HITS News Headlines
Staying Technologically Relevant Has Suddenly Become a Full-Time Responsibility (Forbes)
Technology is always improving. Since the beginning of modern civilization, people have been improving existing concepts and developing new and better ways of accomplishing the sam... More
8 Strategies for Achieving IT Goals (CIO)
Identifying a goal is easy. Achieving it is another thing—especially if you are in IT and have to deal with other departments and vendors. Indeed, figuring out what is a realisti... More
The Path to Cloud Application Modernization (Avanade Insights)
The question is no longer whether you should utilize the cloud to drive transformation for your business, but rather what to do and how you should do it. Targeting the right applic... More
VirtusaPolaris Integrates Arago’s AI Platform into its Kore Managed IT Solutions Platform (HITS)
VirtusaPolaris will implement Arago’s problem-solving artificial intelligence platform HIRO™ into its Kore Managed IT Solutions Platform®. By automating IT operations, HIRO wi... More
Salesforce: We Solve Telcos’ Customer Identity Crisis (LightReading)
Getting to know customers is a big problem for telcos. Customers interact with carriers in person, over the Internet, using mobile devices and phoning in to call centers. They conn... More
IBM Watson, Udacity Partner to launch the AI Nanodegree (VentureBeat)
Online education platform Udacity has partnered with IBM Watson to launch a new artificial intelligence (AI) Nanodegree program. Costing $1,600 for the full two-term, 26-week cours... More
The Tech Industry’s Regulatory Crisis and How Silicon Valley Lost Touch with Washington (TechCrunch)
Digital currencies, drones, autonomous vehicles, peer-to-peer lending, renewables — the list goes on and on with stories of tech companies that have largely ignored regulatory gu... More
How Big Data is Changing Recruitment Forever (DataInformed)
In business, people are usually both the most important asset and biggest liability. Talented people are often what makes a business stand out from the competition while an under-m... More
IT Spending on ‘Innovation’ is Now a Priority (CIO)
Businesses are increasing their spending on technology, with cloud services as the big beneficiary. Hardware and software spending is declining as spending on cloud services rises,... More
The Gig Economy Has Grown Big, Fast — and That’s a Problem for Workers (Recode)
While the gig economy promises to free workers from the traditional, drab 9-to-5 work environment, the reality is quite different. Many contractors employed in gig-economy–type j... More
Rise of the IoT Machines (CIO)
Friday’s distributed denial-of-service attack on domain name service provider Dyn may have seemed like the end of the world for millions of Netflix, Twitter and Spotify users, bu... More
Six Ways to Fix the IT Skills Shortage (ZDNet)
Tech is still missing out on some of the brightest and best: here are a few ideas on what needs to change. The IT skills gap is causing business leaders more problems than ever bef... More
Women in Computing to Decline to 22% by 2025, Study Warns (USA Today)
New research warns that at the rate we're going, the number of women in the computing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to... More
Where to Find the World’s Best Programmers (CIO)
Donald Knuth, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Grace Hopper: The United States has produced some of the greatest software engineers who have ever lived. But outside the United States ... More
Wipro Acquires Cloud Company Appirio (HITS)
IT consulting and business services company Wipro acquired Indianapolis-based cloud services company Appirio Oct. 20, paying $500 million for a company that already counts Coca-Col... More
Fast Tracking the Future: Cloud on Tap (ITWeb)
IT practitioners, purveyors and leaders are caught between a virtual rock and a hard place. With unprecedented levels of technology disruption being the order of the day, and escal... More
Doug Lane Reveals Capgemini Government Solutions’ Secrets for Growth (WashingtonExec)
Doug Lane: "In 2016 alone, we’ve more than doubled in size with a backlog that points to similar growth expected through 2017. Since I joined in 2014, we have harnessed the capa... More
Oracle’s Cloud Comes Online (Data Center Knowledge)
The first availability region of Oracle’s new cloud platform, designed by some of the same people who built Amazon’s, Microsoft’s, and Google’s cloud infrastructure, has be... More
Gartner: IT Spending will Hit $3.5 Trillion in 2017 (Information Week)
Global IT spending is slated to rise slightly in 2017, with enterprises looking to invest about $3.5 trillion on technology in the next year -- an increase of 2.9% compared to the ... More
Dell EMC Updates, Launches New Systems, Software as it Integrates Legacy Products (ZDNet)
Dell EMC on Wednesday rolled out a bevy of products that are designed to link the two companies and provide the glue to a huge portfolio of enterprise technologies. On September 7,... More