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Applying IT observability to deliver business metrics

5 minutes of reading / AI, automation, Azure, e-commerce, Kubernetes, Microsoft, Tech / By

The recent Dynatrace Innovate event, which took place earlier this month in Amsterdam, showcased the company’s ambitions to extend observability beyond IT operations. Analyst Gartner defines observability platforms as the tools organisations use to understand and improve the availability, performance and resilience of critical applications and services. According to Gartner, investment in and successful deployment…

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Interview: Bruno Marie-Rose, CIO, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

9 minutes of reading / 5G, Alibaba, compliance, Computer, e-commerce, GDPR, IT strategy, Tech / By

You know the technology behind the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in good hands when it’s run by a former athletics world record holder and three-time Olympian. Bruno Marie-Rose, chief information and technology officer of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is not your average digital leader. He speaks to…

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Dreamforce 2024: Salesforce calls on customers to flesh out AI vision

4 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, e-commerce, Salesforce, Tech / By

In a development as predictable as the coming of autumn, Salesforce leadership took to the stage on a damp, misty September morning in San Francisco to open their annual Dreamforce jamboree with a marathon two-hour artificial intelligence (AI) hype session billed as “the world’s largest AI event”, and with over 1,500 more sessions to attend…

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The world’s first tri-fold phone will cost you around $10,000, thanks to scalpers

3 minutes of reading / Apple, e-commerce, Google, Huawei, iPad, iPhone, MacBook, Tech / By

Chinese smartphone vendor Huawei challenged Apple this year in an unexpected way. Huawei unveiled the world’s first commercially available tri-fold phone, the Mate XT, on the same day Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 series. The events took place just hours apart.The iPhone 16 went on sale on Friday around the world, with the most expensive…

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Europol sting operation smokes multiple botnets

7 minutes of reading / e-commerce, internet of things, Tech, threat intelligence, VPN / By

Some of the most prominent malware-dropping botnets in operation today, including Bumblebee, IcedID, Pikabot, Smokeloader, SystemBC and Trickbot, have been disrupted in a coordinated law enforcement action orchestrated through the European Union’s (EU’s) Europol agency. Operation Endgame, which enlisted the support of both the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the US’s FBI, as well…

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Kingfisher develops AI-agnostic platform to power DIY assistant

4 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, data science, e-commerce, Tech / By

Kingfisher, the group that owns DIY retailers B&Q and Screwfix, has launched a generative AI-powered virtual assistant in its French Castorama stores. The virtual assistant, which is built on top of a reusable platform called Athena, has been trained to answer customers’ DIY queries and provides step-by-step advice on a range of home improvement projects,…

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Closing the datacentre skills gap by tapping up career changers

7 minutes of reading / data science, e-commerce, IBM, Intel, project management, Tech / By

The UK datacentre industry is in the midst of a prolonged and well-publicised skills crisis, as there are simply not enough people entering the sector despite more students studying science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. Might it be time to look again at how best to attract candidates from other walks of life, such…

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Gymshark turns to Google Cloud for infrastructure revamp and generative AI trials

3 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, e-commerce, Google, Google Cloud, influencer marketing, social media, Tech / By

The CEO of direct-to-consumer fitness apparel startup Gymshark has turned to Google Cloud to help standardise the “mish-mash” of IT underpinning its operations, and is drawing on the hyperscaler’s artificial intelligence (AI) expertise to explore how generative AI (GenAI) could benefit its business. The e-commerce company, founded in 2012, has recently branched out into bricks…

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ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-N97 and GMKtec NucBox G2 Review: Contrasting Compact ADL-N Options

8 minutes of reading / e-commerce, Intel, Tech / By

Intel introduced a separate microarchitecture for low-power / low-cost x86 systems in the 2008 Silverthorne Atom processors. Variation of the microarchitecture in different product families has since helped the company to span a wider performance / power efficiency range. From 2008 to 2020, each product family opted for either the Atom-class microarchitecture or the Core-class…

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Dunelm’s journey to micro front ends

4 minutes of reading / automation, AWS, digital transformation, e-commerce, Git, IBM, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, serverless, software engineering, Tech / By

Software engineering covers all of Dunelm’s business domains. Over the past few years, the retailer has updated its IT infrastructure from running off-the-shelf ecommerce via IBM WebSphere on Rackspace to building everything in-house. “Like many companies, digital transformation starts with the website and goes deeper and wider after that,” says Paul Kerrison, director of engineering…

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