Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently participated in the inaugural Microsoft AI Tour conference in the Mexican capital, where he announced that the company will invest $1.3 billion over the next three years to expand artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities.

At the event, Nadella “showcased the company’s innovations in artificial intelligence agents and in the deployment of data centers and Azure cloud regions.”

Microsoft’s investment over the next three years will be aimed at “improving connectivity and encouraging the adoption of artificial intelligence among small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), in order to accelerate their digital transformation and business growth.”

Furthermore, the executive indicated that the training of 5 million people in Artificial Intelligence skills is also planned in this period.

“This capital allows us to drive a profound transformation in the capacity of local ecosystems to take advantage of this new raw material as an input, so that they can create value,” added Nadella, stressing the importance of the development of both business and personal digital assistants, which strengthen the technological revolution.

Regarding the cloud, he highlighted the installation in 2020 of a cloud region in Mexican territory, through an investment of $1.1 billion. In May 2024, the second investment was announced for $1.3 billion. This cloud region “is part of the 40 regions with which the company offers its services globally, which are made up of more than 300 data centers distributed throughout the world.”

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Microsoft has ambitious plans to boost the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Spain. According to Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, the company will invest 1.95 billion euros in this effort during the years 2024 and 2025.

The announcement was made during a meeting with the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez. The investment aims to promote digital innovation and the responsible use of AI.

This figure represents Microsoft’s largest investment in Spain since the company established its presence in the country 37 years ago. In addition, it exceeds by four times the amount that the US technology has previously allocated to the Artificial Intelligence and Cloud (cloud) infrastructure in Spain.

Among Microsoft’s plans is the opening of a Cloud Region of Data Centers in the Community of Madrid. In addition, the company intends to build a Data Center Campus in Aragon, which will offer services to European companies and public entities.

These two infrastructures, partly financed by the €1.9 billion, will allow Microsoft to provide cloud services and offer Artificial Intelligence solutions to companies and public administrations in Spain and Europe.

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Banks have been gradually moving towards a more agile, customer-centric model, adopting cloud-based technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This emerges from the findings of the report ‘The Digital Horizon: Banking’s Shift from Mainframe to AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure’, presented by NTT DATA, a digital business and IT services firm.

The research, which surveyed 650 leaders of financial institutions worldwide, reveals a growing collaboration with artificial intelligence and cloud services. While legacy systems based on legacy infrastructure still persist, the report highlights that 63 % of banks still operate on legacy systems, despite 89 % identifying themselves as innovators.

However, more than 60 % of respondents say that generative AI is facilitating the transition of applications to the cloud, marking a significant shift in adoption of these technologies.

The report also highlights that board support is high, with nine out of ten executives reporting that their AI and cloud initiatives are backed by their respective boards. While most banks are already integrating AI into their technologies, 30% are still in the early stages of adoption. In addition, it is highlighted that 80 percent% lack a strategic framework for the adoption of generative AI.

As for the cloud, 36 % of respondents cite flexibility and scalability as key factors for migration, indicating a shift in concerns beyond costs. On the other hand, 25 % recognise a growing trend in migration to the cloud driven by advances in AI.

José Manuel Pérez Bajo, Banking Partner at NTT DATA, commented: “Driving change, while a great challenge, is also an opportunity for banking transformation. Understanding the current landscape, the options available and recognising the barriers makes it easier to modernise technology with greater clarity and fewer risks.”

Kaz Nishihata, Director and Senior Executive Vice President of NTT DATA Group Corporation, noted that “this technological force is driving banks towards a deeper understanding of customer needs, enabling them to deliver faster, safer and more personalized services.”

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Google has updated its Meet service to consume less of a computer’s resources by using its graphics processing unit (GPU) instead of the central processing unit (CPU).

The Mountain View company has highlighted the growing relevance of video conferencing in recent years in a statement posted on its Artificial Intelligence (AI) blog.

As a result, Google has included new features in its Meet service, such as implementing cloud rendering to improve background effects and reduce device power consumption during video calls.

These effects are made possible by machine learning models that Google Meet runs directly from the user’s browser without the need to install additional software.

Until now, the CPU of a computer has been in charge of processing these Google machine learning models. With the latest Meet update, the GPU will be the one to perform this task.

Google Meet update promises greater efficiency

To do this, the company has implemented in this update a new segmentation model based on high-resolution (HD) input images, instead of low-resolution images, as before. A change that allows you to double the resolution compared to the previous model, according to Google.

However, their calculations indicate that doubling the resolution of the input quadruples the computational cost. A toll that the CPU of many devices cannot pay as it is limited by the HD segmentation that it must execute in parallel.

Given this context, Google Meet will begin to rely on the GPU of mid-range and high-end equipment, which integrates more powerful components. The technology company believes that the low-performance cores contained in this unit are ideal for processing high-resolution convulsive models, which in turn will reduce the use of computer resources.

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Telefónica Tech has signed an agreement with the technology company Netskope to market its cloud security solutions in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Latin America and the United States.

The Spanish company will integrate these services, recognized as leaders by the consulting firm Gartner, in its portfolio of Security Edge Services, according to a statement.

The Telefónica Tech and Netskope alliance will lead to the implementation of business plans aimed at organizations immersed in a secure process of digital transformation, including both public sector companies and large and medium-sized private corporations.

Telefónica Tech has highlighted in its statement that the inclusion of these solutions in its portfolio will allow it to bring customers a more complete offer in terms of secure acceleration to the cloud and the workplace of the future.

“For Netskope, this agreement is perfectly part of the strategy of consolidating Cloud environments and cybersecurity offered by Telefónica Tech”, highlighted Netskope’s Director of Global Integrated Services for Southern Europe, Francisco Ginel.

For his part, the director of Cybersecurity and Technology Products at Telefónica Tech, Alberto Sempere, stressed that the agreement will help “strengthen” Tech as a “key leader in managed solutions and services.”

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The Google Drive cloud storage service has extended a new search filter function to all its users, with which content can be investigated according to the type of file, date or user account, among others.

This function, which Google Drive has been testing in its beta since November last year, seeks to simplify the search for users, trying to find relevant files without having to carry out several searches and will reach all users of the tool in the next 15 years. days, as the American company has assured.

To avoid cases where users search Drive for file terms that might return too broad results, such as ‘marketing plan’ or ‘sales report’, filters are located below the search bar and displayed after perform the.

These search filters allow results to be narrowed down by file type, whether it’s a document, PDF, or image, for example, who owns it, or what folder it’s in.

Other sections allow you to filter based on the date the document was last modified, according to shared labels or according to tasks.

Likewise, Google Drive has incorporated other improvements through its filters, starting to show writing suggestions, adding the option to eliminate the filters or with additional dates for the date filter.

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Hackers enter Google cloud accounts to mine cryptocurrencies. The internet giant recently published a report on “Google’s threat horizon”, where it points out its concern about the use of cloud accounts that have been hacked to mine cryptocurrencies.

According to what was disseminated in the report: “Malicious actors have been observed mining cryptocurrencies in compromised cloud instances.” Noting that “of the 50 recent examples, 86 % of the cases showed that hackers were mining cryptocurrencies with the accounts.”

The report published by Google’s Cybersecurity Action team attempts to meet two fundamental objectives: the first is “profit making” and the second is related to “traffic pumping“.

With this document the internet leading company tries to provide actionable information that allows organizations to assert that their cloud environments are better protected.

The document also refers to other registered cyber threats such as: malware, hosting of unauthorized content on the Internet, spam and the launch of DDoS bots.

Hackers broadcast live

The group responsible for making the report on Google’s Threat Analysis, last month raised the alarms by warning about the presence of hackers in YouTube accounts to spread cryptocurrency scams.

The representatives of the technology company pointed out that “the name of the channel, the image of the profile and the content were replaced by the brand of the cryptocurrency to impersonate large technology companies or cryptocurrency exchange.”

In addition, they highlighted that the hackers made live broadcasts where they offered gifts in “cryptocurrencies in exchange for the first contributions.” Google pointed out that hackers were fluent in the Russian language.

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Microsoft has presented its new Windows 11 SE operating system, designed specifically for use in education and for students, with which it intends to compete with Chromebooks, laptops that use ChromeOS.

This operating system gives priority to the cloud, in order to serve teachers who need a simple environment, with easy access to the content that is taught in classes, as the company announced in a statement.

Windows 11 SE is designed for students in grades K-8, that is, for children between 5-14 years old, who use a laptop provided by the school or college. Therefore, one of the main differences with respect to Windows 11 is that it has an interface that helps avoid distractions.

It features a simplified design so that students can concentrate during class, as Microsoft has removed the multiple Snap Layouts features of Windows 11 and adjusts the windows to provide the full-screen version of those applications.

Safe experience

On the other hand, in Windows 11 SE, applications can only be installed by IT administrators to ensure that students have a safe experience. In this way, users will not have access to the Microsoft Store nor will they be able to download applications from the Internet at will.

Although the device has a number of applications installed as standard by the manufacturer, other apps can continue to be used through the Microsoft Edge browser, without the need to download and install them.

Some of the standard apps on Windows 11 SE devices are Teams, Office, OneNote, Minecraft for Education, and Flipgrid, which IT administrators don’t have to install separately.

Along with this launch, Microsoft has detailed which are the devices that can be used with this operating system, among which are Lenovo 100w Gen3, Acer TravelMate B3 or Dell Latitude 3120.

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Business applications reported growth of the order of 4.1 % for 2020, achieving about 205,000 million euros globally. The information was provided in the report of the International Data Corporation Consultant (IDC).

The document also highlights the benefits that the business applications sector obtained due to the Covid-19 pandemic, since they were forced to develop and increase all their digital capabilities in order to be “resilient” and respond to their clients needs amidst the adversities of the environment.

According to IDC: “Modular and intelligent applications are helping companies to take advantage of data and obtain information to better maneuver so that they can remain resilient and capitalize on changes in these conditions.”

Various companies are entering the business applications market. However, the study shows that the five most important, together, concentrated 22.8 % of the world market in 2020.

The German company SAP ranked first, achieving 7.5 % of the market and revenues in the order of 15.37 billion euros. In the second place is Salesforce, with 4.7 % of the segment and revenues of 11.120 million. The third place is held by Oracle, which has a 3 % market share with 6.1 billion revenue.

The fourth and fifth places are occupied by the US companies Intuit and Microsoft. Intuit, like Ocracle, has a 3 % market with 6,100 million revenues, while the giant Microsoft only has 2.2 % of the market and about 4,500 million.

The future of apps

The consulting company IDC considers that the business applications market will continue to grow in the coming years with an average of 6.7 % approximately, achieving revenue “close to 284,000 million in 2025”. Imagine that the growth will be gradual and will depend on the specific evaluations that organizations make to “their current portfolios and many of them choose to customize these applications”.

Likewise, the consultancy IDC estimates that the “demand for cloud-based business applications will reach a compound annual growth rate of 13.6 % in the next five years, above the general market.”

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Source: lainformacion.com

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