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AI cost driver
AI cost driver

Companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence to optimize their operational efficiency and product innovation. A recent survey shows that 40 percent of companies surveyed want to increase their investments in AI technologies due to rapid advances in generative AI. However, a downside to its increasing use is that AI - particularly generative AI - is computationally intensive and costs increase with the amount of data on which the AI ​​models are trained. There are three main reasons why AI can quickly become a cost driver without proper control: AI consumes additional resources: Execution...

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Unclouding solutions: secondary storage for medium-sized businesses
Unclouding solutions: secondary storage for medium-sized businesses

Medium-sized companies are (statistically) neither start-ups nor corporations, have been in business for a long time, are responsible for hundreds of employees - and are an important pillar of the German economy and society. Constant change and sustainability are not empty phrases, but pure necessity for long-term success. Even with the secure storage of data outside the cloud. When it comes to storage IT, the same questions keep coming up: Where and how do I store my data – and with what solution? In addition to technical details, it is about availability, flexibility and trust. Where do I store my data?...

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Bitmarck: Health insurance services further disrupted
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

As the IT service provider Bitmarck reports, the cyber attack on it was so severe that in some cases entire data centers had to be taken offline. Some services remain disrupted, the Siemens company health insurance company (SBK) continues to have a complete failure of its customer communication. A few days ago, the IT service provider Bitmarck was hit by a cyber attack. The company supplies over 80 health insurance companies and associations with IT services. As the company itself reports, there is still no end in sight to the disruptions, even if BITMARCK is gradually providing services again for the first statutory health insurance companies. 80 health insurance companies partially affected The big problem at the moment:…

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Cisco Webex complies with data protection through full EU data residency 
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Cisco has announced that Webex now has full data residency in the EU. This satisfies the concerns and even complaints of German data protection officers. Content generated by European customers now resides in data centers in the EU. Existing data will be transferred. Cisco is consistently pursuing the path of data protection and data security. Wendy Mars, President of Cisco EMEA, announced in a blog that from now on all data from new Webex customers will be processed and stored entirely in data centers in the EU. This means that, for example, invoice data and analysis data now remain in the…

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Cyber ​​attack on ERP service provider Wilken
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

The cyber attack on the Wilken Software Group took place on Wednesday, October 12th. The ERP service provider and data center operator immediately reported the attack on its website and assured that the websites and offers of the hosted companies are not in danger. The attack on Wilken apparently only hit the administrative level. The company was only partially accessible via the individual channels in the last few days. The website openly informs visitors about the attack and the current steps. This is how we can learn about constant updates: “Furthermore, the hosted customer environments,…

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