Professional services firm case study
A professional services firm with approximately 60 users documents its transition from a long-standing but underperforming IT provider to Datek Solutions. After failing a Cyber Essentials accreditation assessment, the firm commissions a Datek audit that uncovers critical issues including servers unpatched for hundreds of days, a default firewall password, excessive user permissions, a faulty server hard drive, and nine months of failed cloud backups. Datek resolves all identified issues within weeks of taking over support, delivers full IT environment documentation, establishes a quarterly service improvement plan process, and successfully guides the firm through achieving Cyber Essentials accreditation.
A New Supercomputer Aims To Closely Mimic The Human Brain
DeepSouth, a neuromorphic supercomputer scheduled to come online in April 2024 at Western Sydney University, is capable of performing 228 trillion operations per second, matching the estimated processing rate of the human brain. It is the world’s first machine capable of simulating brain-scale neural networks. Neuromorphic computing aims to replicate the brain’s structure and energy efficiency, offering a radically different approach to computation. Researchers believe this could unlock new insights into neuroscience and accelerate progress in artificial intelligence by enabling more biologically realistic models of cognition.