Cisco this week issued software to address multiple critical authentication exposures in its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software for its Nexus data center switches. DCNM is a central management dashboard for data-center fabrics based on Cisco Nexus switches and handles a number of core duties such as automation, configuration control, flow policy management and […]
Archives for January 2020
The ‘Not This Year’ Tech Trends for 2020
Analyst firm ABI Research paired its upbeat predictions for tech concepts in 2020 with a real-world look at the ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Tis the season for New Year’s tech forecasts. You see them every December: Next year is the one when technology that has been promised for years will finally […]
Why Machine Learning Services Are Disrupting Every Industry Across the Globe
Artificial Intelligence is surrounding us everywhere. We cannot go with our day without approaching a solution involving AI. Machine learning is a field of Artificial Intelligence which specializes in setting machine using algorithms to learn certain things by itself. Machine learning has a vast number of applications. We can approach machine learning systems by going […]
Travelex services forced offline by cyber attack
Foreign exchange firm Travelex has taken itself offline after discovering that a “software virus” had compromised its systems. The incident, which is ongoing at the time of writing, began on New Year’s Eve 2019. The company said in a statement that while there’s no indication any customers’ personal data has been accessed, it took the […]
Advancing no-impact and low-impact maintenance technologies
“This post continues our reliability series kicked off by my July blog post highlighting several initiatives underway to keep improving platform availability, as part of our commitment to provide a trusted set of cloud services. Today I wanted to double-click on the investments we’ve made in no-impact and low-impact update technologies including hot patching, memory-preserving […]
XpressBees secures $10M funding from Alibaba
Logistics startup XpressBees has raised Rs 71.2 crore ($10 million) in fresh funding from existing investor Alibaba, regulatory documents filed by the company showed. This is the latest investment by the Chinese e-commerce firm, whose funding activity in India has slowed sharply in the past one year. Busybees Logistics Solutions, which runs XpressBees, issued 9,317 […]
Other people’s money was the tech innovation of the decade
By Shira Ovide Technology changed every molecule of life in the 2010s. Airbnb, Uber and other young companies morphed the physical complexion of cities and how they work. The growing prevalence of e-commerce, fast internet connections and smartphones in everyone’s pockets shifted how we shop, behave and are entertained — with both good and bad […]
The installed base of smart street lights to surpass 30 million worldwide by 2023
According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of smart street lights was 10.4 million worldwide at the end of 2018. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.5 percent, the installed base will reach 31.2 million in 2023. Europe is the leading smart street […]
At SoftBank’s jewel, Oyo, a ‘toxic’ culture and troubling incidents
By Vindu Goel and Karan Deep Singh Oyo, a startup that offers budget hotel rooms, has grown into one of India’s most valuable private companies and aims to be the world’s largest hotel chain by 2023. But at least part of Oyo’s rise in India was built on practices that raise questions about the health […]
Amazon finds a way around a West African muddle
In a building on West 147th Street in Upper Manhattan, the mail carriers know apartment 1A. Boxes arrive at all hours, ordered from websites around the world. Throw pillows, diapers, car parts, cellphones, high heels and AirPods pile up in the foyer, but none of the items were bought by the person to whom they […]