HITS News Headlines
BMW, Toyota Select Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to Make Cars Smarter (Data Center Knowledge)
While AWS touts General Motors as one of its case study darlings, Microsoft Azure has nabbed BMW and Toyota this week as the car manufacturers leverage Microsoft Azure in different... More
PwC: Media CEOs See Global Business Threats (Rapid TV News)
As they look forward to the year ahead, CEOs are less confident about prospects for the global economy than they were in 2015, with entertainment and media leaders even less so, sa... More
IBM, SAP Strike Deeper Cloud Partnership (IW)
IBM and SAP are ramping up their cloud partnership, moving beyond a situation where the two companies have their technologies running side-by-side to one where they collaborate on ... More
HPE Expands Its HPC Portfolio (StorageReview)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new solutions centered around deep learning systems, high-performance computing (HPC), and financial industry (FSI) applications. These new sol... More
CenturyLink Powers Up Managed Security (LightReading)
CenturyLink's acquisition of security services firm netAura LLC, announced last week, is just the latest indication of how that company is expanding its managed security profile. I... More
OpenText CEO: ‘One Does Not Upgrade to Digital’ (PCWorld)
Every company is an information company today, and transforming for the digital era requires looking beyond the ERP systems that have played such a central role in the corporate wo... More
Shaping IT Demand With an All-New Approach: Scaling Back (HPE Matter)
There’s a compelling correlation between top-performing companies and their willingness to forego nice-to-have IT projects in favor of those with the biggest impact on business t... More
CenturyLink Expands Security Services with netAura Acquisition (Data Center Knowledge)
Managed hosting and cloud service provider CenturyLink has bought managed security technology company netAura ramping up its security capabilities and scale especially for public-s... More
Imagine Takes Video Solutions to Azure’s Cloud (HITS)
Media software and networking solutions provider Imagine Communications has had several of its end-to-end video solutions certified by Microsoft Azure and made available through th... More
Box announces General Availability of Box KeySafe with AWS KMS (HITS)
Last month, Box announced a new product called Box KeySafe that should help simplify encryption key management, putting it in reach of small to medium sized businesses who require ... More
Mindtree Joins Apigee Digital Partner Program (HITS)
Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, announced today that it has joined Apigee’s Digital Partner Program. This collaboration with Apigee, a... More
CMO vs. CIO – Is There Room For Both In The Boardroom? (TechWeekEurope UK)
Avanade’s Julian Tomison discusses how and why CIOs and CMOs should be working together to move towards the ‘Digital Workplace’: There is a battle going on in the boardroom; ... More
Vaisala Deploys Qumulo Data-Aware Scale-Out NAS for Next-Generation Insight Into Large Scale Machine Data (HITS)
Qumulo, the leader in data-aware scale-out NAS, today announced that Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has selected Qumulo Core to stay ahead of... More
HPE Intros ‘Persistent Memory’ (CRN)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday officially rolled out a new type of server memory it said combines the performance of DRAM with the persistence of traditional SSDs or spinnin... More
ValueLabs Partners with Hootsuite for Social Media Solutions (Business Standard)
ValueLabs, a Hyderabad-based business technology solutions provider, has partnered Canadian social media management platform Hootsuite to deliver solutions for managing social medi... More
Box CIO says IT Needs to Loosen its Grip (CIO)
The modern workforce demands a new style of IT, according to Paul Chapman, CIO of cloud storage provider Box. Today's IT professionals must take the "friction out of how we get thi... More
Managing Storage Made Easy (MediaSilo Blog)
Most asset managements and collaboration tools, including our own, price around capacity in some fashion. Due to this, the term 'storage management' will certainly enter the lexico... More
EMC’s New Isilon Products Expand the Data Lake to the Cloud and to the Edge (Networks Asia)
EMC’s Isilon SD Edge, Isilon OneFS 8.0 and Isilon CloudPools are now available, according to the company. In a blog post, Phil Bullinger, Senior Vice President, Isilon Product Li... More
Capgemini Study: Organizations Shifting Analytics ‘Focus’ Away from Customer Experience Towards Operations (HITS)
A new report conducted by Capgemini Consulting's Digital Transformation Institute reveals the extent to which the search for competitive advantage has driven organizations to shift... More
Q&A: Xerox’s New Head Of U.S. Channels On How Company Split Will Affect Partners (CRN)
Darren Cassidy, Xerox's new president of U.S. channels, is looking at the company's upcoming split as an opportunity to refocus its place in the channel, ambitiously looking to mak... More