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What Is Platform Engineering And Why Adopt It In Your Company?

The term ‘platform engineering’ refers to the activity of designing and developing toolchains and internal work processes that enable the employees of an organisation to be self-sufficient in all software engineering activities. Platform Engineering is a particularly effective practice in all those contexts where a Cloud Native development model focused on improving the Developer Experience (DevX) is being approached. What is Platform Engineering? Platform Engineering is a new discipline that emerged in response to the increasing complexity of systems designed according to the criteria of Cloud Native architectures. From a methodological point of view, Platform Engineering describes how it is possible to develop and maintain…

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Accelerate Smart Transformation To SAP S/4 HANA With Tata Consultancy Services Precast, Now For Google Cloud

The journey of any enterprise includes the transformation of processes related to presales, sales, procurement, service, production, quality, maintenance, warehousing, and finance operations, adhering to the principles of optimization and faster implementation. The goal is to create a uniform user experience, branching and connecting each enterprise function with minimal transformation effort. With a traditional approach, achieving this is not easy. Some of the other hurdles organizations face are: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) PreCast is an integrated business solution certified by SAP as a Qualified Partner Packaged solution (QPPS), leveraging SAP’s market leading software, best practices and innovations. Together with partner…

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Accelerating Cybersecurity Resilience Through The Expanded Accenture-Google Cloud Partnership

Accenture and Google Cloud have partnered since 2018 to help the world’s largest organizations digitally transform their enterprises by harnessing our data analytics, AI/ML, and services expertise to build stronger digital cores. Today at the RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco, we’re excited to announce that the next phase in our growing partnership will focus on enhancing Accenture Security’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) service by integrating Chronicle Security Operations, Mandiant Threat Intelligence, and Security AI Workbench. With these enhancements to MxDR, we will be able to better help businesses on any cloud platform transform their security programs, protect critical assets, and stay ahead…

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The 7 Best Top-Load And Front-Load Washers

Washing machines are typically divided into 2 types. Front-Load and Top-Load. While typically the front-load is the more efficient there are some situations where the top-load is also a good choice. A few of these considerations are price, load capacity, power efficiency and style. Most of the time it does boils down to “Would this look good in my house? Will it fit in with my other appliances?” Here are some of the best washers and some tips at the end on how to choose your washing machine. 01. BLACK+DECKER – 0.9 Cu. Ft. Top-Load Washer This portable washer is…

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Top 4 FREE Photo Editing Websites

Everyone has a Picasso inside of them. But some of us are not given an environment to nurture or play with. But enough of the drama, here are 4 of the websites you should try out. 01. Befunky Not just a Photo Editor but also a Collage maker and graphic designer, Befunky has some interesting stuff. While most of the amazing stuff is under a paywall (or if you’re ok with a watermark), it is complete with the basics. From teeth whitening to adding frames to your photos. Isn’t that what is important in this day and age? Having perfectly…

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DBS Singapore: The Best Boasting To Be The Best For So Long, Humbled By Hubris

DBS Bank, Singapore’s leading consumer bank and one of the largest banks in Southeast Asia, experienced a 10-hour digital banking services outage on March 29, 2023, leading to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) calling the incident “unacceptable.” The bank apologised to its shareholders and customers during its Annual General Meeting on March 31, and CEO Piyush Gupta stated that the disruptions have been “sobering” for DBS Bank. The outage marks the second disruption the bank has faced in 16 months, with a similar incident occurring in November 2021. DBS Bank has taken immediate action in response to the disruption.…

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A New Smartphone Operating System That Puts Privacy First

A Swiss-based start-up is developing an operating system that aims to be a more secure alternative to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Trust in the big smartphone operating systems has been increasingly eroded in recent years due to gaps in data protection resulting in several major court decisions. The Swiss start-up Apostrophy AG wants to address this issue and announced at the World Economic Forum 2023 last week in Davos that it will offer a new operating system with significantly better data protection. The highlight of the new system: the apps installed on the operating system are segregated from each other and,…

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Using IPv6 Unique Local Addresses For Private Connectivity In Google Cloud

When people talk about the IPv4 Address exhaustion problem, it’s usually in the context of the public IPv4 space. When IPv6 was introduced, the primary goal was to fix the address exhaustion problem by allocating internet-accessible addresses to every device. However, IP exhaustion issues in large enterprises are often related to the private RFC1918 address space. Large enterprises use the RFC1918 address space for their internal networks. And lately, technological advancements such as 5G, internet of things, mobile applications, connected devices, serverless and container-based services have expedited the exhaustion of the IPv4 private address space. One particularly interesting IPv6 capability…

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Built With BigQuery: How To Accelerate Data-Centric AI Development With Google Cloud And Snorkel AI

In Deloitte’s annual “State of AI in the Enterprise” survey, 94% of business leaders identified AI as critical to their organizations’ success over the next five years. That survey also uncovered a 29% increase in the number of organizations struggling to achieve meaningful AI-driven business outcomes. Part of this challenge lies in the ability to capitalize on existing data, in its various formats spread throughout the organization. For example, up to 80% of enterprise information assets are scattered across the organization in text, PDFs, emails, web pages, and other unstructured formats. This includes a wealth of valuable insights embedded within…

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