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Forrester: Rethink your software asset management practices

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, chatbot, Cloud, compliance, digital transformation, machine learning, open source, quantum computing, risk management, Tech / By

Software asset management (SAM) has evolved from simple back-office record-keeping to more complex licence and contract management that integrates innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI). Successful SAM implementations save on licence costs, improve compliance and reduce true-ups. They also improve software utilisation, enabling firms to derive more…

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Podcast: Storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, business continuity, cloud-native, compliance, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, open source, Tech / By

In this podcast, we look at storage features expected in Kubernetes 1.31 with Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases. Pronin talks about storage functionality expected in this week’s 1.31 release, but also what he sees as some of the gaps in terms of storage…

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Meta’s Zuckerberg looks ahead to AI-generated adverts

3 minutes of reading / AI, Facebook, Meta, open source, Tech / By

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has reported second-quarter revenue of $39.1bn, a 22% increase on its first quarter. The company reported that the cost of revenue had increased by 23%, driven primarily by higher infrastructure costs and costs associated with inventory in its augmented headsets division, Reality Labs. In his prepared…

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UK competition watchdog scrutinises Alphabet and Anthropic tie-up

3 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking into whether Alphabet’s partnership with Anthropic is anti-competitive. There appears to be an arms race going on in the tech sector for artificial intelligence (AI) talent and capabilities, which is leading the UK regulator to consider whether partnerships between major tech firms and AI startups are healthy…

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Innovations to power secure-by-design development

3 minutes of reading / agile, Atlassian, Bitbucket, Git, GitHub, open source, social media, Tech / By

Security leaders and software developers will benefit from deeper visibility into their organisations’ software development security posture as they work, bolstering moves towards the nirvana of so-called secure-by-design code, with the introduction of an industry-first solution from sector specialist Secure Code Warrior (SCW). SCW Trust Agent comes hot on the heels of the introduction of…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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Apple debunks reports that it trained AI on stolen YouTube videos

2 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Intel, iPad, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

This week, a report by Wired revealed that Apple, NVIDIA, and other tech companies were using hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos to train their AIs. The YouTube Subtitles dataset had video transcripts from education and online learning channels, from MIT and Harvard to Mr. Beast, MKBHD, and PewDiePie.After the controversy, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac…

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Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’

6 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, AWS, cloud-native, containers, Database, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases, it wasn’t always in that position. Pronin recalls the early years when Kubernetes arrived in the market, pretty much locked into orchestration of…

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Fewer than half of organisations achieve GenAI efficiency gains

3 minutes of reading / AI, Hitachi, open source, Tech / By

Research based on a survey of 800 IT leaders has found that less than half of the organisations polled have seen improvements in operational efficiency (43%) after deploying generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) initiatives. The Hitachi Vantara sponsored report from Enterprise Strategy Group highlights the importance of ensuring enterprise IT infrastructure is ready to support GenAI.…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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