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Microsoft Releases Third and Final Azure Stack Technical Preview (eWeek)

The wait for Azure Stack is nearing its end. Gearing up for the official launch of the hybrid-cloud solution that enables customers to run a little piece of the Azure cloud in thei... More

SAS Institute’s CIO Brings R&D Mentality to IT (Forbes)

Keith Collins, SAS: "There are two vectors for us. First, we are a software company. How do we bring our expertise in what we know about emerging technology, continuous pipeline de... More

Microsoft Cloud Grows Across Asia; Azure Now Available in Korea (DataCenterNews)

Microsoft has announced that its Azure cloud platform is now available in new Microsoft Cloud platforms across Korea. The new Microsoft Cloud regions will deliver Azure’s cloud s... More

Reltio Cloud 2017.1 Delivers Operational Excellence for Fortune 500 Companies (HITS)

Reltio today announced the upcoming release of Reltio Cloud 2017.1, the newest iteration of the market-leading platform that enables enterprise data-driven applications with reliab... More

Dell EMC Beefs Up Cloud Service Provider Track (Channel Partners)

Just weeks after launching the unified Dell EMC Partner Program, the vendor Thursday homed in on and expanded the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) partner track. Dell EMC announced tha... More

Microsoft Azure Links with India E-Commerce Giant Flipkart (SiliconUK)

Microsoft has formed what it called a long-term strategic partnership with Flipkart, the most prominent domestic e-commerce company operating in the Indian market, that is to see F... More

Public Cloud Spending in 2017 to Surpass $120B (CBR)

Public cloud services and infrastructure spending is still growing at a rapid pace and is expected to reach $122.5bn this year. That’s according to IDC’s Worldwide semi-annual ... More

Why Traditional Customer Service is Complimentary to Cloud Services (Wazee Digital Blog)

In a world (er, industry) where many services are migrating to the cloud and traditional workflows once operated by humans are replaced by automated workflows, one thing remains co... More

IBM Launches Free Online Learning Platform in Africa (HITS)

IBM is investing $70 million in building much-needed digital, cloud, and cognitive IT skills to help support a 21st century workforce in Africa. The initiative, "IBM Digital - Nati... More

Snap Committed to Spend $1 Billion on Web Services with Amazon (Bloomberg)

Snap Inc. has a deal to pay Amazon.com Inc. at least $1 billion for internet services over the next five years, adding to a $2 billion agreement it already has with Alphabet Inc.�... More

Box, Mendix Partner to Accelerate Development of Enterprise Apps (HITS)

Box and Mendix today announced a partnership that brings together Box's leading enterprise content platform with Mendix's low-code, rapid application development platform. The two ... More

Surviving and Thriving in the Digital Economy: A Platform Approach (Forbes)

Chuck Hollis, Oracle: Much has been written about the digital transformation of individual corporate functions: marketing, sales, human resources, customer experience, and so on. I... More

Cloud Database Strategy: Buy a ‘Smartphone,’ Not a Bagful of Gadgets (Forbes)

In too many cases, new cloud databases amount to buying that bagful of gadgets, says Loaiza, Oracle senior vice president for database technology. One of those new databases is opt... More

How Amazon, Microsoft, IBM are Shaping the Cloud Computing Industry (1redDrop)

The cloud computing industry surged strongly in 2016, and if the last quarter of 2016 is anything to go by, 2017 holds a lot of promise for the segment as a whole, especially for t... More

SAS Sees the Next Tests For Data-Driven Problem-Solvers: Speed and Cloud (Forbes)

Among the employees in highest demand are what Paul Kent calls “analytically creative problem-solvers.” Almost every company has mounds of data, but it’s these creative probl... More

Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty on How the Cloud Enables the AI Revolution (ZDNet)

Paul Daugherty, chief technology and innovation officer at Accenture, said that artificial intelligence will change how work is done, companies and their digital transformation eff... More

Salesforce Brazil Bets on Customer Experience Focus (ZDNet)

The challenging economic conditions that Brazilian organizations have faced over the last couple of years have accelerated the adoption of more cost-effective alternatives to softw... More

Private Cloud in Retreat, Public Cloud to Fore: Report (IW)

The private cloud based on a heavily virtualized environment in the enterprise data center is going to have a limited shelf life, according to a new study. The number of IT manager... More

3 Reasons to Move Risk Management, Compliance Tools to the Cloud (Forbes)

Sasha Banks-Louie, Oracle: Nearly 15 years since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the United States, companies are still struggling to prevent their employees from committing a... More

Avanade Develops Cloud-Based Digital Workplace Solution with Antares Capital (HITS)

Avanade today announced that it is working with Antares Capital, a leading financing solutions provider, to develop and deploy a cloud-based digital workplace solution designed to ... More

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