In episode 320, Douglas Brown interviews Ruben Spruijt, Sr. Technologist at Nutanix. Together they discuss Nutanix FRAME, the history, how it works, VDI vs. DaaS, typical use cases, the future and much more. Learn more: About Ruben Spruijt Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist at Nutanix, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market […]
Archives for April 2020
Google must pay news firms for content: French regulator
Image Credit: REUTERS/Hannah McKay France’s competition regulator said Thursday that Google must start paying media groups for displaying their content, ordering it to begin negotiations after refusing for months to comply with Europe’s new digital copyright law. The agency said it “requires Google, within three months, to conduct negotiations in good faith with publishers and […]
Cisco ‘Critical Update’ Phishing Attack Steals Webex Credentials
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Online searches for games, movies soar amid lockdown: Report
More Indians are searching online for information on games, movies, books as well as grocery and food delivery services. In view of the ongoing lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, online searches related to these topics and more have surged, says web analytics firm SEMrush, which shared its search data exclusively with ET. Searches for […]
Businesses Rewrite 2020 Budgets and Plans Amid COVID-19
A few new surveys of executives and business leaders provide some insight into shifting plans as industry weathers the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Many workers are furloughed while others work from home. Streets and grocery shelves are empty. In the c-suite, organizations are shifting budgets and priorities in the wake of […]
Indian government warms up to e-commerce firms
Image Credit: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Three days after India imposed a nationwide lockdown, Devender Singh revved up his motorcycle to deliver meat and eggs to customers – but his heart was in his mouth as he closed in on a police barricade on a deserted New Delhi road. Beatings of delivery workers by overzealous police after […]
Zoom hires ex-Facebook security chief as Google bans desktop app
Zoom has tapped former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser as safety and privacy concerns about its fast-growing video-conferencing app drive a global backlash against the company. That backlash includes a move on Wednesday by Alphabet’s Google to ban the desktop version of Zoom from corporate laptops. In a stark illustration of Zoom’s […]
Microsoft Receives 2020 SAP® Pinnacle Award: Public and Private Cloud Provider Partner of the Year
I’m pleased to share that SAP recently named Microsoft its Partner of the Year for the 2020 SAP® Pinnacle Award category of Public and Private Cloud Provider. SAP presents these awards annually to the top partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and helping customers run better. Winners and finalists […]
We Will Need All the Automation We Can Get
Enterprise automation is not a cause for alarm but a societal imperative. Here’s why. It’s a prediction that has been made for decades, even centuries. Technology-driven automation is about to trigger mass unemployment. In today’s rendition this means that there will soon be no need for truck drivers, fast food workers, retail store staff, middle […]
Next Generation SAP HANA Large Instances with Intel® Optane™ drive lower TCO
At Microsoft Ignite 2019, we announced general availability of the new SAP HANA Large Instances powered by the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, formally Cascade Lake, supporting Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (PMem). Microsoft’s largest SAP customers are continuing to consolidate their business functions and growing their footprint. S/4 HANA workloads demand increasingly larger nodes […]