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April 17, 2024

Research highlights heightened threat actor interests in SAP systems, targeting poorly patched organizations. Targeting SAP vulnerabilities by threat actors is currently at its peak as systems compromised by ransomware incidents have grown fivefold since 2021, according to joint research by […]

April 16, 2024

Open-source database provider Qdrant has made available Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a dedicated vector database to be offered in a managed hybrid cloud model. Qdrant, the open-source foundation of both Qdrant Cloud and Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, is a vector similarity search […]

April 15, 2024

Lapses in wired connectivity result in significant downtime, but barriers to adoption keep businesses from relying on 5G to solve their connectivity concerns. Wired network connectivity isn’t as reliable as U.S. businesses need, according to a recent survey, which shows […]

April 15, 2024

In the past two years, I’ve been involved with generative AI projects using large language models (LLMs) more than traditional systems. I’ve become nostalgic for serverless cloud computing. Their applications range from enhancing conversational AI to providing complex analytical solutions […]

April 15, 2024

Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of names: version control, revision control, source control, or source code management are all common descriptors. Regardless of what we call […]

April 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan, Mexico, and the Middle East. But with Amazon Web Services […]

April 10, 2024

On March 30, the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) released its review of the July 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion by the Chinese state group Storm-0558, blasting Microsoft for its shoddy security practices and saying the incident “was preventable […]

April 9, 2024

Google Cloud is adding capabilities driven by its proprietary large language model, Gemini to its database offerings, which include Bigtable, Spanner, Memorystore for Redis, Firestore, CloudSQL for MySQL, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, the company announced at its annual Next conference. […]

April 9, 2024

Teradata is partnering with Anaconda to add packages of popular programming languages Python and R to its multi-cloud analytics platform offering, VantageCloud Lake. The partnership will see Teradata integrate the packages from Anaconda’s repository into its self-service data analytics offering, […]

April 8, 2024

Alibaba faces an uphill battle globally. Mainland China’s largest hyperscaler has a commanding 39% share of its $9.7 billion domestic public cloud market but has struggled to gain traction in other regions, according to John Dinsdale, chief analyst and research […]

April 3, 2024

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a critical assessment of Microsoft’s security protocols in the wake of the summer 2023 Exchange Online breach, concluding that security failures within Microsoft created the conditions that allowed Chinese state-backed hacking […]

April 3, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new managed version of its Thinkbox Deadline 10 offering, Deadline Cloud. Deadline Cloud, which has been made generally available, is designed for render management tasks for teams creating computer-generated 2D or 3D graphics, […]

April 3, 2024

Nextcloud has announced a collaboration with a number of major European players in the cloud storage industry to leverage access to their upcoming on-premise ‘artificial intelligence (AI) as a service’ features, promising GDPR compliance in a cottage industry fraught with […]

April 1, 2024

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments grew 18.5% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the latest update to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker, which was issued last week. The total […]

April 1, 2024

He’s been! World Backup Day, or March 31, is over for another year. This brazen PR sleigh ride, asking the people of the world to make one (1) backup of their data, is backed by some of our cloud backup […]

March 26, 2024

Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CTO of an enterprise technology company […]

March 26, 2024

AWS loosened its cloud discount pricing restrictions, offering customers who purchase cloud discount Savings Plans a seven-day window to apply for credits and refunds, the company said Monday. The move will provide customers who previously had no way to back […]

March 26, 2024

As organizations expand and increasingly invest in more cloud applications and services, their cloud footprint grows and often becomes more complex. That’s why it is critically important to regularly reevaluate the security of those cloud assets to ensure that everything […]

March 25, 2024

The benefits of developing software in the cloud include increased flexibility and reliability, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. But cloud-based development also presents a host of challenges. Knowing what to watch out for is the first step to protecting your […]

March 25, 2024

Hybrid IT environments were an inherent symptom of initial migrations from on-prem data centers. But as companies push forward with cloud adoption, hybrid has become part of broader optimization strategies. “Enterprise workloads – including their applications and data – often […]