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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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By comparison, the previous record-holder for most expensive downtime was the 2017 AWS outage, which cost customers an estimated $150 million. Its worth doing that extra step of diligence because it can save you problems down the road, she says. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4 Trust, but verify.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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AI market evolution: Data and infrastructure transformation through AI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term once relegated to science fiction, is now driving an unprecedented revolution in business technology. The Nutanix State of Enterprise AI Report highlights AI adoption, challenges, and the future of this transformative technology. Cost, by comparison, ranks a distant 10th.

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RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa

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Some technologies have helped deal with this menace; for instance, radio frequency identification, which works by assigning serial numbers to containers of each product. More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

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As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, I’ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. I have four core beliefs about technology that inform this thinking: We can do anything with technology. And not only in terms of architecture and technology.

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TDD saved the day

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To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD). As an aside, TDD is an iterative workflow that involves describing a specific aspect you want to solve in terms of the programming language you’re using. Truly, TDD saved the day!

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. because the scale of compute power required would be too costly to reproduce in house, says Sid Nag, VP, cloud, edge, and AI infrastructure services and technologies at Gartner. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs? Judes Perry.

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