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Cisco has added AI features to its AppDynamics observability platform that promise to help customers more quickly detect anomalies, identify performance problems, and resolve issues across the enterprise. The new features will be implemented in a virtual appliance, available this month, for Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises, which gives customers the ability to see and manage their entire application stack, including application code, runtime, infrastructure (servers, databases, networks, VMs, containers), and user experience. AppDynamics On-Premises includes integration…

Digital twins are virtual representations of physical chips that mimic how the real version will function. It is meant to be a faster way to develop, test, and revise chips without having to make physical versions of them. It’s much easier to simulate a chip than spin out silicon and helps researchers test out new processors before putting them into production. “Digital twin technology can help to spark innovation in research, development, and manufacturing of…

The Mount Pleasant site was initially earmarked for a manufacturing plant operated by electronics giant Foxconn. However, a planned $10 billion investment, announced in 2017 and championed by former President Donald Trump, never fully materialized. Foxconn did open a data center on the site in 2021, but plans to manufacture LCD screens there were shelved, and now Microsoft is building on the land instead. Unlocking Advanced AI Applications Microsoft’s new investments will greatly improve AI…

“But image mode for RHEL is one of, if not the, first enterprise Linux platform to offer it,” says Ben Breard, senior principal product manager at the Red Hat Enterprise Linux business unit. “The entire operating system will be delivered as a bootable container,” Breard says. “Universal Base Image still needed to be run on a host operating system, for example – it was a container on a host.” The advantage to doing this is…

Nearly half (46%) use Server Message Block (SMB) v1 or v2. The SMB protocol used for file sharing and other purposes has been updated in SMB v3 to protect against vulnerabilities. Still, Cato found that many organizations continue to rely on SMB v1 and SMB v2 despite known vulnerabilities such as EternalBlue and denial of service (DoS) attacks. SMB v3 also enforces the robust AES-128-GCM encryption standard, according to the report. “The HTTP traffic analysis…

Today, digital twin technologies continue to gain traction because of their potential to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds, according to Grand View Research, which says the global digital-twin market is forecast to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38% from 2023 to 2030. Incorporating technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and IoT into digital twin systems is expected to boost market growth in the forecast period, Grand View…

Most of us watch TV using cable, satellite, or streaming services. But none of these are cheap, and they’re getting more expensive by the day — leading many people to go back to using antennas and over-the-air (OTA) TV. According to Nielsen, as of 2023, more than 18% of US TV households watch OTA.   To watch any kind of OTA TV, you need an antenna. If you’re lucky, you can still get a decent…

Calling the problem “an isolated incident,” Google also assured UniSuper members that the outage was not due to a cyber-attack and thus their sensitive data was not exposed to unauthorized entities. What happened? The provisioning issue caused a deletion of UniSuper’s Private Cloud subscription, which deleted the cloud in two geographies, one of which was aimed at providing protection against outages and loss, according to Google. “Restoring UniSuper’s Private Cloud instance has called for an…

“By placing data, data management capabilities and analytic workloads at optimal points, ranging all the way to endpoint devices, enterprises can enable more real-time use cases. In addition, the flexibility to move data management workloads up and down the continuum from centralized data centers or from the cloud-to-edge devices will enable greater optimization of resources,” Gartner notes in its March 2024 Market Guide for Edge Computing. Securing those workloads is also a key feature of the…