Students from elementary to high school can take a course in AI and its societal and ethical implications offered within the year by the Microsoft and Code.org partnership. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The critical importance of tech skills across industries sends a clear signal: In order to meet the expectations of future administrators and employers, elementary […]
Archives for December 2020
Healthcare 2021: Cyberattacks to Center on COVID-19 Spying, Patient Data
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AWS to bring 5G edge compute service to the UK in 2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to bring its 5G edge compute service to the UK in early 2021. First unveiled at last year’s re:Invent event, AWS Wavelength offers optimised solutions for mobile edge computing applications, simplifying application traffic in order to fully utilise the latency and bandwidth benefits offered by modern 5G networks. The service manages to shorten […]
Salesforce escalates Microsoft rivalry with £20.7bn Slack acquisition
Salesforce has agreed to buy workplace messaging platform Slack in a deal worth $27.7 billion (£20.7 billion), the largest acquisition in the cloud giant’s history. Under the terms of the deal, Slack will now operate as a Salesforce company, but it will still be led by CEO Stewart Butterfield. The acquisition was first reported earlier this week but an official announcement came […]
Microsoft named a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud DBMS Platforms
We would like to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. Our placement is based on our ability to execute and our completeness of vision and is a testament to our ongoing innovation and integration of a broad data portfolio into a cohesive […]
How service level agreements can ensure real uptime
Large telcos and networking vendors have long used service level agreements (SLAs) to overpromise and underdeliver, leaving customers with serious service issues and substandard connectivity. Vendors are, of course, obliged to fulfil any agreement they make with a customer, but the telecoms industry has often left its clients befuddled by the terms of the agreement. Providers […]
Misconfigured Docker Servers Under Attack by Xanthe Malware
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Research Reveals What’s Hindering Hybrid Cloud Adoption
News Research Reveals What’s Hindering Hybrid Cloud Adoption By David Ramel 12/01/2020 For the third year in a row, research commissioned by Nutanix indicates the hybrid model is preferred by enterprises for cloud computing. However, adoption of hybrid — a mix of both public and private cloud platforms — remains relatively flat. Nutanix commissioned research […]
Cayman Islands Bank Records Exposed in Open Azure Blob
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Hyperscalers play an increasingly important role in the IoT platforms market
According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the global market for IoT device management and application enablement platforms was worth US$ 2.0 billion in 2019. Growing at a CAGR of 32 percent, yearly sales of device management and application enablement services are forecasted to reach US$ 7.9 billion in […]