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The recent news that Dell is to make 6,650 staff redundant (about 5% of its workforce) led to predictable blame being heaped on that old political football, the IBM-compatible Personal Computer. The notion perpetuated implicitly in media coverage was that PC sales are falling ergo Dell is falling: a
"Cloud-native market infrastructure, combining centralized and decentralized..."
The Open Data Institute is combining with UK sporting and health bodies to do for fitness what has already happened in fields from banking to travel. That is, using open data for greater accessibility, more opportunities for customers… and in this case taking some weight off increasingly pressured health services.
"There’s work to keep the IT wheels on but it’s a small part of the role..."
VMware denies zero day being used
It's getting a lot easier and more compelling to whitelabel cloud services for customers...
This story has been updated here on February 8. Security researchers are reporting an explosion in the compromise of VMware ESXi hypervisors with over 500 machines hit by ransomware this weekend, with the automated attacks likely exploiting CVE-2021-21974. As The Stack published, some 20 ESXi machines were reportedly being ransomed