HITS News Headlines
Computerized Composers are Coming to Adobe to Score Your Life’s Soundtrack (Fast Company)
AI music service Amper will soon work inside Adobe’s Creative Cloud. It’s not Mozart yet, but it might compose decent background music. The music that Amper creates isn’t... More
Yahoo Breach Lessons IT Can’t Ignore (InfoWorld)
As more details emerge about how a group of four Russians breached Yahoo, it's increasingly clear that the Internet's very interconnectedness is what makes us so vulnerable to onli... More
Okta Looks to Raise $100M in IPO to Invest in Growth, Acquisitions (CRN)
Okta has filed for its long-awaited IPO on Monday, looking to raise $100 million that it says it will put towards its overall growth, innovation and potentially further acquisition... More
SAS Charts its Own Road to AI and the Cloud (ZDNet)
For 40 years, SAS has been the exception to the rule that technology companies don't always make it past the stage of eating their young. As open source technology and cloud-based ... More
Avoid the Empty Cloud Trap (Capping IT Off)
The benefits of going cloud-first are clear, but there are pitfalls to be avoided on the way. One of these is embarking on the journey without fully understanding the destination. ... More
Dell EMC Announces Next Virtual Tape Offering (DTA)
Dell EMC has rolled out DLm release 4.5 for cloud-based physical tape replacement, offered as a substitute for physical tape. This builds on Dell EMC’s offerings of Dell EMC VMAX... More
IBM Brings New Features to Enterprise Social Network (MESA)
IBM today announced it is bringing new capabilities to enterprise social networks for a simpler collaboration across the workforce and employee onboarding experience. The latest ve... More
Inside Slack’s Search, Learning and Intelligence Team (Several People Are Typing)
Noah Weiss, Head of SLI: One of the biggest issues employees in larger organizations face is feeling like there’s a ton of information to keep up with at work, and it’s overwhe... More
How CIOs Cope When Mobile App Development Goes Rogue (InfoWorld)
As organizations rush to establish a coveted mobile presence, business units are developing and deploying apps on their own, and that means IT departments are facing a whole new er... More
Machine Learning Stands to Transform the Way We Communicate (Forbes)
Jeb Dasteel, Oracle- We often say that customer success should be part of an organization’s DNA. But, what if it was also in the instruments of our daily lives—our phones, comp... More
Watch AWS Shock Test its Snowball Edge Data Storage Box with Underwater Explosives (VentureBeat)
Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) apparently wants ample proof of the ruggedness of its Snowball Edge box, which can be used to transfer data from data... More
6 Things to Consider When Addressing Corporate Digital Ethics (Avanade Insights)
Who is feeling the brunt of digital ethics? Based on recent Avanade research, we know that nearly half of C-suite executives have experienced a digital ethics issue at work, signif... More
Yesterday’s Apps Solve Yesterday’s Problems (Forbes)
Margaret Harrist, Oracle: Business will never move this slowly again. A sobering thought, but the speed of change in business—and the pressure to keep your organization from fall... More
The Evolving Role of a Cloud Architect (Capping IT Off)
There is growing appreciation for the role of cloud architect as more and more enterprises adopt a cloud-first strategy. Cloud-first has revolutionised the way IT teams are structu... More
Wipro Recognized as Best in Class Technology Provider (HITS)
Wipro has been recognized among the Best in Class Technology Providers 2017 in the annual Readers’ Choice issue of Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) magazine, published this Februa... More
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2017 (ITProPortal)
Microsoft's recently released Visual Studio 2017 is pushing CEO Satya Nadella's new strategy of expanding the company's scope beyond Windows by aiding developers in creating cloud ... More
VirtusaPolaris CIO Named as One of India’s Top 50 (HITS)
Madu Ratnayake, executive vice president, CIO and head of business process excellence at VirtusaPolaris, has been recognized as one of India’s Top 50 CIOs in the latest edition o... More
IT Pros’ Happiness Depends Heavily on Co-Workers (IW)
Even if you're well paid, it's hard to be happy if you don't get along with the people you work with. A study released today bears this out. In surveying members of its professiona... More
Data Science is a Contact Sport (CIO)
Key to success in an A.I. or IoT or data strategy is data scientist productivity. Data scientist productivity is defined as the volume of business-critical results driven through d... More
IoT Predictions for 2017 Depend on Helping Developers (Content Loop)
The 20 to 50 billion new devices coming online over the next few years — estimates vary — represent a massive opportunity for businesses, and not just technology businesses. Sm... More