Each week I select 60-90 items from mainstream IT publications and publish them on the website for “IT News and Events.”
I also select press releases from various mainstream IT vendors and certain blog articles. In this issue the vendors are: DDN, Tinri, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Dell, Lenovo, Red Hat, AWS, Citrix. Dell, Veeam, Nutanix and Centrify.
Plans to migrate computational fluid dynamics, structural mechanics simulation, and 3D visualization to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to bring new cars to market faster
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]
Cloud service taps machine learning to help retailers optimize inventory to adapt to changing customer buying behaviors
[Oracle News, August 11th, 2020]
Oracle study highlights consumer views on restaurants during COVID-19 and what brands should expect in terms of take-out and dine-in experiences
[Oracle News, August 12th, 2020]
Oracle Health Insurance noted for having the greatest breadth of functionality
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]
Oracle recognized for its completeness of vision and ability to execute
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]
New cloud point-of-sale system provides agility to adhere to new shopping requirements and social distancing
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]
Standard Chartered Bank and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced a three-year strategic partnership to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation through a cloud-first strategy
[Microsoft News, August 11th, 2020]
Q4 Results: Revenue: $12.2 billion – Decrease of (9)% year over year
[Cisco News, August 12th, 2020]
Cisco took a very bold step and declared a global ‘work from home’ policy for most of our 140,000 employees, contractors, and partners. The almost-overnight move presented a number of challenges-for example, securing 130,000 devices across 498 offices in 94 countries. Overall, the transition went smoothly
[Cisco News, August 14th, 2020]
Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between August 7 and August 14. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis
[Cisco News, August 14th, 2020]
It may only be August, but in Cisco time it’s the start of a brand-spanking-new (fiscal) year. As with any changing of calendars, it’s the perfect time to take a step back and re-evaluate our priorities
[Cisco News, August 14th, 2020]
Modernize applications using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Digital transformation designed to reduce costs and lay foundations for the future; IBM Services to architect industry-specific new platform around IBM hybrid cloud environment
[IBM News, August 11th, 2020]
James Fisher & Sons had hearty ambitions to build predictive maintenance capabilities for its customers’ subsea cables — but lacked the right data to do so. In a creative pivot, the IBM Data Science and AI Elite team delivered more than what the heritage engineering company bartered for — with an entire roadmap for their data science strategy
[IBM News, August 14th, 2020]
Integrated Planning Solution Combines Power of Workday and IBM Watson-Enabled AI to Help Customers Safely Reopen
[IBM News, August 12th, 2020]
Today IBM announces IBM Knowledge Accelerators, a new content offering delivering an enriched glossary for IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog on IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
[IBM News, August 12th, 2020]
The Data Accelerator from Dell Technologies breaks through I/O bottlenecks that impede the performance of HPC workloads
[Dell EMC News, August 11th, 2020]
Over the past few months, we’ve seen great resolve from our customers and partners as we all work together to overcome a new set of challenges every day.
[Dell EMC News, August 11th, 2020]
Most IT professionals know too well the balancing act of wanting to implement cutting-edge, modern solutions while still maintaining control of the overall IT landscape
[Dell EMC News, August 13th, 2020]
With the explosive growth of data fueling today’s global environment, businesses’ ability to readily adapt is becoming more and more critical for survival, and IT managers are under enormous pressure to deliver applications and services that innovate and transform the business.
[Dell EMC News, August 10th, 2020]
Group revenue up by almost 7% year-on-year to US$13.3 billion; Pre-tax income (PTI) of US$332 million, up 38% year-on-year
[Lenovo News, August 13th, 2020]
Lenovo released its Q1 financial results and a big part of our success stems from the strong execution of our 3S strategy and our ongoing Service-led intelligent transformation
[Lenovo News, August 13th, 2020]
The impact of information technology on people’s ability to work, communicate, interact and even live has never been more keenly felt that during the last few months
[Lenovo News, August 13th, 2020]
Brand can often be overused as a content term, but it can be overlooked as a content strategy. Plenty of folks rave about building their brand, promoting their company brand, creating brand recognition, and so on. But how many of those people actually consider the vast array of content channels that should be on-brand?
[Red Hat News, August 13th, 2020]
The manufacturing industry has consistently used technology to fuel innovation, production optimization and operations
[Red Hat News, August 12th, 2020]
As a system administrator, working quickly and efficiently is important. There is a good chance that you manage a large estate of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and that it continues to grow in complexity. In this post, we’ll look at some ways Red Hat Insights can help you deal with that complexity.
[Red Hat News, August 11th, 2020]
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye
[Red Hat News, August 14th, 2020]
As organizations look to enhance their on-premises and cloud security, they need the proper tools in place that don’t introduce risks and complexities. A study from IDG found that 48 percent of respondents believe that increased complexity is a primary downside in using multiple clouds.
[Fortinet News, August 14th, 2020]
Over the past few months, threat intelligence teams around the world have been tracking a significant increase in phishing attacks. These attacks coincide with a temporary drop in more traditional attacks, indicating that attackers, like workers, are modifying their efforts in order to accommodate changes due to the pandemic
[Fortinet News, August 13th, 2020]
Cyber Criminals Targeting Remote Work to Gain Access to Enterprise Networks and Critical Data
[Fortinet News, August 12th, 2020]
Amazon Braket helps developers and researchers get started with quantum computing, providing development tools, simulators, and access to a diverse set of quantum hardware
[AWS News, August 13th, 2020]
One of the nation’s largest restaurant chains leverages AWS to innovate new services and drive operational efficiency across its more than 2,200 restaurants
[AWS News, August 11th, 2020]
Paul Herbert is CIO of Northcott, one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit disability service organisations, with more than 2,500 employees across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
[Citrix News, August 13th, 2020]
Today we posted a Security Bulletin covering a set of vulnerabilities in certain on-premises instances of Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM), often referred to as XenMobile Server
[Citrix News, August 11th, 2020]
Businesses are looking to Citrix Workspace to improve their users’ experience through simpler IT. Customers have also placed a huge emphasis on improving employee productivity through remote work
[Citrix News, August 12th, 2020]
Dell Technologies and Google announced the latest Chromebook, with the Dell Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise. This marks an expansion of Chrome OS into businesses and enterprises where devices for remote work are looking more attractive by the day
[StorageReview, August 11th, 2020]
The latest Latitude Chromebook Enterprise enriches the employee experience with sleek, compact design and innovative productivity features with first 4K panel with Low Blue Light technology and the longest battery life on a premium Chromebook
[Dell News, August 11th, 2020]
DDN breaks its own record performance with DGX A100: 178 GB/s delivered directly to GPUs, 60x more than NFS
[DDN News, August 12th, 2020]
We know that ransomware is attacking us from all angles. With strains of ransomware and malicious activity exploring new routes to your data, it’s just a matter of time until you and your business are compromised
[Veeam News, August 11th, 2020]
Transform data into insight and information into intelligence with the power of analytics and machine learning
[Datacore News, August 13th, 2020]
Tintri is on a roll! Coming on the heels of last month’s Tintri SQL Integrated Storage announcement is the introduction of Tintri IntelliFlash 3.11.0.0
[Tintri News, August 10th, 2020]
Time and again, organizations that quickly adapt and pivot during periods of rapid change prove the most enduring. When the market fluctuates, these businesses churn out apps and services that reflect customers’ new needs. When the world turns turbulent, leading companies also keep employees safe and productive no matter what
[VMware News, August 11th, 2020]
Nutanix Clusters enables seamless application migration and unified operations across clouds to help businesses accelerate their cloud journey with AWS
[Nutanix News, August 11th, 2020]
Centrify Recognized as a Leader for PAM for Second Consecutive Time in Gartner’s Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
[Centrify News, August 10th, 2020]
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