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 4
Fortinet enhances SASE offering with latest additions
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iot
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sase
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fortinet
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
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hpc
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tertiary education
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supercomputer
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
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ai
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digital technology
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alibaba cloud
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
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advertising
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retail
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commerce
"As we continue to grow and innovate, we're thrilled to introduce Gopuff Ads, a platform that has powered 4x return on ad spend for our US advertisers."
Dell Technologies highlights top ANZ partners at recent awards
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cloud services
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it distributors
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awards
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
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market
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pc shipments
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idc
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
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martech
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ai
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gartner
"There’s a clear tension between investing more in the current tech stack to drive utilisation, or reallocating their finite resources towards generative AI applications."
Fines for mismanagement of data expected to reach $1Bn
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data protection
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cx
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privacy
“For security and risk management leaders in B2C organisations, automating subject rights or consumer privacy rights management has become a basic requirement."
Thales launch aims to accelerate adoption of cloud-based payments
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subscriptions
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thales
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cloud adoption
"This new offering delivers the exceptional performance customers expect from our payment HSM platforms, including low-latency operations with leading cloud platforms."
78% of NZ small business owners worried about AI adoption
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ai
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xero
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report
“While AI brings lots of benefits, the survey results highlight the need to provide more knowledge, tools, and policies to ensure small businesses are not left behind."
IBM brings GenAI capabilities to watsonx for app modernisation
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ibm
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watson
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development
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
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google
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strategy
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infoxchange
The grant programme aims to upskill NGOs and improve their technological capabilities across areas including cybersecurity, AI, data analytics, and impact reporting.
49% of organisations paid out $1.5Mn following security incident
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cybersecurity
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asia pacific
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apac
49% of respondents said they incurred a financial impact of at least AU$1.5 million, while 25% of small organisations suffered a financial impact of at least AU$3 million.
Yahoo acquires Commonstock, builds out retail resources
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yahoo
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branding
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investment
The acquisition advances the power of community for Yahoo Finance and accelerates the brand’s strategy to deliver retail investing resources, solutions and experiences.
AI causes worry for parents, 51% stop use of ChatGPT for homework
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norton
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safety
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cyber risk
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
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juniper networks
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telecommunications
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vietnam
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
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xero
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innovation
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business
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
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ai
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scams
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risk
"The impact of scams cannot be overstated. In addition to suffering significant monetary losses, those who fall victim to scams are often humiliated and embarrassed."
VMware and Oracle expand partnership, empower modernisation
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customers
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vmware
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oracle
VMware has expanded its ongoing partnership with Oracle with the focus on helping customers modernise their VMware workloads on OCI.
Lenovo and VMware reveal first solutions from joint innovations
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multi-cloud
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innovation
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vmware
“VMware and Lenovo are partnering to help clients of all sizes become digital companies by investing in the infrastructure required."
Secureworks and Akamai partner to secure modern systems
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soc
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akamai
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partnerships
The alliance between the companies will aim to empower security operations teams to scale secure access in a hybrid working era.
NCC Group reveals Cl0p ransomware attack continues to dominate
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ransomware
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threat intelligence
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security vulnerabilities
The findings mark a 154% increase year-on-year (198 attacks in July 2022), and a 16% rise on the previous month (434 attacks in June 2023).
Radiflow teams up with CyCraft to harness the power of GenAI
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cybersecurity
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taiwan
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partnerships
By harnessing the power of generative AI, this partnership unlocks detection and response capabilities for enterprise customers, MSSPs, and MDRs.
New security vulnerabilities exploited en masse in 2023 - Rapid7
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managed services
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data analytics
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ransomware
Rapid7 released its 2023 Mid-Year Threat Review, which provides a detailed snapshot of the attack landscape in the first six months of this year.