HITS News Headlines
IT Pros Losing Steam Against Cybercrime (ITProPortal)
Organisations are losing the war against cybercriminals, and their cybersecurity efforts are slowly waning. This is according to a new report by Resilient (an IBM company) and the ... More
NSS Labs Expands Research Offerings with New Virtual Firewall Test (HITS)
NSS Labs released a new test methodology for virtual firewalls. Firewalls have undergone several stages of development, from early packet filtering and circuit relay firewalls to a... More
Capgemini Bolstering Innovation Through its Global Network (HBL)
Capgemini is trying to beat competition by using innovation as a major driver through its Applied Innovation Exchange. In the exchange, it brings together designers, technologists,... More
Levie on What Trump Could Mean for Tech (TechCrunch)
It’s necessary to “ensure that we protect the values that we know are incredibly important to our ability to having a thriving economy,” said Box CEO Aaron Levie. At this poi... More
Salesforce Einstein Makes Bold Claims with First AI Technologies (Fast Company)
It's been a busy few months for the new crew of data scientists at Salesforce's artificial intelligence division, Salesforce Einstein, who have already published four research pape... More
How IT Leaders can Define and Drive IT Innovation (CIO)
Many intrinsic tensions manifest themselves when IT leaders seek to become more innovative. There is, for example, the question of economy: How long will management tolerate endles... More
How Data Virtualization Promotes Governance, Risk and Compliance (IM)
Data virtualization enables unified data governance by creating a Virtual Data Services Layer across internal and external data sources, while leaving the source data where it is. ... More
Wipro Wins ‘IT Provider of the Year’ Customer’s Choice Award (HITS)
Wipro was awarded the 2016 Customer's Choice award in the ‘IT Provider of the Year’ category at the fifth annual Payload Asia Awards. The annual Awards are a celebration of exc... More
Where Your IT Dollars are Headed In 2017 (Information Week)
While the results are not intended to be scientific, they offer a good snapshot of what IT professionals are focused on. More than a third of respondents (36%) cited cloud as the t... More
Enterprise Cloud Strategy: Governance in a Multi-Cloud Environment (IBM Blog)
Enterprises manage risk. It’s a business reality that applies as much to cloud computing as it does to finance, operations or marketing. To mitigate risk from data loss or downti... More
Verizon’s Harvard Business Review Study Outlines CIO Struggles with Digital Disruption (HITS)
Enterprises today are employing "hybrid IT" as they struggle to keep up with digital transformation, according to the just released Harvard Business Review Analytic Services report... More
NSS Labs Predicts 75% of Web Traffic Will be Encrypted by 2019 (HITS)
NSS Labs released new research examining the usage of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. SSL/TLS enables secure transmissions of private data ... More
New Technology Key to Employee Engagement, Employer Success (Forbes)
Carrie Massey, Oracle: Ten years ago, a discussion about technology’s value in the workplace would have centered on hardware. Do employees have the coolest new monitors? Are thei... More
CMOs Will Outspend CIOs on Technology in 2017 (CIO)
Marketing tech budgets are on track to exceed the amount of money CIOs spend on technology in the coming year, according to new research from analyst firm Gartner. A survey of 3... More
How Virtual Reality is Transforming the Enterprise (Information Age)
Virtual reality is dominating hype in gaming and entertainment circles this year. But a growing number of impressive use cases in enterprise settings are demonstrating just how tra... More
AI, Cognitive Computing To Disrupt Enterprises: IDC (IW)
What used to be science fiction is now an accepted path for IT. Multiple IT analyst firms are predicting that artificial intelligence technologies will become important components ... More
Visibility, Security Top Concerns for Cloud Computing Adoption (CIO)
Enterprises considering adopting public clouds are concerned about where their data is located and how it's protected, according to a new survey by IDG. Companies will have about 6... More
Managing Digital Services in Your Environment (Capping IT Off)
A series of technology and methodology revolutions have combined to create a new style of IT: one focused on rapid time to market and on iterative and agile development, unconstrai... More
How to Thrive in a Hybrid Cloud World: Data Governance and Management Best Practice (Cloud Tech News)
The vast majority of companies who are moving to cloud applications also have a significant current investment in on-premise operational applications and on-premise capabilities ar... More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Unveils New IaaS with ‘More Dev, Less Ops’ (DCN)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has recently revealed its Helion OpenStack 4.0 to the market. According to the company, it’s an open and flexible infrastructure-as-a service (IaaS) su... More