HITS News Headlines
Yoox Net-a-Porter Turns to IBM to Propel its luxury E-commerce Experience (Digiday)
The Yoox Net-a-Porter Group, which formed when the two online marketplaces merged in September, has a new IT guy. The company has announced a partnership with IBM, through which it... More
Microsoft Is Testing Azure IoT Platform From The Stratosphere (Forbes)
Microsoft is attempting to pull off a rare feat that may be hard for its competitors to emulate. The team at Microsoft Research is deploying a balloon in the stratosphere loaded wi... More
Sony Vows to Keep Corporate Data Safe for 100 Years (Fortune)
Frank Frankovsky, the data center guru out of Facebook and the Open Compute Project, says optical storage—the technology behind Blu-ray DVDs—is finally ready for the data cente... More
Why Amazon Web Services Has so Many Friends in the Startup World (DC Inno)
Among other things, AWS, and other Web services like it, make it so companies are able to quickly scale the amount of data storage they need—thereby allowing teams to focus on de... More
Capgemini: Learning Digital Skills ‘First Hurdle’ for Young People (IT Pro)
Society's 'outliers' must learn basic digital skills, says Capgemini, in order for underprivileged youth forgotten by traditional education to find their place in today's tech-driv... More
How To Build An IT Dream Team (Forbes)
Making digital transformation possible, today’s IT infrastructure must be flexible, agile, and highly scalable. Effective management and analysis of large and unstructured big da... More
Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts (NY Times)
The hunt for the hard-to-find talent that can build and run the massive data centers behind cloud computing is pitting three generations of companies against one another. Tech’s ... More
IoT Adoption is Driving the Use of Platform as a Service, says Gartner (Information Age)
The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things(IoT) is driving platform as a service (PaaS) utilisation, according to Gartner. The analyst firm predicts that, by 2020, more than... More
Equinix to Open New Data Centers on Four Continents (Data Center Knowledge)
Equinix unveiled a plan for another phase of global expansion Wednesday. The data center colocation and interconnection giant will launch four new data centers across four continen... More
CEOs Force CIOs, CMOs into Digital Transformation Bunker (CIO)
CIOs and CMOs who value their jobs are collaborating on digital transformations that require them to map out and connect customer interactions across every touchpoint. But this isn... More
HCL, Avaya Partner For Enterprise Digital Transformation (CXOToday.com)
HCL Infosystems entered into a strategic alliance with communications company Avaya to facilitate enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation strategies. Under the allia... More
IBM Steadily Building Bluemix as Critical Part of Its Cloud Strategy (eWeek)
IBM celebrated the second anniversary of its Bluemix Platform as a Service by releasing a long list of new features at the company’s IBM InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas... More
DDoS Attacks Surge in Q4, says Akamai (ZDNet)
Distributed denial of service attacks are accelerating with many incidents repeating, according to Akamai. These attacks, DDoS for short, involve multiple compromised systems that ... More
NSS Labs Raises the Bar for Security Product Testing (HITS)
NSS Labs has announced it has taken security product testing to a new level by incorporating the Cyber Advanced Warning System™ (CAWS) into all applicable security product group ... More
Data Security Is Both The Appeal And Angst Of Cloud Computing (Forbes)
It’s almost a paradox. The number-one reason to stay away from the cloud — security — has also become the number-one reason to go into the cloud. Private clouds are seen as t... More
Apple Gets Tech Industry Backing in iPhone Dispute, Despite Misgivings (NY Times)
It is a remarkable moment for the technology industry, with many different companies and organizations rallying around a single company — Apple — in a major legal case against ... More
Legacy IT Systems: Hidden Risks Revealed (IW)
Legacy systems that won't die. You know you've got one. But do you realize you are harming your organization by suffering to let it live? I should know, I've done it. Following are... More
Capgemini Extends Collaboration with AWS (ARNnet)
Capgemini, has dedicated more global resources to help enterprise customers build and migrate applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Capgemini shares a longstanding relationshi... More
Signiant Media Shuttle Customers Increasingly Turn to Cloud Object Storage (HITS)
Signiant, the market leader in intelligent file movement software, today announced escalating demand for the cloud storage deployment option of Media Shuttle, the de facto standard... More
IBM says its New Software Links All Your IT to the Cloud (CIO)
The digital-transformation imperative looms large in the business world, but it's not always clear how on-premises software and data fit into the picture. IBM says it can help. The... More
