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• Why BP is driving automation at scale across the business

  BP is embracing automation and machine learning to run what it calls 'intelligent operations' and maximise business value in its supply and trading division.

• The rise of SSDs over hard drives, debunked

  In spite of a recent report to the contrary, solid-state drives (SSDs) will not surpass hard disk drives (HDDs) in either price or capacity any time soon, according to industry analysts.

• How David Whiteing is creating the right culture at CommBank

  Commonwealth Bank CIO, David Whiteing is focusing on culture and strategic vision to keep the bank relevant in the face of digital change and data demands.

• Confidential Business Data at Risk at the Border

  Several recent court decisions have re­inforced the principle that government agents may examine laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices in the possession of people crossing the border into the U.S.--even when there is no suspicion of wrongdoing.

• How packet micro-shaping maximizes bandwidth utilization

  Enterprises are increasingly virtualizing IT infrastructure by migrating storage, application, and database servers into cloud/hosted datacenters. As they do so, they need to partner with ISPs and service providers to establish reliable, performance assured, bandwidth optimized connections between each enterprise and data center location.

• ERP vendors are getting a 'good kick' from users

  The era of the monolithic, highly customized enterprise ERP system is fading, according to Gartner.

• 3D printing could help take humans into deep space, NASA says

  NASA scientists plan to take 3D printers into space to enable astronauts to create tools, and even food, onboard the International Space Station and later on the moon or even Mars.

• The benefits of cloud-based BPM

  In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM.

• How to Use BPM to Improve Customer Experience

  A Gartner analyst speaking at the firm's business process management summit explains how BPM technologies can be used to bring more success to your enterprise by improving customer experience.

• Gartner: Public cloud market to grow 18.5% this year

  The global public cloud computing market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, research firm Gartner predicts.

• Is it now crazy to offshore IT to China?

  China has been developing an IT outsourcing industry aimed at bringing in business from the U.S. and Europe. It has succeeded, but then again it hasn't thrived and now may face more barriers.

• IT outsourcing providers could profit from double dip recession

  The IT outsourcing market saw its first substantial decline in twelve months during the third quarter of this year. Transaction volumes fell for both the IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) markets, by seven percent and 12 per cent respectively, according to the outsourcing consultancy Everest Group's quarterly report on the global services industry.

• Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business

  The battle between <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> and Google for office cloud dominance reminds me of the clash of the Titans. Microsoft and its classic on-premises business model is like Gaia, the earth goddess, and Google with its disruptive lightening bolt, is like Zeus, a sky god and a next generation kind of god.

• Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract

  Google and one of its resellers have asked a federal court to dismiss their case against the U.S. Department of the Interior over Microsoft-only bids for cloud-based services.

• Indian IT firms hire few U.S. workers

  The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) surveyed Indian companies across a variety of industries and found that in the majority of industry sectors, about 80 per cent of their U.S. workforces were local hires. The exceptions were in the IT and business-process outsourcing (BPO) industries, where Indian firms relied mostly on visa-holding workers.