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Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan
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Insight News
May 02, 2017

Salesforce Overhauls Its ISV Partner Program and Everybody Wins

Next-Generation Customer Experience
Salesforce's steady growth over the years can be tied in part to its success in establishing a partner ecosystem of ISVs and systems integrators building extensions and full-blow...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
April 27, 2017

Infosys Launches Nia, Its Next-Gen AI Platform

Tech Optimization
Since becoming CEO of Infosys roughly three years ago, Vishal Sikka has taken the massive Indian systems integrator down new paths, chief among them a focus on creating intelle...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
April 26, 2017

SAP IoT Partnerships Focus on Next-Generation Factories

Tech Optimization
SAP has long had a substantial presence in manufacturing for its ERP software, but in recent years has brought newer technologies to bear on manufacturing operations. It made two...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
April 26, 2017

IBM, ABB Tie Up for Industrial AI

Tech Optimization
IBM is teaming up with power systems and robotics giant ABB in a bid to apply AI (artificial intelligence) to the shop floor, smart grids and other industrial scenarios. The pa...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
April 24, 2017

Microsoft to Launch IoT As A SaaS Service

Tech Optimization
While Microsoft has offered an IoT PaaS (platform as a service) for some time through the Azure cloud, it's betting that some customers are willing to trade customization for ...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
April 24, 2017

The Linux Foundation Hones In On IoT with EdgeX Foundry

Tech Optimization
Some 50 companies have joined a new open source project focused on IoT (Internet of Things) edge computing at the Linux Foundation. The effort could foster interoperability and f...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
April 12, 2017

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd Weighs In on HCM, Cloud Competition

Future of Work
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd is generally a quotable guy, and came across no differently this week at Oracle's HCM World conference during keynotes and a session with press and analyst...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
April 10, 2017

'Vigilante' Malware Brickerbot: Not the Answer for IoT Security

Tech Optimization
Last year, the IoT botnet Mirai was used in a number of high-profile DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of insecure Linux-b...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
April 10, 2017

Microsoft Makes Bet on Kubernetes with Deis Acquisition

Tech Optimization
Microsoft is building out its capabilities for the popular open-source container orchestration platform Kubernetes with the acquisition of Deis. Here are the details from a blog ...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
April 06, 2017

Twitter Courts Developers with Unified APIs, Better Transparency

Marketing Transformation
It's safe to say that Twitter has had a complex and at times contentious relationship with developers that want to integrate with and build on the social messenging service. In...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
April 05, 2017

Microsoft's Project Sopris Hones In on IoT Device Security

Tech Optimization
Microsoft is continuing to devote resources toward the hardware end of the IoT market, through a new research program aimed at making low-cost devices more secure. Dubbed Proje...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
April 03, 2017

Digging Into Cloudera's IPO Filing: Key Takeaways

Data to Decisions
Cloudera has filed its long-awaited S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paving the way for an IPO in the next several weeks. S-1 forms serve a dual purpos...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
March 29, 2017

New Google Open Source Project Portal Is A Gift to Enterprises

Tech Optimization
Google is the canonical example of a company that found commercial success through the use of open-source software. It's undertaken more than 2,000 open source projects over it...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 27, 2017

Stanford, MIT Researchers Develop System for Private Web Queries

Next-Generation Customer Experience
There have long been options for users seeking more privacy as they browse the web, from the anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo to the Tor secure browser. Now teams of rese...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
March 21, 2017

IBM Delivers 'First Enterprise-Ready' Blockchain Service

Matrix Commerce
IBM has claimed it has the lead in the increasingly competitive blockchain and distributed ledger technology market, saying the new release of its IBM Blockchain service is the...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland