The new CAIAC alliance will deploy AI in the fight against COVID-19
The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against Covid-19 (CAIAC), is a newly formed global alliance of think tanks that are working to deliver a platform, driven by AI to curb the effects of Covid-19 on the economy and public health.
The aim is to fight the virus's effects by way of advising p...
HPE acquires SD-WAN player Silver Peak Systems
HPE acquires the vendor of SD-WAN solutions Silver Peak Systems for 925 million dollars (814 million euros). Silver Peak will be merged with HPE Aruba.
The acquisition provides HPE with a specialist that helps customers achieve better WAN networks. Silver Peak's SD-WAN technology enables custome...
Docker and Amazon partner to accelerate application delivery
Docker has partnered with Amazon Web Services to increase application delivery speeds. The companies are offering a workflow with a more straightforward design, for developers who would like to use Docker Compose, to build apps that can run on Amazon Elastic Container Service and on Amazon ECS on A...
Boomi launches framework of best practices for data management
Dell Technology subsidiary Boomi presented its Blueprint framework, which should help companies achieve their digital ambitions and a good Return on Investment (ROI) faster.
The Blueprint framework includes a set of services and best practices to help companies implement their digital services f...
Drupal releases major update for open-source CMS software
Drupal releases a major update to the open-source CMS software. Version 9.0 is the first significant update of the software in five years.
The newest version includes a new layout builder that allows users to design pages without requiring any technical assistance. An API-first architecture uses...
Oracle releases extremely large security update
Oracle released an extremely large security update today in a Critical Patch Update for many of its products and services. The company issued a total of 433 patches.
With the announced Critical Patch Update, Oracle releases a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. In this u...
Rackspace officially applied for an IPO
Rackspace has officially applied for an IPO. It will be the second time the company will be listed on the stock exchange after Rackspace left in 2016 following a 4.3 billion deal dollar with venture capitalist Apollo Global Management.
Rackspace has not disclosed the size of its equity portfolio...
Freshworks acquires Flint, to bring automation and IT orchestration to their platform
Freshworks announced that they acquired Flint, an IT orchestrator and management platform for the cloud. This new acquisition is a move by Freshworks to add more value and functionality to their Freshservice IT support service.
Flint brings aboard new automation tools and propels Freshworks clou...
Unit4 upgrades cloud-based ERP solution
Unit4 has released version 7.7 of its Unit4 ERP solution. The added functionality should provide better planning and management to complex service-oriented companies.
The latest release of Unit4's cloud-based ERP platform should primarily help companies in these times of uncertainty to provide m...
‘Removing Huawei equipment from British networks will cost billions’
British telecom providers BT and Vodafone warn that removing Huawei equipment from their networks will take at least five years. Besides, the costs to remove all the equipment would take billions of pounds.
Earlier this month, it was reported that the British government is drafting plans to remo...
‘Apple releases 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with Arm chips this year’
Apple is releasing a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and a new MacBook Air with the new ARM chips this year, according to well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The two devices are scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2020.
If Kuo's reports are correct, the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro will be the firs...
Microsoft stops support PHP for Windows
Microsoft announced it no longer supports the upcoming version of the scripting language PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor, version 8.0, for Windows. Some earlier releases of PHP will still be supported for some time for bug fixes and security updates.
The techgiant has been supporting and maintaini...