Are microgrids the future of disaster recovery? It might be worthwhile to invest in one

The power grid is one of those technical marvels that we largely take for granted. Just as gasoline flows reliably and cheaply on nearly every street corner, and we can…

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84% of chief strategy officers see the value of advanced technologies

The study from Monitor Deloitte also finds a convergence between technology and strategy and the increased focus on corporate purpose as a strategic mandate. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto/nicescene Eighty-four percent of…

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New Gartner report shows massive growth in the database market, fueled by cloud

Databases are supposed to be the last thing an enterprise considers changing, but the cloud is upending all that, for several reasons. Image: Gartner via Adam Ronthal (@aronthal) on Twitter.…

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4 ideas for understanding and managing the power of algorithms on social media

Dean Eckles (upper left), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, moderated a conversation with Daphne Keller, director of platform regulation at Stanford University, and Kartik Hosanagar, director…

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