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Thursday 12 September 2024 is R U OK day, and this year cybersecurity and cloud services provider Tesserent reminds us all to check in on our security teams after another year with relentless cybercriminals.

Growing from a developer-first programmable telephony platform, Twilio products are now embedded in organisations big and small worldwide. About a third of the world's email goes through Twilio SendGrid, while companies like Electrolux have replaced their contact centres with Twilio Flex.

Although Teradata has almost a half-century of on-prem data warehousing experience, it's a cloud-first business today and is bringing its considerable experience to help its customers modernise. Teradata CEO Steve McMillan spoke to iTWire about growth, AI, and the changing nature of data.

The reMarkable tablet is already pretty schmick, but the Oslo-based company has taken it to a new level with the Paper Pro, a brand-new colour paper tablet, and the world's thinnest.

The ever-popular action cam, night sky cam, go-anywhere do-anything cam, the GoPro, has two new members in its line-up, with the flagship HERO13 Black at the top end, and a brand new smaller, simpler HERO model that despite slimming down on size and price it still offers 4K and a host of great GoPro features.

The modern CIO is under pressure; company executives are looking to them to deliver AI strategies, while their data centre infrastructure lags behind, cybersecurity always looms, and energy costs are rising. New research by Pure Storage highlights the issues, with the company putting forward a blueprint to ensure success.

With a vivid demonstration of how fragile the world's technology ecosystem is when one cybersecurity vendor makes a configuration mistake, 45Drives president Dr Doug Milburn says it's time for organisations of all sizes to take greater control of their infrastructure, in a move he dubs demicrosoftification.

Father's Day is almost upon us. Whether you have a dad in your life who's hard to shop for, or want to treat yourself, iTWire has a roundup of some of the best gadgets, comforts, and deals available right now.

As modern applications become more complex, observability becomes increasingly important. LogicMonitor has already been using AI in its hybrid observability tools to help separate signal from noise, and has taken it even further with GenAI infusion.

Innovative floor cleaning product manufacturer Tineco has announced a great new product plus some amazing deals across its range right in time for Father's Day.

Creative tools and materials company Cricut has announced its new large-format cutting machine, Cricut Venture. The device is available at Harvey Norman and helps you make bigger and larger creations than before, and in bulk too.

Generative AI is bringing vast business benefits from summarising documents, to helping with customer service, even aiding organisations in asking questions of complex systems in simple plain language. However, you might not be using the right tools for the job. MongoDB field CTO Rick Houlihan experimented and found vast performance gains when using a document database over a relational one.

Insurance and finance giant Suncorp is reaping big rewards. from smart tech investments, its FY2024 results show.

Today's business world is one of tension; consumer spending is down, but costs are rising. Innovation and automation is essential to advance, but capital is tied up in major upgrades and migrations dictated by large software vendors. Rimini Street says you don't have to get sucked up into the vendor's sale cycle. Free up time, people, and money by focusing on what really matters instead.

The next generation of Google Pixel phones are on their way, with preorders availabe now. The lineup includes the first and only Google foldable phone, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, as well as three other Pixel phones - Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL. A new Pixel watch and Pixel buds will follow soon.

Taiwanese multi-national electronics company GEEKOM has a great deal for you this month, from 12 August through to 30 August 2024. You can snag a GEEKOM A7 mini PC with a great 15% savings.

Everybody is talking about the amazing things you can do with AI, but few are talking about the environmental and energy impacts it brings. In comes Pure Storage who has made this front of mind and says vendors like it must be helping businesses reduce energy consumption and boost sustainability.

Hybrid data, analytics, and AI platform Cloudera says AI will add about $US15.7T - that's trillion - to the global economy by 2030. To get there your data needs to be in order, and Cloudera says it has the best platform to help you succeed, and not be left behind.

Many security experts say a breach is only a matter of "when" not "if". Imagine the sinking feeling of finding out your company has been compromised in this way. However, you can be proactive in defending yourself, and Qualys CTSO and VP solutions architect EMEA and APAC Richard Sorosina brings practical advice to help.

D-Link ANZ has announced a new modem router and it's packed with power and packed with features. It can bring a huge leap in capacity, speed, and range for the most demanding of households. It can replace your ISP-supplied NBN modem, it brings AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 tech, giving fast and efficient connectivity all around.