WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 21, 2024-- Vultr , the world’s largest privately held cloud computing platform, today announced that NetApp , the intelligent data infrastructure company, is the latest company to join the Vultr Cloud Alliance , a partnership program consisting of industry-leading solutions enabling composable AI cloud services. By combining the capabilities of NetApp ONTAP with Vultr's global network of cloud data center locations, organizations can now choose to use NetApp’s enterprise-grade data management features while leveraging Vultr's predictable pricing and high-performance infrastructure. The combined solution is particularly well-suited for organizations in data-intensive industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and media & entertainment, offering specific optimizations for AI model training, high-performance computing, and research workflows. With the Vultr Cloud Alliance, organizations can customize their infrastructure stack with a composable approach, seamlessly assembling and scaling their modern cloud and AI operations on demand without worrying about vendor lock-in. NetApp joins other alliance members, including AMD , SQream , a next-generation, data analytics and acceleration platform, Qdrant a high-performance vector database with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, Console Connect , which facilitates private, high-speed networking for secure, low-latency data transfer, and Run:ai , an advanced AI workload orchestration platform. The collaboration addresses growing enterprise requirements for flexible, secure, scalable data management solutions that can seamlessly operate across hybrid and multicloud environments. As enterprises increasingly seek to incorporate AI into their core business operations, their challenges shift from fundamental issues, such as data availability, to higher-order concerns such as data management, security, and regulatory requirements. This is evidenced in Vultr’s recently commissioned report with S&P Global Market Intelligence, “ The New Battleground: Unlocking the Power of AI Maturity with Multi-Model AI ” which revealed that security & compliance (35.3%), cost effectiveness (29.0%), and flexible pricing (24.8%) were among the top attributes determining why respondents would choose a cloud platform to deploy AI. “This collaboration helps make AI-driven innovation possible for enterprises with the most demanding security, compliance and performance requirements,” said J.J. Kardwell, CEO of Vultr. “By integrating NetApp’s industry-leading data management capabilities with Vultr’s high-performance global cloud infrastructure, we are enabling enterprises to harness the power of AI while maintaining control over their data assets.” Vultr and NetApp’s collaboration tackles these precise concerns through: This partnership will help enable a variety of use cases for companies across industries seeking to drive transformation through AI and high-performance computing. This includes financial services companies that can streamline financial data management tasks such as contract generation, legal document review and translation; healthcare and life science companies that can improve provider efficiency through automated clinical report generation, transcription and medical record summarization; and retail companies that can improve forecasting, streamline inventory workflows and optimize last-mile delivery. "Our collaboration with Vultr brings together NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure which helps customers create data strategy for their AI workloads, combined with Vultr's efficient cloud infrastructure," said Jeff Baxter, Vice President of Product Marketing at NetApp. "This collaboration empowers organizations to bring their data directly to the AI GPUs to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives while maintaining control over their data across hybrid cloud environments." Key benefits of the NetApp and Vultr collaboration include: For more information on the Vultr Cloud Alliance, visit here . About Vultr Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for businesses and developers around the world. Vultr has served over 1.5 million customers across 185 countries with flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and completely bootstrapped, Vultr has become the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing company without ever raising equity financing. Learn more at www.vultr.com . View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241121705635/en/ CONTACT: Vultr Media Relations mediarelations@vultr.com KEYWORD: FLORIDA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CANADA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY SECURITY OTHER TECHNOLOGY TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE NETWORKS INTERNET HARDWARE DATA MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOURCE: Vultr Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 11/21/2024 04:06 PM/DISC: 11/21/2024 04:05 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241121705635/enWI Children’s Hospital Rejected Christmas Toy Donations Because of ‘Religious’ Org Name (Then Apologized)He wants to take the company private — very private. Space and electric car tycoon Elon Musk shared a bawdy meme on his X platform that joked about tapping into his deep pockets to purchase MSNBC following the bombshell news that Comcast planned to spin off the lefty cable network. “And lead us not into temptation ...,” Musk, 53, wrote in the X post accompanied by a meme showing what appears to be a priest struggling to remain pure next to a woman exposing herself. In the racy meme, the priest is overlayed with the text “Elon Musk trying not to buy” while an MSNBC logo was placed over the woman’s bottom. Almost exactly two years ago, Musk dusted off the same meme , with different text, to poke fun at President-elect Donald Trump’s temptations to return to Twitter (which has since been rebranded to X). Over recent days, the billionaire and serial meme poster has bantered about purchasing the cable news platform and overhauling it. MSNBC’s parent company Comcast — the parent company of NBC — has been eyeing plans to spin off nearly all of its cable channels into a company dubbed SpinCo. Other channels in the group include CNBC, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and the Golf Channel. Critics of the cable news network have seized on the development to pose questions about MSNBC’s future in light of the dramatic shift and internally workers at the channel have been gripped by anxiety. “Everyone is in a panic because everything is up in the air,” one MSNBC source previously told The Post. MSNBC is home to liberal darlings such as Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell. Amid the upheaval, soon-to-be first son Donald Trump Jr. joked that Musk should purchase MSNBC. “Hey @elonmusk, I have the funniest idea ever!!!” the Trump scion wrote on X in response to another post suggesting that MSNBC would be up for sale. “The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely,” Musk replied on X . Podcast titan Joe Rogan chimed in, writing “If you buy MSNBC I would like Rachael Maddow’s job. I will wear the same outfit and glasses, and I will tell the same lies.” Musk replied, “Deal.” Thus far, Musk only appears to be joking about purchasing the liberal news network. Musk has an estimated net worth of $348 billion and is the richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg . It might not all be fun and games, though. The tech mogul also joked about purchasing Twitter (now X) for years before he actually pulled the trigger. “How much is it?” he asked in 2017 on the platform . Ultimately, Musk purchased the platform in 2022 for $44 billion in a deal that wrapped up in October of that year. Musk has grown increasingly political over recent years and has spent ample time in the wake of the Nov. 5 presidential election at Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump, 78, and the incoming president’s allies. The Post contacted an MSNBC rep for comment.
NoneManchester City boss Pep Guardiola has rubbished suggestions of a rift with Kevin De Bruyne, insisting he is “desperate” to have the playmaker back at his best. A number of prominent pundits, including former City defender and club ambassador Micah Richards, have questioned why the Belgium international has not been starting games amid the champions’ dramatic slump. City have not won in seven outings in all competitions – their worst run since 2008 – with De Bruyne featuring only as a substitute in the last five of those matches after recovering from a pelvic injury. The latest came with a 12-minute run-out in Sunday’s demoralising 2-0 defeat at Premier League leaders Liverpool, a result which left City 11 points off the pace and fifth in the table. Richards said on The Rest is Football podcast it appeared “there’s some sort of rift going on” between De Bruyne and Guardiola while former England striker Gary Lineker added: “It seems like all’s not well.” Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said he felt “something isn’t right” and fellow Sky Sports analyst Gary Neville, the ex-Manchester United right-back, described the situation as “unusual, bizarre, strange”. Guardiola, speaking at a press conference to preview his side’s clash with Nottingham Forest, responded on Tuesday. The Spaniard said: “People say I’ve got a problem with Kevin. Do you think I like to not play with Kevin? No, I don’t want Kevin to play? “The guy who has the most talent in the final third, I don’t want it? I have a personal problem with him after nine years together? “He’s delivered to me the biggest success to this club, but he’s been five months injured (last season) and two months injured (this year). “He’s 33 years old. He needs time to find his best, like last season, step by step. He’ll try to do it and feel better. I’m desperate to have his best.” De Bruyne has not started since being forced off at half-time of City’s Champions League clash with Inter Milan on September 18, having picked up an injury in the previous game. Both the player and manager have spoken since of the pain he was in and the need to ease back into action, but his spell on the bench has been unexpectedly long. The resulting speculation has then been exacerbated because De Bruyne is in the final year of his contract but Guardiola maintains nothing untoward has occurred. He said: “I’d love to have the Kevin in his prime, 26 or 27. He would love it to – but he is not 26 or 27 any more. “He had injuries in the past, important and long ones. He is a guy who needs to be physically fit for his space and energy. You think I’m complaining? It’s normal, it’s nature. “He’s played in 10 or 11 seasons a lot of games and I know he is desperate to help us. He gives glimpses of brilliance that only he can have. “But, always I said, he himself will not solve our problems, like Erling (Haaland) won’t solve it himself. We attack and defend together. “We want the best players back. Hopefully step by step the confidence will come back and we’ll get the best of all of us.”
Why Trump Media and Technology Stock Slipped 11% in NovemberI n November 2020, shortly after Donald Trump’s defeat in the US presidential election, Barack Obama observed that America risked entering “an epistemological crisis”. The prospect of Mr Trump’s return to the White House in January validates his predecessor’s premonition. Mr Obama was talking about media fragmentation and polarisation: different segments of society existing in discrete information spaces; arguments no longer drawn from a common reservoir of facts; no shared reality, no foundation of truth. “Then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work,” he said. “And by definition our democracy doesn’t work.” It isn’t only American democracy that is imperilled. Chaos and malicious falsehood in the information arena have disrupted politics in every country where governments are chosen in free elections. Political discourse has coarsened and consensus unravelled wherever constitutional frameworks and informally recognised codes of decency once maintained healthy pluralism. Mr Trump’s return to office next month is alarming not just because he obviously despises the rule of law but because that contempt did not disqualify him in the eyes of millions of US citizens. The nature of that support is complex. It is inseparable from dissatisfaction with the incumbent administration, which in turn has economic and cultural dimensions. But no account of the crisis in western democracy is complete without recognition of the role played by digital media. Elon Musk , the world’s richest man and owner of the social media platform X, put his resources to use for Mr Trump’s campaign. Mr Musk also takes an interest in UK politics, denigrating the prime minister and boosting radical rightwing figures. Hateful rhetoric and disinformation flow without impediment on X. The distorting effect of poorly regulated digital channels on politics is well documented. In 2018, Facebook (now Meta ) admitted that its platform had been an “enabling environment” in the build-up to genocidal attacks on Myanmar’s Rohingya minority two years earlier. Meta’s policies and algorithms have changed since then, but the underlying commercial incentives to maximise user engagement at all costs still promote radicalisation and militate against responsible curation of the information space. The tech giants that shape the contours of political discourse – whether by accident of the business model or megalomaniac design – cannot be trusted to police themselves. They are more powerful than many national governments. There are two types of riposte to the demand for action to curtail that force. One highlights the sheer difficulty of any one government imposing constraints on an industry that sprawls across multiple jurisdictions. The other raises principled objections to the idea of regulating information. The latter concern asserts that any political intervention to police a boundary between good and bad facts, safe and unsafe, tends towards censorship even if the intent is liberal. The aspiration to regulate media, in that view, is inherently anti-freedom. Wariness of any state involvement in deciding what can be published is a healthy instinct. But there is no jurisdiction that ignores the dissemination of material deemed dangerous to the public. The most liberal regimes ban extreme pornography and incitements to violence or terrorism, for example. Mr Musk declares himself to be a “free speech absolutist”, but his X platform is not a neutral marketplace . He is permissive of far-right voices and quick to denounce “cancel culture” on the left, but criticism of his own views is less tolerated. Censoriousness and bullying of dissenters are ugly traits that can be discerned at both ends of the political spectrum. That is mostly a problem of uncivil behaviour, which should not be conflated with threats of violence, racist propaganda and disinformation. Much of the worst material is spread by authoritarian states with the goal of poisoning information wells, sowing distrust and exacerbating polarisation to make free societies ungovernable. Democratic politicians have a duty to counter deliberate sabotage. The globalised scale of the problem is grounds for urgency about the task of regulation, not a reason to flinch from it. Britain’s Online Safety Act , which was passed into law last year, is a good start . But it is also a convoluted piece of legislation, reflecting its erratic evolution under different Conservative prime ministers. Many of its provisions are still to be refined by consultations and guidance to be published next year. But it does demonstrate that MPs have the power to make digital companies responsible for harmful content published on their platforms. Designing those safeguards in ways that are practical and respectful of rights to free expression, but nonetheless effective, is not easy. It requires courage in resisting a powerful tech lobby. That will be more effectively done in coordination with other jurisdictions. Since Mr Trump is not a reliable ally for this challenge, Britain’s likely partners for dialogue are members of the EU. Over the past decades, the digital information space has come to mean many things. It is an arena where ideas can, and should, be freely exchanged. It is also a commercial environment that generates innovations, but where behemoth companies dominate. It is a resource that can be shared and harnessed for good, but also monopolised and polluted. There are powerful voices with partisan vested interests lobbying against any political action that might tip the balance in favour of fair and safe usage, arguing from a position of free-speech fundamentalism. That is a category error. It is true that authoritarian regimes like to police the internet as much as they do every other aspect of civil society, but the possibility of censorship does not mean every effort of regulation deserves that label. Digital platforms have become an intrinsic part of the information infrastructure of democracies. To consider them immune from regulation would be an act of irresponsibility akin to neglecting the contamination of water supplies or refusing to apply highway codes to prohibit dangerous driving. These debates are not just academic. The case for a better regulated digital realm has to be made with growing urgency. The alternative will be to see Mr Obama’s forebodings about a broken marketplace of ideas that inhibits functional democracy realised with ever more sinister effect.CARACAS — Six Venezuelan government opponents who have sheltered for months at the Argentine embassy in Caracas decried Sunday that local police and intelligence agents were stationed outside of it for hours. The move prompted the U.S. government to call it a serious violation of international law and Argentina’s Foreign Ministry to describe it as an act of harassment. Most of the opponents belong to the Vente Venezuela party led by former legislator María Corina Machado. It denounced what it called “a new siege by hooded officials” that began Saturday night and extended into Sunday. The incident occurred hours after Machado called for a massive mobilization on Dec. 1, prompting Venezuela’s minister of the interior to accuse the political leader of being part of a new conspiracy attempt against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Vente Venezuela said in a statement that the diplomatic headquarters remains without electricity and is surrounded by “regime vehicles” that are preventing traffic from circulating in the area. It said communication signals also were scrambled. Get the latest breaking news as it happens. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy . Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Saturday that the deployment of armed troops and the closing of streets in the vicinity “constitute a disturbance of security.”. It also called on the international community to condemn the incident, which the U.S. did. On Sunday, the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela posted on X that the U.S. “strongly condemns the acts of harassment against asylum seekers.” “The deployment of armed forces and blockades seriously violate international law,” it said. “We demand that the Venezuelan regime respect its international obligations, cease these intimidating actions and guarantee safe passage for asylum seekers.” Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been broken since 2019. The opposition members entered the embassy in March after the Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office issued arrest warrants and accused them of promoting alleged acts of violence to destabilize the government. In August, Brazil accepted Argentina’s request to guard its embassy after the Venezuelan government ordered the expulsion of Argentine diplomatic personnel following statements by its president, Javier Milei, that he would not recognize “another fraud” in Venezuela after the controversial elections in Jul y. A month later, Venezuela revoked Brazil’s authorization to guard the embassy, alleging it had evidence of the use of the facilities “for the planning of terrorist activities and assassination attempts.” Brazil and Argentina have rejected those accusations.
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Brazilian authorities have decided to keep four Argentine soccer players in preventive detention due to allegations of racist behavior during the Ladies Cup tournament last week in Sao Paulo. The players, members of the River Plate team, allegedly made racist remarks and gestures aimed at Brazil's Gremio team. The Sao Paulo Public Security Department announced the decision to detain Candela Diaz, Camila Duarte, Juana Cangaro, and Milagros Diaz, preventing them from leaving Brazil. In footage shared across social media, Candela Diaz appears to mimic a monkey off-camera, further fueling the allegations. Gremio released a statement describing how their players defended a ball boy and were reciprocally subjected to racial abuse. The Ladies Cup—the tournament aimed at promoting women's soccer—has eliminated River Plate and barred them for two years. River Plate condemned the behavior of their players, pledging disciplinary actions. (With inputs from agencies.)
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