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Farmers Insurance Transitions Customer Service With Salesforce Mobile App (InformationWeek‎)

Farmers was an early adopter in 2010 of Salesforce Chatter, the collaborative CRM application that offered enterprise employees profiles of each other, project status updates, and ... More

IBM’s Cleversafe Storage Platform is Becoming a Cloud Service (PCWorld)

If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, wouldn’t spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so? If so, IBM ... More

New Quantum Tape Platform Delivers Best-in-Class Storage Efficiency and Density for Long-Term Content Protection, Preservation (HITS)

Quantum announced a new Scalar tape storage platform and three products based on that platform: Scalar i3, Scalar i6 and the StorNext AEL6 appliance. These new Scalar intelligent t... More

PwC Study Finds Greater Trust In Cloud, More Security Spend (Dark Reading)

A new global study shows a rise in security spending and in privacy and security awareness training programs. The 2017 Global State of Information Security Survey, conducted by PwC... More

Let’s Get Serious about IoT Security (CIO)

No one doubts anymore that internet of things (IoT) devices pose a huge security threat, as a recent massive IoT-fueled DDoS attack made clear. But what many enterprises have yet t... More

Obama Warns of the Danger of AI Wiping Out Jobs (Fortune)

In an interview with Wired Magazine, Obama spoke of redesigning the social compact and starting a conversation around fair wages. He cited teachers as being underpaid, and called f... More

Apple is Opening an R&D Center in the Home of China’s Tech Boom (The Verge)

Shenzhen was previously best known for its knockoff iPhones and iPads, but the Chinese manufacturing hub is now a force of innovation in its own right. The latest proof? Apple is o... More

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

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