Red Hat and Oracle expand global alliance
Oracle has expanded its global alliance with open-source tool vendor Red Hat, bringing the latter’s OpenShift platform to its cloud.
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Insider risks are getting increasingly costly
The cost of cybersecurity threats caused by organisation insiders rose over the course of 2023, according to a new report from the Ponemon Institute and DTEX Systems.
Oracle’s Ellison says generative AI is ‘most important technology ever’
Generative AI fundamentally changes how apps will be built and run at Oracle, the company’s CTO and co-founder said.
Amazon gives us a peek at a generative AI-fueled Alexa
Alexa sounds much more natural with the backing of Amazon’s new LLM, although it also gives off some serious HAL vibes.
UK's controversial online safety bill set to become law
The Online Safety bill, now passed by Parliament, has stirred criticism regarding provisions that will require tech companies to monitor encrypted messages.
Juniper targets data centre management with Apstra upgrade
Apstra 4.2.0 includes intent-based analytics probes for improved telemetry and visibility into network operations.
Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave gets Vector Store, generative AI features
The new generative AI capabilities and the Vector Store are currently in private preview.
Manufacturing firms make early bets on the industrial metaverse
The metaverse concept has faced a lot of skepticism, but industrial firms appear keen to deploy technologies, such as digital twins and virtual reality devices, that serve as the precursors to more immersive and interconnected environments.
Four steps for purple team success
Purple teams are about continuously strengthening and adapting cyber defenses. Here are a few steps to achieve a successful purple-team exercise.
Oracle unveils its API-led generative AI service with Cohere’s LLMs
The new generative AI service, which is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is currently in limited availability.
Oracle’s Database 23c gets vector search to underpin generative AI use cases
The semantic search capabilities added to the database offering include a new vector data type, vector indexes, and vector search SQL operators.
Avanade unveils generative AI lab for Southeast Asia
Avanade has launched a generative AI lab for the Southeast Asian market that also acts as a centre of excellence for partners and customers.
Check Point salutes top APAC partners
Cyber security vendor Check Point Software has honoured its top Asia Pacific (APAC) partners.
Kyndryl to ‘modernise’ BreadTalk’s cloud infrastructure
Kyndryl and BreadTalk Group have expanded their partnership to further enhance the Singapore-based food and beverage company’s cloud infrastructure.
What APAC partners can expect from Oracle Database on Azure
Partners in Asia Pacific face an uncertain wait for the newly announced Oracle Database@Azure, but it will be worth the wait according to the region’s channel chief.
GitHub woos Bitbucket and Bamboo refugees
Atlassian will end support for Bitbucket Server and Bamboo Server in February 2024, and offers a cloud migration trial program to server product customers.
Google adds its Bard chatbot to Gmail, YouTube, Docs and other apps
Google is challenging Microsoft and ChatGPT for the top spot in generative AI technology with an assistant designed to handle any number of business and consumer tasks.
Cisco-F5 partnership yields secure, multisite load balancing technology
Expanded partnership delivers tighter integration between Cisco ACI tools and F5 BIG-IP DNS software to improve application availability and performance for mutual customers.
Smartsheet adds generative AI capabilities to work management platform
Work management software company Smartsheet has released a new version of its platform built for scale, adding generative AI capabilities to help users eliminate mundane tasks from their workday.
Network observability tools promise benefits, but obstacles hinder results
Enterprises see the benefits of adopting observability tools, but lack of budget, increased network complexity, and staff burnout represent hurdles to success, according to SolarWinds research.
Five Reasons Why the Channel Is Turning To AI-Powered Observability
The modern IT environment has grown to become a complex web of various applications, cloud environments, databases, and devices. All these tools aim to support an increasingly distributed workforce, which requires access to resources at all times from anywhere in the world. While these tools are making this possible, it has created new challenges companies must overcome. However, this has simultaneously created new opportunities for the channel to provide solutions directly addressing these challenges.. Read more
