Report: IT professionals are struggling with the process of tackling tool sprawl within their organizations
Almost all IT professionals are wanting to consolidate the tools in their organizations, but half of them are feeling overwhelmed by the process of doing so. This is according to Quickbase’s new survey of 1,000 IT professionals in the US, United Kingdom, and Ireland, about the state of technology tool sprawl. “For a long time, … continue reading
DigitalOcean launches GPU Droplets to provide AI infrastructure as a service
DigitalOcean is launching GPU Droplets, which are NVIDIA H100 virtual servers for running AI infrastructures, allowing anyone to work with AI without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. NVIDIA H100 GPUs are one of the most powerful GPUs available today, according to DigitalOcean, and they include 640 Tensor Cores and 128 Ray Tracing Cores, which … continue reading
pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition provides advanced replication across regions and providers
The distributed Postgres company pgEdge has announced the general availability of its pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition, which will make it easier for businesses to distribute their databases across multiple regions and providers. According to the company, this offering builds upon the new capabilities added in the pgEdge Platform Constellation release, which included improvements to logical … continue reading
Cloudflare’s new Speed Brain feature speeds up website load time with smart prefetching of webpage content
Cloudflare has launched a new feature called Speed Brain that customers can enable to help their websites load faster. Speed Brain prefetches the most likely content a user may navigate to next by using Cloudflare’s Speculation Rules API. “The main goal of Speed Brain is to download a web page to the browser cache before … continue reading
Zoom adds advanced features designed for the enterprise
Zoom is expanding its feature set to provide more advanced capabilities for enterprise customers that help them meet compliance, security, privacy, survivability, and manageability requirements. It is launching Zoom Compliance Manager Plus, which is a more advanced version of Zoom Compliance Manager, which was introduced in March and provides features like archiving, eDiscovery, legal hold, … continue reading
Cloudflare adds tools for website owners to block AI bots and scrapers
Cloudflare is making it easy for website owners to block AI bots and scrapers from using their content with a new set of tools that provide control over how website content is used. According to Cloudflare, AI models are typically trained on content across the web, often without the creator even knowing about it or … continue reading
Wind River delivers commercial offering of eLxr project to facilitate cloud-to-edge deployments
Wind River has announced a new commercial Linux offering designed specifically for cloud-to-edge deployments. The offering, eLxr Pro, is based on the eLxr open source project, which consists of Debian packages that have been optimized for performance, security, and size required to run edge workloads. According to Wind River, the project came at a time … continue reading
Pulumi ESC now generally available, Insights 2.0 released
The infrastructure as code company Pulumi has announced the general availability of Pulumi ESC and the release of Pulumi Insights 2.0 during its annual user conference, PulumiUP. Pulumi ESC, which stands for environments, secrets, and configuration, is a centralized secrets management platform. In this GA release, the company has added a new projects system that … continue reading
Stytch updates Device Fingerprinting to improve bot detection
The authentication provider Stytch is releasing new features in its Device Fingerprinting offering aimed at making it easier for companies to detect bots and fraud. Stytch Device Fingerprinting creates unique and persistent fingerprints for each visitor by analyzing subsignals of device hardware, network TLS profile, and active browser markers. It is also invisible to users, … continue reading
Oracle levels up OCI distributed cloud with several new updates
Oracle has announced several Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) distributed cloud updates, spanning a number of solutions, including OCI Supercluster, OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Database AWS, Oracle Database Azure, and Oracle Database Google Cloud. The company is now taking orders for OCI Supercluster, which it describes as the “largest AI supercomputer in the cloud,” with 3x … continue reading
Google Cloud adds new backup features to Backup and Disaster Recovery service
Google Cloud is improving its Backup and Disaster Recovery service with three new preview features for simplifying backup management and policies. First, backup vault provides immutable and indelible backups, meaning they are both prevented from having modifications made to them and cannot be deleted. This protects backups from being tampered with or being unintentionally deleted. … continue reading
ServiceNow’s Now Platform Xanadu release helps companies improve operational resiliency with AI
ServiceNow has released the latest version of its Now Platform, bringing improvements around operational resiliency and productivity, AI assistance, database performance, and more. The Now Platform Xanadu release introduces new automation capabilities to streamline application management, issue resolution, and operations, improving overall productivity and operational resiliency. Enterprise Architecture, which is an expansion of the company’s … continue reading
