TechTarget News - Week of Oct 01, 2023
Wed Oct 4, 2023
Canalys: Generative AI a ‘generational opportunity’
The most used buzzword of the moment, GenAI, has the potential to drive revenues and services opportunities for the channel
Wed Oct 4, 2023
UK emphasises EU split by kicking digital trade scheme into long grass
Former Gaia-X CEO talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about the UK's withdrawal from the cross-border data project
Wed Oct 4, 2023
Canalys: Vendors will expand channel relationships
The partner-first trend is set to continue as more vendors recognise value of partners and give them the chance to take on a greater share of the business
Wed Oct 4, 2023
ICO issues guidance on workplace surveillance
Guidance on employee monitoring covers how employers can conduct their digital surveillance lawfully, transparently and fairly, and warns against businesses intruding on their workers’ private lives
Tue Oct 3, 2023
New Boomi AI tool enables natural language data integration
The iPaaS vendor's new capabilities are aimed at increasing efficiency by enabling customers to build pipelines and manage data using natural language rather than code.
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Spyware vendor exploiting kernel flaw in Arm Mali GPU drivers
Arm Mali GPUs affected by CVE-2023-4211, which was discovered by Google researchers, include a wide range of Android phones as well as ChromeOS devices such as Chromebooks.
Tue Oct 3, 2023
HR vendors agree: Generative AI isn't hype
The generative AI race is on as major HR vendors discuss how they plan to integrate the tech into their applications and make it available to customers in the coming year.
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Ransomware disrupts hospitality, healthcare in September
Ransomware disclosures and reports last month were headlined by attacks on MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment, which proved costly to the Las Vegas hospitality giants.
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Zoom expands workspace offerings with AI-supported Zoom Docs
The videoconferencing vendor unveiled a document creation product that features AI Companion and content organization components to build layouts and workflows and manage data.
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Software firms under cyber attack
Research from iomart has indicated firms that sit in the supply chain are seen as a target by criminals
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Millard steps into global channel role at Dell
Exit of Rola Dagher means a fresh face in the hot seat running the vendor’s global partner organisation
Tue Oct 3, 2023
How Pure Storage is supporting AI workloads
Pure Storage’s cloud-compatible and energy-efficient modular flash storage architecture is well-poised to address the data storage demands of artificial intelligence workloads
Tue Oct 3, 2023
IT decision-makers confident they can handle tech disruptions
The majority of IT decision-makers polled in a recent survey have admitted their organisations has been adversely affected by IT failures
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Cyber experts urge EU to rethink vulnerability disclosure plans
The European Union’s proposed cyber security vulnerability disclosure measures are well-intentioned but ultimately counterproductive, as making unmitigated vulnerabilities public knowledge increases the risk of their exploitation by various actors, experts claim
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Project management vendor Asana brings AI to Work Graph
The project management platform vendor brings 'smart' tools to its work efficiency monitoring tool to unearth specific problems and identify concrete ways teams can solve them.
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Amnesia hides names of individuals behind Post Office’s ‘head on a spike’ strategy
Former Post Office lawyer deflects individual responsibility for a strategy that crushed subpostmasters, blaming the organisation as a whole
Tue Oct 3, 2023
RSA and other crypto systems vulnerable to side-channel attack
A researcher has found that a flaw in RSA is still vulnerable – a quarter of a century after it was first discovered
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Public sector needs systemic reform of capacity to innovate
Improving the public sector’s capacity to innovate requires a culture of innovation underpinned by people, skills and new ways of working with the private sector
Tue Oct 3, 2023
CIISec scores DSIT funding to expand successful CyberEPQ scheme
DSIT has committed to enhanced funding to expand CIISec’s CyberEPQ education programme after recording excellent results to date
Tue Oct 3, 2023
Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group
A conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Partner ecosystem changeup prompts alliance rethink
The shifting partner ecosystem landscape could inspire IT service providers to consider new alliances or bolster existing ones amid fast-paced economy and technology trends.
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Openwall patches 3 of 6 Exim zero-day flaws
The Openwall Project urged users to upgrade to the latest version of Exim, but there have been timely patching struggles with the message transfer agent software in the past.
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Edge AI server market grows
Rapid data growth and the need to process it at the edge is expanding opportunities in the server market, with new entries from Unigen and Lenovo.
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Supreme Court rejects IT worker challenge of OPT
The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge against the Optional Practical Training program, which allows STEM grads to work in the U.S. for up to three years on an F-1 visa.
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Lawyers win in race to generative AI without adequate laws
As Congress drags its feet on passing AI regulations, lawyers are filling the vacuum by helping enterprises navigate court rulings and regulations based on outdated laws.
Mon Oct 2, 2023
CDO interview: Lalo Luna, global head of strategy and insights, Heineken
The brewing giant is building a data ecosystem to bring new insights to the business and to make the most of emerging developments in artificial intelligence capabilities
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Mitel seals Unify move and promises smooth transition for partners
Ambition to become major unified comms player should benefit partners from both suppliers
Mon Oct 2, 2023
What a Western Digital-Kioxia merger might mean for NAND
Speculation that Kioxia and Western Digital could combine their NAND businesses is making rounds again. Analysts consider what it may mean for the flash memory market.
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Versity targets Exabyte volumes in data archiving
Versity builds archiving for Exabyte data volumes on tape and in object storage. It has built its own S3 and transitioned to a GPL licence for supercomputing archives
Mon Oct 2, 2023
Microsoft embarks on green concrete trials to decarbonise datacentre builds
Software giant Microsoft is turning its attention to shrinking the environmental footprint of its datacentres by finding low-carbon alternatives to concrete
Mon Oct 2, 2023
How the Australian government is approaching AI
The Australian government is experimenting with AI use cases in a safe environment while it figures out ways to harness the technology to benefit citizens and businesses