It's that time of the month again - our latest dive into the latest trends, tips, and insights shaping the world of IT today; your go-to source for staying ahead in the ever evolving tech landscape!
These are the first CPU's manufactured based on the 18A (Angstrom) node. With this generation, Intel hopes to maintain its leadership over AMD.
It will be a while before we will be able to get to play with these new servers, but the specs look very impressive indeed. You can read more here.
There has been a fair amount of press around this announcement, so we wanted to summarise where you can get all the important information on Wave 2.
Firstly, there's a new addition to the broader Copilot family called Copilot Pages. This is essentially a workspace where you can easily store content generated by Copilot and collaborate with colleagues. Read more about Copilot Pages here.
Next, there's another new member of the family - Copilot Agents - designed to allow anyone to add new knowledge and skills to Microsft Copilot. Read more about Copilot Agents here.
Finally, existing features of the Copilot family, such as Copilot in Word or PowerPoint, have been enhanced, with further information available here.
Please contact us if you'd like to arrange a demo of these Copilot features, or to register your interest for a 1:1 Copilot Readiness Workshop, which you can find out more about here.
This group has only be operating since February and the NSA are already issuing warnings. Attacks are increasingly sophisticated and executed faster than ever. Read more here.
A report from Civo, a UK-based cloud company, reveals that a third of organisations feel their cloud transition did not meet financial expectations. Rising electricity and tech support costs from public cloud providers are driving higher bills.
The hybrid cloud model combines on-premise, private, and public cloud solutions and is increasingly seen as the optimal approach.
We specialise in Hybrid Cloud solutions, please contact us to find out more or visit our Hybrid Data Centre & Cloud page on our website to find out more.
Ethan Mollick has published an excellent article on ways to get employees to experiment with AI, and through learning from the experimentation, use AI to benefit their jobs and ultimately, the company they work for.
He makes a very important point: "Experimentation is hard and expensive for outsiders trying to develop new products, but very cheap for workers doing their own tasks. As users are very motivated to make their own jobs easiers with technology, they find ways to do so." Read more here.
Extensive outages following Hurricane Helene in the USA has shone the spotlight on the need for new approaches to network resilience.
Extreme weather events are becoming more common across the globe, and this article suggests six steps to improve resilience.
Next year our SAM team turns 20, and with over 100 years combined experience (yes, we did the math), we've got a lot to celebrate.
In addition to being a global team, every single person is a full-time First Technology Group employee (we don't outsource), they have more than 72 certifications and we are the most Block64-certified team in the world!
We're teaming up with Dell Technologies in October to offer 1:1 GenAI Accelerator Workshops designed to help companies overcome AI adoption challenges and gain a strategic advantage. We've got a blog explaining more here.
As always, if there is anything in the newsletter that you'd like to discuss, please reach out, we would love to hear from you.
