Cloud computing

• [New] Hyundai developed its ICCU to allow for bidirectional power conversion, meaning that vehicles based on the E-GMP platform will be able to use its hardware to output power to external accessories, appliances, and eventually even charge other electric vehicles requiring a bump in electron supply.
• [New] The number of travelers who enroll in the oversea medical tourism through its platform increased fivefold over the previous year, and more than 500,000 Chinese visitors are expected to go on medical tourism.
• [New] Cisco has released software updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software that could permit an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or allow an authenticated, local attacker to gain escalated privileges on an affected system.
• [New] Developers who use Qiskit to improve their algorithms will have access to test them on IBM's cloud-based quantum computing platform.
• [New] Rather than replacing current computer architectures, IBM is betting that quantum computers will gain traction in the coming years by taking on very specific tasks that are offloaded from a classic computing system to a quantum platform.
• [New] The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned capital market operators to stop giving support to online investment trading platforms providing access to foreign securities in Nigeria.
• [New] Further impacts will be felt by tech companies as business with DSR-aligned countries becomes more difficult due to cyber security concerns associated with China's digital platform.
• [New] By 2025, 50% of industrial enterprises will use industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms to improve factory operations, up from 10% in 2020.
• [New] As a software as a service (SaaS) technology, PCBflow incorporates the security standards of Siemens' software, reducing risk and protecting intellectual property (IP) with no additional IT investment.
• [New] Gartner forecasts the highest growth, on a global scale, will come from devices such as laptops, desktops, tablets, and mobile phones and enterprise software (up 10.8%) as organisations shift their focus to providing a more comfortable, innovative and productive environment for their workforce.
• [New] The online segment is expected to witness significant growth in the coming years due to the increasing number of online shoppers who prefer various e-commerce platforms over physical stores.
• [New] Today Cisco announces enhancements to its cloud-native platform, SecureX to more quickly and effectively manage new and emerging and advanced threats.
• [New] Might improve Facebook's ability to identify new platforms that are gaining popularity and could.
• [New] AWS Outposts, as regular readers of CloudTech will recognise, is the cloud infrastructure leader's offering to deliver a true hybrid experience; infrastructure, services and tools to virtually any space, cloud or on-premises.
• [New] Many of the world's leading tech companies are vying to develop what will become the next mainstream computing platform.
• [New] Copyright protection of Oracle's code would be an unduly narrow view of fair use that threatens modern paradigms of software development.
• [New] Verizon's Private 5G Edge platform will give customers a reliable, secure, high bandwidth, low latency connection to AWS services, APIs and tools running on AWS Outposts.
• [New] Enterprises will be able to deploy a dedicated, private edge compute platform fully integrated with AWS cloud services and Verizon 5G private networks to improve productivity, safety and operational efficiencies.
• [New] The development of smart infrastructure and increasing demand for private 5G networks can provide major business opportunities in the global Teleradiology Software market.
• [New] While there are certain similarities between Australia and other countries, in the regulatory and business environments that platforms encountered, there are some distinctive local factors worth mentioning that might have shaped Australians' views of platforms and gig work.
• [New] A common practice among global companies has been to put call centers in Ireland, manufacturing facilities in Spain and Mexico, software programming functions in India, and marketing in Singapore to optimize global resources, gain access to labor markets, and capture market opportunities.
• [New] The IVAS headset, based on the HoloLens and augmented by Microsoft Azure cloud services, delivers a platform that will keep soldiers safer and make them more effective.

Last updated: 11 April 2021