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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

Despite cost-cutting being the main reason why most companies shift to the cloud, that is not the only benefit they walk away with. While that allows easy access to users, and saves costs, the cloud is much more and beyond that. IBM had introduced the concept of Virtual Machines (VMs) almost a decade before the birth of the internet.

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Sometimes Less is More

Leading Agile

Here’s a screenshot from a Microsoft blog post dating from 2014, giving a preview of VisualStudio 2015 and Blend. Using IDE features to reduce visual clutter, such as disabling editor tabs and enabling some sort of “distraction-free” mode that closes most of the panels. (3) Reducing visual clutter.