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VMware Will Team with Amazon in Cloud Pact (Fortune)

Next week, VMware—whose chief executive three years ago described Amazon Web Services as a mortal enemy to VMware and its partners—is about to announce a partnership with AWS. ... More

Technicolor Acquires Visual Effects Firm Munky (Broadcast)

Boutique Soho visual effects company Munky is to become part of Technicolor’s visual effects department, Broadcast can reveal. The deal will see all eight of Munky’s staff, inc... More

PwC, Microsoft Join to Empower India’s Digital Transformation (Times of India)

Global consultancy PwC India has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft India to empower India's digital transformation, a statement said here on Thursday. The statement said t... More

Digimarc Barcode Scanning Capability Now Incorporated Into Honeywell’s Xenon 1902 Handheld Scanners (HITS)

Digimarc today announced that Honeywell has added Digimarc Barcode scanning capabilities to its Xenon™ 1902 handheld scanners to increase store efficiency and customer satisfacti... More

Dell EMC Updates Archiving with InfoArchive as a Service (eWeek)

Innovation in storage archiving is something of a rarity. After all, archiving as cold storage means digital tape or hard drives locked away in some vault, and that's about it. Abo... More

Disney, ‘Blade Runner’ are Taking Oculus to Hollywood (CNET)

Virtual-reality company Oculus is working with two of Hollywood's major studios to bring some the most (and least) cuddly characters from the cinema screen to VR. Thursday, Oculus ... More

HCL, IBM Enter 15-Year Partnership (Economic Times)

HCL and IBM said that the companies have entered a 15-year partnership for automation and development and operations. HCL will build features and functions on top of existing IBM p... More

DevOps – Need, Approach and Challenges (V2 Blog)

DevOps is essentially a culture or approach towards software development which seeks stability and performance as well as enabling speedy software delivery to the business. In orde... More

Google’s Hardware Push Is All About AI (Fast Company)

Google, the company that has done more than any other to democratize mobile computing, argues that we are moving away from a mobile-first world. Indeed, at the company's wide-rangi... More

AT&T, AWS Forge Cloud Computing, IoT, Networking Alliance (ZDNet)

AT&T and Amazon Web Services have forged a multi-year partnership to integrate cloud and networking services. The ultimate aim is to enable joint customers to use AWS' cloud servic... More

Salesforce’s Platform Training Program is Now Used by 200,000 People (VentureBeat)

By 2020, it’s estimated that more than 1.9 million jobs will be created around Salesforce. According to an IDC study commissioned by the cloud computing company, an additional 2.... More

What CIOs Need to Know About Open Source Forking (CIO)

Picture this: Your company is ticking along nicely, making use of a reliable and well-engineered piece of software to support some important business process, when suddenly it beco... More

U.S. Tech Giants Are Investing Billions to Keep Data in Europe (New York Times)

In the battle to dominate Europe’s cloud computing market, American tech giants are spending big to build up their local credibility. Amazon Web Services, the largest player, ann... More

AWS’ Next Data Center Site will be in Paris (VentureBeat)

Amazon Web Services, the subsidiary of Amazon that is the biggest provider of public cloud computing and storage infrastructure for running applications, today announced that it wi... More

Why CIOs are Embracing SaaS ID Management (CIO)

Adopting single sign-on software to federate access to corporate applications is a key priority for many CIOs seeking to make employees more efficient without sacrificing security.... More

Satya Nadella On Microsoft’s New Age Of Intelligence (FastCompany)

In the time since Nadella began making cloud-first, mobile-first into a mantra, it's become clear that it involves a lot more than just making sure that Microsoft's best-known apps... More

What Does The New Dell EMC Mean For The Enterprise Storage Market? (Forbes)

The confluence of mobility, cloud computing and the Internet of Things (Iot) are causing massive increases in the volume of data that needs to be moved, processed and stored by IT.... More

Banks Lead Charge to Adopt AI for Business, IBM CEO Rometty Says (Data Center Knowledge)

Banks are positioned to pioneer the use of artificial intelligence to help them retain clients in an era of technological disruption, IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty said... More

IT Pros Are the Heroes of the Enterprise (CMS Wire)

Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie told 23,000 IT professionals Microsoft can make them the heroes of the enterprise. During the opening keynote in Philips Arena at M... More

How Slack’s Anna Pickard Makes Software Sound Human (Digiday)

Slack, the instant messaging app, is invading offices around the globe. The productivity tool of the moment, now valued at $3.8 billion, is the darling of tech and media companies.... More

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