HITS News Headlines
6 Dangers Of ‘Frankensteining’ Your Cloud Environment (Forbes)
Margaret Harrist, Oracle: Many companies move incrementally to the cloud, with different groups chasing their own dream of simplicity and lower costs using department budgets and ... More
Western Digital Addresses Increasing Application Workload Demands for VMware Environments with New Certifications of Two SSDs (HITS)
Western Digital announced that two of its most compelling data center devices are now certified for use with VMware® environments1, including the high-capacity yet cost-effective ... More
Are You Ready for Remote Project Management? (CIO)
Managing projects is a demanding job, and it's more seem challenging when you add in the fact that you're doing it remotely. But it doesn't have to be. After identifying all the po... More
Who Owns Digital Transformation? According to a New Survey, It’s Not the CIO (Forbes)
Digital transformation is one of those terms that seems to mean, well, everything. That’s because different groups within organizations are investing in innovative technologies t... More
Where Top Talent in the Tech Industry Will Likely Work Next (Fast Company)
Wherever the best engineers, programmers, and designers in the tech industry go, investment dollars, successful products, and revenues may often follow. The flow of talent in the t... More
Three Ways to Update Your IT Infrastructure In 90 Days (Forbes)
Brian Mistretta, CenturyLink: Digital transformations impact every area of the business, sparked by IT strategies built on speed, agility, and scalability. Embracing this revolutio... More
Software Asset Management Gives IT Managers Control Over Apps (BizTech)
Good IT governance requires full awareness of how and where software assets are being used. The best way to achieve this goal is by using a software asset management (SAM) solution... More
Digitally Transforming Sales: Business Benefits Enabled By New Platforms (Capping IT Off)
Digital sales transformation is not just about implementing a cloud sales platform: you need to rethink the way you conduct business, consider your broader digital transformation j... More
Expert System Enriches Its Offering for Finance and Insurance (HITS)
Expert System has enriched its offering for the finance and insurance sector by extending the capabilities of the cognitive Cogito technology to new areas such as insurance claims ... More
Cloud IT Infrastructure Spending To Hit 37% In 2016 (InformationWeek)
Total spending on computing products for deployment in both private cloud and public cloud will amount to $37.4 billion this year, according to IDC. That's a further increase of .7... More
Tata Taps Skylab for Enterprise IoT (HITS)
Tata Communications has partnered with Singapore-based technology solutions provider Skylab to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for enterprises. Skylab is using Tata’s c... More
The Shift to Cloud in the Finance Sector (Avere Blog)
Unlike young start-ups, most financial services firms have significant infrastructure investments and have built architectures for performance. Accelerating existing storage can pr... More
Cloud – It’s All About the Apps (Avanade Insights)
A few years ago, a company decided that they wanted to move nearly 3,000 applications into the cloud. It was a complex project with a tight deadline. And unfortunately, it didn’t... More
Farmers Insurance Transitions Customer Service With Salesforce Mobile App (InformationWeek)
Farmers was an early adopter in 2010 of Salesforce Chatter, the collaborative CRM application that offered enterprise employees profiles of each other, project status updates, and ... More
IBM’s Cleversafe Storage Platform is Becoming a Cloud Service (PCWorld)
If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, wouldn’t spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so? If so, IBM ... More
New Quantum Tape Platform Delivers Best-in-Class Storage Efficiency and Density for Long-Term Content Protection, Preservation (HITS)
Quantum announced a new Scalar tape storage platform and three products based on that platform: Scalar i3, Scalar i6 and the StorNext AEL6 appliance. These new Scalar intelligent t... More
PwC Study Finds Greater Trust In Cloud, More Security Spend (Dark Reading)
A new global study shows a rise in security spending and in privacy and security awareness training programs. The 2017 Global State of Information Security Survey, conducted by PwC... More
Let’s Get Serious about IoT Security (CIO)
No one doubts anymore that internet of things (IoT) devices pose a huge security threat, as a recent massive IoT-fueled DDoS attack made clear. But what many enterprises have yet t... More
Obama Warns of the Danger of AI Wiping Out Jobs (Fortune)
In an interview with Wired Magazine, Obama spoke of redesigning the social compact and starting a conversation around fair wages. He cited teachers as being underpaid, and called f... More
Apple is Opening an R&D Center in the Home of China’s Tech Boom (The Verge)
Shenzhen was previously best known for its knockoff iPhones and iPads, but the Chinese manufacturing hub is now a force of innovation in its own right. The latest proof? Apple is o... More