Category: microservices

Jan 16 2025

Cyber security dovetails with AI to lead 2025 corporate IT investment

3 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, data analytics, firewalls, machine learning, microservices, network security, Tech / By Comkex / Leave a Comment

Cyber security, whether singly or in tandem with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), dominates enterprise IT investment plans in 2025, according to Informa TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group’s annual spending intentions research. The research, based on responses from 1,351 IT and business professionals worldwide, found that cyber security outpaces all other categories of initiative, with a dramatic…

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Dec 25 2024

From front to back: tech vice-president Dan Lake on Notonthehighstreet.com’s tech strategy

8 minutes of reading / AI, API, data analytics, data science, e-commerce, Google, microservices, Tech / By Comkex

The big news from online marketplace Notonthehighstreet.com (NOTHS) in the build-up to peak trading is its new partnership with delivery platform Deliveroo, announced in September. NOTHS is one of the early wave of non-food-specific retail businesses partnering with Deliveroo to add speedy fulfilment options to their offering. Screwfix led the charge in 2023, and others…

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Sep 21 2024

Dreamforce 24: Salesforce taps Nvidia to power Agentforce

3 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, microservices, Salesforce, Tech / By Comkex

Salesforce and Nvidia have committed to a partnership that will see Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform – including accelerated computing capability and AI software – brought to bear alongside the Salesforce platform and its new Agentforce AI agent service, developing more advanced AI capabilities for organisations with autonomous agent and interactive avatars, among other things.…

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Aug 18 2024

What are the options when migrating from VMware?

5 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, compliance, digital transformation, Kubernetes, microservices, Microsoft, Oracle, Tech / By Comkex

It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…

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May 25 2024

Google Develops In-House Arm ‘Axion’ CPU for Datacenters

2 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, data analytics, Google, microservices, Tech / By Comkex

Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major…

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May 20 2024

DataStax launches on-premise GenAI in ‘hyper-converged’ format

3 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, microservices, Tech / By Comkex

Texas-based DataStax has launched its Hyper-Converged Data Platform (HCDP) as a ready-made offering for enterprise customers that want to build vector databases for in-house generative AI (GenAI). Vectors are mathematical representations of concepts, words and images used by GenAI systems to allow questions and comparisons of datasets to provide insightful outcomes. HCDP is intended to allow…

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May 1 2024

Storage technology explained: AI and data storage

8 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, chatbot, Cloud, Dell, Hitachi, HP, hybrid cloud, IBM, internet of things, machine learning, microservices, multicloud, Tech / By Comkex

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) promises a step change in the automation fundamental to IT, with applications ranging from simple chatbots to almost unthinkable levels of complexity, content generation and control. Storage forms a key part of AI, to supply data for training and store the potentially huge volumes of data generated, or…

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Apr 6 2024

The NVIDIA GTC 2024 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 1:00pm PT/20:00 UTC)

12 minutes of reading / AI, API, Apple, AWS, Azure, chatbot, Cloud, Dell, Google, microservices, Microsoft, Oracle, robotics, SAP, Siemens, Tech, Wistron / By Comkex

We’re here in sunny San Jose California for the return of an event that’s been a long-time coming: NVIDIA’s in-person GTC. The Spring 2024 event, NVIDIA’s marquee event for the year, promises to be a big one for NVIDIA, as the company is due to deliver updates on its all-important datacenter accelerator products – the…

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Sep 16 2023

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 Comkex

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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