How to embrace disruptive technologies without ignoring legacy IT

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Tom Soderstrom
Mar 18, 2015

Disruptive technologies are here to stay. We have the cloud and we have open source software. Because you can implement things in a safer environment that doesn’t disrupt your entire ecosystem or your entire data center, you can experiment faster. New technologies therefore will get a foothold faster and the pace of disruption will increase. How do you embrace disruptive technologies to the benefit of your career? Tom Soderstrom, IT CTO of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shares three ways.

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