Elevate Your Business: Choose the Perfect Cloud Provider
Cloud adoption in Africa is experiencing a significant surge, primarily driven by the rise of remote work and the challenges posed by power issues such as load shedding. Andrew Cruise, the Managing Director of Routed, a local VMware Cloud Verified provider and VMware Principal Partner, emphasizes that several factors have
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An in-memory data warehouse with adaptive replicationHermes: An in-memory data warehouse with adaptive replication | Image from friendlystockIntroductionCloud-based data warehouses nowadays have become the de facto standard due to the core benefits associated with the Cloud, such as on-demand computing, limitless storage, increased computational capacity, as well as the ability
Read moreCisco launches AI features across product lines
At last week’s Cisco Live! Conference, the company announced a series of updates to its products that harness Large Language Models (LLMs) to better secure and simplify its collaboration and security portfolios. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a passing fad, noted Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s executive vice president (EVP) and general
Read moreIntroducing NetMock: Simplifying HTTP Request Testing in Java, Android, and Kotlin Multiplatform
Let’s get rid of the complexities of simulating requests and responses in testing environmentsNetMock codeI am thrilled to introduce NetMock, a powerful and user-friendly library designed to streamline the mocking of HTTP requests and responses.Testing HTTP requests can often present challenges for developers due to the complexity of simulating requests
Read moreUS spy agencies are buying the same surveillance data advertisers crave
Companies are selling spy-grade data to the government. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Surprise, surprise, the US government is buying personal information, including location data, from commercial data brokers — and it may be worse than we knew, according to a report from the US Office of
Read moreOctoML launches OctoAI, a self-optimizing compute service for AI
When OctoML launched in 2019, its primary focus was optimizing machine learning (ML) models. Since then, the company has added features that make it easier to deploy ML models (and raised $132 million). Today, the company is launching the latest iteration of its service — and while it’s not quite
Read moreCyber Security Today, June 14, 2023 – A warning for users of Microsoft’s digital signature tool, an alert to VMware administrators, and more
A warning for users of Microsoft’s digital signature tool, an alert to VMware administrators, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, June 14th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Microsoft provides users with a way to digitally sign Office
Read moreEurope warns it might break up Google’s adtech empire
The European Commission has signalled it could be preparing to break up Google’s adtech business. Speaking during a press conference this afternoon, EU EVP Margrethe Vestager, the bloc’s competition chief and head of digital strategy, announced it has sent a formal statement of objections to Google for suspected anti-competitive conduct
Read moreHundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO’s internal memo
More than 300 subreddits, including popular ones like r/aww, r/music r/videos, and r/futurology, plan to go dark indefinitely after a large protest against Reddit’s API changes ends on June 14. This means users won’t be able to access these communities during this blackout. This step was announced after The Verge
Read moreVodafone and Three plan to merge in the UK in a $19B deal (if regulators approve)
The mobile market in Europe and the U.K. — once orchestrated to be ripe ground for competition — has been on a long-term course of consolidation, and the latest chapter in that story was made official today. Vodafone Group and Hutchison Group have announced a plan to merge their U.K.
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