There are weeks in which technological news is little more than background noise in which product launches and company purchase-sale operations follow one another. Others, on the other hand, in which the big headlines they produce jump from the specialized press to the newscasts around the planet.
This is the case of the latter in which the most outstanding news and with which we start our Pills, is the entrance of Elon Musk on Twitter through the front door. The founder of Tesla, who will now control almost 10% of the shares of the social network, may from now on play a very prominent role in the future of the company… for better or for worse.
The second is that several weeks after announcing that it stopped selling its products in the country, Intel has officially announced that it is suspending, at least temporarily, all its operations in Russia, in response to the invasion of Ukraine. But there is much more. We also talk about the best observability platforms for your company, how to make the most of your telecommuting strategy or what you can do against ransomware as a service. Let’s start!
Telework: hybrid work is already the new normal and has challenges to overcome
We have learned many things from the pandemic caused by COVID-19. Companies have understood that they can maintain their business operations if they invest in technology and digitization; the workers and, to a large extent, their managers, that you can be as productive or more productive working from home than in the organization’s offices.
The best observability platforms for your company
In increasingly complex IT environments, a new category of solutions is knocking at the door of IT departments: application observability platforms. Behind this name are sets of tools whose main objective is to help IT managers understand what is happening in their systems.
Intel suspends all its operations in Russia
Several weeks after announcing that it stopped selling its products in the country, Intel has officially announced that it is suspending, at least temporarily, all its operations in Russia, in response to the invasion of Ukraine. The company, yes, will continue to support its employees in Russia, which currently number 1,200, but will not continue with its activities there, after suspending all shipments to its customers in Russia and Belarus.
Elon Musk reveals that he has actions on Twitter… And these are skyrocketing
The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, is one of the executives who participates the most in Twitter, and thanks to new information left to us from Reuters we have been able to know that his interest in the well-known social network is not only personal, it is also economic, since the well-known billionaire has in his possession 9.2% of the total shares of said company.
Ransomware as a Service: how to prevent it and respond to an attack
Ransomware has become one of the biggest security threats affecting businesses. Their attacks are not only increasingly complex, but also produce losses that can be millions. In 2021 alone, a ransomware attack is estimated to have occurred every 11 seconds, in a downward spiral. One of the reasons that explains this phenomenon is the development of what is known as ransomware as a service.
LG LED Signage: digital signage as you can not imagine it
Digital signage has become in recent years a market niche in full expansion, in which companies have found a platform in which to value their brand, offer value-added services to their customers and even increase your sales, simplifying for example the execution of promotions and offers. One of the companies that is most advanced in the field of digital digitization, betting on this type of panel, is LG.
Montserrat Peidró (ALSO Cloud Spain General Director): «All my life I have had to fight against the status quo»
Telecommunications engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. After finishing her degree, she went to Germany where she began her career at HP as a hardware development engineer. Two years later, she moved into the more business area of printing and graphic arts.
Currently, the professional is the general director of ALSO Cloud Spain, a Swiss technology wholesaler that invoices 12,400 million euros annually worldwide. At MCPRO we have interviewed her.
