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Comments Off on Comcast Business Announces $1.7 Million Investment to Expand High-Performance Ethernet Network in Harrisburg
(Source: Markets Insider) The Comcast Business team continues to win customers in Central Pennsylvania and throughout its Keystone Region, recently joining CenturyLink in signing a five-year contract with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide data networkingproducts to the Commonwealth's agencies, commissions, councils, bureaus, ......
Comments Off on AbacusNext Brings Private Cloud to Canada with Data Center Expansion and Microsoft Certification
(Source: GlobeNewswire (press release)) Utilizing data centers in Toronto and Montréal operated by Zayo, a global communications infrastructure provider, AbacusNext is proud to offer Abacus Private Cloud (APC) to Canadian professionals, in addition to the full suite of Microsoft products and services as an official Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP)....
Comments Off on Colo, Cloud Drive Growth, Force Data Center UPS Vendors to Adapt
(Source: Data Center Knowledge) After sales plummeted for several years, the data center UPS market is growing once again, as strong demand from cloud and colocation providers offsets slower ... With fewer internal workloads, these companies need to downsize to smaller in-house data centers with new IT infrastructure that includes new UPS systems for ......
Comments Off on Salesforce’s $6.5B deal for MuleSoft affirms its digital transformation strategy
(Source: WRAL Tech Wire) AI and IoT are tightly intertwined as the massive amount of data gained from IoT is leveraged through AI. MuleSoft's integration platform will enable the disparate IoT data sources to be connected to Salesforce's applications, and the insights from that combined data set can be created, surfaced and acted upon through ......
Comments Off on Apple, IBM Chiefs Call for More Data Oversight After Facebook Breach
(Source: NDTV) Executives from Apple and IBM Corp have called for more oversight on how personal data is used following the Facebook breach that saw roughly 50 million users' datamisused by consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Speaking at the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, Apple chief Tim Cook said "well-crafted" ......
Comments Off on Workday loses its head for Slack – also Facebook, Google, Microsoft
(Source: Diginomica) The Slack integration is an example of “extending data, context, processes, and intelligence to every application that our customers use for their business.” In other cases, applications will be able to “surface relevant data for employees through their Workday homepage,” or create their own presentation experience using the ......
Comments Off on Linux Foundation Injects Open Source Into AI
(Source: Light Reading) The Linux Foundation is aiming to expedite the market for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning with the launch of the LF Deep Learning Foundation at the Open Networking Summit Monday. The LF Deep Learning Foundation is designed to be a neutral space for developers and data scientists in ......
Comments Off on 4 Steps To A Data Quality Approach For Complying With New Data Regulations
(Source: Forbes) GDPR compliance is not possible without quality data, data management practices and the advanced capabilities to curate it. Many of those capabilities do not exist today within organizations because of internal gaps in technical infrastructure or processes. Compliance touches on multiple areas within a business—legal, ......
Comments Off on Microsoft Business Applications gets analytics, AI capabilities in latest release
(Source: CRN Australia) Spring has ushered in the latest release of Microsoft Business Applications, with new cloud-based solutions geared to sales and marketing professionals, upgraded models for introducing data into customized business solutions, and artificial intelligence infused throughout the suite. The update, rolled out this week, looks to ......
Comments Off on Applications & Identities Initial Targets in 86% of Breaches: Report
(Source: Dark Reading) Applications are also the gateway to data which has immense value to attackers. The concern over the safety of applications and data is borne out in a separate report by F5 and Ponemon, "The Evolving Role of CISOs and their Importance to the Business," in which respondents were asked to rank their top threats....