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Nordic Solar Asset Tracker Ensures 8+ Years Maintenance Free IoT Operation

Digital IT News Editors — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:02:46 +0000

Grandcentrix is using Nordic’s nRF9160 low power System-in-Package (SiP) with integrated LTE-M/NB-IoT modem and GNSS at the heart of its ‘Vodafone Asset Solar’ asset tracker. The asset tracker employs a photovoltaic (‘solar’) panel charging a 3.6 V, 1100 mAh NiMH battery to offer a minimum of eight years of maintenance-free tracking. In the absence of sunlight to charge the battery, the asset tracker can still register and notify more than 700 tracking events.

The solar-powered asset tracker enables simple and cost-effective tracking and monitoring of assets for logistics, equipment rental, waste management, construction equipment, and agricultural equipment companies. It includes a preconfigured Vodafone Global MFF2-SIM-card (eSIM) for LTE-M and NB-IoT operation and is ready for operation on the Vodafone Managed IoT Connectivity Services network. The company selected NB-IoT for the asset tracker’s connectivity because the technology offers low power consumption, wide coverage, and global availability.

Designed for harsh conditions

Originally designed for tracking shipping containers, the Vodafone Asset Solar has been subjected to a series of challenging environmental tests and has been proven to work reliably under harsh conditions on the high seas. But its affordable cost also makes it suitable for tracking simple equipment like trailers, generators, carriers, or other portable equipment. An integrated three-axis accelerometer triggers the asset tracker when the asset is moved. This saves battery power by limiting location reporting to only the times when the asset tracker is in transit.

The asset tracker employs the nRF9160 SiP’s built-in GNSS to determine its location and then periodically reports the location—and other data such as temperature as determined by a built-in sensor—via the SiP’s embedded multimode modem to the Cloud. It uses Nordic’s nRF Cloud Location Services Assisted GPS (A-GPS) to reduce the time-to-first-fix (TTFF) of communication satellites. A-GPS helps to reduce the asset tracker’s power consumption by limiting the time GPS need to be switched on.

Grandcentrix is currently testing nRF Cloud Location Services’ single- and multi-cell locationing. The technology will allow users to locate assets when GNSS is unavailable or give them more options to trade-off power savings against positional accuracy. Once testing is complete, the feature will be available to all Vodafone Asset Solar trackers already in the field via a firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) update.

Certified for global cellular IoT applications

The nRF9160 SiP is certified for global cellular IoT applications, and comprises a dedicated Arm® Cortex®-M33 application processor and memory, LTE-M/NB-IoT modem, GNSS, and power management. The SiP’s modem supports both SIM and eSIM, and offers 700 to 2200 MHz LTE band support. To maximize battery life, the SiP supports both PSM and eDRX power saving modes. For both LTE-M and NB-IoT the PSM floor current is as low as 2.7 µA, and with an eDRX interval of 655 s the average current is 6 µA for LTE-M and 9 µA for NB-IoT.

“Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP with its integrated application processor, modem, and GNSS enabled us to develop a compact hardware design for the Vodafone Asset Solar while reducing the unit’s hardware costs,” says Sebastian Boll, Product Manager Asset Tracker, grandcentrix.

“The SiP’s low power consumption is also very important because it allows for extended operation of the asset tracker. Other key factors that narrowed our choice down to Nordic were easy integration of the SiP’s modem and GNSS by using nRF Connect SDK libraries, and Nordic’s renowned documentation and technical support,” adds Boll.

“We are glad to have a strong partnership with Nordic,” says Kai Froese, VP Products at grandcentrix. “Nordic’s IoT solutions leverage synergies for us across all our IoT products, for example, Modbus Cloud Connect. As a result, it leads to a product offering with high quality standards and market-oriented prices for our customers.”

For more information on Nordic Semiconductor, visit the website here and for Grandcentrix click here.

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AMD Drives Corporate Responsibility Through Innovation And Partnerships

Digital IT News Editors — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 15:58:04 +0000

Energy-efficient, high-performance AMD products and deep collaborations help solve the most important global challenges

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today released its annual Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report, detailing progress toward goals spanning environmental sustainability; digital impact; supply chain responsibility; and diversity, belonging and inclusion. For 28 years AMD has reported on its CR programs and initiatives, and this is the company’s first report incorporating environmental and social data from recent acquisitions.

“At AMD, Corporate Responsibility is an integral part of our business strategy, culture and the relationships we foster with our customers and partners,” said Susan Moore, corporate vice president of Corporate Responsibility and International Government Affairs at AMD and president of the AMD Foundation. “Together with our employees, partners and customers, we are focused on responsibly designing and delivering high-performance and adaptive computing solutions for a more connected, sustainable and inclusive world.”

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AMD released its annual Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report, detailing progress toward goals spanning environmental sustainability; digital impact; supply chain responsibility; and diversity, belonging and inclusion. For 28 years AMD has reported on its CR programs and initiatives, and this is the company’s first report incorporating environmental and social data from recent acquisitions.

“At AMD, Corporate Responsibility is an integral part of our business strategy, culture and the relationships we foster with our customers and partners,” said Susan Moore, corporate vice president of Corporate Responsibility and International Government Affairs at AMD and president of the AMD Foundation. “Together with our employees, partners and customers, we are focused on responsibly designing and delivering high-performance and adaptive computing solutions for a more connected, sustainable and inclusive world.”

AMD conducted a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) materiality assessment¹ in 2023 to determine its most important issues in corporate responsibility based on their potential impact on the business and the potential impact the business has on society and the environment, known as “double materiality.” The assessment reaffirmed existing focus areas, including topics such as product energy efficiency; diversity, belonging and inclusion; responsible sourcing; and human rights in the supply chain. Responsible artificial intelligence (AI) and product use emerged as new issues with high impact on both AMD and society. AI is an immense opportunity that comes with unique challenges, and AMD is committed to working with the industry to innovate and deploy AI for good while reducing risks.

Key highlights from this year’s report include:

Accelerating sustainable computing: Semiconductors have an important role to play in the global response to the climate crisis, powering critical research and enabling more energy-efficient devices. As the demand for compute-intensive workloads like AI and high performance computing (HPC) accelerates, processor energy consumption is of critical importance. AMD prioritizes innovations that improve both performance and environmental sustainability through its goal to deliver 30x energy efficiency improvement in processors and accelerators for AI-training and HPC by 2025.² For 2023, AMD is on track toward achieving 13.5x improvement from the 2020 base year using a configuration of four AMD Instinct™ MI300A APUs launching later this year.³
Addressing greenhouse gas emissions: AMD also aims to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its operations and collaborating with direct manufacturing suppliers and customers. In 2022, AMD achieved a 19% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions compared to 2020.⁴ Aligned with AMD goals, 70% of the company’s direct manufacturing suppliers⁵ have public greenhouse gas emissions targets and 68% sourced renewable energy in 2022.⁶ AMD was again recognized as a CDP Supplier Engagement Leader for related goals and governance, landing in the top 8% of respondents.
Partnering across the value chain: AMD works with suppliers, partners and peers to address environmental sustainability and human rights issues across the semiconductor value chain as a founding member of the Semiconductor Climate Consortium and Responsible Business Alliance’s Senior Environmental Advisory Taskforce. In 2023, AMD also completed its first Human Rights Saliency Assessment to enhance its human rights strategy.
Advancing representation and STEM education: AMD wants to go beyond representation to lead the fabless semiconductor industry in inclusion and developing underrepresented talent such as women in engineering roles. Importantly, retention of female engineers remains strong at the company, and 92% of global employees say AMD creates an environment where people of diverse backgrounds can succeed. AMD is also passionate about enabling the next generation of innovators and continues to invest in STEM education through partnerships with universities, K-12 educators and nonprofit organizations.

AMD prepared the 2022-23 Corporate Responsibility Report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards (2021). In addition, the report includes climate-related disclosures included in the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) as well as relevant disclosures in applicable Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Standards.

Learn More:

Check out the 2022-23 Corporate Responsibility Report
Read a message from AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su
Follow AMD on LinkedIn

About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies. Billions of people, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research institutions around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focused on building leadership high-performance and adaptive products that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter pages.

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Material factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, without limitation, the following: Intel Corporation’s dominance of the microprocessor market and its aggressive business practices; global economic uncertainty; cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry; market conditions of the industries in which AMD products are sold; loss of a significant customer; impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on AMD’s business, financial condition and results of operations; competitive markets in which AMD’s products are sold; quarterly and seasonal sales patterns; AMD's ability to adequately protect its technology or other intellectual property; unfavorable currency exchange rate fluctuations; ability of third party manufacturers to manufacture AMD's products on a timely basis in sufficient quantities and using competitive technologies; availability of essential equipment, materials, substrates or manufacturing processes; ability to achieve expected manufacturing yields for AMD’s products; AMD's ability to introduce products on a timely basis with expected features and performance levels; AMD's ability to generate revenue from its semi-custom SoC products; potential security vulnerabilities; potential security incidents including IT outages, data loss, data breaches and cyber-attacks; potential difficulties in upgrading and operating AMD’s new enterprise resource planning system; uncertainties involving the ordering and shipment of AMD’s products; AMD’s reliance on third-party intellectual property to design and introduce new products in a timely manner; AMD's reliance on third-party companies for design, manufacture and supply of motherboards, software and other computer platform components; AMD's reliance on Microsoft and other software vendors' support to design and develop software to run on AMD’s products; AMD’s reliance on third-party distributors and add-in-board partners; impact of modification or interruption of AMD’s internal business processes and information systems; compatibility of AMD’s products with some or all industry-standard software and hardware; costs related to defective products; efficiency of AMD's supply chain; AMD's ability to rely on third party supply-chain logistics functions; AMD’s ability to effectively control sales of its products on the gray market; impact of government actions and regulations such as export administration regulations, tariffs and trade protection measures; AMD’s ability to realize its deferred tax assets; potential tax liabilities; current and future claims and litigation; impact of environmental laws, conflict minerals-related provisions and other laws or regulations; impact of acquisitions, joint ventures and/or investments on AMD’s business and AMD’s ability to integrate acquired businesses; impact of any impairment of AMD’s tangible, definite-lived or indefinite-lived intangible assets, including goodwill, on AMD’s financial position and results of operation; restrictions imposed by agreements governing AMD’s notes, the guarantees of Xilinx’s notes and the revolving credit facility; AMD's indebtedness; AMD's ability to generate sufficient cash to meet its working capital requirements or generate sufficient revenue and operating cash flow to make all of its planned R&D or strategic investments, as well as the impact of financial institution failure on AMD’s cash and cash equivalents; political, legal, economic risks and natural disasters; future impairments of technology license purchases; AMD’s ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; and AMD’s stock price volatility. Investors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncertainties in AMD’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to AMD’s most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.

© 2023 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

¹ We include certain disclosures, reports and information on various environmental, social and corporate responsibility-related matters on our website (collectively, our ‘ESG Materials’). Our ESG Materials may contain information that is significant; however, any significance should not be read as necessarily rising to the level of the definition of materiality used for the purposes of our compliance with the U.S. federal securities laws, even where we use the word ‘material’ or ‘materiality’ in our ESG Materials (including where we use it in connection with our materiality assessment) or in other materials issued in connection with the matters discussed in our ESG Materials. We have used definitions of materiality in the course of creating our ESG Materials and the goals and metrics discussed therein that do not coincide with or rise to the level of the definition of materiality used for the purposes of our compliance with the U.S. federal securities laws. Moreover, given the uncertainties, estimates and assumptions inherent in the matters discussed in our ESG Materials, and the timelines involved, materiality is inherently difficult to assess far in advance. In addition, given the inherent uncertainty of the estimates, assumptions and timelines associated with the matters discussed in our ESG Materials, we may not be able to anticipate in advance whether or the degree to which we will or will not be able to meet our plans, targets or goals.
² Includes AMD high-performance CPU and GPU accelerators used for AI training and high-performance computing in a 4-Accelerator, CPU-hosted configuration. Goal calculations are based on performance scores as measured by standard performance metrics (HPC: Linpack DGEMM kernel FLOPS with 4k matrix size. AI training: lower precision training-focused floating-point math GEMM kernels such as FP16 or BF16 FLOPS operating on 4k matrices) divided by the rated power consumption of a representative accelerated compute node, including the CPU host + memory and 4 GPU accelerators.
³ EPYC-030a: Calculation includes 1) base case kWhr use projections in 2025 conducted with Koomey Analytics based on available research and data that includes segment specific projected 2025 deployment volumes and data center power utilization effectiveness (PUE) including GPU HPC and machine learning (ML) installations, and 2) AMD CPU and GPU node power consumptions incorporating segment-specific utilization (active vs. idle) percentages and multiplied by PUE to determine actual total energy use for calculation of the performance per Watt. 13.5x is calculated using the following formula: (base case HPC node kWhr use projection in 2025 * AMD 2023 perf/Watt improvement using DGEMM and TEC +Base case ML node kWhr use projection in 2025 *AMD 2023 perf/Watt improvement using ML math and TEC) /(2020 perf/Watt * Base case projected kWhr usage in 2025). For more information: www.amd.com/en/corporate-responsibility/data-center-sustainability.
⁴ Reported data includes Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions (base year 2020). Based on AMD calculations that are third-party verified (limited level assurance)
⁵ Manufacturing suppliers are suppliers that AMD buys from directly and that provide direct materials and/or manufacturing services to AMD.
⁶AMD calculations are third-party verified (limited level assurance) based on data supplied by our direct manufacturing suppliers which is not independently verified by AMD.

Contact:
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AMD Investor Relations
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Key highlights from this year’s report include:

Accelerating sustainable computing: Semiconductors have an important role to play in the global response to the climate crisis, powering critical research and enabling more energy-efficient devices. As the demand for compute-intensive workloads like AI and high performance computing (HPC) accelerates, processor energy consumption is of critical importance. AMD prioritizes innovations that improve both performance and environmental sustainability through its goal to deliver 30x energy efficiency improvement in processors and accelerators for AI-training and HPC by 2025.² For 2023, AMD is on track toward achieving 13.5x improvement from the 2020 base year using a configuration of four AMD Instinct MI300A APUs launching later this year.³
Addressing greenhouse gas emissions: AMD also aims to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its operations and collaborating with direct manufacturing suppliers and customers. In 2022, AMD achieved a 19% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions compared to 2020.⁴ Aligned with AMD goals, 70% of the company’s direct manufacturing suppliers⁵ have public greenhouse gas emissions targets and 68% sourced renewable energy in 2022.⁶ AMD was again recognized as a CDP Supplier Engagement Leader for related goals and governance, landing in the top 8% of respondents.
Partnering across the value chain: AMD works with suppliers, partners and peers to address environmental sustainability and human rights issues across the semiconductor value chain as a founding member of the Semiconductor Climate Consortium and Responsible Business Alliance’s Senior Environmental Advisory Taskforce. In 2023, AMD also completed its first Human Rights Saliency Assessment to enhance its human rights strategy.
Advancing representation and STEM education: AMD wants to go beyond representation to lead the fabless semiconductor industry in inclusion and developing underrepresented talent such as women in engineering roles. Importantly, retention of female engineers remains strong at the company, and 92% of global employees say AMD creates an environment where people of diverse backgrounds can succeed. AMD is also passionate about enabling the next generation of innovators and continues to invest in STEM education through partnerships with universities, K-12 educators and nonprofit organizations.

Check out the 2022-23 Corporate Responsibility Report here.

For more information please visit the website here.

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Deloitte and Google Cloud Announces New Sustainability Initiative

Digital IT News Editors — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:43:13 +0000

Deloitte announced a groundbreaking new initiative with Google Cloud that will help clients mitigate climate risks, adopt green solutions and unlock the value of low carbon products and services utilizing revolutionary technologies like generative AI and geospatial data.

Deloitte also announced its recognition as the first global systems integrator with the Google Cloud Ready (GCR) – Sustainability designation, a program that validates Google Cloud-aligned organizations with business-ready technology to help customers achieve their sustainability goals. As part of the program, Deloitte is harnessing the power of its vast industry and domain knowledge, combined with Google Cloud’s market-leading technology and platforms, to help public and private organizations transition to a sustainable future.

Accelerating the transition to zero emission vehicles

Deloitte and Google Cloud are working with clients around the world to help create an economic pathway to zero emissions.

Deloitte’s Electrified Fleet solution, the first of many offerings soon to be available on Google Cloud, helps companies with the end-to-end electrification of their vehicular fleets. Joint customers will be able to utilize an interactive dashboard to help easily map out their entire electrification journey — encompassing the integration of global fleet telematics data, resource optimization and ongoing impact monitoring.

The Electrified Fleet Solution has already helped Purolator, a leading integrated freight, package and logistics solutions provider in Canada, to become a leader in net-zero transportation. In 2022, the company set a goal to reduce its absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 42% by 2030 and put Purolator on a path to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. In order to achieve these goals, Deloitte developed a strategic roadmap, assessing vehicle types and usage patterns, and energy and infrastructure options. As a result, Purolator is on track to meet its emissions reduction goals and electrify 60% of its last-mile delivery vehicles by 2030.

“Deloitte’s Electrified Fleet solution has been a tremendous asset to Purolator as we identify ways to reduce our emissions in the near-term and fuel our long-term success by contributing to a better and more sustainable tomorrow,” said Cindy Bailey, corporate sustainability officer at Purolator.

Mitigating climate risk in financial services

Deloitte and Google Cloud have also joined forces to leverage Google Earth Engine and their ecosystem relationships to support financial services companies around the world in using the power of geospatial analytics to bring improved visibility and new insights to climate risks across lending and investment portfolios.

National Westminster Bank (NatWest), a major bank in the United Kingdom, recently worked with Google Cloud, Deloitte and Climate Engine to utilize Google Earth Engine and help NatWest leverage geospatial data to capture climate-related data points across its commercial banking portfolio — with the first use-case focused on agriculture customers. For example, geospatial technology provided new data points and insights to assist NatWest with its climate reporting obligations — e.g., the EU Taxonomy and Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) — as well as support for their customers’ own climate and nature data collection. This information will also allow farmers to build a tailored picture of the challenges facing them, such as flood, drought, fire and biodiversity risks, all at a field-specific level.

Tackling the biggest climate challenges

Moving forward, Deloitte and Google Cloud’s sustainability, climate and equity-focused global initiative will help clients tackle major challenges. These include transitioning to zero emission energy sources, tapping into sustainable capital markets, scaling sustainable products and services, accelerating regenerative agriculture, decarbonizing digital business models and building sustainable and equitable communities.

“We are excited to be working with Google to take purposeful action to help mitigate climate risks, unlock the value of sustainable products and services, build green communities and green jobs and accelerate our progress toward a global net-zero future,” said Jamie Sawchuk, partner and global sustainability leader for the Alphabet Google alliance, Deloitte Canada.

“Through this program, Deloitte and Google Cloud can leverage our unique roles to help bolster the momentum to address climate change with cloud-based technologies and AI,” said Justin Keeble, managing director for global sustainability, Google Cloud. “We’re eager to work alongside Deloitte and our clients to accelerate action on climate in this urgent decade of delivery.”

For more information visit the website here.

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ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certification Attained by DataBank

Digital IT News Editors — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:49:21 +0000

DataBank, announced the company has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. The world-renowned standard defines the requirements that information security management systems must meet and provides guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving systems to manage information security.

DataBank received certification from ISO—the International Organization for Standardization—for internal corporate IT systems as well as nearly all DataBank colocation data centers in the U.S., which host IT infrastructures for customers across the globe. Conformity signifies DataBank has deployed policies and procedures to manage risks related to the security of data handled by the company, and the DataBank security management systems follow all the best practices and principles of the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard.

“As part of the certification requirements, we proved our employees know how to access the policies and understand their roles in enforcing the policies,” added Calli Schlientz, the Director of Compliance for DataBank. “We demonstrated our internal teams know exactly what to do if an IT system is at risk or if a disaster strikes a data center—including those who are onsite where an event occurs and the remote backup personnel who mitigate the issue.”

In addition to certifying the DataBank information security management systems, ISO validated DataBank has implemented processes to log and track system events month over month, quarter over quarter, and year over year. Besides policies and procedures, ISO auditors evaluate technical components, including: leased space, redundant power, climate control (HVAC), maintenance, general support functions, physical security to include external and internal access, and Internet point of presence and the security controls in accordance with the Statement of Applicability (SOA).

Through interviews with the compliance, network, security, and engineering teams, ISO assessors confirmed DataBank knows how to protect information. The assessors also reviewed security budgeting, and human resource processes to verify information security is part of the DataBank hiring strategy, and that DataBank appropriately staffs data centers with sufficient resources and expertise to handle IT risks.

“ISO thoroughly assesses both the technical and the personnel components of our security management systems and how we maintain security during various user activities, such as communicating with customers and accessing the network,” said Schlientz. “ISO/IEC 27001:2022 also complements the SOC 2 standards we comply with. Where ISO is prescriptive in setting up systems to manage IT risks (establishing the Information Security Management System or ISMS), SOC 2 requires us to produce evidence that proves our security systems are designed and operating effectively based on a set of criteria developed and audited by AICPA.”

Following this initial ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, DataBank will conduct internal audits regularly to maintain compliance, and ISO Assessors will perform maintenance assessments annually, completing a full recertification every three years. The certification also facilitates the process for DataBank customers seeking to achieve ISO certification for the data they store at the data centers. Customers can inherit the certification components pertaining to the physical environment of the co-location facilities.

For more information visit the website here.

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Datadog’s Report Finds Major Growth of Container-Based Serverless Platforms

Digital IT News Editors — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:17:51 +0000

Datadog, announced the results of its annual State of Serverless report. The 2023 report—which analyzes telemetry across Datadog’s global customer base—found that the serverless ecosystem continues to grow and evolve, particularly as organizations extend their use of container-based applications hosted in serverless environments. As of this year, more than 70% of Datadog’s AWS customers, 60% of Google Cloud customers and almost 50% of Azure customers are using one or more serverless solutions.

While FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) such as AWS Lambda remained the most common type of workload in 2023, the growth of container-based serverless platforms is outpacing overall serverless growth in each major cloud. Azure saw the largest spike in container-based serverless platform adoption with 76% growth year-over-year. Container-based serverless compute platforms have grown more popular because they simplify serverless adoption and migration. This trend in the major clouds reflects that organizations are viewing serverless as a mainstay and identifying valuable use cases for it outside of traditional FaaS offerings.

“There is significant adoption of serverless technologies across all major clouds. We expect the pace of adoption will only increase as more organizations embrace container-based platforms, which have become the serverless ecosystem’s primary growth driver,” said Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product at Datadog. “With more serverless solutions available across and within cloud platforms, serverless can now meet a greater variety of use cases. We are also seeing serverless in the general infrastructure and architectural best practices at organizations, which speaks to the staying power of serverless technologies.”

For more information visit the website here.

The State of Serverless report is available now. For the full results, please visit: https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/

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Deloitte AI Academy Collaborates With Renowned Universities

Digital IT News Editors — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:04:21 +0000

Deloitte announced an expansion of the Deloitte AI Academy to bring tailored Generative AI cirriculum training curricula to its professionals and clients, reinforcing its dedication to upskill early career professionals and equip them with skills needed for real-world AI and data science projects. On the pathway of training up to 10,000 Deloitte practitioners, the AI Academy is developing curriculum alongside major universities and technology institutes in the U.S. and India, including Virginia Tech and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

“The surge in popularity of Generative AI is driving a need for skills in this emerging area. In addition to the theory and the science of AI, we’re offering practical, hands-on experience to help our practitioners understand the context in which AI is applied, how it’s applied and where it’s applied,” said Mike Luk, managing director and U.S. AI Academy dean, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “This expansion is delivered through the Deloitte Technology Academy, part of Deloitte’s $1.4 billion Project 120 investment in learning and development.”

By teaming with these institutions, Academy learners have access to esteemed faculty on the topic of AI, along with research, innovative ideas, concepts, hands-on exercises and intellectual property, as well as domain and industry knowledge from Deloitte, a combination not readily available elsewhere.

“Virginia Tech is skilled in research AI knowledge adoption, with our faculty and students at the forefront of developing this cutting-edge research. Our collaboration with Deloitte AI Academy allows us to apply our findings to real world business developments and help shape the way Deloitte provides curriculum on this transformative technology,” said Laura Freeman, deputy director, Virginia Tech National Security Institute.

“Our collaboration with Deloitte started with a vision to revolutionize how organizations and academia work together to bridge the AI talent gap and mold our future leaders to be highly proficient in AI,” said Professor Millie Pant, head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing and joint faculty at Mehta Family School for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Roorkee. “Today, we’ve seen the success of our combined vision to develop curriculum that will digitally empower the global economy, and will continue to grow with the expansion of the AI Academy.”

There is a range of courses, for all levels of professionals, from basic Generative AI fluency to deeper technical skills like advanced prompt engineering techniques and fine-tuning, and advance certifications for technical professionals, in collaboration with tech companies to upskill in key priority areas focused on cutting-edge data and technologies. For example, Deloitte offers education on Generative AI and other accelerated technologies through a curated selection of courses developed by NVIDIA Training.

For more information visit the website here.

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Progress Brings Back ChefConf 2023 in Seattle and Munich

Digital IT News Editors — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:00:41 +0000

Progress announced the return of ChefConf 2023. Designed to empower attendees with the information, products and personal connections they need to understand the ever-evolving DevOps landscape, this year’s event will be held in two locations – Seattle, WA and Munich, Germany — to reach more Chef customers, community members, IT executives, software developers and DevOps professionals around the world.

Dates and Locations
ChefConf US September 26-27, 2023 Seattle, WA Hyatt Regency, Seattle	ChefConf Europe October 12-13, 2023 Munich, Germany Munich Marriott City West

With 30+ expert-led sessions, panels and workshops, demos and networking opportunities, ChefConf will provide unparalleled insights that drive innovation in the DevOps community. The conference will explore the latest innovations and practices in DevSecOps, compliance and security, and IT leadership and IT operations. Progress has assembled a dynamic lineup of speakers, industry thought leaders and Chef experts for this year’s event, including:

Stephanie Laingen, Director of Innovation, TapHere! Technology
Dan-Joe Lopez, DevOps CoE Global Team Lead, SAP
Emily Rodriguez, Software Engineer – MITRE SAF
Joe Nuspl, Principal Engineer at Workday

“We are excited to gather, collaborate and continue to revolutionize the way we approach DevOps automation and infrastructure management,” said Sundar Subramanian, Executive Vice President, General Manager, Infrastructure Management, Progress. “We are committed to delivering to our customers and community the technology they need to drive their businesses forward and top industry knowledge for greater decision making, to better set them up for success.”

Progress® Chef® is an industry-leading portfolio that addresses the full spectrum of DevOps and DevSecOps, using a single ‘as code’ framework to configure, deploy and manage virtually any asset on any cloud to any edge, including support for any infrastructure or application including cloud-native assets like Kubernetes and public cloud services. Using this single framework, the Chef portfolio can also help organizations streamline their continuous compliance posture and secure infrastructure support on premises or in the cloud.

Additional details about the ChefConf agenda and speakers will be available in the coming weeks. To learn more about this event and to register, go to the website HERE.

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Netskope Finds State and Local Government Struggle with Cloud Protection

Digital IT News Editors — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:30:51 +0000

Netskope unveiled research findings showing that despite continued investment in cloud technologies, State and Local Government Information Technology (IT) leaders face challenges in keeping up with modern data protection needs.

The findings are highlighted in a new Netskope survey assessing the most critical challenges facing business influencers and decision makers in State and Local Government Information Technology. Top priorities for these IT decision makers are vulnerability management (61%), along with data protection (50%), and security event and incident management (44%). To address these issues, the majority of state and local agency officials (58%) say they intend to move away from legacy applications within the next three years, replacing on-premises data centers and hybrid environments with the latest innovative cloud services and solutions.

A linking factor in modernization challenges, however, remains the ability to adequately protect data across cloud environments. Specifically:

79% of respondents face challenges in tracking their data locations across their agency
Over half (52%) can’t see traffic across all applications being used in their system and nor do they have a complete view of all data across silos
45% of respondents say lack of visibility across their hybrid environments is challenging
40% say disparate data sources across servers and siloes also pose challenges
78% cite difficulty tracking data spread over multiple siloes
76% cite difficulty tracking who has accessed that data

“Part of agency modernization means having the tools at the ready for better understanding, analysis, and protection of the data your agency owns,” said Tom Gosse, senior sales director of U.S. SLED at Netskope. “Without being able to fully understand where the data is being gathered, where it resides, and when it’s being accessed or transferred, state and local agency decision makers will find it increasingly difficult to identify and implement a solution that can effectively and efficiently address any gaps or vulnerabilities. They should prioritize investment in modern, cloud-centric data protection that can adequately protect data across cloud environments.”

The Other Big Challenge: Complexity

State and local agencies have been challenged over the last several years to keep up with public expectations while balancing security needs and budget restrictions. The majority (65%) are actively investing in technology solutions that support their organization’s needs; however, even with standardized tools, the IT landscape is growing increasingly complicated. Over half (51%) of respondents say that IT systems are becoming very complex to manage, and 41% say it is difficult for their agencies to process and analyze data that is accumulating more rapidly than ever. The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based computing, and machine learning have all opened the door for a deluge of new ways to collect more data. Amplifying these priorities are the internal personnel challenges agencies are facing, including a lack of internal staff expertise (44%).

What IT Decision Makers Can Do

While hybrid and remote work is here to stay, the sheer complexity and scale of legacy systems that have been in place for years can make it difficult to integrate new technologies smoothly. Netskope partners with state and local government agencies to provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities in support of their IT modernization goals, enhance productivity, and engage citizens effectively. To make the transition to cloud easier and more secure, Netskope recommends three areas of focus:

Discern: Agencies have to be more judicious than ever in their spending, balancing budget needs with security priorities. Adopt a modern data loss prevention (DLP) approach that leverages a dynamic and adaptive zero trust model.
Invest: Modern security problems require modern security solutions. Invest in a cloud DLP solution that leverages security context and automatically enables proper protection to secure sensitive data consistently everywhere across the entire enterprise.
Support: Train staff appropriately and put data protection at the heart of the overall IT modernization strategy.

“In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data has emerged as a driving force behind informed decision-making and effective governance,” said Elizabeth Lowery, Director of Research Services, Market Connections. “State and local organizations across the nation are recognizing the paramount importance of robust data management systems to optimize their operations and better serve their communities. However, the data shows that there are still significant challenges facing IT leaders as they work to empower their employees and make sense of their data. As these organizations move forward with modernization efforts, addressing the challenges around system complexity, data integrity, and security will continue to be pivotal to transformation.

Survey Methodology

Netskope partnered with Market Connections, a custom market research firm, to field The State of Data Protection survey.

The State of Data Protection survey provides key trends on how state and local officials are working to:

Assess current concerns and considerations facing data protection
Determine the status and obstacles facing modernization strategies, particularly in remote and hybrid work settings
Understand how external tools and internal policies can work together to find the right balance of access and security

The online survey was conducted among 200 state and local IT and business influencers and decision-makers regarding data protection through IT modernization, fielded from March 2023 to April 2023.

For more information visit the website here.

To download the complete Netskope State of Data Protection Survey, visit here.

To learn more about Netskope solutions for State and Local government, visit here.

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Cellhire Enhances IoT Connectivity with OV’s Roaming Solution

Digital IT News Editors — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:00:29 +0000

Cellhire announces a strategic partnership with OV, a provider of resilient and robust IoT connectivity. The partnership eliminates excessive charges for roaming IoT devices by giving Cellhire’s clients and channel partners access to more than 600 direct roaming agreements globally, in a permanent roaming solution.

In a revolutionary stride towards seamless global connectivity, the partnership is redefining the landscape of IoT device roaming. By granting clients and channel partners unrestricted entry to over 600 direct roaming agreements worldwide, our permanent roaming solution eradicates the burden of exorbitant charges for roaming IoT devices. This collaboration not only ensures unfaltering connectivity but also empowers businesses to harness the true potential of their IoT devices without apprehensions of hidden costs. As a result, the partnership paves the way for unparalleled operational efficiency and innovation, enabling enterprises to expand their horizons and venture into new realms of possibility on a global scale.

“As the demand for IoT devices continues to rise, businesses are increasingly deploying IoT solutions that span multiple countries, allowing them to enhance productivity and streamline operations on a global scale,” says Matt Bennett, Cellhire UK Managing Director.

“However, many businesses persist in using traditional voice and data SIM cards to fuel their IoT connectivity. As these SIM cards were not designed for this purpose, it often results in high roaming charges being incurred that prompt the MNOs to resort to abrupt SIM disconnections.”

“Consequently, IoT devices become inoperable causing disruptions to vital services without any prior warning,” he adds. “Our partnership with OV effectively addresses these challenges for our customers and partners.”

Major advancement

The multi-network partnership allows Cellhire to deploy tens of thousands of SIM cards remotely. It also marks a major advance for the company allowing it to provide more dependable and cost-effective IoT connectivity solutions for devices that frequently move between different countries.

Bennett comments, “Cellhire understands the importance for our customers and channel partners of having smooth worldwide IoT connectivity. The partnership with OV gives us a strong network infrastructure and expertise to help us provide a roaming solution that’s future-proofed and fit for international operations.”

Paul Donaldson, Chief Revenue Officer at OV, welcomed Cellhire as a partner, stating, “Cellhire’s innovative solutions as a global telecoms provider make this an excellent partnership, and we are excited to accelerate and simplify IoT connectivity for its customers. The partnership brings together both the technical and commercial strengths of both companies to deliver exceptional IoT connectivity solutions to customers worldwide.”

This announcement further enhances Cellhire’s IoT offering which includes global roaming with access to 40+ MNOs and seamless UK connectivity through its unsteered multi-network solution. Cellhire also provides convenient UK and global single networks, and reliable services across Europe through its full MVNO on Orange France.

For more information visit the website HERE.

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Trend Micro Empower MSSPs to Elevate SOC Capabilities

Digital IT News Editors — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:35:47 +0000

Trend Micro Incorporated announced an extension to its partner program and launched a new offering designed to empower MSSPs, service partners and pure-play managed detection and response (MDR) companies to build or grow their MDR and SOC-as-a-service offerings. The new program will further enable the global ecosystem of MSSP partners that customers rely on amidst a cybersecurity skills shortage.

“Breaches are on the rise, but many global organizations can’t afford the investment of time, resources and staff that a full SOC requires,” said Louise McEvoy, vice president of US channels at Trend. “And those that can often find their analysts frustrated by tool sprawl and overwhelmed by alerts. This opens a lucrative and important opportunity for MSSPs to deliver more value to customers, as long as they can find the right platform to deliver SOCaaS.”

Trend Vision One for Service Providers provides turnkey threat detection and response with extended SOAR capabilities built for managed security service partners, offering multi-tenant SOC capabilities and hundreds of third-party integrations across the IT environment and with other security vendors.

Out-of-the-box value, via incident response playbooks which reduce the need to build custom solutions
Comprehensive, end-to-end SOC technology, from XDR to protection
Improved customer outcomes, with MTTR (mean time to respond, repair, resolve, recover) measured not in weeks but hours
Extensive integrations – hundreds of integrations that offer visibility, analysis and automation across Trend and a wide range of third-party products
Greater SOC inspection and analytics thanks to log inspection and analytics which capture event data from a wide range of sources across the organization, from Trend and third-party solutions
MSSP-ready capabilities – a multi-tenant offering delivered via a single pane of glass

The new Trend Vision One for Service Providers will help managed service partners adopt and scale their SOC/SOCaaS capabilities based on readiness and maturity, to meet the complex requirements of large organizations.

“Trend’s channel-first model means the company is well positioned to address the fast-growing MSSP market,” said Jay McBain, Chief Analyst at Canalys. “Applying their resources beyond technology and into channel-driven services and programs like this latest example will enable them to maintain this standing and better serve customers.”

Partners who sign up to Trend Vision One for Service Providers will also receive industry-leading benefits including:

White-glove onboarding and enablement, leveraging Trend’s industry know-how working with hundreds of SOCs to help partners accelerate adoption and delivery of SOCaaS and MDR
Highly competitive pricing to allow new and existing MSSPs to penetrate the market quicker
Choice of partnership, which means partners can choose the partnership right for their business:
- Fully managed MDR or SOCaaS
- API integration to offer co-managed services for “bring your own technology” clients, where MSSPs help configure and manage Trend SOAR solution deployed on customers’ premises

“As a trusted voice in cybersecurity, Trend has made significant and valuable upgrades to enable a more effective MDR service,” said Randy Watkins, chief technology officer (CTO) for Critical Start. “The Vision One platform addresses the growing demand for risk visibility without increasing the burden on security teams and empowers us to provide superior value to our customers and increase their cyber resilience.”

For more information visit the website here.

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