HITS News Headlines

 

Workplace Wearables Raise New Privacy Dilemmas for Staff, Firms (ReadWrite)

With the proliferation of wearable technology, companies are increasingly finding motivation to encourage staff to don connected devices. But on IDG’s CIO site tech writer Gary E... More

Why Traditional Customer Service is Complimentary to Cloud Services (Wazee Digital Blog)

In a world (er, industry) where many services are migrating to the cloud and traditional workflows once operated by humans are replaced by automated workflows, one thing remains co... More

Avanade, Akumina Strike Strategic Partnership to Deliver Engaging Employee Experiences (HITS)

Avanade and Akumina today announced it has formed a strategic partnership to deliver digital workplace solutions that engage today’s modern workforce, resulting in more productiv... More

How Massdrop Solved its Identity Crisis with Okta (Okta Blog)

Like all start-ups, Massdrop started small. Really small. A-bunch-of-Canadian-guys-working-out-of-a-house small. But their concept was huge, and it didn’t take long for Massdrop�... More

The Next Big Blue-Collar Job is Coding (Wired)

When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming jag—with th... More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Unveils Most Significant 3PAR Flash Storage Innovations to Date (HITS)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced its most significant set of 3PAR storage innovations to date, including a next-generation HPE 3PAR Operating System that provides a futureproof... More

Future Growth to Come from Services: Vinod Kumar, CEO, Tata Communications (ET)

Kumar: "Over the next three to four quarters, the growth will come from the services that we have already have and the customers are wailing for. Our traditional services are growi... More

IBM Launches Free Online Learning Platform in Africa (HITS)

IBM is investing $70 million in building much-needed digital, cloud, and cognitive IT skills to help support a 21st century workforce in Africa. The initiative, "IBM Digital - Nati... More

Internet of Things: CIOs are Getting Ready for the Next Big Revolution (ZDNet)

CIOs have woken up to the power of the Internet of Things (IoT). Almost three quarters (71%) of IT leaders are now gathering data for IoT initiatives, according to 451 Research. An... More

Snap Committed to Spend $1 Billion on Web Services with Amazon (Bloomberg)

Snap Inc. has a deal to pay Amazon.com Inc. at least $1 billion for internet services over the next five years, adding to a $2 billion agreement it already has with Alphabet Inc.�... More

Expert System Announces Newest Release of Cogito Cognitive Platform (HITS)

Expert System continues its growth strategy focused on innovation and product differentiation with its newest release of the Cogito platform – Cogito 14. This release further si... More

Why DAM Isn’t Just Pretty Pictures on the Web Anymore (Open Text Blog)

Why do you purchase and implement a Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform in the first place? If you’re like me when I ran the content management team at another company, it wa... More

IBM, HCL to Drive Growth and Innovation in Application Security Space (Security Intelligence)

Application security is a critical component for enterprises to have a robust security posture that functions like an immune system, detecting and preventing threats wherever they ... More

Box, Mendix Partner to Accelerate Development of Enterprise Apps (HITS)

Box and Mendix today announced a partnership that brings together Box's leading enterprise content platform with Mendix's low-code, rapid application development platform. The two ... More

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

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