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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

Internet of Things: CIOs are Getting Ready for the Next Big Revolution (ZDNet)

CIOs have woken up to the power of the Internet of Things (IoT). Almost three quarters (71%) of IT leaders are now gathering data for IoT initiatives, according to 451 Research. An... 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

Expert System Announces Newest Release of Cogito Cognitive Platform (HITS)

Expert System continues its growth strategy focused on innovation and product differentiation with its newest release of the Cogito platform – Cogito 14. This release further si... More

Why DAM Isn’t Just Pretty Pictures on the Web Anymore (Open Text Blog)

Why do you purchase and implement a Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform in the first place? If you’re like me when I ran the content management team at another company, it wa... More

IBM, HCL to Drive Growth and Innovation in Application Security Space (Security Intelligence)

Application security is a critical component for enterprises to have a robust security posture that functions like an immune system, detecting and preventing threats wherever they ... 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

Okta Sets Up Trio of Security Deals (CRN)

Identity management vendor Okta has expanded its reach in Australia and New Zealand with three new partnerships. The US-headquartered company has signed agreements with MOQdigital,... More

Virtusa Revenues, Profits Rise (HITS)

Business consulting and IT outsourcing company Virtusa enjoyed fiscal third-quarter revenue of $217.2 million, up 44.2% year over year, for the three months ended Dec. 31, with the... More

Qumulo Announces Major Advancements in Scale-Out Storage (HITS)

Qumulo, a leader in scale-out storage, today announced the next release of Qumulo Core, delivering the industry’s first machine intelligent storage quotas. Qumulo’s machine int... More

The Next Big Encryption Fight (MIT Tech Review)

How much power should the U.S. government have to compel technology companies to help it access their users' encrypted information? Last year’s dramatic showdown between the FBI ... 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

The Digital Revolution is Putting Supply Chain Data at Risk (ITProPortal)

Supply chains are more reliant on new digital technologies than ever before, with electronic data at the heart of every stage of the sourcing, manufacturing and distribution proces... More

Study: 50% of IT Professionals Consume B2B Content with Increasing Regularity (The Drum)

B2B marketers have a growing opportunity to reach IT decision makers by acknowledging the changes in content consumption trends and their past mismanagement of prospects, a new ind... More

Wipro Study Finds 85% Increase in Test Automation (HITS)

Wipro has found an 85% jump in Test Automation across industries to keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. The study, titled ‘State of Quality 2016’ was conducted ov... More

IT Life: Mark Settle, Okta CIO (Silicon UK)

What new technology are you most excited for a) your business and b) yourself?: "I’ll respond with two technologies that intrigue me for both personal and business reasons. I’m... More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Becomes a Mesosphere Reseller (TechCrunch)

HPE today announced that it has signed a global reseller agreement with Mesosphere to bring that company’s container-centric DC/OS platform to its customer’s data centers. HPE�... More

Data is Driving New Skill Requirements (Information Age)

A new collection of skills and business roles are needed to manage and unlock the unprecedented amount of data being generated, as well as minimise any risks. Today’s organisatio... More

Big Data, IoT, Security are Hot IT Careers for 2017 (InfoWorld)

"Big data engineer" seems like an obvious on-fire specialty for the year, and other companies have reached the same conclusion. Staffing and recruiting firm Robert Half saw startin... More

How Livestreaming Video Threatens the Enterprise (CIO)

When Pittsburgh Steelers’ wide receiver Antonio Brown broadcast his coach’s postgame locker room speech on Facebook Live last month it created a distraction and senseless contr... More

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