Google Cloud uses 19.38 billion liters of drinking water, water neutral by 2030
To cool data centers efficiently, water is used, a lot of water. This has caused a stir on more than one occasion. Fortunately, it has also caused the biggest players in the market to promise to be water neutral by 2030. Google is the first player to fully transparently report its water consumption... Read more
Twitter develops job posting feature for verified companies
Twitter is working on a new feature for verified businesses on the social network. Organizations that choose a paid subscription will become verified businesses and be able to post their job openings on Twitter soon. These will then be additionally promoted on the social network.
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Will SoftwareOne be sold to Bain Capital?
A takeover of SoftwareOne by Bain Capital is getting closer and closer. Last month Bain Capital made an unsolicited takeover offer on SoftwareOne, which was declined by the board, now Bain Capital has done a substantially higher offer. SoftwareOne announced it has received the second offer, but is ... Read more
Google starts rollout Privacy Sandbox Topics API in Chrome
Google has released Chrome 115, another new version, but in this version the Privacy Sandbox has now become generally available. This includes the Topics API which will soon share general interests of users from within the browser. Topics API should become the replacement for third-party cookies.
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Unity can now accelerate HoloLens to Vision Pro migration
Developers can now get started with Unity games and apps on Apple's Vision Pro. Unity has made a beta available to developers that includes support for visionOS. With this, developers already working with Unity apps in VR and AR solutions can get to work making them suitable for the Apple Vision Pr... Read more
Biden makes acquisitions harder for big tech
The United States is coming up with stricter guidelines for larger companies looking to make acquisitions. The new guidelines that have been presented seem to be aimed primarily at big tech, or Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Google (Alphabet) and Microsoft. This should give the FTC and the U.S. Departmen... Read more
Nutanix cloud vision for the next 10 years; run your workloads everywhere
Nutanix has presented its vision for the cloud; it expects to need the next 10 years to execute it to perfection. We expect the beginning of that vision in late 2023 or early 2024. After conquering the HCI market and extending the clusters to the cloud, it is now time for cloud native support.
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Ransomware attacks increase by 40 percent, encryption usage decreases
Research by Zscaler has shown that the number of ransomware attacks has increased by 40 percent over the past year. The biggest cause of this rise is the wide availability of Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) services on offer. However, Zscaler does see a shift in the type of ransomware attacks: namel... Read more
AWS helps sports clubs with data to improve performance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's largest cloud provider. AWS's primary business is providing cloud infrastructure for your applications and data. However, AWS does much more, and one of the things that is less well-known is AWS for Sports. The AWS for Sports offering contains various soluti... Read more
Knowledge23: Do people now know what ServiceNow is and does?
This year ServiceNow hosted another global Knowledge event, the last one was four years ago. A lot has changed since 2019, for example, the company is now four times bigger and has twice as many products. Also, Bill McDermott is now at the helm as CEO, which provides new momentum and possibly even ... Read more