Weekly Issue: 2024-07

Traditionally, customers have relied on VMs to run their network-intensive applications.

I know, I know: it’s basically impossible not to draw a few conclusions from that headline. I’m fighting the same instincts as I write these words, but I can’t deny what I’ve stumbled upon this morning, and I can’t 100% tell you that what we’re all thinking isn’t true.

Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer ‘agile and flexible’ approach The NHS in Wales has decided to send up to £450 million ($568 million) of taxpayers’ hard-earned cash into the bank account of Microsoft via one of its resellers, the public sector organization has confirmed.…

Oracle Corp. today added new features to the Transportation Management and Global Trade Management, components of its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing suite that are aimed at improving logistics operations, reducing costs and automating regulatory compliance.

I’d buy that for a $0.00000001 The team behind Chromium – the open source engine of Google Chrome and other browsers – has begun working on a way to enable those surfing the web to pay for the stuff they read or watch without any interaction.…

Deals are simply crazy in the Chromebook space, aren’t they? One week we see hundreds of dollars off new Chromebook Plus models and the next week its all about tablets or big-screen devices.

The Cloud Monitoring team believes in the power of the open source community and open source interfaces.

When a large language model (LLM) doesn’t have enough information or has no contextual knowledge of a topic, it is more likely to hallucinate and provide inaccurate or false responses.

I’ve sat on this post for quite some time, but with the news coming out over the weekend that Acer is now in the mini-Chromebox game with a device of their own, my mind couldn’t help but wander to something I’ve thought about for a very long time: why do we not have small-core Intel-powered…

It looks like Acer is getting into the mini Chromebox game, too! At the Integrated Systems Europe 2024 event, Acer unveiled the Chromebox Mini, targeting it as a digital signage solution according to posts from Liliputing and Chromebook Live.