Accenture published a report about what makes intelligent infrastructures and how they can deliver value to your business. The report imagines a future where IT infrastructures monitor themselves, are able to predict and respond to future business needs and can protect and heal themselves automatically. Moreover, it examines how intelligent infrastructures would unlock the agility in your organization, creating competitive advantage and – ultimately – higher performance.
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The editors of the Scientific American have published an e-book about the future of cities. The book consists of 31 chapters divided in eight sections: the first section “Cities of the Future’ aims to explore this new concept, while the second, “Drivers: Innovation and Creativity,’ delves into how cities can and do make the most use of their best resource: human capital.
Brookings Institution has just published a document capturing the discussion results of a two day event on Smart Cities. The event, that took place more than a year ago (9-10 December 2013), brought together officials from cities throughout Europe, Canada and the United States to better understand the promise and practice for smart cities around the world today.
The European Cloud Partnership (ECP) has recently published a document outlining a set of ideas on how Europe can help public and private organisations use, buy and sell cloud services in a safe and trusted environment. ‘˜Establishing a Trusted Cloud Europe’ report is a policy vision document developed within the framework of the European Cloud Computing Strategy
IEEE, the world’ s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative aiming to assist local government leaders in planning smart cities for growing urban populations.
European ICT Poles of Excellence (EIPE) are geographical agglomerations of best performing Information and Communication Technologies production, R&D and innovation activities, located in the European Union, that exert a central role in global international networks. The EIPE Atlas presents the results of the empirical mapping of ICT activity in Europe and the ranking of the top European NUTS 3 regions based on their performance in EIPE Composite Indicator (EIPE CI), together with the ranks for the individual 42 indicators which contributed to the building of the EIPE composite indicators.
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