Intel released more data yesterday that suggests that its new Rocket Lake-S chip outperforms the AMD equivalent by about 11 percent—at least in terms of storage performance.

Sound familiar? That's because it released a similar report just a few weeks ago that found Intel chips are also (supposedly) faster than Apple's new M1 chipset.

I know that chip makers have been releasing benchmarks like these for decades, but I can't help but wonder if Apple's M1 chips are creating more urgency in the industry than we've ever seen (Spoiler: Samsung is also responding. Check out the link in today's newsletter).

What do you make of all of this? Am I blowing it out of proportion? Let me know by chiming in on this new thread in the SaaSOps Community.
PCWorld | Intel’s 11th gen Rocket Lake-S is still sitting on the launch pad, but the company isn’t wasting any time in promoting it. On Tuesday, Intel teased storage performance results that show a Rocket Lake-S outperforming a Ryzen 9 5950X by 11 percent. The results were tweeted by Intel’s Ryan Shrout, who works as Intel’s Chief Performance Strategist.
BetterCloud | In recent articles on SaaS management, we discuss why you need it and how a SaaS management platform (SMP) helps to discover, manage, and secure the SaaS environment. So we move onto the next important topic: How do SMPs save organizations like yours time and money?
Neowin | Samsung is no stranger to making Windows on ARM PCs, releasing devices for the most recent two generations of Qualcomm's Snapdragon Compute Platforms. But while Windows on ARM is referred to by some as Windows on Snapdragon, that phrase might not be accurate soon, as Samsung might just be working on a laptop that uses its own processor.
Computerworld | Google Cloud today announced a new operating mode for its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that turns over the management of much of the day-to-day operations of a container cluster to Google’s own engineers and automated tools. With Autopilot, as the new mode is called, Google manages all of the Day 2 operations of managing these clusters and their nodes, all while implementing best practices for operating and securing them.
MSPoweruser | Microsoft announced a new feature in Word that will allow you to transform Word documents into PowerPoint presentations. This feature is now available in Word for the web First Release users. When you use the new Transform feature, Word will create a presentation based on all the summarized sections of the document. It will also add imagery, icons, videos, themes, and fonts using AI.
Lifehacker | If you’re concerned that you might have been infected by the Silver Sparrow malware that's floating around, think about what you’ve done with your system lately. David Murphy at Lifehacker put together a short, but handy guide on how to dig around to see if your Mac has been impacted by this new malware.
SaaSOps Community | If you couldn't use an HRIS to track vacation time, what would you use? This conversation hasn't caught fire just yet, but I think it will (and should). Let us know how you keep track of everyone's vacation time by clicking the link above.
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