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Fortune 500 stands to lost $5bn plus from CrowdStrike incident

The largest global organisations hit by the CrowdStrike - Microsoft incident on 19 July will likely be out of pocket to the tune of billions of dollars.
Soracom unveils IoT connectivity platform with embedded GenAI

Advanced internet of things connectivity provider launches services designed to accelerate deployment of larger and more complex IoT projects by embedding generative artificial intelligence capabilities more deeply in the IoT connectivity stack
Critical Response Group and Intrado elevate emergency response

Critical incident mapping provider and emergency communication service tech firm partner to enhance response and situational awareness for schools, businesses and other organisations
Mimecast to buy insider threat specialist Code42

Mimecast is to buy fellow human-centred risk experts Code42 for an undisclosed sum to take advantage of its insider threat and data loss protection specialisms
Post Office ‘acted the victim’, officials 'abandoned principles’

Former government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’
Vodafone Spain, MasOrange agree terms to create joint venture

Leading Spanish fixed operators propose deal to create joint venture to deliver ‘highly efficient’ fibre infrastructure for broadband customers

Enhancing mobile app security with behaviour-based biometrics

Behavioural-based biometrics offer tantalising advantages over more traditional biometric solutions. Learn about some of the benefits and potential challenges for safe and secure implementation
Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads

We look at hybrid multicloud storage, making the best of on-premise and multiple cloud application locations, its key benefits, some pitfalls and the technologies to build it with
IT sustainability: Why we’re still waiting for quantified emissions reductions

It is not all down to greenwashing. Genuine challenges stand in the way of many organisations implementing IT in support of their environmental, social and governance goals

Snowflake goes massive on Meta LLM for open source inference difference- Open Source Insider

Snowflake says it will now host the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs) in Snowflake Cortex AI for developers to build AI applications. The Data Cloud ... Continue Reading
CrowdStrike reveals Windows weakness- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

The bug that impacted 8.5m PCs last week was, says, CrowdStrike due to an update it refers to as “Rapid Response Content”, which is delivered as a “template instance”. This is data stored in a ... Continue Reading
Cohesity CTO: Turning 'backup into heads-up' through generative AI- CW Developer Network

The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down this month with Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity to examine the methodologies, principles and practices that underpin a more proactive ... Continue Reading
Cloudera opens & elevates observability aperture- CW Developer Network

Hybrid data, analytics and AI platform company Cloudera has upped its ‘Observability Premium’ service. This toolset is designed to simplify and automate platform administration. The premium tier ... Continue Reading

Think Tank: Using cloud AI tech to help enterprises go green

The hype around AI is increasingly being matched with discussions about how the technology's adoption will affect the environment, so what can IT leaders do to ensure they keep the companies they work for on the forefront of innovation, without ...
Fundamental guardrails to address AI risk and value

Leveraging existing governance approaches and current success will make AI governance less daunting while supporting business goals
What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

Today’s global outage of Microsoft is rapidly sending shockwaves across all sectors, demonstrating the risk of having a single point of failure