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Source: HPE. Screen capture, HPE GreenLake Block Storage for AWS. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced new solutions across the HPE GreenLake cloud to simplify how enterprises manage and optimise their storage, data and workloads across on-prem and public cloud environments. New or expanded offerings include: • HPE GreenLake Block Storage for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a new software-defined storage offering to manage block storage across hybrid cloud environments. • A new release of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage built on HPE Alletra MP now supports NVMe capacity scaling up to 5.6 PB and HPE Infosight AIOps with cross-stack analytics to enable workload visibility, improved performance, higher availability, and optimised resource utilisation. • HPE Timeless Program offers new investment protection that provides operational agility and financial flexibility, lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers choosing block storage on HPE Alletra MP. • HPE GreenLake ...

Source: KnowBe4 Top-Clicked Phishing Tests infographic. Q124 'in the wild' attacks. KnowBe4, the provider of the security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has found that HR or IT-related business email messages are the most common email subjects clicked on in phishing tests. Phishing emails continue to be one of the most common methods for executing cyberattacks on organisations worldwide, the company said. KnowBe4’s 2023 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report , published in Q124, reveals that nearly one third of users are susceptible to clicking on malicious links or complying with fraudulent requests.  Cybercriminals are further leveraging tools now available to them, such as AI, to come up with increasingly sophisticated messages to outsmart users, KnowBe4 said. Phishing emails can now be tailored to appear even more legitimate, or trick employees by inciting an emotional response and urgency to click on a malicious link or download an infected att...

Source: Oracle. Oracle Database 23ai is now generally available. Oracle Database 23ai , the latest release of Oracle’s converged database is now generally available as a broad range of cloud services. Originally named Oracle Database 23c, the name was changed given the focus on artificial intelligence (AI) in this release.  With Oracle Database 23ai, AI runs in real-time, and is more effective, efficient, and secure than ever. The release includes more than 300 additional major features focused on simplifying the use of AI with data, accelerating app development, and running mission-critical workloads. AI has been used to streamline Oracle's data management processes, while AI algorithms uncover new insights from data. AI is also used to facilitate natural language interactions for database queries, and empower users to store AI-generated 'vectors' for swift and efficient object similarity searches. The AI Vector Search capabilities in Oracle Database23ai enable custome...

Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation provider, unveiled its vision for the company’s future earlier in May at Boomi World 2024 . With more than 20,000 global customers and a network of approximately 800 partners worldwide, Boomi is leading the industry towards the future with a focus on integration and automation, API management, and data management, all made more important and powerful than ever with the emergence of the AI economy. In his keynote, Boomi CEO Steve Lucas emphasised the transformative impact of integration platform as-a-service (iPaaS), spotlighting its pivotal role in enhancing speed, agility, and effectiveness across business operations. Lucas explained how Boomi’s iPaaS streamlines connectivity — seamlessly linking people, systems, devices, and applications — for building stronger relationships and enabling swift, informed decision-making through real-time data access. But Boomi recognizes the opportunity to take connectivity even further, and to bri...

The average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year, according to Sophos, a global provider of security solutions that defeat cyberattacks. In its annual State of Ransomware 2024 survey report, the company said that organisations in Singapore that paid the ransom reported an average payment of US$1,584,130, with a global average of US$3,960,917. However, Sophos has pointed out that ransoms are just one part of the cost of a cyberattack. Excluding ransoms, the survey found the average cost of recovery reached US$2.20 M, a decrease of more than US$1 million compared to the US$3.46 M that Sophos reported in 2023. Despite the soaring ransoms, this year’s survey indicates a slight reduction in the rate of ransomware attacks with 64% of Singaporean organisations being hit, compared with 84% in 2023. While the propensity to be hit by ransomware increases with revenue, even the smallest organisations (under US$10 M in revenue) are still regularly targeted, with just under half (...

ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation, has partnered with IBM to accelerate the impact of generative AI (gen AI) across the enterprise. A new integration will combine the power of the Now Platform with IBM watsonx to boost productivity for mutual customers and partners. ServiceNow will also incorporate watsonx.ai and IBM Granite foundation large language models (LLMs) into its Now Assist gen AI experience for ServiceNow customers. Bringing IBM watsonx onto the Now Platform will help customers quickly use both AI platforms to help accelerate workflow productivity even further, ServiceNow said. Customers will have access to a spoke integration of watsonx through ServiceNow’s Integration Hub for third-party platforms. In turn, they will be able to connect their ServiceNow workflows to models they have trained and tuned within watsonx.ai, IBM’s enterprise studio for AI builders. "Our expanded collaboration with IBM reinforces our GenA I strategy to prioritise...

Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation provider, has extended its strategic business alliance with RSM US — the provider of assurance, tax and consulting services for the middle market. Through this alliance, RSM will leverage the Boomi platform to help middle market companies thrive. “As middle market organisations increasingly adopt cloud technologies, seamlessly connecting various systems and applications becomes critical,” said Shari Lava, Research Director, IDC.  “However, many of them struggle with data trapped in separate systems, manual workflows that drain employee time, and limited IT resources to implement robust integration solutions. Low-code integration is a crucial tool to overcoming complexity, while improving efficiency, agility, and sustained growth.” The alliance between Boomi and RSM tackles the obstacles confronting middle market organisations by leveraging Boomi’s low-code integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and RSM’s ability to help tailor ...