Apple presents new Mac Pro for power users from $5999
Apple unveiled an all-new Mac Pro at its developer conference WWDC. The workstation is designed for professionals who have high demands on their Mac, Apple says. For example, the device comes with Xeon workstation processors with up to 28 cores.
The new Mac Pro also features a 1.5TB memory system t... Read more
Lack of skills big challenge within IT
The customer experience is the top priority of IT leaders. That's what respondents say in a Salesforce survey of more than a hundred IT managers. However, the company believes that some technologies or aspects of IT need to be put higher on the agenda. For example, there is a permanent shortage of s... Read more
Apple launches Pro Display XDR 6K screen from $4,999
At its WWDC conference, Apple not only announced a new Mac Pro, but also an accompanying monitor.
The Pro Display XDR is a colour-calibrated 32-inch LCD monitor with 6k resolution (6,016 x 3,384 pixels) and virtually borderless design. The bezels are barely 9 millimeters. XDR here stands for Extreme... Read more
‘Huawei is cutting back production of smartphones after US trade sanctions’.
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei is said to have scaled down production of its smartphones after the US imposed trade sanctions on the company last month. That's what insiders say about the South China Morning Post.
According to the insiders, Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer that assembles ... Read more
Sophos expands Intercept X server capabilities with advanced detection
Sophos introduces Intercept X for servers with Endpoint Detection and Response: a mouthful that means that Intercept X now offers visibility across the entire IT environment in order to detect and block attacks in time.
Intercept X for servers with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) should help c... Read more
Infineon acquires Cypress Semiconductors for EUR 9 billion
Infineon acquires Cypress Semiconductors for EUR 9 billion, says Reuters. Cypress Semiconductors develops microchips that are used in cars and electronic devices. The German company Infineon makes power management chips that are used in cars, smartphones and windmills.
"With the addition of Cypress,... Read more
Palo Alto Networks launches cloud security suite Prism
Palo Alto Networks has unveiled a new cloud security suite designed to help customers live safer digital lives. The new suite is called Prism and aims to simplify access, data protection and application security.
Prism consists of four different components: Prisma Access, Prima Public Cloud, Prisma... Read more
McAfee and AWS launch cloud-based database security solution
McAfee and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have strengthened their collaboration with the launch of a new database security solution. This concerns McAfee Database Security for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
The new product provides real-time visibility into virtually all database activ... Read more
‘Huawei wants to sell its submarine cable activities’.
Huawei plans to sell its submarine telecom cable business. That's what an application from a buyer who owns Reuters says. Hengtong Optic-Electric, a manufacturer of optical telecommunication products, is interested in the department of the Chinese company.
In its application for the Shanghai Stock ... Read more
Dell brings more high-end Ubuntu Linux computers to market
Dell has announced that it will launch more Ubuntu Linux computers on the market. There are three mobile workstations with high-end specifications. The whole family comes with Ubuntu 18.04, which is the most recent LTS version of Ubuntu. They also support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation ... Read more