Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider IFS has agreed to acquire EmpowerMX, a vendor of software for managing aircraft maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), adding to the capabilities of its fleet service management suite for the aviation sector. IFS already offers software for MRO providers and airlines, including end-to-end aircraft management for maintenance, repairs, operations…
La complejidad de las infraestructuras de TI es cada vez mayor, al igual que la presión sobre los presupuestos de TI, que los CIO deben gestionar de la forma más inteligente y eficiente posible. Administrar de forma eficaz los costes de los entornos de nube es, por tanto, cada vez más importante; sin embargo, a…
A medida que las empresas comienzan a desplegar y utilizar la inteligencia artificial (IA), muchas se dan cuenta de que necesitarán acceso a una potencia informática masiva y rápidas capacidades de red, pero las necesidades de almacenamiento pueden pasarse por alto. Es probable que la puesta en marcha de un chatbot o la adopción de…
A group of Republican lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to investigate a $1.5 billion deal between Microsoft and G42 — an AI and data center service provider based in the UAE. Their concerns center at the transfer of sensitive technology and G42’s historical ties to China, a growing competitor of the US in the…
Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. “When we were programming mainframes, every character counted,” says Sanjay Podder, chair of Green Software Foundation, an organization that aims to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for green software. But over the…
About six years ago, Ulta Beauty formed a dedicated innovation team to identify technologies that resonate to improve the customer experience. As the VP of digital innovation, Michelle Pacynski heads up this team and oversees around 40 innovators whose job is to leverage new and emerging tech to come up with fresh and creative value propositions…
To developers, OSSTest is an essential automated testing and quality checking system for anyone submitting code to the Xen Project’s open-source hypervisor. But all software runs somewhere. In the Xen Project’s case it’s virtual server infrastructure inside in a featureless colocation datacenter just outside Boston. Unfortunately — extraordinarily even — it seems that this facility…