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Microsoft Goes Silo-Busting for Enterprise Cloud Analytics (eWeek)

Gathering insights from information placed on Microsoft's cloud-based storage and big data analytics platforms is about to get easier for the company's enterprise customers. On Jun... More

HCL Acquires H&D International Group to Enhance Delivery Capabilities in Germany (HITS)

HCL Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wolfsburg-based IT and engineering services provider, H&D International Group. The acquisition is part of HCL’s long... More

Is Corporate VPN Security Dead? (Security Intelligence)

The use of virtual private networks (VPNs) in the enterprise has come a long way. What was once a simple way to ensure a secure connection between an external network and a company... More

Google Cloud Platform Comes to Finland to Serve Nordics (Data Economy)

Google has added a new region for its Google Cloud Platform in Finland, which joins the Netherlands, Belgium, London and Frankfurt in Europe. The new region, europe-north1, makes i... More

Liberty Global Picks Cisco to Unify the Customer Service Platforms Across its Separate Brands (ITPro)

Cisco has struck a deal with the global telecommunications and television company Liberty Global to transform its customer service platform for subscribers across Europe. Cisco's U... More

Featured Jobs: OpenText; Box; Technicolor

Senior Information Security Engineer — Alpharetta, GA — OpenText Sr. Software Engineer — Redwood City, CA — Box Senior Designer — LA — Technicolor Click here to view... More

How Remote, Branch Offices Can Feel More Local with Software-Defined Networks (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

From banking to healthcare to retail, many organizations establish remote and branch offices (ROBO) to enter new markets or offer local and convenient services. For many of these e... More

Luxoft’s E-Voting Platform Enables First Consultative Vote Based on Blockchain in Switzerland (HITS)

Luxoft partnered with the City of Zug and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland to create the first customizable blockchain-based e-voting system to be used by a ma... More

Data Quality a Bigger Challenge Than Many Organizations First Realize (IM)

One of the biggest challenges of data management is ensuring data quality—and for many organizations this remains a struggle.... More

IBM’s Watson Education Partners with Scholastic, Edmodo for Classroom Content Recommendations (VentureBeat)

Scholastic said that it’ll make available media, articles, and nonfiction content from its Scholastic Go and ScienceFlix libraries in IBM’s Watson Education, which will apply m... More

The Rise of Subscription Billing in Software and Digital Services (IA)

Software-as-a-service has already established itself as a prominent business model for tech vendors in practically every industry, offering an alternative to on-premise software fo... More

Cybersecurity – The Achilles Heel of Digital Transformation (IT Pro Portal)

Employee mobility, cloudification, and the Internet of Things (IoT), are all driving digital transformation, with companies becoming increasingly aware that they need to embrace ne... More

What is Technical Debt and Why is it Bad? (MarkLogic Blog)

The term “technical debt” is often used to describe decisions made during software development that result in future rework. This is typically because shortcuts are taken inste... More

Microsoft Re-Launching its Blockchain (TechRadar)

Microsoft is looking to re-enter the blockchain game with a new service aiming to help settle payment disputes. The Windows 10 maker has revealed a new service aimed at helping com... More

Featured Jobs: Gracenote; Mediamorph; Box

Front End Engineer, Big Data — Emeryville, CA — Gracenote Senior Software Engineer — NYC — Mediamorph Sr. Software Engineer, Box Drive — Redwood City, CA — Box Click... More

Azure Traffic Analytics Now Available Commercially (Redmond Magazine)

Microsoft this week declared the "general availability" of Traffic Analytics, a service that checks network activity across Microsoft Azure public cloud infrastructure. Traffic Ana... More

Companies Need Older Workers: Here’s Why (Reuters)

The demographic trend is no secret: the populations of the United States and other major industrial countries are getting older, and fast. That means workforces are aging too, but ... More

AI is Making Hardware Sexy Again (Forbes)

AI is not a new concept, nor are the math fundamentals underpinning it. But for AI to “eat software” and become truly useful it needs hardware: processors and chips fast and st... More

It’s Time We Tapped APIs for Business Analytics (InfoWorld)

APIs have become the mechanism of choice for connecting internal and external services, applications, data, identities, and other digital assets. As a result, APIs now have the pot... More

Tata Communications Partners with Singapore Telecom Operator MyRepublic (Business Standard)

To offer new range of mobile services in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, Tata Communications is working with the Singaporean TelcoTech platform company MyRepublic ... More

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