Monthly Archives: September 2022

Adopting public cloud for automotive manufacturing operations

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Currently, the adoption of cloud in manufacturing operations management (MOM) applications is at an early stage. This point of view (POV) article explores CIOs’ apprehensions in migrating MOM applications to the cloud and suggests a three-step strategy to mitigate these risks….

Fireside discussion on increased adoption of SASE and zero trust with Palo Alto Networks

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Vishal Salvi, chief information security officer and head of cyber security practice at Infosys, and Kumar Ramachandran, senior vice president, SASE GTM, at Palo Alto Networks, talk about the new cybersecurity practices in the post-pandemic environment. Click here to continue. Read…

Facebook and Messenger take a hint from Discord for new Community Chats

A Facebook Group called “Women Who Surf” has multiple new Community Chats for instant engagement with its members. | Image: Meta Facebook is expanding access to a feature that allows group organizers to create curated live Messenger chat groups. It’s called Community Chats, and it’ll allow you to browse chats organized by announcements, topics, events,…

We’re careening into ‘uncharted territory of destruction,’ WMO climate report says

This aerial photograph taken on September 5th, 2022, shows flooded residential areas after heavy monsoon rains in Dera Allah Yar, Balochistan province in Pakistan, following months of record monsoon rains. | Photo by FIDA HUSSAIN / AFP via Getty Images “The science is unequivocal: we are going in the wrong direction” when it comes to…

Twitter shareholders approve the $44B merger Musk is trying to get out of

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Twitter shareholders voted to approve Elon Musk’s purchase of the company, weeks ahead of a trial over Musk’s attempt to exit the merger deal. Though a specific vote tally wasn’t available today, multiple news reports said investors backed the Twitter board’s recommendation to approve the $44 billion deal…

Instagram is internally testing a new monetization feature for creators called ‘Gifts’

Instagram is internally testing a tipping feature that would give creators a new way to make money on the social network. The test feature is called “Gifts” and would enable creators to earn money through on Reels. The news was first reported by Business Insider. When asked about the feature, a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch…

Looking for a boot drive? Here’s why you should go for an SSD, not an HDD

New findings from cloud storage and backup company Backblaze has shed light on the long-term reliability of SSDs versus HDDs, when deployed as boot drives. The second edition of the Backblaze drive statistics report, based on the storage hardware deployed across the company’s data centers, shows the annualized failure rate (AFR) of HDD boot drives…