HITS News Headlines

 

Azure is Ready for Olympic-size Livestream Events (Microsoft Blog)

Much like the athletes who competed in the Rio Olympics, our robust team of Microsoft Azure engineers have been hard at work preparing for the Games since the Sochi Winter Games ca... More

IBM Aces 2016 US Open Tech With Watson and the Cloud (BrandChannel)

A mainstay at the US Open, IBM is once again covering center-court at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, Queens for tennis fans engaging on digital platforms in New York and beyo... More

6 Reasons Hackathons Are Good For IT (InformationWeek)

Companies have a variety of options for building camaraderie. And while lavish parties or paintball outings may suit some organizations, IT groups should give serious consideration... More

HCL to Tune Into Cloud, Automation, IP Products (Business Standard)

HCL Technologies says it is carving out three ‘focus pillars’ of growth. In an analyst meet on Thursday, the management said areas such as cloud services, the internet of thing... More

Teradata Accelerators Help Put IoT on the Fast Track (CIO)

For years, analytics specialist Teradata has been helping companies like Union Pacific Railroad make sense of sensor data and to integrate that data with its business processes. Bu... More

Salesforce Launching AI Product ‘Einstein’ (Forbes)

Two months hence, at Salesforce’s gargantuan Dreamforce conference, which draws 170,000 people to San Francisco, [Marc] Benioff will unveil the product he claims will steer the c... More

What are The New Economics of IT? (Avanade Insights)

The world of business IT is constantly changing. At one end, technological innovation continues to redefine the workplace, enabling employees to work in new ways. On the other, reg... More

Capgemini Moves a Step Forward in Automation, Involves IBM’s Watson – (Times of India)

In yet another sign of the growing use of automation in the IT industry, consulting major Capgemini is increasingly deploying automation to assign employees to projects. The Paris-... More

Video PaaS Market Will Reach $1.7 Billion By 2020 (InformationWeek)

The video platform as a service (PaaS) market is forecast to grow from $60 million in 2016 to $1.7 billion in 2020, a 130% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to an Aug. ... More

IBM follows Amazon and Microsoft to South Korea (SiliconANGLE)

IBM Corp. has expanded its global cloud network once again by launching a new hosting facility in the South Korean city of Pangyo, which is located a short drive away from Seoul. T... More

Linux Turns 25 Years Young: An Open, Free and Exciting Future Lies Ahead (Information Age)

Linux, the free and accessible operation system from the 1990's turns 25 today. Initially the system was designed so that students could work on PCs at home, but now it is the fast... More

The Impact the Modern Customer is Having on IT Investment (ITProPortal)

As customers, we are now more demanding than ever. We expect ease, speed and convenience when we shop and at every stage of the retail journey. We’re also device- agnostic: we mi... More

The Virtues of Machine Learning: When Statistical Analysis Isn’t Enough (Neudesic Blog)

Every day, the average human makes as many as 35,000 decisions, according to Dr. Joel Hoomans. By sheer virtue of the number of our waking hours we spend working, it wouldn't be un... More

Inside Oracle’s Acquisition Machine (Fortune)

Oracle’s $9.4 billion acquisition of NetSuite late last month has Wall Street bankers frothing at the mouth on the hopes that the software giant is set to go on a spending spree ... More

Avanade to Help Ducks Unlimited Canada on its Digital Transformation Journey (HITS)

Avanade is working with Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) on its digital journey to optimize the conservation nonprofits’ financial management systems. Through the flexible, reliable ... More

OpenText to Manage Information within a Single Platform for Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (HITS)

OpenText announced that Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has selected OpenText to automate its email archiving and records retention. Using OpenText, Cooper will be able to more effici... More

Cloud Computing as a Utility is Going Mainstream (Recode)

From a technology perspective, the idea of delivering computing services from the cloud has gone mainstream. Every day, it seems, we end up hearing about or interacting with a new ... More

HCL Recognized as a ‘Leader’ in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, North America (HITS)

HCL has been recognized as a Leader for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, North America by Gartner for the 6th consecutive year. According to Gartner*, t... More

Median IT Wage is $10K Higher for Men than Women (CIO)

Men in IT earn a median of $82,370 a year compared to $72,035 for women, according to new data by the U.S. Census Bureau. The wage gap is perhaps is the most disquieting finding in... More

CenturyLink Increases Network Connectivity Options for Global Data Center Customers (HITS)

CenturyLink announced it has significantly increased the number of network carriers available for interconnections across its data center portfolio. CenturyLink customers now have ... More

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