Gartner Survey Anticipates an Economic Boom over the Next Two Years
Over 60% of the CEOs anticipate an economic boom rather than stagnation in 2021 and 2022, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner. Almost 35% respondents anticipate returning to or exceeding 2019 revenue levels as early as this year.
The annual Gartner CEO Survey was conducted between July 2020 to December 2020 among 465 actively employed CEOs and other senior business executives in North America, EMEA and APAC across different industries, revenue and company sizes.
According to the survey, technology-related change was the second-highest priority for CEOs. Digital Capabilities was the only category in which CEOs intended to increase investment in 2021. When it comes to specific technologies, CEOs see artificial intelligence (AI) as the most industry impactful technology.
Intel Launches New 11th Gen Core for Mobile
Intel has launched new 11th Gen Core H-series mobile processors (code-named “Tiger Lake-H”) worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel Core i9-11980HK — one of the Best Gaming Laptop Processors.” The Intel Core i9-11980HK delivers high performance in laptops for gaming, content creators and business professionals reaching speeds of up to 5.0 gigahertz (GHz).
Extending the performance momentum established by the 11th Gen Intel Core H35 series, the 11th Gen Intel H-series processors, based on 10 nanometer SuperFin process technology, feature up to 8 cores and 16 threads, with single and dual-core turbo performance up to 5.0GHz. Additionally, the central processing unit (CPU) can directly access high-speed GDDR6 memory attached to the graphics card, enabling gamers to experience higher frame rates with lower latency, and load large textures faster. The mobile processor offers 2.5 times the total PCIe bandwidth to the CPU compared with the 10th Gen H-series processors, and three times the total PCIe bandwidth compared with other industry processors.
CrowdStrike and Google Cloud Extend Strategic Partnership to Deliver Defense-in-Depth Protection Across Hybrid Cloud Environments
CrowdStrike, one of the leaders in cloud-delivered endpoint and workload protection, and Google Cloud have announced a series of product integrations that will deliver joint customers defense-in-depth security, comprehensive visibility and workload protection at scale across hybrid cloud environments. These integrations will enable seamless sharing of telemetry and data between the two security platforms, helping maintain high levels of security across a customers’ entire cloud or hybrid environment.
Under this expanded partnership, CrowdStrike will tightly integrate its CrowdStrike Falcon platform with Google Cloud’s suite of security products including Chronicle, VirusTotal Enterprise, and Google Cloud Security Command Center (SCC), helping security teams increase visibility of threats across cloud and hybrid deployments, and enabling them to act much more quickly to address them.
