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28 Mar 2024
Microsoft intros new responsible AI tools in Azure Studio
By Esther AjaoThe new tools address one of the barriers of adoption for enterprises looking to use generative AI technologies. It shows Microsoft’s thought process on government regulations.
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28 Mar 2024
US AI policy for federal agencies requires transparency
By Makenzie HollandThe OMB's new policy calls for federal agencies to be transparent about AI use and designate chief AI officers to coordinate efforts.
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28 Mar 2024
Hybrid work drives demand for SASE, zero-trust networking
By Joe O’HalloranAryaka report finds five key trends with 70% of CISOs seeking secure access service edge and software-defined WAN convergence for simplified infrastructure management
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20 Oct 2023
Five Eyes chiefs warn of Chinese spying campaign to steal high-tech secrets
By Bill GoodwinIntelligence chiefs warn high-tech companies and universities they may be the target of attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to steal technology secrets
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20 Oct 2023
CDO interview: Carter Cousineau, vice-president of data and model governance, Thomson Reuters
By Mark SamuelsThe news and information provider places a premium on responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence, and central to that is the governance of data and the models surrounding it
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20 Oct 2023
RagnarLocker cyber gang that pioneered double extortion busted
By Alex ScroxtonEuropol and the FBI have taken down the RagnarLocker ransomware crew, a long-standing gang that helped pioneer some now common tactics, taking its dark web negotiation and data leak sites offline
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20 Oct 2023
Public Accounts Committee highlights smart meter failures
By Cliff SaranIn spite of failing to meet roll-out targets, millions of smart meters are not working, and some will break once 3G and 2G networks are switched off
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20 Oct 2023
Fixing developer AI fear is a team effort
A study by Pluralsight has looked at the risks of building a team of “star developers” and instilling a competitive culture
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19 Oct 2023
GoodData launches new platform for AI, ML and BI workflows
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's FlexHouse Analytics Lake provides a single environment for normally disparate data assets to simplify AI, analytics and machine learning development and analysis.
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19 Oct 2023
Fair use may not help Anthropic against AI music lawsuit
By Esther AjaoUniversal Music Group and other music publishers allege the vendor's Claude 2 AI model responds to users' prompts with all or most of the lyrics to popular copyrighted songs.
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19 Oct 2023
Cloud inflation affects IT spending trends, GenAI not yet
By John MooreGartner's forecast points to rising cloud and services spend. Generative AI is yet to strongly influence IT budgets, but IBM and other providers gear up for growth.
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19 Oct 2023
How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI
By Aaron TanOlivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption
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19 Oct 2023
North Korean hackers exploit critical TeamCity vulnerability
By Arielle WaldmanWhile a patch is available, Microsoft and JetBrains confirmed TeamCity users have been compromised in attacks that leverage CVE-2023-42793 as an initial attack vector.
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19 Oct 2023
DBT Labs updates Semantic Layer, adds data mesh enablement
By Eric AvidonNew semantic modeling capabilities include support for dynamic joins, while added support for data mesh represents evolution beyond the vendor's roots in data transformation.
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19 Oct 2023
CISA, NSA, FBI publish phishing guidance
By Alexander CulafiIn its guidance, CISA focused on two primary goals of phishing attacks: obtaining login credentials, often via social engineering, and installing malware on target systems.
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19 Oct 2023
Nuclear regulator raps EDF over cyber compliance
By Alex ScroxtonThe Office for Nuclear Regulation says EDF has come up short on needed measures to improve cyber security standards at several critical UK nuclear facilities
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19 Oct 2023
Fears grow over extent of Cisco IOS XE zero-day
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers have identified spiking numbers of victims of a recently disclosed Cisco zero-day, as users of the networking supplier’s IOS XE software are urged to take defensive measures
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19 Oct 2023
Need for ‘significant’ public and private investment in UK infrastructure
By Joe O’HalloranSecond long-term review sets out role of digital infrastructure in supporting economic growth in UK, but stresses importance of government continuing to support network competition and market deployment
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19 Oct 2023
Gitex Global: Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism builds AI engagement platform
By Joe O’HalloranCitizens of emirate set to gain access to platform designed to streamline the creation of business licence applications using artificial intelligence to solve the most common pain points in the journey and providing instant digital access to experts on demand
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19 Oct 2023
Nokia wins optical tech award, brings 10G fibre to Iceland with Mila upgrade
By Joe O’HalloranAnalyst regards Finnish comms tech provider as dominating global XGS-PON OLT market while it supplies Icelandic operator with multi-PON fibre broadband solution designed to bring multi-gigabit services to enterprise customers
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19 Oct 2023
Sellafield local authority unsure if data was stolen six years on from North Korea ransomware attack
By Tommy GreeneSenior managers at an ‘Achilles heel’ local authority for Europe’s biggest nuclear site ‘still don’t know what was lost’ in a 2017 cyber attack, according to a council source
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19 Oct 2023
Government concedes it will miss 2024 e-prescribing target
By Lis EvenstadThe government won’t meet its target to get rid of paper prescribing in hospitals by 2024, and has pushed the goal post back two years to 2026
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19 Oct 2023
Broadband service providers need focus on home Wi-Fi latency, QoE
By Joe O’HalloranReport commissioned by managed Wi-Fi technology provider shows the global acceleration of FTTH, the growing need to focus on latency and the importance of deploying in-home Smart Wi-Fi to enhance QoE
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19 Oct 2023
DZS, Orange close fibre pilot in Poland
By Joe O’HalloranDZS completes first phase of a live pilot solution deployment of flagship fibre access portfolio on telco’s FTTH network in Poland paving way for widescale deployment of next-generation fibre-enabled services
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19 Oct 2023
SAP results highlight AI-driven business software
By Cliff SaranSAP, like other enterprise software companies, is integrating artificial intelligence across its enterprise software portfolio
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19 Oct 2023
Druva adds gen AI assistant to cloud backup tools
By Tim McCarthyGenerative AI arrives for SaaS backup vendor Druva with new tools to automate reports, detect anomalous activity and provide security guidance.
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19 Oct 2023
Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration
By Antony AdsheadS3-compliant object storage specialist will use new OSIS integration with VMware’s cloud management tool to target service providers that want to deliver regional cloud offers
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19 Oct 2023
Loughborough Uni to create five cyber AI research posts
By Alex ScroxtonSupported by Darktrace, Loughborough University is to recruit five doctoral researchers focusing on cross-disciplinary research in AI and cyber security
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19 Oct 2023
Post Office auditors presumed subpostmasters were ‘on the fiddle’ or ‘in a muddle’
By Karl FlindersPublic inquiry into Post Office scandal hears how head office staff routinely made negative assumptions about subpostmasters in small branches
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18 Oct 2023
Oracle NetSuite follows generative AI trend in ERP
By Jim O'DonnellA generative AI assistant, financial close modules, new user based licensing and customer benchmarking top the list of new features in NetSuite cloud ERP at SuiteWorld 2023.
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18 Oct 2023
Dell PowerMaxOS 10.1 targets operational, energy efficiency
By Adam ArmstrongThe latest Dell PowerMaxOS update brings greater data reduction and power usage monitoring to its top-of-the-line storage array. The update also keyed in on cyber-resilience.
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18 Oct 2023
Mandiant: Citrix zero-day actively exploited since August
By Arielle WaldmanExploitation against CVE-2023-4966 is ongoing, and Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal warned patching alone is insufficient against potential attacks that leverage MFA bypass techniques.
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18 Oct 2023
Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed
By Beth PariseauPrisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.
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18 Oct 2023
Agilitas welcomes local MP to Nottingham HQ
By Simon QuickeChannel player shows politician round offices, sharing its vision for growth and introducing him to graduates
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18 Oct 2023
Experts call for government to look beyond AI safety
By Cliff SaranExperts have warned there are far more near-term technology concerns than AI, such as facial recognition and the explosion of deepfakes
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18 Oct 2023
How YouTube's new AI-powered product aids advertisers
By Esther AjaoThe online video-sharing and social media platform is now using the AI technology as a way to help advertisers place ads on videos that better reach the intended audience.
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18 Oct 2023
Avanade exposes generative AI skills gap
By Simon QuickeCustomers know they have to embrace generative AI, but many are not in a position to support it due to a lack of expertise
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18 Oct 2023
BICS provides 5G standalone roaming connection of AIS to stc Kuwait
By Joe O’HalloranBelgian-based connectivity enabler partners with Kuwaiti and Thai operators to deliver MENA country’s first ever 5G standalone roaming connection, promising customers scalability for roaming agreements and opportunities to innovate
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18 Oct 2023
Neos Networks expands fibre net with London, Manchester datacentre estates
By Joe O’HalloranUK connectivity provider brings Telehouse South and Equinix MA5 on-net to its commercial datacentre, offering reliable, resilient and secure connectivity to UK financial services hub
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18 Oct 2023
What are the cyber risks from the latest Middle Eastern conflict?
By Alex ScroxtonThe outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel in October 2023 has seen a wide variety of accompanying cyber attacks from hacktivists and other groups. We look at the risks to organisations
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18 Oct 2023
CMA sets initial scope of UK cloud market anti-trust probe into AWS and Microsoft
By Caroline DonnellyThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has detailed four areas it is seeking feedback on from UK cloud market stakeholders as the first stage of its anti-trust probe takes shape
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18 Oct 2023
BT stitches multi-cloud with Global Fabric
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading telco unveils network-as-a-service offering designed to enable customers to boost cost, security and sustainability while optimising application performance and user experience
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18 Oct 2023
Gitex Global 2023: Motul looks to deliver ‘effortless’ experiences in cloud comms
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal oil and lubricants company adopts suite of cloud-based contact centre and unified communications solutions to improve customer experience and enable global employees to collaborate better across borders
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18 Oct 2023
SuiteWorld 23: Oracle NetSuite pushes business efficiency by way of AI
By Brian McKennaOracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg posited AI old and new as means for organisations to do more with fewer resources, speaking at the company’s annual global SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas
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18 Oct 2023
Networking and security teams converging
By Joe O’HalloranStudy finds more than 80% of IT leaders are consolidating security and networking teams or have a management directive to improve collaboration, with 75% believing using one platform for both purposes would provide benefits across the board
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18 Oct 2023
Former Post Office executive admits he wouldn’t sign unfair contract he pushed on subpostmasters
By Karl FlindersFormer contract manager said contract that subpostmasters had to sign with Post Office “put them on the hook” for everything
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17 Oct 2023
Alluxio launches orchestration layer optimized for AI, ML
By Eric AvidonThe data orchestration specialist introduced Enterprise AI, a new version of its platform optimized for AI and machine learning models with improved performance and greater scale.
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17 Oct 2023
Five Eyes issues five tips on thwarting nation state threats
By Alex ScroxtonIntelligence chiefs from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US have published guidance on building resilience against nation state cyber threats
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17 Oct 2023
Cisco IOS XE zero-day facing mass exploitation
By Alexander CulafiVulnCheck said its public scanning for CVE-2023-20198 revealed that 'thousands' of internet-facing Cisco IOS XE systems have been compromised with malicious implants.
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17 Oct 2023
Sustainability a key consideration for print buyers
By Simon QuickeQuocirca has uncovered the importance customers put on the green credentials of those providing them with printers
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17 Oct 2023
SingleStore unveils features aimed at enabling real-time AI
By Eric AvidonThe database vendor's new vector search capabilities, compute layer and integrations are all designed to enable customers to build and deploy real-time generative AI models.
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17 Oct 2023
StorPool adds fast erasure coding to block storage
By Tim McCarthyLatest release of StorPool Storage enables high-performance data protection for block storage using erasure coding on standard SSDs for fast recovery of demanding applications.
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17 Oct 2023
Hacktivist attacks against Israeli websites mirror attacks following Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Bill GoodwinHacktivists supporting Gaza and Palestine have launched hundreds of website defacement attacks against Israeli websites, mirroring the pattern of attacks that occurred after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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17 Oct 2023
Countrywide Healthcare manages Meraki with Highlight
By Cliff SaranThe supplier of medical and janitorial equipment selected managed service that connects to its Cisco Meraki system via a single API
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17 Oct 2023
Micron first to bring 232 layers to mainstream SSDs
By Adam ArmstrongThe 7500, Micron's latest SSD, uses the company's 232-layer NAND technology to support a broad set of use cases at a lower price point than its high-end counterparts.
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17 Oct 2023
Ogi, brsk further UK altnet charge
By Joe O’HalloranIndependent providers cover south of Wales and northwest of England, celebrate full-fibre deployment milestones
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17 Oct 2023
Park Place Technologies expands UK presence with Xuper buy
By Simon QuickeAcquisition adds more third-party maintenance expertise and expands its presence across EMEA
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17 Oct 2023
UK Apple Store workers detail ‘union-busting’ tactics
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonApple Store workers in the UK are attempting to unionise, but say they are facing pushback from the company, which is allegedly deploying a variety of “union-busting” tactics
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17 Oct 2023
Alert sounded over dangerous Cisco IOS XE zero-day
By Alex ScroxtonCisco warns customers using its IOS XE software of a newly discovered vulnerability that could enable a threat actor to take over their systems
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17 Oct 2023
Gitex 2023: Avaya plots generative AI-powered future for customer experience
By Joe O’HalloranLeading comms and customer experience technology provider unveils Generative CX concept showing how artificial intelligence can sit at the core of experience transformation
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17 Oct 2023
Government to pump £30m into NHS medtech
By Lis EvenstadThe government hopes the funding, which is available to integrated care systems across the country, will ease winter pressures through the help of technology
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17 Oct 2023
What it takes to succeed in DevSecOps
By Aaron TanProviding engineering leadership and balancing between speed and security are some areas that organisations will need to focus on in their DevSecOps journey
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16 Oct 2023
Cisco working on fix for critical IOS XE zero-day
By Alexander CulafiCisco designated the bug, CVE-2023-20198, with a CVSS score of 10 and said it was working on a patch, but advised customers to apply mitigations in the meantime.
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16 Oct 2023
Talkdesk expands its AI offerings for the contact center
By Mary ReinesThe cloud-based contact center provider adds more tools to monitor large language model-supported capabilities, which are becoming commonplace offerings for CX vendors.
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16 Oct 2023
Google Authenticator synchronization raises MFA concerns
By Arielle WaldmanInfosec experts say a synchronization feature added to Google's Authenticator app could lead to unintended consequences for organizations' multifactor authentication codes.
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16 Oct 2023
Oracle’s Steve Miranda: Customers nearing inflection point with Fusion
By Brian McKennaIn a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed how its customers are moving from project-driven to business-driven approaches, and how GenAI is for real
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16 Oct 2023
Flash prices drop towards spinning disk levels in 2023
By Antony AdsheadNumber-crunching data on 17,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte fell by around 10% in past six months while hard disk drive per-gigabyte prices stood still
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16 Oct 2023
Channel roundup: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickeSome interesting moves at vendor and distribution level catch the eye this week
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16 Oct 2023
Nokia and Elisa complete Europe’s first Cloud RAN trial
By Joe O’HalloranLeading Nordic operator and global comms tech provider come together to successfully conclude test of cloud-based radio access network powered by In-Line acceleration to maintain feature richness, energy efficiency and high-performance enabling flexibility
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16 Oct 2023
LoRaWAN Alliance beefs board of directors
By Joe O’HalloranTrade association for leading long-range wide area network technology adds key US comms service provider to ecosystem supporting extended IoT connectivity using satellites
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16 Oct 2023
How APAC organisations are tapping generative AI
By Aaron TanOrganisations in the region are deploying and experimenting with generative AI in healthcare, citizen services and other use cases amid cost-related concerns and other challenges
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16 Oct 2023
Bordeaux Métropole taps ServiceNow, Aguaro in smart city programme
By Joe O’HalloranHistoric French city technology service provider announces latest technological enhancements in its digital transformation plan based on platform used to support both digital services management to bring about sustainability benefits
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16 Oct 2023
BT presses on with analogue switch off across UK
By Joe O’HalloranMoment builds for digital network transformation play by UK’s largest comms provider, announcing plans to switch off analogue services in areas including the country’s densest metropolitan areas and in rural Scotland
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13 Oct 2023
U.S. climate policy implementation will be put to the test
By Makenzie HollandPermitting, China's clean energy tech manufacturing and workforce are some of the challenges facing implementation of the U.S.'s first climate policy, the Inflation Reduction Act.
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13 Oct 2023
Ransomware gang targets critical Progress WS_FTP Server bug
By Alexander CulafiThe vulnerability used in the failed ransomware attack, CVE-2023-40044, is a .NET deserialization vulnerability in Progress Software's WS_FTP Server with a CVSS score of 10.
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13 Oct 2023
CHIME Names 21 Healthcare Orgs as 2023 Digital Health Most Wired
By Hannah NelsonThe 2023 Digital Health Most Wired Survey awarded 21 healthcare organizations with the highest recognition for their commitment to digital health transformation.
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13 Oct 2023
Google Search Generative Experience AI updated for images
By Esther AjaoThe update enables the vendor to continue to push generative AI technology to the masses while showing enterprises how they can use different models within their own products.
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13 Oct 2023
US SEC launches probe into mass MOVEit breach
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonProgress Software is facing an investigation from the SEC for the breach of its MOVEit tool, as well as dozens of legal battles resulting from the exfiltration of personal data from the roughly 2,000 organisations affected
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13 Oct 2023
SAP dangles bigger carrots for S/4HANA Cloud, Rise
By Jim O'DonnellSAP unveiled products and services to spur cloud migrations, including the new S/4HANA Cloud, private edition; a premium plus package for Rise with SAP; and migration services.
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13 Oct 2023
Stone shares recycling milestone ahead of E-Waste Day
By Simon QuickeChannel player’s app has helped customers give their unused and unwanted equipment the chance of a second life
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13 Oct 2023
CDO interview: Andrew Curry, manager of the Central Data Office, ExxonMobil
By Mark SamuelsThe head of the oil and gas giant’s data organisation is leading a strategy to establish enterprise-wide principles for the use of data as part of a unified corporate ecosystem
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13 Oct 2023
UAE makes significant contribution to AI computing power
By Pat BransUAE technology holding company G42 recently began a partnership with US-based Cerebras Systems to build a cluster of supercomputers and a set of accompanying technologies that will speed up the training process for large language models
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13 Oct 2023
UK startups pilot semiconductor funding
By Cliff SaranChipStart is a new initiative from the UK government to help build out the National Semiconductor Strategy by supporting startups
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13 Oct 2023
UK competition watchdog to probe Vodafone/Three merger
By Joe O’HalloranThree months after leading UK telcos announced plans to combine resources to better battle against with EE and Virgin Media O2, regulatory authority seeks early views on nature of proposed merger
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13 Oct 2023
Gymshark turns to Google Cloud for infrastructure revamp and generative AI trials
By Caroline DonnellyE-commerce workout clothing brand Gymshark opens up about how it has turned to Google Cloud to help revamp its infrastructure and improve how it uses customer data
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13 Oct 2023
‘Angry’ lawyer warned against Post Office computer investigation in 2010 email
By Karl FlindersAngered by his exclusion from an important discussion, former Royal Mail lawyer told colleagues of the risks to the Post Office if, as planned, they publicly investigate allegations against its computer system
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12 Oct 2023
How generative AI and cloud complement each other
By Aaron TanMcKinsey partner explains the symbiotic relationship between generative AI and cloud, enabling organisations to speed up cloud migration and harness the benefits of AI
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12 Oct 2023
Logi now Insightsoftware's unified embedded analytics suite
By Eric AvidonLogi Symphony combines capabilities from numerous Insightsoftware acquisitions and adds support for generative AI so that users can build and embed AI-infused applications.
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12 Oct 2023
Box and OpenAI CEOs discuss the future of enterprise AI
By Don FluckingerOpenAI and Box founders discuss the rise of generative AI in the enterprise and how it will change knowledge workers' routines and influence business overall.
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12 Oct 2023
Pulumi, HashiCorp competition expands to developer platforms
By Beth PariseauDeveloper platform choices for enterprise IT continue to proliferate as infrastructure-as-code rivals rush to create tools targeting platform engineers.
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12 Oct 2023
Rubrik, ManageEngine and LogRhythm expanding channel reach
By Simon QuickeVendors take steps to support, increase and expand their channel activities to drive further growth
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12 Oct 2023
Scottish biometrics watchdog outlines police cloud concerns
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonPolice Scotland’s response to the biometrics commissioner’s formal information notice ‘did not ameliorate’ his concerns about the sovereignty and security of the sensitive biometric information being uploaded to cloud infrastructure that is subject to intrusive US surveillance laws
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12 Oct 2023
WBA highlights strategies to ensure end-to-end Wi-Fi quality of service
By Joe O’HalloranWhitepaper from wireless broadband trade association sets out options enabling end-to-end QoS for applications such as streaming video, multiplayer gaming and videoconferencing
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12 Oct 2023
Hybrid work flexibility the leading driver underpinning successful work experiences
By Joe O’HalloranStudy finds that while just over half of CEOs strongly believe their organisation is recognised as an employer of choice, less than half of firms provide employees with the technology they need for hybrid work
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12 Oct 2023
Pure Storage bolsters channel pitch with power and rack payments
By Simon QuickeStorage player hands partners a chance to stand out from the competition with sustainability supporting option
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12 Oct 2023
Global mobile internet growth stalls
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal mobile trade association’s sixth annual global industry round-up reveals smartphone owners are now the global majority, but mobile internet usage is stalling around the world as a digital divide persists
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12 Oct 2023
Google Cloud sets up public sector-focused business division to trap more UK government business
By Caroline DonnellyGoogle Cloud used the first day of its London-based user and partner conference to confirm the launch of a dedicated business unit, geared towards helping the firm trap more public sector business in the UK
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12 Oct 2023
FloLive, Kigen team with Protahub to provide local IoT cellular connectivity in Turkey
By Joe O’HalloranCellular network and IoT connectivity providers partner with Turkish next-gen telco technology firm to provide services in region where permanent roaming is impossible and IP data must be routed locally
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11 Oct 2023
GenAI moves into enterprise spend at SAP Spend Connect
By Jim O'DonnellAt Spend Connect Live, SAP unveiled plans to embed generative AI into its spend management applications and introduced its Spend Control Tower for enterprise spend analysis.
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11 Oct 2023
Hitachi Vantara gives single view of storage
By Adam ArmstrongTo reduce complexity, Hitachi Vantara released a storage platform aimed at unifying data management, but it will need to find ways to differentiate its offering, says one analyst.
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11 Oct 2023
Google breakup unlikely in event of guilty verdict
By Makenzie HollandGoogle is going through an antitrust trial in which a guilty verdict could result in remedies to fix the illegal behavior. But it's unlikely that Google would face a breakup.
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11 Oct 2023
AMD tries to differentiate in AI market with acquisition
By Esther AjaoThe acquisition of the open source startup helps the chip vendor compete in the optimization market and offer flexibility compared to competitors such as Nvidia.
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11 Oct 2023
Exec: Key new HashiCorp Terraform feature enabled by BSL
By Beth PariseauHashiCorp Terraform Stacks will be available in the free Community Edition in part due to development funded by its recent license change, one company official says.