New solutions are required to overcome the performance, availability, scalability and security issues introduced by this hybrid network environment.

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In fact, our analog semiconductor solutions are increasingly at the heart of everything from smartphones to smart appliances to home security systems to satellites to medical sensors to hybrid vehicles.

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Apart from providing more jobs for security experts, wearable computing could create new industries and hybrid professions: data scientists who understand physiology and ethnography, for example.

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Corporate governance and IT security leaders will need to consider the commercial benefits of a hybrid IT stack that is comprised of both internal and external services, versus any perceived or real risk.

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