Insight News
March 09, 2016

Microsoft Dynamics AX Hits the Azure Cloud Globally

New C-Suite
Microsoft has delivered on its promise to launch its Dynamics AX ERP suite on the Azure cloud platform's#139;, with general availability in 137 markets and in 40 languages.While ex...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
March 08, 2016

Microsoft Joins Eclipse Foundation in A Pragmatic, Logical Move

New C-Suite
Microsoft has joined the Eclipse Foundation, taking another important step in changing its identity from a company fixated on proprietary software to one that embraces open source ...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 07, 2016

The Blockchain Brou-ha-ha: Is There Any End In Sight?

Matrix Commerce
The ongoing disharmony within Bitcoin's core development team and other stakeholders stands in harsh contrast to the exuberance over blockchain's potential to reshape the economy w...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
March 01, 2016

Taking the Temperature of Salesforce's Health Cloud

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
One of the most crucial components of Salesforce's vertical strategy is healthcare, and with the general availability of Health Cloud this week, it's worth taking a look under the ...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Holger Mueller
Insight News
March 01, 2016

Cisco Acquires CliQr In Another Validation Point for Hybrid Cloud

Tech Optimization
Cisco is buying a startup called CliQr Technologies for $260 million in a move that underscores the fact that for most enterprises, hybrid cloud computing is the path forward. Here...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 29, 2016

Deloitte Agency Acquisition Highlights Rising Prominence of the CMO

Marketing Transformation
Deloitte has scooped up the 110-employee creative agency Heat, in a move that underscores how chief marketing officers are becoming a bigger part of the IT spending conversation gi...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
February 26, 2016

It's 2016: Time to Get An IoT Education

Data to Decisions
If 2015 was the year when the hype cycle around the Internet of Things came to a crescendo, signs point to 2016 being a time when more businesses gain a better understanding of its...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
February 24, 2016

Salesforce's Q4 Results: The Key Takeaways for Customers

Future of Work
Salesforce posted Q4 and full-year results that met analyst expectations while continuing the cloud vendor's torrid run of growth.While still small revenue-wise compared to the lik...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 23, 2016

Oracle Buys Ravello Systems In Bid to Grab Cloud Workloads

Tech Optimization
Oracle has acquired a virtualization startup named Ravello Systems in a bid to strengthen its public IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and differentiate against the likes of Amazo...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 22, 2016

IBM Aims for Enterprise Value with VMWare Partnership, Connect

Data to Decisions
IBM is teaming up with longtime partner VMWare on a deal that will see the latter's widely used virtualization software deployed across Big Blue's global network of data centers. H...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 18, 2016

Apple's Fight Against the FBI: The Stakes Are Massive

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
The legal battle between the U.S. government and Apple over the contents of an accused terrorist's iPhone is being called the most important privacy case in years, and Apple CEO Ti...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
February 17, 2016

SAP Scoops Up Roambi for Mobile BI

New C-Suite
SAP has quietly purchased Roambi, a suite of mobile BI and data-visualization tools, with plans to bring "mobile access to analytics to everyone." Terms of the deal, whic...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
February 16, 2016

Spark Summit East: Why You Should Pay Attention

Data to Decisions
One of the more important big data and data science conferences of early 2016, Spark Summit East, is underway this week in New York. The event is devoted to Spark, the open source ...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
February 12, 2016

The Big Cloud Lessons from Netflix's Move to Amazon Web Services

New C-Suite
Netflix has completed moving its streaming-video operations onto Amazon Web Services after a seven-plus year journey, and the massive project holds valuable lessons for any enterpr...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 12, 2016

Wipro Buys HealthPlan Services In Bid for U.S. Market Share

Matrix Commerce
Wipro is making a major new move into the US market with the $460 million purchase of HealthPlan Services, a Florida BPaaS (business process as a service) provider focused on healt...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang