Research: new tools and security measures often counterproductive
Research by Zivver reveals that although companies have accelerated their innovation efforts in the past two years, many challenges remain. Employees that participated in the study complain about security measures that are counterproductive and slow down work. Many applications have been added in t... Read more
John Deere invests in autonomous tractors
Autonomous vehicles may shortly be on the horizon after all. Not on public roads, mind you, but in a field nearby. John Deere has announced the purchase of an AI package from Light, a startup that specializes in algorithms for self-driving vehicles. With that, the autonomous farm suddenly comes clo... Read more
Tableau Data Stories adds automatically generated dashboard descriptions
Tableau added a very useful feature to its toolset. Tableau Data Stories adds an automatically generated description of a dashboard, so that anyone viewing the dashboard also understands how to read the data on display.
One of the most common complaints of companies with different dashboards is ... Read more
SAS will support Python in SAS Studio and various analytics tools
SAS announced support for the Python programming language in its analytics products. In addition to SAS's own programming language, SAS Studio and Analytics Pro will support Python. Customers can now use both programming languages.
More and more data analysts are being trained with Python and R ... Read more
Rackspace for sale, looking for privatization
Rackspace Technology wants to change course again. In order to do so, it needs to be privatized. Rackspace isn't strong enough to delist itself, and is therefore looking for a buyer.
Rackspace went public less than two years ago, which has now become a hurdle to making necessary changes. The co... Read more
SAP Sapphire showcases sustainability, supply chain innovation and low-code development
SAP kicked off its Sapphire event in Orlando. During the opening keynote, the company focused on sustainability. In addition, there's a focus on improving supply chains and low-code and no-code application development through AppGyver, a solution acquired by SAP last year.
Christian Klein, SAP's... Read more
Dell Technologies brings 500 enhancements to storage portfolio
Dell Technologies is introducing more than 500 enhancements to its storage portfolio. The organization is also working on project Alpine, with which it wants to bring various storage platforms to the cloud. It will soon be possible to spin up a Dell PowerScale, PowerFlex, PowerStore, PowerProtect o... Read more
Dell Technologies extends APEX services with Cyber Recovery from the cloud
Dell Technologies announced an expansion of its APEX offering during Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas. The organization is increasing its focus on cyber recovery solutions. It becomes possible to recover data from the multicloud (Azure and AWS).
The Dell APEX portfolio takes work off IT adm... Read more
Twitter accepts offer from Elon Musk, but now what?
The Twitter board has changed its mind. They have accepted the offer of 44 billion dollars. Earlier, it seemed that they would fight the acquisition tooth and nail, but the offer is too good to ignore. Elon Musk will soon have full ownership of Twitter. The big question is, what happens now?
Sho... Read more
Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter for 41 billion dollars
Elon Musk is indeed planning to buy Twitter, this was just announced by a publication of the regulator. Last week Musk already bought 9 percent of the Twitter shares, now he has made an offer of 41 billion dollars for the rest of the stock, about 38 billion euros. This comes down to 54.20 dollars p... Read more