At its annual Dell Technologies World conference in Las Vegas last week, Dell joined a spate of companies this year in releasing new products that address emerging needs in edge management, secure generative AI development, zero trust security and multicloud workload management. Its no surprise that these are the hottest sectors of enterprise IT products and services sales here in 2023.

While on the surface it appears that the stock market has had an incredible first five months, especially compared with 2022, in reality it has just been a handful of stocks that have lifted the Nasdaq up a stunning 25% and the S&P 500 up almost 10%. Just to prove how narrow the rally has been, the venerable Dow Jones industrials were actually down 0.13% in 2023 as of Fridays close.

As exciting as AI tools like ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Microsoft's numerous Co-pilots may be, they all currently face the same restriction: you have to be connected to the Internet to use them. For most people and in most situations that isn't a big problem, but imagine how great it would be if you could use them on your computers and phones even if you have a poor connection or none at all? Not only does this increase the situations where you could take advantage of these capabilities, but it can have a number of other important but not necessarily obvious benefits

Australia's oldest university, the University of Sydney, has made the switch to the world's largest independent Java provider, Azul Systems, bringing with it significant cost efficiency and ease of doing business. Azul Systems is the only company 100% focused on Java, and has a 20-year heritage of delivering a highly efficient Java platform that in turn directly reduces your cloud compute costs.