This week, there have been a few product announcements that illustrate the opportunity some IT firms see in targeting existing VMware users who are not happy with how the product is changing under Broadcom. The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom completed at the end of 2023. Broadcom has a strategy to move companies from perpetual…
Broadcom/VMware: Joining the dots to migrate off VMware Read More »
As the number of connected devices proliferates from offices to factory floors, Industry 4.0 represents the fourth revolution in manufacturing and promises a more connected era where advanced technologies will drive greater efficiencies, innovation, and growth. Estimates from McKinsey and the World Economic Forum predict that the fourth industrial revolution may deliver up to USD…
Embracing Industry 4.0? Don’t overlook Cloud ERP Read More »
There is a healthy relationship between large language models (LLMs) and graph databases, which are used to draw in information across different networks of data, according to Jim Webber, chief scientist at Neo4j. Computer Weekly spoke to Webber following the ratification of the GQL ISO standard, which provides a standard way to run searches across…
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Francessca Vasquez has worked in the IT industry for 25 year in a number of well-known firms including Oracle and Salesforce. In her current role, she looks after professional services and the GenAI innovation centre at AWS. For Vasquez, innovation with technology is about digital disruption. She says: “I’ve really spent my time trying to…
AWS & GenAI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast Read More »
Many organisations poised to migrate from Oracle Java SE will wonder how long the process will take. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to that question, though. The time needed for a migration depends on at least half a dozen variables that are specific to an organisation. One of those variables is a firm’s migration goals…
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German software giant SAP’s S/4HANA data migration and management is a huge challenge. Organisations in the midst of transitioning to the platform lack comprehensive data strategies, find responsibilities split between departments, lack skills, can’t access data and report slow progress to use of artificial intelligence (AI) because of problems with data management. Those are the…
SAP S/4HANA data migration beset by poor and fragmented strategy Read More »
Pradeep Vincent is the chief technical architect and senior vice-president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). His role involves internal engineering of all the services in OCI. At Oracle Cloud World in London earlier this month, Vincent talked about the work Oracle has done with Microsoft, first with a cloud interconnect, and most recently, putting the…
Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy Read More »
The total number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) reported in IT hardware and software products and services looks set to continue to grow in 2024, according to figures published by active cyber insurance specialist Coalition, which predicts CVE volume will increase by 25% to 34,888 vulnerabilities – approximately 2,900 every month. CVEs are the…
CVE volumes set to increase 25% this year Read More »
Oracle’s plans to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings could just be one of many such announcements to come in the enterprise application space, but the database application suite giant has, in fact, been working on adding artificial intelligence across its stack for some time. In September 2023, it announced its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative…
Oracle to fine-tune AI for the enterprise Read More »
In the realm of business applications, the underlying complexities of the western economic crisis and war in Ukraine and the Middle East were obscured in 2023 by the hype surrounding generative AI (GenAI). It would be eccentric, indeed churlish, to downplay the significance of GenAI, and so the first four articles selected here are, indeed, about…
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