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Automating the cloud

Compared to the majority of Europe, Britain is racing ahead in its adoption of the cloud. Statistics published by Europa show that against a continental average of 26 per cent, 41 per cent of UK businesses used cloud technology last year. Annie Andrews, Head of Technology at Microsoft recruitment partner Curo Talent, explains why, to truly take advantage of the computing model, businesses should also invest in cloud automation.

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Five ways businesses can benefit from automation

IT automation has been on the rise massively in the past few years, offering some big benefits in efficiency and productivity. Brett Cheloff, VP at ConnectWise Automate discusses the major advantages and future of IT automation.

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Failure to automate - how to avoid the pitfalls and reap the rewards of smart automation

Most companies would agree that test automation is crucial to business success. It promises to increase the depth and scope of tests and to significantly improve software quality: make or break for customer acquisition and retention in a hyper-competitive business landscape. By Eran Kinsbruner, chief technical evangelist for Perfecto.

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AI will revolutionise IT services – so how can the industry prepare?

Our home lives are increasingly filled with a proliferation of smart devices and apps designed to meet our needs and answer our whims almost instantaneously. Services such as Alexa and Siri mean that simply speaking aloud will instantly fetch information or fulfil a task. This trend at home is reflected in the professional world, with workers beginning to expect the same instant gratification for their workplace needs, and accordingly self-service and automation have become essential for all IT...

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AI Technologies, Practical Use Cases and the Road to Adoption

Once limited to science fiction movies and conversations about what could be, artificial intelligence (AI) now has use cases that touch virtually every area of an organization. McKinsey Global Institute recently released a discussion paper that dives into the potential contributions of AI to the global economy and its impact on various industries. McKinsey estimates that about 70 percent of organizations will be using at least one type of AI technology by 2030. Increased adoption could add $13...

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3 steps for successful AI adoption

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation has opened new levels of cost savings and efficiency to businesses worldwide, with the potential of driving the fourth industrial revolution. Automation already revolutionised business processes across the majority of industries, from manufacturing to retail, transport and healthcare. By Carmine Rimi, AI Product Manager at Canonical - the company behind Ubuntu.

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Docker on IoT devices

Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been downloaded more than 700 million times and Docker is used by millions of developers across thousands of the world?s most innovative organizations, including eBay, Baidu, the BBC, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, ING, Yelp, and Spotify. Docker?s rapid adoption has catalyzed an active ecosystem, resulting in more than 180,000 ?Dockerized? applications, over 40 Docker-related startups and integration partnerships with AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware.

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