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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

Cloud Database Strategy: Buy a ‘Smartphone,’ Not a Bagful of Gadgets (Forbes)

In too many cases, new cloud databases amount to buying that bagful of gadgets, says Loaiza, Oracle senior vice president for database technology. One of those new databases is opt... More

How Amazon, Microsoft, IBM are Shaping the Cloud Computing Industry (1redDrop)

The cloud computing industry surged strongly in 2016, and if the last quarter of 2016 is anything to go by, 2017 holds a lot of promise for the segment as a whole, especially for t... More

Data Science is Creating a Tidal Wave of Opportunity for Women to Get Into Executive Leadership (Recode)

We have reached the tipping point in big data. We can now access, manage and manipulate massive amounts of data with such ease that the real work has shifted to analysis and practi... More

Vizio Comments on Resolution of Federal, State Complaints Over Data Collection (Twice)

Remember when you found out your Vizio TV was spying on you? Vizio has issued the following statement regarding a resolution with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New Je... More

SAS Sees the Next Tests For Data-Driven Problem-Solvers: Speed and Cloud (Forbes)

Among the employees in highest demand are what Paul Kent calls “analytically creative problem-solvers.” Almost every company has mounds of data, but it’s these creative probl... More

Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty on How the Cloud Enables the AI Revolution (ZDNet)

Paul Daugherty, chief technology and innovation officer at Accenture, said that artificial intelligence will change how work is done, companies and their digital transformation eff... More

6 Ways IoT Will Change Project Management (TechRepublic)

Longer project timelines - Unlike traditional IT projects, an IoT project isn't finished once it's implemented. There must also be a plan for how the IoT will be supported, and ... More

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