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• IT pros need to weigh in on that ‘sassy’ security model

  SASE model developed by Gartner ties into SD-WAN, edge computing and SD-Branch, so it warrants attention from networking teams.

• Don’t forget humans in your transformation

  Everyone is talking about the transformation that enterprises must undergo. However, the gap between ambition and execution is widening as transformations stall or flail.

• Mining human capabilities: how CIOs can build an inclusive workforce

  Tech chiefs have an opportunity to use certain technology to tap into the talent pool among the 17.7 per cent of Australians living with some type of disability, says Gartner research vice president, Brian Prentice.

• What is driving IT spending in finance across Australia?

  Investments in modern business intelligence (BI), augmented analytics and robotic process automation (RPA) will help drive IT spending in the banking and securities sector, according to Gartner.

• Looking beyond 2020 at the top IT-changing technologies

  Forecasting long-range IT technology trends is a little herding cats – things can get a little crazy.

• How a CIO Can Save an Incompetent CEO

  When a bad CEO goes down, the CIO often goes down with him. The way to save yourself, and your company, is to invest in the analytics technology that gives the CEO the data necessary to make smart business decisions. It doesn't hurt that it also shows why the CIO is more valuable to the CEO than other C-level executives.

• 5 things CIOs need to know about data lakes

  1.The concept is still quite new. The term data lake, credited to Pentaho CTO James Dixon, has been bandied about for several years. But the idea of data lakes as corporate resources is still in its infancy, according to IDC analyst Ashish Nadkarni. A data lake is defined as a massive--and relatively cheap--storage repository, such as Hadoop, that can hold all types of data until it is needed for business analytics or data mining. A data lake holds data in its rawest form, unprocessed and ungoverned.

• 10 things you need to know about bi-modal IT

  1. Bi-modal IT is real, and it's likely to be embraced by your company

• Windows 10 fragmentation? What fragmentation?

  Microsoft's Windows 10 will not have a fragmentation problem, analysts argued, even though its rapid development tempo and a host of update cadences will spin off so many versions that not everyone will be running the same code, or even have the same features, at any one time.

• Does Fortinet's Meru buy mean we're in for even more Wi-Fi industry consolidation?

  Cybersecurity firm <a href="http://www.fortinet.com/press_releases/2015/fortinet-announces-agreement-to-acquire-meru-networks.html">Fortinet's purchase last week of wireless network manufacturer Meru Networks</a> for $44 million is the second major acquisition of a Wi-Fi hardware vendor in three months and, potentially, the start of a broader pattern.

• Android Pay likely at Google I/O as Samsung preps its own service

  Google is expected to reveal details about Android Pay at its annual I/O conference this week, even as Samsung readies its own separate mobile payment service.

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  It's Time to Align Your Vulnerability Management Priorities With the Biggest Threats

  Vulnerabilities and their exploitation are still the root cause of most breaches. IT security leaders should refocus their attention on how vulnerabilities are being managed and should track this metric to provide visibility as to how to reduce the biggest risks of being breached.

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  Nimble Storage Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant

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  Gartner Predicts 2016: Algorithms Take Digital Business to the Next Level

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  Check Point: A Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in Enterprise Network Firewalls Since 1997