Foreword

The information technology (IT) industry is again on the cusp of a major transformation. Business digitization is a trend that is impacting companies across industry verticals, from healthcare to manufacturing to retail and more. Digitization, defined as the leverage of IT to improve the experiences of a workforce and customer base while streamlining operational processes, is bringing the opportunity for organizations to fundamentally transform themselves and create new lines of business and revenue.

To realize the promise of this new era of IT in which we live, companies will need to embrace new ways of thinking about their networks and overall IT strategy: machine learning, harvesting the data that will come from the billions of new ...

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