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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
Employers remain cautious about how immigration policies will change under Trump, given his waffling over E-Verify checks and the potential for a DACA repeal.
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20 Dec 2024
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans
Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
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20 Dec 2024
HTI-3 final rule updates information blocking exceptions
The Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule adds a new information blocking exception to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
Cloud Computing News from the past 365 days
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10 Sep 2024
Infinigate Cloud strikes N-able marketplace partnership
Distributor will offer tools to managed service providers across large areas of Europe as part of the relationship
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10 Sep 2024
ANZ CIOs to prioritise cyber security investments in 2025
Cyber security remains high on the agenda for ANZ CIOs, followed by data analytics, cloud and generative AI
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09 Sep 2024
At CloudWorld, Oracle completes hyperscaler trifecta with AWS
Oracle opens up its annual CloudWorld event with a plethora of announcements, launching a partnership with cloud giant AWS and expanding previously announced tie-ups with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
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09 Sep 2024
Interview: Jon Grainger, CTO, DWF
The law firm’s IT leader discusses the transition to cloud and his strategy for digital transformation, as well as the opportunities and challenges of generative AI in the legal sector
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09 Sep 2024
How MongoDB is driving AI adoption in ASEAN
MongoDB field CTO Boris Bialek delves into how the company is supporting ASEAN organisations in their AI journey, highlighting the importance of data governance and real-time capabilities in driving successful adoption
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05 Sep 2024
Tencent Cloud debuts palm scanning tech in global markets
Tencent Cloud launches palm verification technology for global markets, offering AI-driven identity authentication to support contactless payments and security access management
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05 Sep 2024
BCS ushers in 2024 apprentice class
Channel player welcomes its largest intake as it continues to invest in skilling the next generation of datacentre experts
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03 Sep 2024
Flash prices drop as drive production increases but demand lags
Flash prices were high in the early part of this year as a result of manufacturer production squeezes but have since dropped because demand has been slack, with flash now costing just under 10 cents per gigabyte
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03 Sep 2024
Nationwide development platform uses Red Hat technology
Building society is speeding up its software releases through Red Hat cloud application development platform
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02 Sep 2024
Navigating the shifting sands of open source
As open source matures, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is grappling with issues ranging from licence rug-pulling and the rise of artificial intelligence to the changing dynamics of open source contributions
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30 Aug 2024
Norwegian Refugee Council leverages Okta for Good cyber scheme
Pietro Galli, CIO of the Norwegian Refugee Council, reveals how the globally distributed NGO has been taking advantage of the Okta for Good CSR programme to improve its own cyber security and data protection practice, and elevate good practice in the third sector
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29 Aug 2024
Primark adds five more years to IT outsourcing contract with TCS
Retailer has worked with Indian IT services giant for eight years and new agreement will take the relationship to 13 years at least
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28 Aug 2024
HPE: Customers not positioned to exploit AI
Vendor shares insights into the challenges facing users keen to embrace artificial intelligence and the need for partners to provide support
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28 Aug 2024
Global cyber spend to rise 15% in 2025, pushed along by AI
Security spending will increase at pace in 2025, with artificial intelligence, cloud and consultancy services all pushing outlay to new highs, according to Gartner
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28 Aug 2024
Cambridge Enterprise saves big with Keepit SaaS backup
University innovation body avoids hardware spend and saves management time as it switches from tape to cloud-to-cloud backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit
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28 Aug 2024
Interview: Nick Woods, CIO, Manchester Airports Group
The IT chief of the UK’s biggest airport operator wants to give his organisation the world’s most intelligent airports – he explains the data-led approach that’s aiming to reach that destination
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28 Aug 2024
How Kaspersky is driving growth in APAC
Kaspersky is leveraging its threat intelligence capabilities and local market knowledge to navigate geopolitical tensions and expand its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region
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28 Aug 2024
Case study: Kingfisher Group takes DIY approach to AI roll-out across e-commerce sites
International home improvement retailer Kingfisher Group opens up about the evolution of its AI strategy, and the rewards it is reaping
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27 Aug 2024
Palo Alto Networks bets on ‘precision AI’
Palo Alto Networks’ regional leader, Steven Scheurmann, explains how machine learning, neural networks and generative AI can help to prevent breaches in what it calls ‘precision AI’
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26 Aug 2024
Linus Torvalds discusses Linux development, security and AI at KubeCon
Linus Torvalds delves into the challenges in Linux development, the importance of swift security responses, and artificial intelligence’s future role in kernel programming
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22 Aug 2024
HPE enabling channel to tap into AI opportunity
Vendor is providing support working to make sure its partners can deliver its AI technology offerings
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22 Aug 2024
The rise and rise of open source in China
China’s embrace of open source software has evolved into a powerful force in the global technology landscape, driving innovations in cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other areas
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22 Aug 2024
More execs recognise data as assets than in 2020
Capgemini has updated its Data-Powered Enterprise study, which shows more businesses are deriving value from data
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21 Aug 2024
Appian taking partners into higher-margin opportunities
The business process automation player has refreshed its platform as it helps the channel navigate a changing market
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21 Aug 2024
QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration
US-based startup will develop storage software allied with FPGA chips to allow data storage to bypass spinning disk era block addressing to speed performance and cut energy use
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21 Aug 2024
Cloud Industry Forum: ESG a criterion for partner selection
Industry group shares latest research into attitudes around sustainability, with results showing it matters to customers as much as cloud and security capabilities
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21 Aug 2024
How open source is shaping AI developments
The Linux Foundation outlines efforts to bolster enterprise AI adoption through a framework for managing and deploying AI applications, standardised tooling and open data alternatives
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21 Aug 2024
Wells Fargo bank turns to AI to help families settle estates after a death
Wells Fargo bank is winning customers after using business automation software and artificial intelligence to help people manage the estates of relatives following a bereavement
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21 Aug 2024
Arrow gets the nod to support VMware cloud partners across Europe
Distributor given significant position to support VMware channel in the UK and beyond by Broadcom
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20 Aug 2024
Phishing links becoming bigger threat than email attachments
Phishing techniques are evolving away from malicious email attachments, according to a report
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19 Aug 2024
Singtel expands GPUaaS offering to Southeast Asia
Singapore telco teams up with the Bridge Alliance industry group to bring its GPU-as-a-Service to enterprises across Southeast Asia
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16 Aug 2024
New Relic CEO on APAC growth and future of observability
New Relic CEO Ashan Willy talks up growth trajectory in APAC, the company’s long-term vision, and how going private has enabled it to make strategic investments
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16 Aug 2024
HPE acquires Morpheus Data, bolstering hybrid cloud offering
HPE is buying Morpheus Data, its second hybrid cloud management acquisition for GreenLake in less than two years following the purchase of OpsRamp.
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16 Aug 2024
Thousands of NetSuite customers accidentally exposing their data
Misconfigured permissions across live websites are leaving thousands of NetSuite users open to having their valuable customer data stolen, researchers say
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16 Aug 2024
HPE bolsters hybrid cloud position with Morpheus Data buy
HPE adds more depth to its GreenLake Cloud proposition handled by partners with its latest acquisition
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16 Aug 2024
Vacancy rates in major European datacentre hubs hit all-time low, CBRE data finds
CBRE’s latest quarterly market figures suggest the major European datacentre hubs could be reaching a crisis point, as demand for new capacity outstrips supply
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15 Aug 2024
Dublin confirmed as world’s third-largest hyperscale datacentre hub
Data from Synergy Research Group confirms the majority of the world’s 20 biggest hyperscale datacentre hubs are in the US, but Europe is holding its own with Dublin
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15 Aug 2024
Redcentric shares preliminary FY numbers as CEO bows out
MSP updates investors, with current boss deciding the time is right to head into retirement and kickstart the search for a successor
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15 Aug 2024
ASEAN organisations lack mature AI strategy
IBM-commissioned study reveals that while ASEAN organisations are engaging with AI, only 4% have reached a transformative level of AI maturity
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14 Aug 2024
Newcastle City Council swaps out Oracle Java for Azul
Changes to Oracle’s Java licensing meant the council no longer received free security patches
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14 Aug 2024
Leeds Teaching Hospitals deploys patient records and data sharing on Azure
In-house patient records system has been migrated to the Microsoft public cloud, opening up the potential for greater data sharing
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13 Aug 2024
Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads
Exascale is multitenant architecture for Oracle Database that promises performance equal to dedicated infrastructure and savings compared with existing products, with AI workloads in mind
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12 Aug 2024
How JSR is using generative AI to drive insights
JSR Corporation has been using the Cohesity Gaia enterprise search assistant to surface insights from backups of employee mailboxes and OneDrive data
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09 Aug 2024
The Security Interviews: Google’s take on confidential computing
We speak to Google’s Nelly Porter about the company’s approach to keeping data as safe as possible on Google Cloud
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08 Aug 2024
European markets improve for Infinigate in Q1
Distributor shares revenue update for the first quarter, as well as its confidence in the prospects for the rest of the fiscal year
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07 Aug 2024
Microsoft and CrowdStrike hit back at Delta’s legal threats
Microsoft and CrowdStrike have rejected claims by Delta Air Lines that it was left high and dry amid thousands of flight cancellations during July’s software outage, accusing the airline of ignoring their offers of help and running out-of-date IT systems
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07 Aug 2024
Maintel strategy underpins progress made in H1
Comms specialist Maintel shares trading update on its strategy to secure contracts, stating that it is heading in the right direction
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06 Aug 2024
Advanced faces fine over LockBit attack that crippled NHS 111
Advanced Software faces a multimillion pound fine for a series of failings which directly led to a 2022 LockBit ransomware attack that disrupted NHS and social care services across the UK
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06 Aug 2024
How Darussalam Assets is tapping AI in HR operations
Brunei’s Darussalam Assets is leveraging the artificial intelligence capabilities in SAP SuccessFactors to generate job descriptions and optimise recruitment processes
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05 Aug 2024
ServiceNow expands footprint in APAC, doubles down on AI
ServiceNow has been building local teams, targeting customers in regulated industries and doubling down on AI to expand its presence in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region
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02 Aug 2024
Bounteous x Accolite, Nokia boost 5G API use-case development
Global comms tech provider enters into collaboration with digital transformation services consultancy to deploy Network as Code platform with API developer portal, with initial focus on use cases in areas of healthcare, gaming and utilities
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02 Aug 2024
AWS profits and revenue rise as public cloud giant plots AI infrastructure investments
Amazon’s public cloud arm reports its second-quarter results, and states that the second half of this year will see an uptick in infrastructure investments to support the growing demand for AI
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02 Aug 2024
How CrowdStrike is leveraging AI to empower security teams
CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev explains how the company’s multi-agent AI architecture can help to enhance analyst efficiency and tackle cyber security challenges
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01 Aug 2024
CrowdStrike shareholders sue, alleging false security claims
A US pension fund is lining up a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, claiming the cyber company lied about the integrity of its systems, leading to failings that caused a worldwide IT outage
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01 Aug 2024
Natural History Museum partners with AWS to restore and protect urban nature
The Natural History Museum said it expects to collect and analyse 20 terabytes of species data in year one with help from AWS
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31 Jul 2024
Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency
Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short
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30 Jul 2024
Lemongrass taking advantage of SAP cloud moves
Vendor’s encouragement to customers to adopt its Rise technology has opened up opportunities for its channel
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30 Jul 2024
APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS
Accenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
The vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
ALSO strengthens European position with Westcoast
Distributor tie-up will provide Swiss channel player with more options in the UK, Ireland and France
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28 Jul 2024
Nearly a third of GenAI projects to be dropped after PoC
At least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025 as organisations struggle to realise the value of the technology, says Gartner
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26 Jul 2024
Ban predictive policing and facial recognition, says civil society
A coalition of civil society groups is calling for an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance in the UK
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26 Jul 2024
CMA cloud licensing: Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of ‘muddying’ anti-trust debate
Microsoft's response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into its cloud licensing practices sees it hit out at cloud rivals for claiming its tactics are anti-competitive
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26 Jul 2024
AI surge spurs shift from cloud to local data control
The rise of AI is driving organisations to move data control locally to prevent external use of their data while maintaining cloud compatibility, says Cloudian CEO
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
CrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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24 Jul 2024
Qualtrics CEO: AI can make businesses more human
Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin believes AI can democratise experience management and help businesses better understand what matters to both customers and employees
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23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
Secure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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23 Jul 2024
Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry
Digital Catapult is offering each participant in its latest accelerator programme access to £50,000 in funding so they can use their AI prowess to revamp how the creative industry and economy works
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
Huawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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21 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices
About 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational
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19 Jul 2024
Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments
East Midlands-based council has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements and efficiencies to the way it works
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19 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally
An update to the security firm’s Falcon service has led to many Windows users being unable to work this morning. Microsoft 365 is also affected
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19 Jul 2024
Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims
The contents of Amazon’s annual sustainability report has come in for criticism from both past and present employees of the company, as well as independent IT sustainability experts
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18 Jul 2024
Aviatrix CEO pitches cloud networking to 'underserved buyer'
Doug Merritt has been in the multi-cloud networking business for a year, but still draws on his experience as CEO of Splunk to steer Aviatrix toward a new phase of growth.
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18 Jul 2024
SonicWall adds cloud edge proposition for MSPs
Vendor SonicWall continues to crank up the tools and services it can provide its managed service provider partner base
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18 Jul 2024
Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC
Neo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models
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17 Jul 2024
Google launches Distributed Cloud edge hardware
The hardware for highly regulated industries runs the Google Cloud infrastructure stack, data security services and the Vertex AI platform for running pretrained AI models.
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17 Jul 2024
Police Digital Service CEO Ian Bell resigns as company director following news of staff arrests
Two weeks after news emerged that two employees of the Police Digital Service had been arrested on suspicion of bribery, fraud and misconduct, Companies House confirms PDS CEO Ian Bell has resigned as company director
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17 Jul 2024
Gartner: AI is driving customer spending
Analyst firm outlines how much money will be spent on IT this year, with growth being supported by customer adoption of fresh technologies
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17 Jul 2024
Eyes on costs a feature of K3 first-half results
Channel player K3 delivers a significant reduction in operating losses thanks to its continued focus on reducing costs
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17 Jul 2024
AWS, Microsoft and Google urge datacentre kit suppliers to improve Scope 3 data collection
AWS, Microsoft and Google put their names to an open letter, calling on third-party datacentre construction and equipment providers to do a better job with helping calculate Scope 3 emissions of cloud platforms
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17 Jul 2024
How iProov is fending off deepfake fraud
Facial biometrics and controlled illumination can detect liveness, verify identities and help prevent deepfake attacks
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16 Jul 2024
Incubator Plexal heads to Singapore for CyberBoost
Cyber startup hub Plexal expands its presence to Singapore through a new initiative, and sets its sights on helping new UK businesses break into the booming Asia-Pacific market
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16 Jul 2024
Cloud spend trumps AI but data, security and cost a common headache
Nasuni-sponsored survey finds cloud projects higher on the to do list than AI, but data management, security and cost reduction are common themes in all areas of investment
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16 Jul 2024
Massive hyperscaler GenAI spend raises questions on costs
How much will IT buyers be expected to pay, as hyperscalers ramp up investment in AI-powered servers to support GenAI?
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16 Jul 2024
Schneider expands support on datacentre and infrastructure front
Power specialist Schneider adds more certifications for partners as they look to develop areas of expertise
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15 Jul 2024
How Snowflake is tackling AI challenges
Snowflake’s regional leader Sanjay Deshmukh outlines how the company is helping customers to tackle the security, skills and cost challenges of AI implementations
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12 Jul 2024
Microsoft rolls out further partner incentives and support
Vendor uses inaugural digital event to outline where it’s hoping partners will focus and how it will support those efforts
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12 Jul 2024
AT&T loses ‘nearly all’ phone records in Snowflake breach
Hackers have stolen records of virtually every call made by AT&T's customers during a six-month period in 2022, after compromising the US telco's Snowflake data environment
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11 Jul 2024
Microsoft and CISPE’s settlement in long-running cloud antitrust dispute proves controversial
Microsoft and trade body CISPE have reportedly reached a $22m settlement in their long-running antitrust dispute, but cloud market stakeholders are not happy with the outcome
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11 Jul 2024
Dutch research firm TNO pictures the SOC of the future
In only a few years, security operations centres will have a different design and layout, and far fewer will remain
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10 Jul 2024
Datacentre market supports Labour government’s review of blocked server farm builds
New government has wasted no time in lowering planning permission barriers to new datacentre builds, with its disclosure that two previously denied projects are being placed under review
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10 Jul 2024
Setting the high bar in digital transformation
Roel Louwhoff, Standard Chartered’s chief transformation, technology and operations officer, outlines what it takes for the company to become a client-focused, data-driven bank
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09 Jul 2024
Microsoft and Google’s GHG emissions gains call viability of net-zero targets into question
Microsoft and Google cite expansion of their datacentres due to demand for AI services for their greenhouse gas emissions increasing. What does this mean for their 2030 carbon reduction commitments?
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09 Jul 2024
Room to grow in UK for Tata Consultancy Services after half a century
Indian-headquartered IT giant has built a large UK footprint as part of its global network, a commitment which is helping it increase its business in the UK’s public sector
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09 Jul 2024
Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup
Tony’s Chocolonely sometimes lost Salesforce.com data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data
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05 Jul 2024
MSPs deserve more recognition
CEO of Kaseya outlines its mission to improve the position of the managed service provider community
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04 Jul 2024
UK data regulator should investigate police cloud deployments
The Scottish biometrics commissioner has called for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office to formally investigate whether Police Scotland’s cloud-based evidence sharing system is fully compliant with data protection laws
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04 Jul 2024
How Qualtrics is driving experience management with AI
During the Sydney leg of its X4 conference, Qualtrics’ top executives dived deeper into its efforts to help organisations improve customer and employee experiences with AI