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26 Jul 2024
Generative AI a top priority for Amazon QuickSight
By Eric AvidonThough the BI platform already enables users to analyze data and develop data products using natural language, AWS plans to do more to aid insight generation and user efficiency.
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26 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike outage underscores software testing dilemmas
By Beth PariseauExperts say efforts to avoid incidents such as last week's CrowdStrike outage will face time-honored tradeoffs between velocity, stability, access and security.
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26 Jul 2024
OpenAI takes on Google with new SearchGPT prototype
By Esther AjaoThe AI engine will provide users with information from the web. The AI vendor is working with publishers such as Newsmax. It will incorporate some features in ChatGPT.
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09 Jan 2024
Print managed services part of a sustainability pitch
By Simon QuickeIt’s been pitched as a cost-controlling benefit, but the green benefits of MPS is growing, according to Kyocera Document Solutions UK
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05 Jan 2024
GTDC: More use cases add to AI expectations
By Simon QuickeThe latest GTDC podcast includes talk of the prospects for the technology to have a major channel impact this year – artificial intelligence
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04 Jan 2024
Celona and Palo Alto partner to enhance private 5G network security
By Alex ScroxtonWireless services specialist Celona and security firm Palo Alto Networks are coming together to enhance device protection for organisations operating private mobile networks
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02 Jan 2024
Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI
By Aaron TanCloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing
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29 Dec 2023
Top 10 India IT stories of 2023
By Aaron TanWe recap the year’s top 10 stories in India, including the country’s datacentre boom and innovations in space and agriculture technologies
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28 Dec 2023
Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2023
By Aaron TanWe recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the innovations and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 business applications stories of 2023
By Brian McKennaGenerative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 police technology stories of 2023
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHere are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023
By Aaron TanOrganisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage stories of 2023
By Antony AdsheadIn this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023
By Antony AdsheadIn 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing
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20 Dec 2023
Giacom picks up Microsoft-focused intY
By Simon QuickeMove to bolster managed services proposition will add greater cloud depth and enhance UK market position
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20 Dec 2023
Orange Business boosts digital ambitions with Expertime acquisition
By Joe O’HalloranAcquisition of consulting company by business services division of global telco becomes latest part of strategic ambition to accelerate growth in digital services and support growth in digital, public cloud, AI and data
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 Benelux stories of 2023
By Karl FlindersThe Benelux region is researching some of the latest digital technologies of the future with efforts to ensure the region keeps pace in quantum computing and artificial intelligence
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20 Dec 2023
Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategy
By Aaron TanZoom’s federated approach towards generative AI allows it to use a combination of models that are most suitable for the task on hand while lowering costs for itself and customers
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20 Dec 2023
Top 10 cloud stories of 2023
By Caroline DonnellyHere are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2023
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
By Brian McKennaGenerative AI was inescapable as the leading theme of the information management stories of 2023 gathered here. But also selected are pieces about data and healthcare, and the inexorable rise of the CDO
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15 Dec 2023
Alibaba debuts LLMs for Southeast Asia
By Aaron TanAlibaba’s SeaLLMs are built to address the linguistic diversity and nuances in Southeast Asia, enabling businesses to deploy localised chatbots and translation applications
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14 Dec 2023
Government plans to regulate to tackle datacentre threats
By Alex ScroxtonDSIT outlines a range of proposals designed to protect data storage facilities from cyber attacks, as well as physical threats and the effects of climate breakdown
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14 Dec 2023
The Security Interviews: Talking identity with Microsoft’s Joy Chik
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft’s president of identity and network access, Joy Chik, joins Computer Weekly to discuss the evolving threat landscape in identity security, using innovations in artificial intelligence to stay ahead, and advocating for the coming passwordless future
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13 Dec 2023
Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journey
By Aaron TanThe Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS
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12 Dec 2023
Channel has role to play in supporting AI adoption
By Simon QuickeFindings from Dynatrace have revealed a clear opportunity for partners to help users keen to make use of the technology
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12 Dec 2023
Lenovo channel exec tips artificial intelligence, edge and multicloud as areas for growth
By Simon QuickeWith 2024 just a matter of weeks away, partners are already being alerted to areas where decent revenues should be available
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12 Dec 2023
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024
By Aaron TanGenerative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024
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11 Dec 2023
Nordic governments join forces to protect data transfers
By Gerard O'DwyerNordic countries deepen their cooperation over cyber security amid heightened threat from neighbouring Russia
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11 Dec 2023
Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDs
By Antony AdsheadScale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput
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08 Dec 2023
Arrow adds more XaaS support to cloud platform
By Simon QuickeDistributor bolsters management features on ArrowSphere as it responds to market demands, while elsewhere TD Synnex bolsters AI support
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08 Dec 2023
SAP strategy: Why customers need an innovation plan
By Cliff SaranRise appears to be the place where SAP has promised customers the latest innovations, raising the question of what happens to everyone else
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07 Dec 2023
UK government quietly renews public sector preferential pricing agreement with AWS
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK government has renewed an agreement that will ensure public sector IT buyers can still procure AWS services at discounted prices for another three years, despite anti-competitive concerns
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07 Dec 2023
Concerns raised over Home Office's £450m mega cloud deal with AWS
By Caroline DonnellyThe Home Office's latest three-year contract with AWS is valued at nearly half a billion pounds, but questions are emerging about the contents of the contract and how it has been arranged
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04 Dec 2023
AWS customers grapple with generative AI shortfalls
By Antone GonsalvesEnterprises fear failing to accommodate technical immaturity, ensure data security and governance, prevent biases built into models, and correct the erroneous responses of LLMs.
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04 Dec 2023
CIO interview: Sasha Jory, Hastings Direct
By Mark SamuelsFor a company aiming to be the biggest digital insurer in the UK, that means going cloud-first, and focusing on innovation for both customers and employees
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04 Dec 2023
Microsoft leaves SME resellers in the dark over Cloud Compute 2 framework snub
By Caroline DonnellySME IT suppliers are calling on Microsoft to explain why it has banned them from reselling its services through the government's new £1.35bn Cloud Compute 2 framework
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01 Dec 2023
The Security Interviews: Mark McClain, SailPoint Technologies
By Alex ScroxtonSailPoint founder and CEO Mark McClain reflects on how the concept of identity has evolved over the past 20 years, and points to rapid evolution still to come
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01 Dec 2023
Microsoft to invest £2.5bn in doubling AI datacentre capacity in UK
By Caroline DonnellyPrime minister Rishi Sunak has hailed Microsoft's show of commitment to helping the UK achieve its goal of becoming an AI superpower
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30 Nov 2023
AWS debuts model evaluation tool in Bedrock
By Aaron TanThe Model Evaluation tool in Bedrock will help organisations evaluate and test large language models that are best suited to their needs based on criteria like accuracy, toxicity and cost
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30 Nov 2023
CGI and Google Cloud join forces to support United Nations in climate change fight
By Caroline DonnellyIT consultancy pools resources with public cloud giant to support United Nations agency helping members fight climate change
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29 Nov 2023
Aerodyne taps AWS to power drone platform
By Aaron TanThe Malaysia-based startup is running its Dronos platform on AWS to expand its footprint globally and support a variety of drone use cases, from agriculture seeding to cellular tower maintenance
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29 Nov 2023
Scope of Okta helpdesk breach widens to impact all users
By Alex ScroxtonOkta has widened the scope of the October breach of its systems to include every customer that has used its helpdesk service, after new information came to light
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29 Nov 2023
Re:Invent 2023: Selipsky cues Q to project future shape of work
By Brian McKennaAt Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, Re:Invent, CEO Adam Selipsky hails GenAI capacity of product Q to reshape the future of work
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28 Nov 2023
Infinigate launches next-gen security package
By Simon QuickeDistributor combines offerings from a number of vendor partners to produce fresh option for resellers
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28 Nov 2023
UK retailer The Very Group embarks on GenAI push with AWS
By Caroline DonnellyThe Very Group's collaboration with AWS is geared towards improving the customer experience through personalisation
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28 Nov 2023
AWS sharpens focus in APAC
By Aaron TanAWS is doubling down on industry offerings and investing in cloud infrastructure and skills training, among other efforts, to tap growth opportunities in the region
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27 Nov 2023
Interview: Sunil Srivastava, CTO, Pandora
By Cliff SaranWhen he joined the jewellery retailer, Sunil Srivastava was labelled as the ‘crazy CTO’ given some of the ideas he had for transforming IT
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27 Nov 2023
SAP needs to address breakdown in trust
By Cliff SaranOutgoing UK and Ireland SAP user group chair calls on SAP to rebuild trust and plot a path to innovate S/4Hana for those who run ERP on-premise
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27 Nov 2023
SysGroup grows managed services as H1 revenues dip
By Simon QuickeChannel player shares financial update indicating it’s lining up behind AI as an area for growth
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27 Nov 2023
‘Excited’ finance firms pump money into digital technology
By Karl FlindersOver three-quarters of finance firms are currently restricted in what they can spend on technology due to the global economic climate, but expect spending to resume next year
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24 Nov 2023
APAC organisations warm to microsegmentation
By Aaron TanNearly two-thirds of organisations in the APAC region see microsegmentation as a way to protect their IT assets, but lack the skills to deploy the technology
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23 Nov 2023
Microsoft bans SME partners from selling its services via government's Cloud Compute 2 framework
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft is under fire after documents leaked to Computer Weekly revealed it has banned reseller partners from selling its services via the government’s soon-to-be launched Cloud Compute 2 framework
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23 Nov 2023
Aptum expanding channel ecosystem
By Simon QuickeRecently appointed channel executive outlines plans to increase the cloud player’s routes to market
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23 Nov 2023
Dell: Channel will need to provide AI reassurances
By Simon QuickeDell research exposes levels of hesitancy among UK customers over artificial intelligence
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23 Nov 2023
Australia ups ante on cyber security
By Stephen WithersAustralia’s new cyber security strategy will focus on building threat-blocking capabilities, protecting critical infrastructure and improving the cyber workforce, among other priorities
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22 Nov 2023
An inside look at a Scattered Spider cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonThreat researchers at ReliaQuest share the inside track on a Scattered Spider cyber attack they investigated
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22 Nov 2023
Context: Distribution will enjoy growth next year
By Simon QuickeAnalyst shares its expectations of the amount of IT spending that will go through European distributors in 2024
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22 Nov 2023
AWS to offer free AI training courses to two million people by 2025
By Caroline DonnellyPublic cloud giant AWS has set its sights on bolstering the AI skill sets of two million people globally
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22 Nov 2023
NHS England renews FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration hosting deal via G-Cloud for £1.67m
By Caroline DonnellyNHS England has renewed its long-standing hosting and support contract for the FutureNHS platform with SME cloud provider Kahootz
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22 Nov 2023
Boomi doubles down on AI and automation
By Stephen WithersBoomi executives talk up the company’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities and its growing traction in ANZ during a recent event in Sydney
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22 Nov 2023
World Wide Fund for Nature signs IT deal with Atos
By Karl FlindersGlobal conservation organisation will harness latest technologies to improve ability to predict risks to natural environment
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21 Nov 2023
Globe Telecom implements SaaS model to cut network power use
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider’s artificial intelligence and machine learning-based energy efficiency offering deployed to reduce energy consumption across infrastructure while maintaining network performance
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21 Nov 2023
Inside India’s datacentre boom
By Pratima HarigunaniIndia’s datacentre market is expected to surpass $10bn by 2028, but realising its full potential will require innovations in sustainability and improvements in connectivity
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20 Nov 2023
Cubbit DS3 Composer brings DIY cloud to object storage pool
By Antony AdsheadCubbit customers can now build and configure S3-compatible clouds from unused capacity and offer MSP-grade services with high levels of resilience, security and data sovereignty
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20 Nov 2023
IT not ready for AI, Pure Storage survey finds
By Antony AdsheadStorage, compute and networking hardware won’t cope without upgrades, and that often means total IT infrastructure overhaul
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20 Nov 2023
Digital Edge secures green loan for South Korea datacentre
By Aaron TanThe Singapore-based datacentre provider has secured its first green loan for its latest colocation facility in Incheon
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17 Nov 2023
Oracle NetSuite CEO Goldberg: AI a sleeping giant coming to life
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteWorld, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence has emerged from obscurity to be of business moment
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17 Nov 2023
Capgemini and Heathrow strike deal to enhance passenger experience
By Scarlet CharlesCapgemini and Heathrow team up to provide development and operations support for the airport’s technology estate
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17 Nov 2023
Interview: Walmart’s David Glick discusses technology scale
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Walmart’s head of enterprise business services about managing IT and technology innovation at the retailer
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16 Nov 2023
Workato CEO calls for new automation mindset
By Aaron TanWorkato CEO Vijay Tella urges organisations to go beyond the ‘mechanistic glue’ of automating manual processes and embrace a new automation mindset that focuses on transforming their business
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16 Nov 2023
Outgoing police tech watchdog warns of declining oversight
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe outgoing biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales discusses police deployment of powerful new surveillance technologies, and the declining state of oversight in this area
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16 Nov 2023
Cancer Research UK uses AWS for payments and trial search function
By Clare McDonaldCharity Cancer Research UK has been using AWS to make its donations platform more scalable, as well as making it easier for patients to find clinical trials
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16 Nov 2023
Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push
By Caroline DonnellyMusic streaming giant Spotify is forging even closer ties with its long-standing cloud partner Google in an effort to improve user experience with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning
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16 Nov 2023
SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding
By Scarlet CharlesAn annual sustainability study by SAP reveals UK businesses are on the right track, but still face barriers in the long run
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15 Nov 2023
Microsoft launches custom AI, server chips for Azure
By Antone GonsalvesMaia is for AI inferencing, while the Arm-based Cobalt is for general-purpose computing. The chips could compete with AMD, Nvidia and Intel offerings eventually.
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15 Nov 2023
UK momentum supports SoftwareOne Q3 revenue growth
By Simon QuickeCloud service player issues a trading update that shares financials and progress on cost-saving programme and strategic review
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15 Nov 2023
How Gigamon is making its mark in deep observability
By Aaron TanGigamon CEO Shane Buckley talks up the company’s ability to inspect encrypted network traffic for malicious activity, how it stands out with its deep observability capabilities and the tailwinds that are fuelling its growth
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14 Nov 2023
Engineers slash RPO/RTO as they swap tape for Rubrik backup
By Antony AdsheadFrankham Group ditches archaic tape backup and deploys Rubrik backup appliances and remote disaster recovery facility. Meanwhile, the engineering group assesses a move to the cloud
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14 Nov 2023
TD Synnex and Evolve IP deepening green commitment
By Simon QuickeDistributor and cloud communication specialist both actively stepping up their sustainability efforts
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13 Nov 2023
Australia’s public cloud spending to hit A$23bn in 2024
By Aaron TanSpending on public cloud services in Australia will reach 50% of the total addressable market for the first time in 2024, according to Gartner
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13 Nov 2023
Encrypted mail service Tuta says it was wrongly accused of being a front for intelligence services
By Bill GoodwinGerman encrypted email service Tuta, formerly known as Tutanota, has denied claims by a former Canadian police intelligence officer accused of passing secrets to criminals that it was compromised by intelligence services
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10 Nov 2023
APAC cyber security workforce hits record high
By Aaron TanThe cyber security workforce in Asia-Pacific now stands at just under a million people, but demand for cyber security talent in the region continues to outpace supply
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10 Nov 2023
Orange Business shifts towards digital, aims to transform SD-WAN with VMware
By Joe O’HalloranBusiness services division of leading connectivity provider unveils strategy to offer end-to-end stack of digital solutions through B2B portfolio and strikes partnership with cloud computing company for software-defined wide-area network offer
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09 Nov 2023
How Village Roadshow modernised ITSM with cloud
By Stephen WithersAustralian theme park and cinema operator reduced ITSM costs by 60% to improve problem resolution and other outcomes from use of Freshworks' cloud-based ITSM service
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09 Nov 2023
Conflict of interest concerns raised over CMA's use of AWS UK public sector discount scheme
By Caroline DonnellyLess than a month after the CMA confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of AWS preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services
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08 Nov 2023
Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report
By Alex ScroxtonOrganisations are struggling to secure their use of communications tools to share data with third-party partners and suppliers, and in the process are exposing themselves to heightened levels of risk, according to a report
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08 Nov 2023
SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations
By Aaron TanSAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives
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07 Nov 2023
VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona
By Antony AdsheadVMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes
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05 Nov 2023
AWS to open Malaysia cloud region in 2024
By Aaron TanAmazon Web Services’ new cloud region in Malaysia will open next year to meet the increased demand for cloud services and support digitisation efforts in the country
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02 Nov 2023
Customers struggling with IT complexity
By Simon QuickeDaisy Corporate Services reveals challenges that IT leaders are facing while trying to keep on top of their technology
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02 Nov 2023
Alludo gunning for remote access server market
By Simon QuickeParallels brand owner identifies market opportunity that can be unlocked by working with channel partners
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02 Nov 2023
UK government pledges £225m to fund University of Bristol AI supercomputer build with HPE
By Caroline DonnellyThe University of Bristol’s much-hyped AI supercomputer has secured hundreds of millions in government funding, and HPE has been confirmed as the project’s technology provider
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02 Nov 2023
How the UK crime agency repurposed Amazon cloud platform to analyse EncroChat cryptophone data
By Bill GoodwinUK crime agency repurposed AWS-based analytics platform to triage EncroChat data and identify threats to life in messages sent on encrypted phone network
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02 Nov 2023
SAP lays out generative AI strategy
By Aaron TanSAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers
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01 Nov 2023
Cloud banking fintech unicorn cuts 50 staff
By Karl FlindersUK fintech unicorn reduces its total staff by about 7% with sales and marketing roles taking the biggest hit.
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01 Nov 2023
AWS looking for more channel growth
By Simon QuickeSenior partner leader at AWS shares the vision for widening relationships and working with generative AI to unlock more opportunities
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01 Nov 2023
Lloyds bank kicks off Hyderabad operation
By Karl FlindersLloyds Banking Group has opened its latest tech operation in Hyderabad, with plans to recruit around 600 IT experts
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30 Oct 2023
Data center power constraints send AI everywhere
By Antone GonsalvesMost experts agree there isn't enough unused electricity to perform future AI processing in hyperscale data centers and colocation facilities as GenAI demand soars.
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30 Oct 2023
Devon County digitises with Unit4 ERP
By Scarlet CharlesUnit4 and Embridge Consulting have paired up to help Devon County Council digitise its organisation, data and services
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27 Oct 2023
Tech firms cite risk to end-to-end encryption as Online Safety Bill gets royal assent
By Bill GoodwinTech firms continue to be concerned that the Online Safety Bill could undermine end-to-end encryption despite government reassurances
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27 Oct 2023
‘Egregious’ to link passport data with facial recognition systems
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Scottish biometrics watchdog has spoken out against the UK policing minister’s plans to integrate passport data with police facial recognition systems
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27 Oct 2023
Google launches bug bounties for generative AI attack scenarios
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle expands its bug bounty programme to encompass generative AI and takes steps to grow its commitment to supply chain security as it relates to the emerging technology