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Moving to
          the cloud should let IT reduce the chaos that comes from a legacy of
          multiple disconnected systems. But organizations need strong,
          centralized leadership to make sure connections happen, says Chuck
          Hollis, senior VP of converged infrastructure at Oracle. His advice.  
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Santa uses
          blockchain, a digital ledger technology that records transactions
          chronologically and publicly, to track the status of children
          suddenly added to or removed from the Naughty List. Other ways blockchain works for Santa, and you.
           
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One growing
          technology area IT workers should master: Networks. “Network
          technology is undergoing major disruption as cloud computing takes
          hold in enterprises,” says Subramanian Iyer of Oracle Insight, who
          says new roles will involve software-defined network controllers,
          OpenFlow, northbound/southbound APIs, compute technologies,
          hypervisors and more. The other six skills.  
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Oracle
          JavaScript Extension Toolkit (Oracle JET) helps JavaScript developers
          build pure client-side user interfaces that consume and interact with
          web services such as REST and WebSocket. Oracle has used Oracle JET
          as the foundation for more than 70 percent of its cloud service
          offerings. Get a look inside Oracle’s open source
          JavaScript toolkit.  
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Chatbots are
          being used at times as the first line of defense in online customer
          service. But if you’re thinking of chatbots as just an automated way
          to help call center reps, you’re thinking way too small. Six pitfalls.  
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