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ISSUE 56

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NEWS: Latest news round-up from across North America

LATEST INTELLIGENCE: The latest whitepapers from StarHub and Adobe

TRENDING: Rapid GenAI application adoption drives new era of application and infrastructure modernisation

INFOGRAPHIC: Top 10 most secure US states for home working in 2025

PROJECT LATEST: Updates from Ontario, Alabama, Massachusetts and North Carolina

EDITOR’ S QUESTION: Does world-class analytics require centralisation?

TALKING BUSINESS: GenAIs hidden challenge: Mastering unstructured data

FEATURE: How AI will revive private cloud

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CIO OPINION: How the desire for truly unified communications is transforming the telecoms industry

COUNTRY FOCUS: City of Brownsville, Texas, taps NTT DATA to build Connected City with smart solutions powered

by private 5G

53		FEATURE: Avoiding technology bottlenecks is all about seeing the bigger picture
56	CASE STUDY: Service site powers ahead with energy saving investment
61	CASE STUDY: Backflip releases AI model that turns text into physical reality – backed by $ 30m from NEA and

Andreessen Horowitz

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COVER STORY	56	72	INDUSTRY WATCH: New MHI and Deloitte report focuses on orchestrating end-to-end digital supply chain solutions

TECH TALK: Agentic AI is a sea change for business – but needs event-driven thinking to unlock its

full potential

GET TO KNOW: Keir Garrett, Regional Vice President, Cloudera ANZ

FINAL WORD: Future-proofing connectivity with light-powered networks