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Navigating the practicalities of AI regulation and legislation

12 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, chatbot, compliance, Computer, data privacy, GDPR, Google, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, risk management, Salesforce, social media, Tech / By

Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…

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Tech workers say diversity and inclusion efforts are working

3 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, Microsoft, Salesforce, Tech / By

Tech workers claim that where organisations are working to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) those efforts are making a difference, according to a survey. As part of its Careers and Hiring Guide 23/24, tech talent firm Tenth Revolution Group gathered data from global employees at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft 365, Azure and Business Applications,…

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Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2024

18 minutes of reading / AI, blockchain, Computer, data analytics, digital transformation, fintech, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, open source, Salesforce, Siemens, software engineering, Sony, Square, Tech, Technology / By

Sheridan Ash, founder and co-CEO of Tech She Can, has become the 13th person to be named Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech. Launched in 2012, the Computer Weekly list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech started as a list of 25, expanding to 50 in 2015, and now seeing…

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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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Dreamforce 24: Salesforce taps Nvidia to power Agentforce

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

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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Tech sector layoffs mount amid AI investment frenzy

5 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Amazon, automation, Azure, Cisco, Dell, Google, IBM, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Tech, Technology / By

Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to tracking website Layoffs.fyi, tech companies laid off more than 165,000 people in 2022 and 264,000 people in 2023, with the latest data showing that 410 tech firms have laid off…

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How to optimise SAM budget in today’s heterogeneous environments

8 minutes of reading / AI, Broadcom, compliance, Computer, Flex, IT service management, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Tech, Workday / By

Overspending awaits the unwary when managing heterogeneous IT environments incorporating on-premise software, cloud apps and software as a service (SaaS), even as software asset management (SAM) continues to adapt, evolving beyond mere inventory audits. According to Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, IT service management (ITSM) marketing director at ManageEngine, which develops various IT management offerings, SAM remains a…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup

4 minutes of reading / Microsoft, Salesforce, Tech / By

Chocolate maker Tony’s Chocolonely has deployed cloud-to-cloud backup from Own in a move that has seen it become fully protected in its Salesforce.com environment. Previously, it regularly lost customer data without knowing it, and also ran up against storage space limitations that halted work. The Netherlands-based company employs 300 people in offices across Europe and…

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