Technology

• Half of Turkey's gross domestic product comes from international trade and Turkey needs to have access to foreign direct investment and technology transfers if it wants to fully become a developed economy that could prove impervious to financial storms.
• Velocity's strengths in SAP will further enhance Navisite's SAP solutions, enabling Navisite to deliver technical and functional consulting, implementation and support services to help customers adopt SAP cloud technologies and migrate to SAP S/4HANA, which is SAP's ERP for large enterprises.
• There is a need for the Nigerian government to adopt technologies with long-term benefits such as cloud computing (the public cloud) as it will benefit both the Nigerian government and citizens by providing reduced IT costs.
• A team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials has developed a hydrogen paste that could one day be used to fuel vehicles.
• CrowdStrike plans to use Humio's technology to continue building out its extended detection and response platform.
• Oracle Cloud will provide real-time financial, supply chain and merchandising solutions, replacing its legacy suite of technology systems and delivering new data, insights and planning capabilities.
• What will shape up over the next five years is a shakeout where hyperscalers begin providing some of the services telcos once offered, while telcos begin offering some of the computing services that were once the domain of hyperscalers.
• FlyZero will shape the next generation of global aviation with the intention of gearing up the UK to stand at the forefront of sustainable flight in design, manufacture, technology and skills.
• Precision technology which can map soil health, predict potential yields and make the most efficient use of inputs could all help UK farmers compete on a global stage.
• A ground-based solution on IBM Cloud will permit users to submit jobs, via a VPN connection, to the HPE ground systems that communicate securely with the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 systems on the ISS, where Red Hat CodeReady Containers are installed.
• A successful end-to-end demonstration using the IBM Cloud on Earth and Red Hat CodeReady Containers and the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 on the ISS in orbit will further validate and push the concept of widespread edge computing in space toward reality.
• China may ban the export of rare-earth refining technology to countries or companies it deems as a threat to state security.
• Nine US governmental agencies were breached along with 100 different private sector companies, many of which were technology companies, including products that could be used to launch additional intrusions.
• 29% of small firms say they will invest in new equipment and technology in 2021, and 13% of firms view technology as the top opportunity for growth over 2022.
• With Ritek at the center of the local industrial cooperation hub, up to 30 potential Norwegian suppliers will be responsible for upgrading and repairing components, as well as delivering new subsystems and technology solutions as part of future upgrades for the Norwegian CV90 fleet.
• Cloud computing is set to increase significantly over the next decade, as three-quarters of organisations expect the volume of data they manage to at least double over the next 10 years.
• Working closely together, UK Research and Innovation and ARIA will catalyse an even more diverse, dynamic, and creative funding system that will ensure transformative ideas, whoever has them, can change people's lives for the better.
• A new venture by digital health and remote patient monitoring company, Inhealthcare will provide care home residents in North East London with technology to connect to their family doctors.
• The Biden administration may push for new sector-based trade agreements, such as an e-commerce agreement, an environmental goods and services agreement, and a new information technology agreement, where Korean support and partnership will be critical.
• There will be an indoctrination of navigation principles into the core healthcare fabric: We think we will see a world where health plans and health systems incorporate navigation as a feature, product or service.

Last updated: 22 February 2021