‘Amazon invested in startups to launch competing products’
Amazon invests in startups and subsequently uses the collected information to release competing products, according to a new study by The Wall Street Journal. The research cites dozens of examples of Amazon's methods.
The Wall Street Journal spoke to numerous startups, investors and advisors who... Read more
‘European operators should use multiple 5G suppliers’
Operators from member states of the European Union should not be dependent on a single high-risk supplier for their 5G networks. The European Commission (EC) states in a recently published report that the member states should have several suppliers.
In the recently published 5G Toolbox Implement... Read more
‘Microservices are growing in popularity’
The use of microservices is growing in popularity. Researchers at O'Reilly concluded this in a recent study called 'Microservices Adoption in 2020'. Businesses are embracing microservices primarily to break down their existing 'monolithic' IT environments into smaller IT services that are easier to... Read more
‘MSPs have positive future expectations despite coronacrisis’
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are confident about the future despite the current corona crisis, according to research conducted by Datto. The MSPs are particularly expecting a lot from the possibilities of 5G.
Research conducted by Datto among approximately 1.800 global MSPs - Datto's most im... Read more
‘Companies are working on large application migrations to the cloud’
Most companies are currently in the process of migrating their application environments to the cloud on a large scale. This is the outcome of a study conducted worldwide by database specialist MariaDB.
According to the study, companies learned a lot from the recent impact of the corona cris... Read more
Microsoft’s new AI tool creates to-do lists using sent emails
A new AI from Microsoft automatically generates to-do lists based on sent emails. Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft's AI team announced the tool in a pre-print research paper.
The Smart To-Do tool uses AI to scan all outgoing emails for usable text, then converts these ... Read more
A lot of companies apply encryption for the wrong reason
If you ask enterprise organizations about their encryption policies, you can conclude that they are applying it more often than before. Encryption has become a vital part of their IT strategy. However, the motivation behind it is not always the right one. Often, compliance with laws and regulations... Read more
IT spendings likely much lower due to corona virus COVID-19
The corona virus outbreak is now officially a pandemic, and companies are obviously noticing the consequences. According to research bureau IDC, the financial consequences will specifically be noticeable in IT.
IDC initially expected a 4% growth in IT spending in 2020, but due to the effects of ... Read more
‘Ransomware-as-a-Service is a growing business model for hackers’
CrowdStrike today published its Global Threat Report for 2019. This report shows, among other things, that eCrime is becoming more sophisticated, that there are more and more threats that are very difficult to detect, and that as-a-Service is becoming increasingly popular as a revenue model.
The... Read more
Researchers succeed in restoring faded photographs with AI
Moving a bit too much with a camera while taking a picture, or someone moving in the background for a moment: your whole picture will be ruined, as faces will become blurred. Researchers from three universities (in the United Arab Emirates, Beijing and New York) have managed to make such photos rec... Read more