VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel (Thu, 14 Jan 2021)
Virtzilla’s next boss has container-centric challenges tho nothing as hard as the task of making Intel great again Analysis  A VMware employee of my acquaintance once told me a story about a customer meeting he attended alongside departing CEO Pat Gelsinger, who has just been revealed as the new CEO of Intel.…
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VMware completes first year of Tanzu with Advanced Edition GA, announces magic tool for app modernization (Wed, 13 Jan 2021)
Enterprise customers 'are struggling with the implementation of Kubernetes at scale' says virty cloud giant VMware has completed the first phase of its Kubernetes-based Tanzu project by making the Advanced Edition generally available, and has a new (but delayed) tool in the works which promises to simplify application modernization.…
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Pandemic? Check. World in peril? Check. CES is on? Check. So of course Bluetooth Smart Masks are now a thing (Wed, 13 Jan 2021)
What a time to be alive CES  The world is in the grip of a lethal viral pandemic. The technology industry’s response?…
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Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database (Fri, 15 Jan 2021)
This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time... An "error" in a "standard housekeeping process" on the UK’s controversial Police National Computer (PNC) database has led to the deletion of more than 150,000 DNA, fingerprint and other records, the Home Office has confirmed.…
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Vatican absolved of one financial sin after revelation of data discrepancies (Fri, 15 Jan 2021)
Anti-money-laundering agency says it mis-interpreted info, leading to allegations of unexplained $1.8bn transfer to Australia The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), a government agency tasked with detecting and preventing financial crimes, has admitted that software errors led it to allege that the Vatican had inexplicably shipped AU$2.3bn to Australia.…
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Watchdog urges Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S, X cars to fix knackered NAND flash that borks safety features (Fri, 15 Jan 2021)
Firmware updates aren't enough to tackle worn-out memory The US Department of Transport has recommended Tesla recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles after an investigation found worn-out NAND flash memory can cause the cars’ rearview cameras to fail.…
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