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SAP, Alibaba Team Up on Cloud Services (Reuters)

SAP said on Wednesday it was teaming up with Alibaba to offer its flagship products on the Chinese company’s cloud infrastructure. SAP Chief Executive Bill McDermott said the gro... More

Salesforce’s Answer for Jobs: An Online Training Site with 1M Users (San Francisco Chronicle)

Ask Salesforce chief Marc Benioff how his company’s going to create new jobs to replace those eliminated by artificial intelligence and automation, and he starts talking about Tr... More

How Identity and Access Management Helps Meet the Data Protection Requirements of GDPR (Open Text Blog)

Preventing data breaches and the misuse of personal data is at the heart of GDPR, which makes it surprising that the regulation doesn’t specify IAM at any point. Yet, data breach... More

How to Secure a Premier League Football Team (Forbes)

Arsenal is preparing to play Everton in the Premier League this Sunday. Led by manager Unai Emery, the team will currently be researching its opposition and formulating a game plan... More

Cloud Computing, Once Loved for Simplicity, is Now a Complex Beast (Forbes)

When cloud computing emerged a few years ago in its current form, its biggest selling point was that it was supposed to simplify things for enterprises. If a developer needed to te... More

The Future of Intelligent Internal Services (Intelligent CIO)

Mark Flexman, DXC Technology: For those working in enterprise businesses, it can sometimes feel like the digital revolution never happened. From requesting holiday to solving a pes... More

Twitter Moves 300 Petabytes to Google Cloud (Light Reading)

Twitter is using tools running on Google Cloud to find out more about how people use its service, including monitoring abuse and mapping how conversations develop. "We operate at a... More

Report: Almost a Third of Spending Within Key Enterprise IT Markets Will Shift to the Cloud by 2022 (IA)

It appears that it’s a critical period for traditional infrastructure providers, as more enterprises shift to the cloud. According to a new study by Gartner, 28% of spending with... More

Why Data Scientists are Crucial for AI Transformation (Forbes)

Until a few years ago the work of data scientists was isolated and mattered primarily for research and/or R&D purposes. The industry has been extremely thankful for the contributio... More

Featured Jobs: FilmTrack; CAA; Vistex

Application Engineer — Studio City, CA — FilmTrack BTS Analyst/Sports — LA — CAA IT Security Manager — Denver — Vistex Click here to view all available jobs... More

DXC Technology Launches Analytics Migration Factory to Accelerate Global Client Workload Migration to Microsoft Azure (HITS)

Recognizing the rapidly growing need for global enterprise clients to accelerate the migration of data and analytics to the cloud, DXC Technology today announced the industry’s f... More

Virtual Post Picks BeBop Platform (HITS)

U.K.-based post and content services firm Virtual Post has announced it will deploy BeBop Technology’s post-production platform for a variety of TV, film and ad projects, using b... More

IBC 2018: Avid Touts Milestone; NAGRA Marks Digital Cinema First (HITS)

Content protection and multiscreen TV solutions firm NAGRA announced at the IBC Show that it has successfully used a combination of cloud technology and HEVC compression with myCin... More

Salesforce Outlines Financial Services Cloud Roadmap, Single View of Customer Test Bed (ZDNet)

Salesforce unveiled updates to its Financial Services Cloud that aims to unify the various silos within financial services companies and provide one holistic view of the customer. ... More

Using Human Intelligence to Avoid AI Structural Failures (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

AI truly is doing remarkable things on a small scale to improve safety, human health and business effectiveness. But without the re–humanization of AI, the point solutions taking... More

Google Cloud Study: How DevOps Can Reshape the Global Economy (Digital Journey)

A new report from Google Cloud provides a comprehensive view of the growing DevOps industry, with scientific studies that span five years and more than 30,000 survey responses. An ... More

What Is Shadow IT and Why Should You Care? (TechHQ)

The most prevalent form of Shadow IT refers to cloud services, especially software as a service. As valuable as distributed data storage has become, the rise of the cloud has fuele... More

The Tech Enabling the MMO Gaming Experience (Western Digital Blog)

MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) Gaming is big business. In 2017, an estimated $30 billion USD was spent on MMO gaming. That number is projected to grow even further. Players loc... More

The Future of Being a Woman in Technology (IA)

The glaring gender imbalance in the tech industry is there for all to see. Laura Malcolm, from Avanade, looks at the future of women in tech.... More

How a Project Management Office Can Steer Data Initiatives to Success (IM)

There is a general misconception that the project management office’s primary responsibility or major function is to provide reporting support to the organization. In reality, wh... More

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