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How a health service in Ireland delivered its COVID vaccination program in record time
Protecting a population was the impetus behind a health department’s unusually rapid ramp-up of a national vaccination program. The country of Ireland required a system built from scratch that would vaccinate not only the populous, but also the health workers, and do it all at the same time as the build. “We needed to vaccinate ...
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia implements cashless payment system
Countries would like to go cashless because it’s cheaper and more traceable, including for collecting taxes, according to a tech executive who’s company has been brought on to perform this very meteoric shift for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The kingdom wants to turn itself from a traditionally cash-driven society to one where the entire ...
Security is the principal reason mainframe is still around, say consultants
The mainframe computer is here to stay, according to analysts working closely with IBM. That’s despite a preponderance of cloud initiatives seen recently by the consultancy firm — the primary reason for the discovered reliance on the now-aging tech being security. “Mainframe is seen as the pillar of security,” said Dave Knight (pictured right), solution ...
Disruptor explains IBM-Cisco alliance
Monitoring all of the components in a customer’s interaction with digitized broker channels is an example of how a company can take advantage of the 25-year-old IBM-Cisco Systems Inc. strategic relationship, according to an insurance vendor user. Automated, direct-to-customer channels, where customers don’t interact at all with company employees, can also be analyzed. “We needed ...
Consistency-for-all is goal of managed cloud from Red Hat
The new, managed cloud services portfolio from Red Hat Inc. means managed OpenShift is now available on all the major cloud services, according to a Red Hat executive recently. That Kubernetes distribution is a managed service now on Amazon AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud. Evolving a hybrid cloud ecosystem on top of ...
Organizations need OpenShift add-on security, says Red Hat executive
Enterprise, open-source solutions provider Red Hat Inc. has begun to articulate how it sees its acquisition of StackRox Inc., the Kubernetes-native security solution, playing out. That includes StackRox’s name change to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, or RHACS (and sometimes just ACS). The idea is that RHACS will augment container application platform OpenShift’s ...
AI tools are extracting useful information from document swamps
Pinpointing specific information in massive swaths of financial services contractual documents was the driver that created a need for KPMG International Ltd.’s new Ignite artificial intelligence ecosystem, says a software engineering boss there. “Tons of contracts” and documents existed at the professional services network that were full of valuable information, but there wasn’t any way ...
Red Hat Insights gets OpenShift and Ansible friendly
Insights is among the Red Hat Inc. products that is seeing expansion and new development emphasis, according to disclosures made at the recent Red Hat Summit event. The hybrid cloud-oriented, analytics product creates visibility so users can optimize security and get better performance for the Red Hat enterprise solutions. It now includes OpenShift and Red ...
Mutual Credit Union partners with ThinkStack for security, resiliency and productivity
Cloud technology has become vital for a Mississippi-based credit union. That’s in part because a major gap in its operations has been IT staffing as it migrated to a digitized business. The lack of access to workers was exacerbated, too, by management awareness that a tech-oriented future — for intrinsically non-tech folk as is found ...
Will open-source Postgres take over the database market? Experts weigh in
Open-source databases are a viable alternative to de facto Oracle across swaths of industries, according to a panel of technology executives. EDB coupled with PostgreSQL can support many workloads that enterprise would formerly have run using Oracle, they said. “Customers got tired of this continuous spending of money for the maintenance costs,” said Young Il ...
