'
Import from forbes.com
May 17, 2018
Most of the noise around both blockchain and crypto is little more than the community talking to itself – a massive ‘echo chamber’ that in its final analysis promises no lasting business value for its participants.

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Tags: Blockchain

ServiceNow Drives Platform Innovation With Next-Generation Ecosystem
Import from forbes.com
May 11, 2018
The diverse value of the ServiceNow platform brought out customers and prospects in droves enterprise professionals interested in how this growing ecosystem can meet various needs as each of them moves toward a greater customer focus by implementing digital journeys for customers and employees

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Tags: Innovation

Dell Technologies Struggles To Connect IT Infrastructure To Digital Transformation
Import from forbes.com
May 06, 2018
Every company enterprises as well as the vendors that serve them must step up to the plate in order to put the customer first not just their customers but their customers customers as well Without such customer centricity digital transformation is nothing more than words on a pa

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Tags: Digital Transformation

Digitization, Digitalization, And Digital Transformation: Confuse Them At Your Peril
Import from forbes.com
April 29, 2018
We digitize information, we digitalize processes and roles that make up the operations of a business, and we digitally transform the business and its strategy. Each one is necessary but not sufficient for the next.

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Tags: Digital Transformation

How To Make Money With Blockchain, Despite The Hype
Import from forbes.com
April 23, 2018
Even though the four examples in this article are quite diverse in their purpose, they all include a reasonable mechanism for generating revenues – reasonable in the sense that the value they provide justifies the amount they can charge.

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Tags: Blockchain

Blockchain's 'Underpants Gnomes' Problem
Import from forbes.com
April 20, 2018
At this week’s Blockchain Expo in London, both types of companies were on display: companies with real business models as well as wonderfully innovative projects with no clear path to profitability.

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Tags: Blockchain

To Patch Or Not To Patch? Surprisingly, That Is The Question
Import from forbes.com
April 16, 2018
As the 2017 Equifax data breach illustrates, unpatched software represents a massive cybersecurity challenge for enterprises today. In that case, the vulnerability in question was well known, and a patch was available. Equifax simply hadn’t applied the patch.

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Digital Influencer Nicole Forsgren: Bringing Science to DevOps
Import from forbes.com
April 03, 2018
This month, Forsgren and her colleagues are publishing their new book, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps. The book provides plenty of real science, based upon four years of groundbreaking research dating to the 2014 State of DevOps Report.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, DevOps

IBM Partners Cut Through Hype To Help Joint Customers Move Forward
Import from forbes.com
March 26, 2018
IBMs tried and true legacy technologies more often than not provide opportunities for partners to help IBMs customers move forward with the times while maintaining existing systems and technologies

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IBM Bets Company On Exponential Innovation In AI, Blockchain, And Quantum Computing
Import from forbes.com
March 22, 2018
Running a company the size of IBM is no small feat – and reinventing it is even more of an achievement. Rometty has shown the willingness to take the massive risks necessary for IBM to be the incumbent disruptor it needs to be to compete in the dynamic business environment of the 21st century.

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Tags: AI, Blockchain, Quantum Computing

Anti-Semitism Drives Irrational Response To Cryptocurrency Warning
Import from forbes.com
March 17, 2018
This isnt a battle between the establishment and the people Thats what the alt-right crypto-anarchists want you to believe This is a battle between people who believe in the rule of law vs organized crime pure and simple

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Tags: Cryptocurrency

We Need To Shut Bitcoin And All Other Cryptocurrencies Down. Here's Why.
Import from forbes.com
March 10, 2018
If even one of the cryptocurrency miners is a criminal, you are supporting a criminal enterprise with every cryptocurrency transaction you conduct.

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Tags: Cryptocurrency

Top Cyberthreat Of 2018: Illicit Cryptomining
Import from forbes.com
March 04, 2018
Expect to see widespread ‘brownouts’ of computing power, as large swaths of the global computing infrastructure collapse under the weight of multiple botnets, each building the respective fortunes of criminal enterprises around the globe.

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Tags: Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity

Customer Success? Pull The Other Leg
Import from forbes.com
February 27, 2018
We must put customer outcomes first and our own profitability and growth second, otherwise we jeopardize our own profitability and growth in the end.

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Don't Let Blockchain Cost Savings Hype Fool You
Import from forbes.com
February 24, 2018
IBM’s efforts with blockchain on the mainframe indicate that blockchain’s best chance at success will extend the scalability, reliability, and security benefits that mainframe customers have long enjoyed. Just don’t expect the unrealistic 70% cost savings figures that Accenture is promising.

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Tags: Blockchain

Telegram ICO: Scam Among Cryptocurrency Scams
Import from forbes.com
February 17, 2018
Yet, while privacy appeals to the crypto elite as well as the dissidents and activists that the Durovs intended to support, it is also enabled Telegraph to become a communication tool of choice for terrorists, child pornographers, and other criminals.

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Tags: Cryptocurrency

ATM 'Jackpotting' Attacks Reveal Deeper Problems
Import from forbes.com
February 12, 2018
ATMs represent a ‘canary in a coal mine’ of sorts – a high value endpoint that attracts attacks. If a financial institution, say, cannot adequately protect its ATMs, then its overall enterprise cybersecurity is likely to be questionable.

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The Real Reason Red Hat Is Acquiring CoreOS
Import from forbes.com
February 04, 2018
The addition of the CoreOS technology and team to Red Hats already extensive expertise with Kubernetes in the overall context of hybrid IT gives it perhaps the most credible and comprehensive modern enterprise infrastructure today

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Misogyny Festers At Heart Of Blockchain Community
Import from forbes.com
January 31, 2018
Simply recognizing the bad behavior when it occurs however is insufficient We must shine the light of fairness on misogynistic groups like Mgtow and Red Pill to deprive them of their power Everybody has the right to express their opinions but no one has to listen to them

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Tags: Blockchain

'Reskilling' Top Of Mind At World Economic Forum In Davos
Import from forbes.com
January 23, 2018
In today’s turbulent business environment, making the most out of the digital food chain is a must for any individual looking to build their career. The IT Skills Initiative is one way the WEF is turning words into action in order to spread the necessary digital literacy to a global audience.

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Do Low-Code/No-Code 'Citizen Developers' Exacerbate Shadow IT?
Import from forbes.com
January 15, 2018
Organizations that actively support citizen development with training, low-code/no-code technology, and the right kind of IT support are the ones that will be more agile, innovative, and better able to succeed with their digital transformation efforts.

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Seven More Lies Bitcoin (And Altcoin) Fans Tell Themselves
Import from forbes.com
January 07, 2018
Remember, the only people who make money in a speculative bubble are the ones that get out in time. Everyone else is a loser.

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Using Bitcoin Or Other Cryptocurrency To Commit Crimes? Law Enforcement Is Onto You
Import from forbes.com
December 28, 2017
Regardless of the level of technical anonymity in the cybercurrency itself, one fact gives law enforcement a break: criminals must eventually exchange their cryptocoin of choice for fiat currency (aka ‘real money’) at some point.

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Reinventing Interactive Voice Response For The Digital Era
Import from forbes.com
December 27, 2017
After all in the digital era customers get to choose when where and how they interact with the companies they do business with If they want to use voice then so be it whether they be on the phone or interacting via any other touchpoint

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No-Code Digital Transformation At Retailer DXL
Import from forbes.com
December 21, 2017
Given the high rate of turnover in the retail industry it was essential to provide simple technology to sales associates that they could learn and use quickly The answer expect them to use only two systems the point-of-sale system and the store dashboard

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Retail

Seven Lies Bitcoin Fans Tell Themselves (And Anyone Else Who Will Listen)
Import from forbes.com
December 09, 2017
The more people decide to take their profits, the lower the price will drop. Since Bitcoin is in a bubble, it’s only a matter of time until its market value resets to a number closer to its intrinsic value.

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Why Amazon Web Services Is The Mother Of All Candy Stores
Import from forbes.com
December 03, 2017
Arrogant Perhaps but AWS has done a bang-up job leading with its customer obsessiveness a workable antidote for arrogance Complacent Not on your life AWS is a company on a mission It knows how to execute on its vision for the future and its not about to slow down

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Artificial Intelligence: Human-Like Behavior For Theatrics Or Solving Real Business Problems?
Import from forbes.com
November 29, 2017
In many ways, Sophia is less about AI and more about theatrics. ‘Her’ creators have combined AI, robotics, and elements of show business to prove that a fake person can be sufficiently realistic to be appealing rather than repulsive.

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Tags: AI

Neiman Marcus: Maintaining The Personal Touch In A Digital World
Import from forbes.com
November 21, 2017
“The customer has always been at the core of Neiman Marcus,” Rai said. “We’ve been successful for 110 years in our stores. We must continue to bring our extensive knowledge of luxury fashion and brands to the customer on our web site.”

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Tags: Customer Experience, Retail

Mitigate Digital Transformation Cybersecurity Risk With 'DevSecOps'
Import from forbes.com
November 20, 2017
Better tooling and automation are thus important enablers of DevSecOps, but more important is including security considerations in the DevOps effort broadly – and by extension, across the digitally transformed organization as a whole.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Agile, DevOps

Agile Transformation? Time To 'Rehumanize' The Business
Import from forbes.com
November 12, 2017
We thus have two opposing opinions about the nature of organizations that will survive in the Digital Era: Blakeman’s human meaning-centered, ‘participation age’ worldview vs. Ross’s ‘extracting value from assets’ raison d’être for companies.

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DevOps Success Beyond Agile: Cloud Expo Power Panel
Import from forbes.com
November 04, 2017
The venerable Cloud Expo conference may be a mere shadow of its former self, but it still has its moments. One high point: a powerful panel of technology experts debating the ins and outs of DevOps.

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Navigating Past Blockchain's 'Irrational Exuberance'
Import from forbes.com
October 28, 2017
Any viable blockchain business must have such a strong business model that customers will fall over themselves to conduct business in a decentralized manner.

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Steve Forbes Leads Thought Leadership Discussion At Executive Summit
Import from forbes.com
October 26, 2017
This week The Forbes School of Business and Technology at Ashford University in San Diego hosted a thought leadership summit Forbes CEO Steve Forbes keynoted and the school invited executives military leaders and select Forbes contributors

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Bimodal IT and IBM Watson? 'It's A Trap'
Import from forbes.com
October 24, 2017
Instead of reinforcing organizational silos the way that Bimodal IT initiatives typically do, Horizon’s leveraging of ITSM within the digital group offers the combination of innovative, consumer-facing capabilities as well as traditional IT functions like its help desk.

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Fear These Three Types Of Phish: 'Catphishing' Enterprise Targets
Import from forbes.com
October 14, 2017
What damage might be wrought if a bad guy combines a fake corporate web site with a set of trustworthy LinkedIn profiles associated with that site? And the most important question of all – how would you recognize such an attack?

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Can Blockchain Solve The Equifax Identity Morass? Here's How
Import from forbes.com
October 06, 2017
Actually getting self-sovereign identity to work is what we like to call a wicked hard problem – and in reality, it’s several wicked hard problems rolled into one. Wicked hard, perhaps – but there’s no question that we need to solve this problem, and solve it fast.

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Three Sexy Enterprise Infrastructure Innovators
Import from forbes.com
September 30, 2017
While these startups are all relatively new to the market they are all experiencing healthy customer traction essential to my decision to include them here

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Can NetScout Get The Respect It Deserves?
Import from forbes.com
September 29, 2017
NetScout's customers require end-to-end visibility across their IT environments in order to provide performance and security to their customers.

NetScout’s competitors generally focus on either performance or security, but its holistic, Smart Data approach brings the two concerns together.

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Curing The Plague Of Low-Code
Import from forbes.com
September 21, 2017
Were now able to combine the benefits of agility scalability and speed to deliver better value to customers in ways that earlier technologies could only hint at and Low-Code platforms continue to evolve as well Application development will never be the same

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Collateral Damage From The Inevitable Bitcoin Crash
Import from forbes.com
September 12, 2017
Im not going to use this article to argue that Bitcoin is in a speculative bubble however That fact is too obvious to warrant such an argumentInstead Im going to gaze into my crystal ball and predict what secondary effects such a crash will cause in other words the collateral dama

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Hybrid IT And Cybersecurity Drive Disruption At VMworld
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September 05, 2017
Regardless of whether the story centered on multi-clouds hybrid on-premisescloud solutions or how to secure everything the common theme on the show floor was how vendors are able to abstract underlying hardware and physical configurations with a Software-Defined approach

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Hybrid IT Landscape Crystallizes With VMware Partnerships
Import from forbes.com
August 31, 2017
VMware needed a solid public cloud strategy to give its customers better Hybrid IT options especially in the face of Microsofts move to build an on-premises Azure offering what Microsoft cognoscenti are snidely referring to as its VMware killer

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Digital Transformation At The State Of Louisiana: From Data Center To The Citizen
Import from forbes.com
August 29, 2017
There are many moving parts to digital transformation, from the best-of-breed technology strategy to the organizational change necessary – but if the State of Louisiana can do it, there’s no reason why any enterprise, public or private sector, cannot accomplish the same goals.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Data Center

The Surprising Secret To Stericycle's Digital Transformation
Import from forbes.com
August 21, 2017
The primary concern among application developers was whether the company would continue to require their expertise if it moved to a no-code platform. As it turned out, however, such resistance was short-lived.

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This Is Why Quantum Computing Is More Dangerous Than You Realize
Import from forbes.com
August 11, 2017
How long it will take to replace modern cryptography with the post-quantum alternative is anybodys guess and there is certain to be an interval of several years where the world has no effective cryptography

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Tags: Quantum Computing

This Is How The Options Clearing Corporation Transformed To A Risk-Oriented Culture
Import from forbes.com
August 07, 2017
To survive the OCC had to transform its leadership its culture and its processes to become risk-oriented At the core of this shift to a risk-oriented culture revamping its technology OCCs motivations might be about risk management but its transformation is all digital

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Six Reasons Why We Need Blockchain Skeptics
Import from forbes.com
July 30, 2017
Treat both Bitcoin and Blockchain as disruptive innovations with both enormous potential and commensurate risk We all want to focus on the potential but doing so without a sober look at the underlying risk is a fools errand

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Bosch: Investing In Data-Driven Innovation
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July 26, 2017
The IoT isn’t about car parts and kitchen appliances – it’s about data, and with iguazio’s participation, Bosch is well-positioned to dominate the IoT of the future.

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The Low-Code/No-Code Movement: More Disruptive Than You Realize
Import from forbes.com
July 20, 2017
As today’s enterprises undergo digital transformation, they become software-driven organizations – and thus having developers on staff who can hand-code software has become an increasingly strategic necessity. After all, this need has been driving the rise of enterprise DevOps across all industr

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4 Books
The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-Based SOA, and Mobile Computing Are Changing Enterprise IT
Wiley
February 25, 2013
A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision for achieving business agility through agile architectures
The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends into the context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise Architecture to support continuous business transformation. It focuses on the challenges of large organizations, while placing such organizations into the broader business ecosystem that includes small and midsize organizations as well as startups.
Organizes the important trends that are facing technology in businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next several years
Presents the five broad organizing principles called Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratization of technology, deep interoperability, and complex systems engineering
Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture in conjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing and mobile technologies that explain how organizations can achieve better business visibility through IT and enterprise architecture
Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agile architectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promise sudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations' spending on IT will continue to undergo radical change over the next ten years.

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Tags: Cloud, Mobility, Agile

Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business
Wiley
December 10, 2007
How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business
"The real value of this book is that it makes SOA and Web services, which are critical and business-transforming, crystal-clear to the layman, both business and IT leaders. The book stays focused on the real-world issues facing business and government institutions today. In an industry full of experts of many stripes, Ron and Jason are the real thing: savvy, experienced, and realistic. They have produced a must-read book for management."
—Paul Lipton, Senior Architect, Unicenter Web Services and Application Management Computer Associates
"This is by far the finest publication on SOA of our time. From cover to back, Service Orient or Be Doomed! strips away the layers of confusion most IT stakeholders face when confronted with enterprise architecture, and illustrates pragmatic and practical paths towards a sustainable and efficient enterprise architecture. Both the technically savvy and the bean counters will enjoy this book that speaks to the critical points they need to understand."
—Duane A. Nickull Senior Standards Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Chair, OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee Vice chair, United Nations CEFACT (UN/CEFACT)
"If you're looking for a guide that's based on reality, this is it. These guys know how you can service-orient your enterprise and have the best chance of success. This book is the best SOA tool you can buy. I'm recommending it to everyone."
—Dave Linthicum, CEO, BRIDGEWERX
"Jason and Ron are experts on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and have written the first book that is aimed at helping a nontechnical businessperson understand why the SOA computing revolution is critical to business. Rather than provide a nerdy death via buzzword book, Jason and Ron take a humorous, clever, and insightful romp through this new technology and how it impacts business in general."
—Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital
Authors Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer-senior analysts for highly respected IT advisory and analysis firm ZapThink-say it all in the title of their new book, Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business. That is, if you fail to service orient your company, you will fail in competing with the organizations that do.
This provocative new book takes service orientation out of its more familiar technological surroundings within service-oriented architecture and introduces it as a philosophy that advocates its rightful place within a business context, redefining it as a new way of thinking about organizing your business and its processes.
Informal, challenging, and intelligent in style, Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business shows you how you can best use technology resources to meet your company's business goals and empower your company to go from "stuck" to "competitive."

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

XML and Web Services Unleashed
Amazon
July 03, 2002
The Extensible Markup Language is changing the way that information is being stored and exchanged. It is also changing the very way that we think about data. XML Unleashed allows you to unlock this new power and get you well on your way towards developing XML applications and systems that enable your most important business processes, or your simplest visions for data representation and exchange. Written for those already familiar with many of the concepts of XML, but still not sure how to make best use of the technologies, this book helps you become a more advanced user of XML. This book covers all the necessary topics from the basics of Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to the more advanced topics in XML database integration and the semantic web. This book is designed to be the only XML book that the reader will ever need on their shelf. XML is a standard and has become the common thread facilitating very different computer applications communicate by categorizing and tagging the data, reading, interpreting, sorting and linking the results. Within this book you will find coverage of important existing and emerging XML Standards as well as many varied and popular implementations of XML in this 21st century. We include WSDL, UDDI, SVG, ebXML Microsoft¿s .NET, which is the world¿s largest XML implementation to date and the Semantic Web which is just now being articulated.

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Tags: Big Data, Digital Transformation

Web Page Scripting Techniques
Amazon
September 01, 1996
Web Page Scripting Techniques takes the latest techniques in scripting and breaks them down step by step into easy-to-understand tutorials. More than one hundred specifically selected Web pages are used to illustrate advanced scripting techniques - always with a design sensibility and an emphasis on choosing the least complex way of getting the job done. The CD enables you to incorporate these techniques without having to understand the intricacies of JavaScript, VBScript, or HTML. You can learn by example and immediately incorporate what you learn!
The companion CD-ROM includes code from all the examples in the book for quick plug & play, text files for all the Web pages featured in the book, and bookmarks to scripting references and tutorials.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation

2 Influencer Awards
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SiliconANGLE
March 11, 2019

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity

TOP 20 SOCIAL INFLUENCERS IN DEVOPS 2017
JAX DevOps
February 14, 2017
Who are the most influential DevOps people in the Twittersphere? After analyzing thousands of accounts, we created a list of people that every DevOps enthusiast or pro should be following.

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Tags: Social, Agile

1 Media Interview
Voices in Cloud – Episode 3: A Conversation with Jason Bloomberg
GIGAOM
April 18, 2019
In this episode of Voices in Cloud, host David Linthicum speaks with Jason Bloomberg about the evolution of public, private and hybrid cloud.

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Tags: Cloud

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