Stephen Withers

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I'm a freelance journalist specialising in TVs, projectors, audio products and movies. I'm also a qualified THX, ISF and HAA calibrator and consultant.

Articles

Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with new AI copilot

1 week ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

Experience management specialist Qualtrics is pushing ahead with its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, launching new features designed to close the gap between collecting customer feedback and acting on it. The company’s latest product, Qualtrics Assist for CX, is a copilot-style tool for managers and executives who want to explore customer experience data directly.
CISOs must translate cyber threats into business risk

3 weeks ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

Bridging the gap between cyber security and enterprise risk management programmes is a key priority for risk professionals, according to Jayant Dave, Check Point’s chief information security officer (CISO) in the Asia-Pacific region. Two decades ago, he noted that cyber security focused on perimeter defences such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, with signature-based antivirus on endpoints. At the time, cyber strategies were considered part of technology risk management.
ANZ firms spending more on data management

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

Soaring data volumes, increasing data complexity and the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) are driving organisations to improve their data management practices, according to Christine Low, head of observability for Asia-Pacific at Splunk. This need is reflected in the company’s latest data management report, which found 88% of respondents in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) increased their overall spend on data management last year, slightly less than the 91% of global respondents.
Gartner : les utilisateurs de VMware sont confrontés à un avenir multi-hyperviseurs

1 month ago | lemagit.fr | Stephen Withers

De nombreux centres de calcul s'appuient sur la virtualisation, et VMware était une plateforme de premier plan jusqu'à ce que son nouveau propriétaire, Broadcom, modifie ses règles de licence. Ce changement a conduit de nombreuses organisations à réévaluer leur infrastructure.
Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

Many datacentres rely on virtualisation, and VMware was a leading platform until new owner Broadcom changed its licensing rules. The move has left many organisations reassessing their infrastructure.
How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

Patching won’t clear threat debt Threat debt is a subset of technical debt – specifically, the part that threat actors are likely to exploit, explained Craig Lawson, vice-president analyst at Gartner. “Patching is one of the most complicated, difficult, frustrating processes in all of IT. It touches everything. You can’t escape it,” he said.
Rio Tinto overhauls IT operations with platform model

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

Rio Tinto’s journey towards operating an IT platform model was detailed by Remona Murugan, the company’s head of technology platforms, during a fireside chat at the recent Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney.
Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

Cloud has become a business necessity, but “there is still a tremendous amount of headroom left for most organisations”, said Joe Rogus, advisory director at Gartner, during his keynote on the future of cloud at the recent Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies conference in Sydney. Rogus warned that businesses are at risk without a solid strategy for moving up the cloud value chain.
I tested the JVC DLA-NZ700, and its performance is nothing short of a revelation for a mid-range projector

1 month ago | techradar.com | Stephen Withers

The JVC DLA-NZ700 has a lighter and more compact chassis than the company's NZ800 and NZ900, but uses the same third-generation D-ILA chipset, laser light source, and filter for wide colour gamut coverage. There are no HDMI 2.1 inputs, which in turn means the new projector can’t support 4K/120Hz, and there’s no low-latency mode for gaming.
Data streaming matures, cultural shift is key

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Stephen Withers

The developer community is “getting its feet under us” with data streaming, but the transition will require organisations to create well-managed data products, Confluent’s vice-president of developer relations, Tim Berglund, told attendees at the company’s Data Streaming World event in Melbourne this month.