Leverage Your Business Growth: Transition Your Windows Server to Azure with Pro Support | Microsoft Azure Blog

Leverage Your Business Growth: Transition Your Windows Server to Azure with Pro Support | Microsoft Azure Blog

Businesses are realizing the benefits of migrating Windows Server workloads to the cloud, especially with Azure offering significant savings, robust protection, and hybrid technologies. However, the lack of cloud talent is a common obstacle. To address this, Microsoft offers a variety of skills programs, virtual training days, and applied skills training to prepare individuals for … Read more

Top Executives of Palantir, Oracle, and Pfizer Meet with US Lawmakers to Seek Support for Israel During Hamas Attack and Hostage Crisis – Oracle and Pfizer Stocks Rise on NYSE

Top Executives of Palantir, Oracle, and Pfizer Meet with US Lawmakers to Seek Support for Israel During Hamas Attack and Hostage Crisis – Oracle and Pfizer Stocks Rise on NYSE

CEOs from Palantir Technologies Inc., Oracle Corp., and Pfizer Inc. met with US senators to discuss support for Israel during its invasion of Gaza and finding a solution for hostages held by Hamas. The bipartisan group of senators, including Sen. John Cornyn and Sen. Lindsey Graham, also discussed the potential involvement of countries like Saudi … Read more

IBM and VMware collaborate to support businesses in implementing generative AI with Watson on-premises – VMware shares updates and narratives

IBM and VMware collaborate to support businesses in implementing generative AI with Watson on-premises – VMware shares updates and narratives

IBM and VMware have teamed up to make IBM Watsonx available on-premises through VMware Private AI and Red Hat OpenShift, allowing for fast and transparent generative AI capabilities. The partnership aims to bring generative AI into the mainstream as companies look to drive transformative innovation in 2023. Generative AI has various use cases, from code … Read more

Intel’s Xe Driver Gears Up for SR-IOV Support and Adds Lunar Lake Code in Linux 6.11

Intel’s Xe Driver Gears Up for SR-IOV Support and Adds Lunar Lake Code in Linux 6.11

Intel has made progress in supporting Lunar Lake in the Linux kernel graphics driver, but the functionality is not fully connected yet. Lunar Lake will be the first generation to use the Intel Xe driver by default instead of the i915 Direct Rendering Manager driver. The goal is to have Lunar Lake support reach a … Read more

Cisco Unveils $1 Billion Fund to Support AI Startups | VoIP Review

Cisco Unveils  Billion Fund to Support AI Startups | VoIP Review

Cisco’s recent announcement of a $1 billion fund dedicated to investing in AI startups reflects its commitment to strengthening its presence in the rapidly growing AI industry. CEO Chuck Robbins unveiled the fund at the “Cisco Live” event in Las Vegas, underscoring the company’s goal of fostering innovation and assisting companies in navigating the complex … Read more

AWS introduces support for KRaft mode in Apache Kafka clusters on Amazon MSK

AWS introduces support for KRaft mode in Apache Kafka clusters on Amazon MSK

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) has announced support for KRaft (Apache Kafka Raft) mode in Apache Kafka version 3.7. KRaft was developed by the Apache Kafka community to replace Apache ZooKeeper for managing metadata in Kafka clusters. This new mode allows cluster metadata to be propagated within a group of Kafka controllers, … Read more

Veeam enhances backup software to offer support for Proxmox, a VMware alternative

Veeam enhances backup software to offer support for Proxmox, a VMware alternative

Data protection provider Veeam has announced that it will be adding support for the open source virtualization platform Proxmox in the future. This decision was made in response to strong demand from their small and medium-sized business customers and service providers. Proxmox Virtual Environment integrates the KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC) and offers software-defined … Read more

Cisco Announces $1 Billion AI Fund to Support Startup Investments and Innovative Solutions

Cisco has announced the launch of a $1 billion fund dedicated to investing in startups and solutions focused on artificial intelligence (AI). The fund is part of Cisco’s efforts to advance technology and innovation in the AI space. The company is seeking to support promising AI startups and solutions that have the potential to make … Read more

Android’s Find My Device could soon support AR directions and UWB with Google’s latest update

Android’s Find My Device could soon support AR directions and UWB with Google’s latest update

Google is working on bringing AR-based directions and UWB support to the Find My Device app for Android users. This new feature will allow users to receive AR instructions to track their devices by overlaying a user interface on their phone camera. The app may offer AR-based directions for more than just trackers and UWB-enabled … Read more

TechCrunch: Google collaborates with RapidSOS to support 911 connectivity via RCS

TechCrunch: Google collaborates with RapidSOS to support 911 connectivity via RCS

Google has announced a partnership with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency responders, to provide users with the ability to communicate with 911 through RCS (Rich Messaging Service). This feature will be rolled out this winter to users who do not have text-to-911 capabilities. Initially, it will only be available to Google Messages users. Currently, only … Read more