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IBM Brings Watson AI to the Private Cloud (Forbes)

IBM enabled Watson AI to run across the enterprise data centers and mainstream public cloud platforms. Branded as Watson Anywhere, the flagship data and analytics platform that was... More

Western Digital, Veeam Streamline Data Backup, Recovery for Scale-Out Hybrid Cloud Environments (HITS)

Western Digital has announced that its ActiveScale object storage system supports Veeam Cloud Tier, a feature of the new Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. The ActiveScale syst... More

The Football Association, Cognizant and Digital Transformation (IA)

Sanjiv Gossain explains why for Cognizant digital transformation entails multi-disciplinary teams: including anthropologists. He explains how the Football Association embraced this... More

AWS’s Ian Massingham on Unstructured Data, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity (CBR)

"While there is no denying that it is a huge opportunity for businesses across the globe, the flood of unstructured data also represents an evolving and ever greater challenge, esp... More

5 New Features in SAP’s Latest S/4HANA Release (CBR)

SAP has released the latest iteration of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning SAP S/4HANA platform, with an array of new features bundled into the 1902 release, generally a... More

Infosys, on a 10,000-Job Hiring Sprint in the U.S., is 75% of the Way There (Quartz)

Infosys has been operating in the US for more than 30 years. But its presence as an American employer is just beginning to be felt. In May 2017, Infosys said it would hire 10,000 U... More

IoT is Ready to Go Fully Mainstream (IT Pro Portal)

IoT technology is now fully mainstream, and those businesses that employ it are reaping the benefits, new research has declared.... More

Is There a Data Scientist Shortage? (Tech HQ)

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), across its many guises and use cases, is seeing a boom in demand for data scientists, according to a recent report by recruitment ... More

Here are the Skills You Need to Work With Big Data (SDC)

A data analyst is a professional whose work involves collecting, cleaning, visualizing, andtransforming or modeling raw data into the blocks of information that are used by markete... More

HCL Technologies Collaborates with IBM to Improve Hybrid Cloud Offering (Data Economy)

IBM will be rubbing shoulders with HCL Technologies with the aim of improving the companies hybrid cloud journeys. HCL Technologies has announced it will be re-platforming services... More

Veritone: Broadcasters Can Use AI to Analyze, Enhance Ad Effectiveness (HITS)

Radio broadcasters can use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and enhance the effectiveness of broadcast advertising to boost customer investment, according to Veritone. “We... More

Google Cloud Chief is Going Big on Salespeople (Fortune)

Expect Google to hire a lot more salespeople for its cloud computing unit. That’s according to Google’s new head of its cloud computing business Thomas Kurian, who spoke Tuesda... More

Salesforce Builds $50M Impact Investing Portfolio (Forbes)

Suzanne DiBianca, chief philanthropy officer and executive vice president of corporate relations at Salesforce, was among the first employees at the company and has championed soci... More

Google to Invest $13B in U.S. Data Centers, Offices This Year (DCD)

Google has announced a $13 billion building program across the US during 2019, including new data centers in Nebraska, Nevada and Ohio. The program, announced by Google CEO Sundar ... More

AWS Debuts Five New EC2 Bare Metal Instances (ZDNet)

Amazon Web Services is expanding its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with the addition of five new bare metal instances. The cloud giant said the new instances are meant to serve workl... More

Santander Partners with IBM to Drive Digital Transformation as Part of a $700M Deal (Gigabit)

IBM has forged a five-year partnership with Banco Santander to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation plan. IBM says the $700mn deal will help Santander Group “evolve tow... More

The Top Five Upcoming Cloud Developments (DXC Technology Blog)

1. Hybrid Cloud Takes Off. For the longest time, the hybrid cloud didn’t really go much of anywhere. That’s because it wasn’t easy to integrate private and public clouds. The... More

Barclaycard Partners with SAP to Simplify Corporate Payments (HITS)

Barclaycard Commercial Payments today announced a strategic partnership with SAP UK. The partnership will see Barclaycard integrate its B2B payment product into SAP Ariba solutions... More

IBM Brings Watson to Any Cloud (TechCrunch)

IBM today announced that it is freeing its Watson-branded AI services — like the Watson Assistant for building conversational interfaces and Watson OpenScale for managing the AI ... More

Cybersecurity Success Still Depends on Getting the Basics Right (Tech Wire Asia)

Cybersecurity is a big concern for most businesses, especially because of the regulatory scrutiny it attracts and the loss of consumer confidence it results in. And although hacker... More

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