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The Case for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality in Business
Sandeep Kishore on May 5, 2017 Market revenues for virtual reality in 2016 were $2.5 billion while those for augmented reality were a lesser $1.5 billion. By 2021, those numbers will grow significantly—and swap places. Augmented reality is projected as the big winner...

Crestmark Closes 24 Transactions Totaling More Than $21 Million in the Second Half of April
TROY, Mich., (May 3, 2017) – Crestmark secured a total of $21,314,000 in financial solutions for 24 new clients in the second half of April. A $500,000 accounts receivable purchase facility was provided on April 17 to a distributor of private label rum in Florida. The...

IBM Named to CRN’s 2017 Big Data 100 List
Armonk, NY - 05 May 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named IBM to its 2017 Big Data 100 list, ranking the company as one of the 15 Coolest Big Data Platform Vendors. The annual Big Data 100 list recognizes the...

IBM Design Studio in Poughkeepsie Transforms Enterprise Computing
Poughkeepsie, NY - 05 May 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has opened IBM Studio – Poughkeepsie, the company’s latest global design hub. Interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, product managers and industry experts will create the next generation of mainframe software...

Deploying bots in finance – a storage nightmare?
Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, banking giant Credit Suisse AG announced that they had successfully deployed 20 robots within the organization. Although these robots are being used in a range of functions, the Milken presentation...

One question you must ask your TPM provider
Among the CTO’s many responsibilities is a duty to keep operational costs down, and to ensure that infrastructure and systems are fully protected against failure. Third party maintenance (TPM) contracts appear to meet both needs – they are often much cheaper than OEM...

Zensar’s Q4 results point to short-term pain for long-term gain
The IT arm of RPG Enterprises posted a weak set of earnings in the fourth quarter of 2016-17, but ramp up of new digital businesses is a silver lining Friday, April 28, 2017 - Zensar Technologies, the information technology (IT) arm of the tyres-to-power transmission...

Zensar reports 3.5% year on year revenue growth in constant currency in FY 17
Digital is now at 34.1% of revenue in Q4 FY 17 Pune, India, April 25, 2017: Zensar Technologies, a leading digital solutions and technology services company that specialises in partnering with global organisations across industries on their Digital transformation...

Choosing the Ideal Cloud Vendor – What’s Best for You!
Saumya Jain on April 27, 2017 Today, as businesses and big IT giants are in transition from their traditional data-centers to the cloud, making the choice of the right cloud provider is a tough decision. Gaining the trust of the customers is of utmost importance to...

IBM Expands Bluemix OpenWhisk to Help Developers Quickly Connect Data to Serverless Apps
Armonk, NY - 27 Apr 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has added new capabilities to Bluemix OpenWhisk, one of the leading open serverless computing platforms, to help developers more simply and securely connect event-driven programming into outside data...