About Catherine
Catherine Knowles
Journalist
Currently working as a freelance writer and content creator, Catherine has a keen interest in all areas of technology and storytelling in our digital age. Having worked with a number of businesses and people across media, education, publishing and communications, Catherine has a definite respect for common sense, great content and turning ideas into reality.
Stories by Catherine - Page 115
Public cloud market booms, set to reach $1.35 trillion by 2027
Wed, 30th Aug 2023
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saas
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public cloud
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cloud services
Although annual spending growth is expected to slow slightly over the 2023-2027 forecast period, the market is forecast to achieve a five-year CAGR of 19.9%.
Fortinet enhances SASE offering with latest additions
Wed, 30th Aug 2023
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firewalls
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iot
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casb
Fortinet's SASE solution provides unified security, simplified management, and end-to-end DEM by seamlessly converging cloud-delivered security.
Dell and University of Queensland advance supercomputer innovation
Wed, 30th Aug 2023
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edutech
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network infrastructure
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datacentre infrastructure
For the next phase of supercomputing, UQ will use advanced GPU technologies to provide a whole new capability of visual compute inside the supercomputer.
Alibaba Cloud makes headway with large language vision models
Wed, 30th Aug 2023
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llms
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ai
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cloud services
Alibaba Cloud has launched two open-source large vision language models (LVLM), Qwen-VL and its conversationally fine-tuned Qwen-VL-Chat.
Gopuff launches ad platform to tap into billion-dollar market
Wed, 30th Aug 2023
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ecommerce
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advertising
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commerce
Gopuff has launched its Ads platform in the UK, giving brands the chance to target high-intent customers while they shop.
Dell Technologies highlights top ANZ partners at recent awards
Tue, 29th Aug 2023
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network infrastructure
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partner programmes
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cloud services
The Awards recognise partners for growing their business within the Dell Technologies Partner Program and unlocking new possibilities for their customers.
PC market finally on road to recovery - IDC report
Tue, 29th Aug 2023
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market
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pc shipments
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analyst report
The road to recovery for PCs has been challenging coming off explosive years in 2020 and 2021, but signs of growth are finally returning, IDC finds.
Marketing leaders struggle to allocate budgets amidst AI boom
Fri, 25th Aug 2023
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martech
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ai
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digital marketing
Over 60% of marketing leaders plan to invest in generative AI, with more than half seeing greater reward than risk, according to Gartner.
Fines for mismanagement of data expected to reach $1Bn
Fri, 25th Aug 2023
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data protection
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cx
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martech
Fines for mishandling subject rights will exceed $1 billion by 2026, warns Gartner, urging B2C firms to automate their management.
Thales launch aims to accelerate adoption of cloud-based payments
Fri, 25th Aug 2023
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payment technologies
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subscriptions
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thales
Thales launches Thales payShield Cloud HSM, a subscription-based digital payments security service for cloud-based infrastructure.
78% of NZ small business owners worried about AI adoption
Fri, 25th Aug 2023
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fintech
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financial systems
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genai
New Zealand small business owners are concerned that the development and adoption of AI is outpacing regulation, according to a study by Xero.
IBM brings GenAI capabilities to watsonx for app modernisation
Fri, 25th Aug 2023
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genai
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ai
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healthtech
IBM has announced watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a new generative AI-assisted product that will help enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z.
Google.org launches AI, security and resilience initiative in APAC
Fri, 25th Aug 2023
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google
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strategy
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infoxchange
Google.org, in partnership with Infoxchange and the ADB, will provide digital resilience training to 40 NGOs in Asia and the Pacific.
49% of organisations paid out $1.5Mn following security incident
Thu, 24th Aug 2023
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cybersecurity
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incident management
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report
Cloudflare study reveals that Australian organizations are dealing with fewer cyber attacks, but facing significant financial impacts.
Yahoo acquires Commonstock, builds out retail resources
Thu, 24th Aug 2023
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yahoo
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branding
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investment
Yahoo acquires Commonstock, a social and community-based platform for retail investors, to enhance Yahoo Finance's offerings.
AI causes worry for parents, 51% stop use of ChatGPT for homework
Thu, 24th Aug 2023
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llms
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ai agents
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norton
A new survey from Norton, a Cyber Safety brand of Gen, has found that Kiwi parents now face a new challenge from AI chatbots.
Vietnam's largest telco group chooses Juniper for network refresh
Thu, 24th Aug 2023
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uc
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juniper networks
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telco
The upgrades are designed to help Viettel better scale its consumer mobile and fixed broadband services, especially as networking demands increase.
Xero opens Beautiful Business Fund to small businesses
Thu, 24th Aug 2023
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fintech
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financial systems
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xero
Xero announced submissions are now open and there are four categories Kiwi small businesses can put themselves forward for.
7 in 10 Australians fearful of online risks - report
Thu, 24th Aug 2023
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email security
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risk & compliance
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ai
Almost half of Australians (47%) have been targeted by online scams, with 49% knowing someone who has, according to a survey by Real Insurance and CoreData.
VMware and Oracle expand partnership, empower modernisation
Wed, 23rd Aug 2023
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it automation
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partner programmes
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customers
VMware has expanded its ongoing partnership with Oracle with the focus on helping customers modernise their VMware workloads on OCI.