IBM this week rolled out its first cloud crafted for the financial services industry. The IBM Cloud for Financial Services was co-developed with the Bank of America, with added help from Promontory Financial Group, a financial services regulatory compliance consulting company. The financial services cloud delivers Red Hat’s OpenShift as a service. It’s built on […]
Archives for April 2021
A close look at NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud
Software-defined technologies continue to emerge across many facets of IT — and storage is no exception. In September, NetApp and Google launched a software-defined edition of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) for Google Cloud. The managed, cloud-native file storage service is available in multiple Google Cloud regions. But before committing to the software-defined version of […]
Blockchain newsletter for March: Exploring blockchain and interoperability
<!– –> Share this post: Moderna and IBM plan to collaborate on smarter COVID-19 vaccine management. Initial focus is on IBM Blockchain capabilities in end-to-end vaccine traceability in the supply chain and the IBM Digital Health Pass. IBM Digital Health Pass is the technology behind New York State’s Excelsior Pass, successfully piloted at Barclays Center […]
Getting started with a career in IT infrastructure: A brief guide
IT and its underlying infrastructure power every aspect of modern businesses, governments, militaries and economies. Many organizations don’t have enough employees on staff with the right qualities of IT know-how to fully support their IT infrastructure, however. For both these reasons, IT infrastructure professionals are in high demand, and those interested in pursuing that career […]
How The Pandemic Changed Data Analytics and BI in the Enterprise
Not all data is created equally. Some data has more business value. Qlik’s CTO explains why the data you have may not be the data you need. Image: BillionPhotos.com – stock.adobe.com After a year of disruption, a lot has changed across enterprises. These organizations have accelerated digital transformations, moved more operations to the cloud, and […]
Egypt, Italy and US most affected in Facebook leak
Analysis of a trove of personal data leaked online thanks to lax cyber security and privacy policies implemented at social media giant Facebook has revealed Egypt, the US and Italy as the countries with the highest numbers of affected users. The leak of data from 533 million accounts produced a total of 2,837,793,637 items of […]
Understand top SD-WAN advantages and disadvantages
Software-defined WANs deliver clear benefits and have reached a maturity level that warrants consideration for customers with branch offices. However, enterprises must also weigh the challenges and have an accurate anticipation of SD-WAN advantages and disadvantages before they decide to adopt this technology. Top SD-WAN challenges Before venturing into this new technology, check out some […]
Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug
The operators of Cring ransomware have been conducting a series of damaging attacks on industrial targets and control systems (ICS) after apparently acquiring a list of users of Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN server who had not bothered to patch a dangerous vulnerability. First identified and fixed some time ago, CVE-2018-13379 is a path traversal vulnerability in […]
Code Defect Crashed Azure Cloud Services
News Code Defect Crashed Azure Cloud Services By David Ramel 04/08/2021 Apparently even the best programmers make mistakes. Microsoft this week attributed an April 1 Azure cloud services crash to a code defect. The outage didn’t last long, as services such as Dynamics 365 and Xbox Live generally came back online within an hour of […]
NHS to digitise coronavirus testing with new Scandit deal
NHS Digital has signed a deal with augmented reality (AR) solutions provider Scandit in an effort to digitise the UK’s Covid testing process. The Swiss software company will provide the NHS with a data capture service, which will be available for free to any hospital or NHS organisation involved in Covid test tracking, PPE tracking, or […]