HITS News Headlines
Box Launches a Product just for Government Users (Computerworld)
Box is launching a new offering aimed squarely at government customers in an attempt to get more public agencies to use its file storage and collaboration service. On Thursday, the... More
IBM Brings Quantum Computing To Everyone With Cloud Service (IBT)
IBM is opening up one of the most complex and least understood areas of computing to everyone by launching the first quantum computing service in the cloud, hoping that by giving s... More
It’s Time for CIOs to be Innovation Leaders (CIO)
It’s not a new assertion that CIOs occupy a position that affords them vision across the entire enterprise. What is new is how important to the future of business (and to the CIO... More
EMC Doubles Down on Digital Transformation and Hybrid Cloud with New Technologies (TechRepublic)
On Tuesday, at EMC World 2016, EMC announced new products and updates to address what it called the four pillars of the modern data center: Flash, scale-out, software-defined, and ... More
AWS: Can the Cloud make Amazon the World’s Biggest Company? (Management Today)
Amazon Web Services is Bezos’s secret weapon. Ten years old, it’s already reaching annualised revenues of nearly $10bn, and makes twice the operating profit that the rest of th... More
Box, Cognizant Partner to Modernize Business Processes (eWeek)
Box is joining forces with an IT veteran to put its cloud-service development platform to work in customized ways. The Redwood City, Calif.-based storage and collaboration tool pro... More
IBM Makes a Big Shift into Cognitive Computing (LA Times)
After decades in the spotlight as a hardware-centric firm selling PCs, servers and mainframes, the 105-year-old tech giant has made a dramatic shift into a realm that few understan... More
SAS Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary by Charging Forward (DMNews)
A shower of confetti rained down on the more than 5,400 analytics practitioners in attendance at the 2016 SAS Global Forum. The flurry kicked off not only a celebration of the anal... More
The On-Demand Economy is Transforming IT Careers (ZDNet)
That role of the IT professional is changing, thanks to new technology and new business models. Rather than simply employing experts in coding and testing, businesses are keen to t... More
Capgemini Derives Double-Digit Growth From Financial Services Success, Digital Determination (CRN)
A strong appetite for cloud and digital solutions among financial services customers enabled Capgemini to notch double-digit growth in its most recent quarter. The Paris-based solu... More
Wipro Ventures Takes Stake in Cybersecurity Startup (Times of India)
Wipro Ventures, the $100-million venture capital arm of India's third largest software exporter Wipro, has invested an undisclosed amount for a minority stake in Silicon Valley-bas... More
ContentBridge Completes Move To Cloud (HITS)
ContentBridge, a leading provider of digital supply chain solutions for media and entertainment, announced relocation of their facility to the Equinix Data Center. Through the move... More
Qumulo Adds Hot-Button Features to Update Storage System (eWeek)
Flash storage startup Qumulo is sure checking all the hot boxes with its new Core 2.0 file system release. These features include solid-state (check), data-aware (check), scale-out... More
Adobe’s Document Cloud adds Support for Box and Microsoft (TechCrunch)
Adobe is launching an update to its Document Cloud service today that will bring support for both Box and Microsoft OneDrive to the company’s PDF-centric digital document solutio... More
Why Marketing and IT is the Perfect Team for Solving Customer Identity (IA)
The rise of smart devices has improved our lives, giving us improved communication and information at our fingertips. Today’s digital consumers are mobile and highly selective. T... More
AWS, Pitney Bowes Partnering on New Commerce Cloud (eWeek)
Pitney Bowes will run Commerce Cloud on AWS infrastructure and operate alongside the AWS Marketplace. PB already has launched seven services in the AWS Marketplace for Location Int... More
SAS: Mapping the Customer Journey in Seconds (CMSWire)
In the 40 years SAS has been around — yes it's a milestone anniversary for the company — its definition of speed and what constitutes "fast" has quite understandably changed wi... More
Transforming IT? 5 Reasons To Consider Colocation (Forbes)
Bob Violino, CenturyLink: Colocation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when executives consider business transformation strategies—but it should be. It is an ideal ... More
Wipro Sees $15 Billion Dreams in New Delivery Centres (ET)
India's third largest software exporter Wipro is looking to significantly ramp up its software delivery network and expand its presence both internationally and within India, amid ... More
OpenText Buys HP Content Management Units for $170m (MM)
HP has sold off elements of its customer experience content management business to OpenText, a Canadian firm specialising in enterprise content management, for around $170m (£118m... More