maandag 29 april, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com In a post discussing how it was hardening its protocols to prevent encryption being cracked by powerful quantum computers, Signal noted that although quantum computers already exist, the systems known to exist today do not yet have enough qubits to pose a threat to the public-key...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Cisco has announced its intention to acquire IT firm Splunk for $28bn, in a deal the company hopes will bolster its security and application resilience portfolio. Splunk offers cloud monitoring, observability and incident management among its product areas. For Cisco, these offer the potential to sit...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com With operators in some of the major European colocation hubs struggling to meet the demand for datacentre capacity amid space and power constraints, they need to make the sites they have under development as appealing as possible for prospective tenants. Depending on the type of colocation...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Insufficient disk space on database servers was the cause of Toyota car production grinding to a halt for 36 hours at 14 plants in Japan late in August. But just how does such a situation arise? What’s pretty likely here is a failure in database capacity...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Oracle chief technology officer and founder Larry Ellison endorsed a radical vision of what generative artificial intelligence (AI) could achieve in the future during his keynote speech at Oracle CloudWorld 2023 in Las Vegas. He told attendees not to underestimate the technology. “ChatGPT has captured our...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Microsoft has learned an important lesson after having to clean up a major data leak resulting from an “overly permissive” shared access signature (SAS) token accidentally disclosed by one of its employees. The incident took place in June 2023, when a Microsoft researcher shared a URL for...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Cosmetics giant L’Oréal has turned to Databricks to help pull together all of the data stored in its disparate cloud platforms to help support its push to personalise the customer experience. The company is pursuing a multicloud strategy in support of its Beauty Tech Data Platform,...

Salesforce DX

Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is Salesforce DX? Salesforce DX, or SFDX, is a set of software development tools that lets developers build, test and ship many kinds of applications on the Salesforce Platform. Development team members can also collaborate using SFDX and follow Agile development principles to deliver...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com In the past, IT departments embarked on huge enterprise application integration programmes to connect silos of business software data. IT no longer has the luxury of being able to plan such a long-term strategy, however. The age of software as a service (SaaS) and public cloud-based...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com French Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider OVHcloud is rolling out an “exhaustive” carbon calculator to its customers to help make it easier for them to track the Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions generated by their cloud usage. Eight months in the making, the tool is...