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15 Nov 2024
MinIO ups object storage ante for AI
By Adam ArmstrongMinIO is making a case for object to be the storage protocol for AI. But one analyst said the market has yet to decide.
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15 Nov 2024
AI gateways, Kubernetes multi-tenancy loop in LLMOps
By Beth PariseauThere are many areas of IT infrastructure affected by the emergence of LLMOps; for each, there were products and projects rolled out this week at KubeCon.
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15 Nov 2024
Intel, Nvidia vie for dominance with agentic AI blueprints
By Beth PariseauRival sets of tools meant to better support AI apps on developer platforms have hit the market as an even bigger wave of change looms in agentic AI.
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15 Nov 2024
AMD layoffs follow AI job trend
By Antone GonsalvesAMD joins other tech companies in using layoffs to make room for AI talent.
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15 Nov 2024
CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024
By Caroline DonnellyReal estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates
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15 Nov 2024
Schwarz Group partners with Google on EU sovereign cloud
By Cliff SaranPartnership with Europe’s biggest retailer will offer client-side encryption and ensure data doesn’t leave Germany
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15 Nov 2024
Microsoft UAE power deal at centre of US plan for AI supremacy
By Mark BallardMicrosoft pens artificial intelligence energy deal with United Arab Emirates oil giant ADNOC
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13 Nov 2024
Closing in on quantum computing with error mitigation
By Cliff SaranCurrent quantum computers are prone to error. IBM’s latest Heron machine uses software and hardware to get better results
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13 Nov 2024
Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning
By Cliff SaranThe acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs
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13 Nov 2024
European eArchiving project aims at eternal archive with smart metadata
By Yann SerraThe European Commission’s eArchiving project has got to version 2.0 and aims at open formats and sector-specific metadata to allow organisations to exploit data for decades to come
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13 Nov 2024
Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts
By Cliff SaranThere has been a spate of developments in the server space, as manufacturers focus on supporting inference workloads at the edge
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12 Nov 2024
Microsoft halts 2 zero-days on November Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatThe company addressed 88 vulnerabilities, including an Exchange Server spoofing flaw and a significant number of SQL Server bugs, this month.
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12 Nov 2024
Gartner warns GenAI demand will lead to datacentre energy shortages
By Caroline DonnellyIT market watcher Gartner is warning enterprises that the growing demand for generative AI workloads will have a knock-on impact on energy supply and pricing in future years
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12 Nov 2024
How quantum computing could reshape financial services
By Aaron TanExperts at the Singapore FinTech Festival predict quantum computing will improve risk management, investment strategies and fraud detection in the financial sector, while also posing new challenges for data security
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11 Nov 2024
Hyperscalers’ net-zero plans hit roadblock
By Cliff SaranHyperscalers are looking at nuclear to power their energy-hungry datacentres and meet net-zero targets – but regulations may curb their plans
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11 Nov 2024
Fresh concerns over NHS England registries procurement
By Alex ScroxtonClinicians and technologists behind a number of medical devices registries being brought together by NHS England on a new common platform have accused the health service of flouting public sector procurement regulations
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11 Nov 2024
NetApp boosts AFF, StorageGrid and E-series hardware with 60TB drives
By Antony AdsheadBigger drives, new CPUs and controller hardware add to upgrades to NetApp arrays that started in September, while the supplier undergoes transition to data management as a key focus
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08 Nov 2024
CHIPS Act expected to survive, change under Trump
By Antone GonsalvesChanges to the Biden administration's application guidelines for the CHIPS Act, some of which Republicans fought against, are likely.
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08 Nov 2024
Automotive drives strong Q4, fiscal year for Qualcomm
By Joe O’HalloranLeading mobile platform processor manufacturer reveals robust end of year, with strong growth in segments such as handsets, PC, automotive and industrial IoT
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08 Nov 2024
IOWN furthers pace of next-gen optical net development
By Joe O’HalloranNext-gen networking project reveals proof of concepts encompassing transforming infrastructure through innovations centred on an APN, spatial experiences with communication technologies, real-time, long-distance connectivity in manufacturing and photonics
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08 Nov 2024
Inside Grab’s platform strategy
By Aaron TanGrab’s group CTO talks up the super app’s platform strategy, architecture and organisational structure behind its growth across diverse Southeast Asian markets
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07 Nov 2024
Gartner Symposium: Time to get rid of the dead wood
By Cliff SaranIT architecture complexity is set to increase in a way that means IT departments are juggling multicloud and legacy environments
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07 Nov 2024
Research: UK residents demonstrate ‘low-level’ understanding of what datacentres do
By Caroline DonnellyResearch commissioned by colocation giant CyrusOne reveals there is work to be done by operators when it comes to educating UK residents on the benefits that datacentres being built in their local communities can bring
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05 Nov 2024
Nakivo aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox
By Antony AdsheadVersion 11 of Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backups, support for Proxmox virtualisation backups – following Veeam – and NAS file data backups to cloud targets
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05 Nov 2024
Broadcom unveils AI, networking features for VCF
By Tim McCarthyBroadcom solidifies VMware Cloud Foundation's shift with a focus on AI and services, but experts wonder about future R&D.
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04 Nov 2024
TechUK calls for government support to help UK datacentre market reach growth potential
By Caroline DonnellyUK tech trade body TechUK claims the UK’s datacentre sector could become one of the country’s fastest-growing sectors with more government support
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04 Nov 2024
Microsoft trials building ‘wooden’ datacentres in pursuit of 2030 carbon-negative goal
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft has gone public with its plans to build two datacentres in Northern Virginia made partly from wood, in the interests of cutting the amount of carbon generated by its server farm builds
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04 Nov 2024
How AI is impacting global connectivity
By Aaron TanJürgen Hatheier, international CTO of Ciena, discusses the role of connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence and how the company is helping service providers navigate this transformative period
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01 Nov 2024
Intel beats expectations, but AI chip Gaudi disappoints
By Antone GonsalvesThe overall uptake of Gaudi has been slower than the company anticipated.
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31 Oct 2024
Broadcom adds services to basic VMware subscriptions
By Tim McCarthyThese changes might be moot if Broadcom remains focused on its largest customers, according to one expert.
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31 Oct 2024
Meta no longer prolonging the life of datacentre servers
By Cliff SaranDuring the earnings call for the company’s latest quarterly results, CFO Susan Li said Meta would be investing in GPU servers
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30 Oct 2024
Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access
By Antony AdsheadLightweight S3 API trades storage features for microsecond access. Scality pairs it with all-NVMe flash in Ring XP, aimed at AI use cases for small object data in PB-scale datasets
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30 Oct 2024
How FPT Software is expanding its footprint in APAC
By Aaron TanVietnamese IT giant is experiencing rapid growth in the region, driven by its diverse workforce, focus on key technologies and ability to navigate a highly competitive IT services market
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29 Oct 2024
AI core to Nordic net-zero economy
By Gerard O'DwyerArtificial intelligence will be core to attempts by Nordic countries to become net-zero economies
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29 Oct 2024
NXP boosts edge AI IoT
By Joe O’HalloranSemiconductor firm expands artificial intelligence and machine learning portfolio to make it easier and faster to deploy GenAI, time series and vision-based LLMs directly on edge devices for use across the internet of things
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28 Oct 2024
Western Digital boosts HDD capacity with 32TB shingled drives
By Yann SerraAn 11th platter gives extra capacity, while shingled (overlapped) writes – best suited to sequential recording use cases – allow for greater density and big gains in thoughput
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25 Oct 2024
National quantum computer centre to open at Harwell
By Cliff SaranThe new site will provide open access for industry and academia to 12 quantum computers
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25 Oct 2024
How Infoblox is tackling multicloud complexity and boosting security
By Aaron TanInfoblox CEO Scott Harrell discusses the company’s new Universal DDI service designed to address the growing challenges of managing network security in hybrid IT environments
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24 Oct 2024
Growing AI energy use, tech workloads constrain IT
By John MooreSpeakers at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2024 warned of rising energy use and cost. Workarounds include acceleration; microgrids; and, eventually, emerging technologies.
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24 Oct 2024
Nvidia deepens investment in India’s AI ecosystem
By Aaron TanNvidia is expanding its presence in India through new partnerships focused on building AI infrastructure, developing Indian language models and training AI professionals
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23 Oct 2024
Court asks AT&T, Broadcom to resolve VMware dispute
By Tim McCarthyContract negotiations between AT&T and Broadcom over VMware support have fallen apart. But a New York State Supreme Court judge gave parties another month to resolve the dispute.
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23 Oct 2024
Agentic AI sparks need for more orchestration, oversight
By John MooreOrchestration all the way down: Experts say multiple levels of autonomous coordination and oversight will guide the near- and mid-term evolution of AI and computing.
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23 Oct 2024
Interview: Why Java is the future of cloud applications
By Cliff SaranThe CEO of Azul speaks to Computer Weekly about Java’s performance and its ability to run on different server chips in the datacentre
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23 Oct 2024
Snapdragon Summit 2024: Qualcomm gains mileage with automotive offer
By Joe O’HalloranQualcomm accelerates automotive offering designed to drive success with leading OEMs such as GM, BMW, Li Auto and Mercedes as cars become new computing space
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22 Oct 2024
Dell CTO: Enterprise AI poised to take off in 2025
By Aaron TanAfter a period of experimentation, the building blocks are in place for wider enterprise adoption of AI, says Dell Technologies’ global CTO, John Roese
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22 Oct 2024
Snapdragon Summit 2024: PC, mobile reach AI first inflection point
By Joe O’HalloranAnnual conference of leading mobile technology platform sees launch of processors, and mission to set the pace of innovation in PC, mobile, automotive and spatial computing
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21 Oct 2024
Synology takes aim at enterprise customers and flash storage
By Yann SerraBest known as an SME and consumer brand, Synology claims multiple enterprise customers especially in backup and storage of infrequently accessed data, but has plans for flash, too
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16 Oct 2024
Philippines leaps forward in e-government with cloud-first strategy
By Ai Lei TaoA common infrastructure and a ‘once-only’ principle have propelled the Philippines up the UN’s E-Government Development Index, streamlining services and bolstering data sovereignty
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16 Oct 2024
Intel, AMD form x86 group in effort to combat Arm
By Adam ArmstrongIntel and AMD are joining forces to retain market share and create seamless interoperability across hardware and software platforms.
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16 Oct 2024
Half of business IT deemed outdated
By Cliff SaranCombining survey data with its own monitoring service, Kyndryl has estimated that half of the world’s most critical infrastructure is not resilient
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16 Oct 2024
SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers
By Aaron TanSUSE CEO talks up the company’s double-digit growth, fuelled by demand for its multi-Linux support offering, Rancher container platform and focus on artificial intelligence
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15 Oct 2024
Broadcom, AT&T explore settling VMware pricing dispute
By Tim McCarthyThe two companies could settle a lawsuit related to a two-year extension for VMware support services. AT&T filed its complaint in August claiming breach of contract.
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15 Oct 2024
Google prepares for nuclear to power AI datacentres
By Cliff SaranAs part of its drive towards sustainable energy and to meet ever-increasing power demands, Google is planning to use small nuclear reactors
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15 Oct 2024
UK sees over £6bn boost in datacentre investments
By Cliff SaranFollowing moves to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, a number of US tech providers have announced new UK investments
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15 Oct 2024
Google launches Parallelstore file storage at cloud AI training
By Yann SerraOriginally driven by Intel’s now-defunct Optane storage class memory, Parallelstore offers massive parallel file storage targeted at artificial intelligence training use cases on Google Cloud
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14 Oct 2024
AWS expands datacentre hardware recycling programme to Dublin
By Caroline DonnellyThe public cloud giant is expanding its reverse logistics programme to Ireland, as part of its ongoing net-zero push
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10 Oct 2024
Data center providers design for severe weather surge
By Bridget BotelhoData center providers are investing in resilient infrastructure and redundant power to prevent extreme weather-related outages that can cause serious financial loss to customers.
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10 Oct 2024
Dell expands AI Factory with new AMD servers
By Adam ArmstrongDell adds to its AI Factory, extending its services and hardware to cover new AMD-based servers in its push to provide ways to run AI workloads on premises.
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09 Oct 2024
Government use of AI by key U.S. military branches
By Esther AjaoThe Air Force and Army are exploring applications of GenAI including using their own large language models. While some use cases are successful, others are not.
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08 Oct 2024
Microsoft repairs 2 zero-days on October Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatAdministrators will have to tackle 117 new vulnerabilities, including three rated critical, in this month's batch of security updates.
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08 Oct 2024
Foxconn and Nvidia to build Taiwan’s fastest supercomputer
By Aaron TanThe supercomputer, powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, will drive breakthroughs in cancer research, large language models and smart city initiatives
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08 Oct 2024
UK’s cyber incident reporting law to move forward in 2025
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK government says that enforced cyber incident and ransomware reporting for critical sectors of the economy will help to build a better picture of the threat landscape and enable more proactive and preventative responses
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08 Oct 2024
Government accepts most quantum regulation recommendations
By Cliff SaranThree of the 14 recommendations on quantum regulations put forward by the Regulatory Horizon Council have been accepted in principle
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07 Oct 2024
Labour sets up new office to coordinate tech innovation regulations
By Cliff SaranThe newly formed Regulatory Innovation Office has been set up to ensure existing regulations do not become barriers to emerging tech innovations
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04 Oct 2024
STMicroelectronics, Qualcomm team for next-gen industrial IoT
By Joe O’HalloranStrategic collaboration will pair STM32 microcontroller ecosystem and wireless connectivity solutions to allow simple, fast, and cost-effective design of next-gen industrial and consumer IoT applications augmented by edge AI
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03 Oct 2024
Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns
By Aaron TanNutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership
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01 Oct 2024
Wellcome Sanger Institute revamps genome sequencing datacentre to cut energy usage
By Caroline DonnellyThe home to one of Europe’s largest genomic research datacentres claims to have cut the energy consumption of its server farm by a third by revamping its power setup
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30 Sep 2024
Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future
By Aaron TanThe five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy
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27 Sep 2024
Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm
By Alex ScroxtonSecurity pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch
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26 Sep 2024
UK government secures £10bn AI datacentre investment from US firm
By Caroline DonnellyThe prime minister has announced that £10bn in overseas investment has been secured to fund the construction of a hyperscale, AI datacentre in Northumberland
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26 Sep 2024
Semiconductor market scaleups to benefit from multimillion-pound investment from Innovate UK
By Caroline DonnellyNational innovation agency Innovate UK is offering 16 semiconductor scaleups access to millions of pounds of funding to support their continued growth
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25 Sep 2024
Intel rolls out AI chips amid financial turmoil
By Antone GonsalvesIntel ships AI chips Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 while analysts ponder how the company's severe cash shortage will transform its business over the next several years.
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25 Sep 2024
Broadcom: AT&T is trying to 'rewind the clock' on VMware
By Nicole LaskowskiA newly filed memorandum from Broadcom points to an 'unambiguous 'End of Availability' provision' as rationale for why a court should deny AT&T's request for injunctive relief.
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25 Sep 2024
NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO
By Antony AdsheadWe asked NetApp about its high-performance computing-focused E-series block storage arrays and found inconsistent messaging but ultimately a commitment from CEO George Kurian to retain it
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25 Sep 2024
Post Office IT procurement mess saw £35m spent on air conditioner, says board member
By Karl FlindersPost Office IT procurement mistakes have wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers money, non-executive board member tells public inquiry
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24 Sep 2024
Pure punts raft of unifying features in FlashBlade file and object
By Antony AdsheadFeatures are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level
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24 Sep 2024
NetApp maintains push to data management for AI
By Antony AdsheadFrom data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays
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24 Sep 2024
How VMware is supporting AI workloads
By Aaron TanVMware claims its Private AI Foundation with Nvidia platform that speeds up AI deployment in private cloud environments is gaining significant traction in the Asia-Pacific region
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23 Sep 2024
Metro Bank outsources IT to Infosys to cut costs and digitally transform
By Karl FlindersIndian IT services giant taken on to support Metro Bank’s digital transformation in multi-year deal
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20 Sep 2024
VMware platform an investment in users, Broadcom CEO says
By Tim McCarthyHock Tan underscored the importance of customers at the Boston VMware User Group UserCon, but users remain uneasy about the recent changes ushered in by VMware's new parent company.
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19 Sep 2024
HSBC tests post-quantum VPN tunnel for digital ledgers
By Cliff SaranEncryption required for post-quantum cryptography will have a material impact on the performance of distributed ledgers
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19 Sep 2024
CMA extends investigation into anti-competitive behaviour in UK cloud market by four months
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK competition watchdog has secured a four-month deadline extension for its investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, citing the need to probe Microsoft’s licensing practices as a causal factor in the decision
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19 Sep 2024
UK government adds datacentres to CNI regime: Why did it take so long?
By Caroline DonnellyAfter years of lobbying, the UK government has agreed to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, with the tech industry claiming the move is long overdue, but also recognition of the importance of server farms to the economy
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18 Sep 2024
Europol provides detail on Ghost encrypted comms platform takedown
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLaw enforcement bodies from across the world have revealed how they collaborated to bring down encrypted network Ghost and the new ways of working that have been established with Europol at the centre
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18 Sep 2024
Third of enterprises to automate majority of network activities by 2026
By Joe O’HalloranResearch shows infrastructure and operations leaders increasingly looking to AI-based analytics and augmented decision-making to improve operational resilience and responsiveness
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18 Sep 2024
Nokia unveils automation to reduce datacentre network disruptions
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal comms tech provider intros what it claims to be the industry’s most modern datacentre automation platform, bringing an intent-based approach to network automation
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18 Sep 2024
Revised roadmap projects quantum advantage by 2029
By Cliff SaranQuantinuum is planning to develop a machine called Apollo by 2029, which it claims will have enough logical qubits to perform complex calculations
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17 Sep 2024
Intel gets boost from AWS, government contracts
By Antone GonsalvesIntel's turnaround efforts are progressing, but the chipmaker will need more than government funding and a deal that expands its AWS manufacturing partnership, an analyst said.
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17 Sep 2024
Barclays takes on more GreenLake
By Cliff SaranBarclays has ramped up its HPE-powered private cloud, as it continues to modernise IT and reduce its carbon footprint
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17 Sep 2024
Toshiba follows the pack with launch of 24TB and 28TB HDDs
By Yann SerraSeveral months behind Seagate and Western Digital, Toshiba achieves the maximum possible in commercial HDDs and benefits from a speed boost over its rivals
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16 Sep 2024
Olam Agri to deploy S/4Hana on AWS
By Aaron TanOlam Agri is enhancing its global supply chain by deploying SAP’s S/4Hana ERP suite on Amazon Web Services, leveraging artificial intelligence to streamline operations and mitigate risks
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13 Sep 2024
Lenovo adds GPUaaS for on-premises AI workloads
By Adam ArmstrongLenovo adds to its AI portfolio with a new GPU-as-a-service offering, a move that challenges Dell and HPE. It also adds predictive analytics to its management offering.
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13 Sep 2024
Municipal makeover: Indian cities embrace cutting-edge tech
By Pratima HarigunaniFrom AI-powered stray dog management to blockchain-secured building permission certificates, municipal corporations across India are ditching outdated processes for digital tools
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12 Sep 2024
AT&T sues Broadcom over VMware support licensing
By Tim McCarthyAT&T claims its negotiated contract with VMware pre-Broadcom acquisition is not being honored, casting light on recent product and purchasing changes Broadcom has instituted.
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12 Sep 2024
Mainframe teams turn to AI for modernisation gains
By Cliff SaranGiven the skills crisis, generative artificial intelligence may offer a way for IT and business leaders to modernise their mainframe environments
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11 Sep 2024
Datacentres granted critical national infrastructure status
By Cliff SaranThe global IT outage caused by CrowdStrike has shown why keeping datacentres secure and safe is critical to the UK
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11 Sep 2024
Fujitsu cuts annual staff pay rise as Post Office scandal bites
By Karl FlindersUK staff morale is at an all-time low as Japanese IT giant deals with the backlash from its involvement in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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10 Sep 2024
Four zero-days fixed for September Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatMost corrections this month focus on the Windows OS, but enterprises that rely on SQL Server or SharePoint should prioritize deploying the security updates for those platforms.
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10 Sep 2024
AWS to invest £8bn in building out UK datacentre footprint over next five years
By Caroline DonnellyAmazon Web Services has reinforced its commitment to the UK, with a five-year datacentre investment plan
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10 Sep 2024
Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld ’24
By Alex ScroxtonOracle’s leadership was in celebratory mood opening its annual CloudWorld jamboree, and with its announcement of a new cloud partnership with AWS, multicloud futures were high on everyone’s agenda
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10 Sep 2024
Belgium: Researchers at Imec tackle bioconvergence
By Pat BransSeveral initiatives are underway at Imec to apply semiconductor and related technology to a range of challenges in healthcare
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09 Sep 2024
Post Office scandal victims given route to appeal unfair financial settlements
By Karl FlindersSubpostmasters who feel they received inadequate financial redress in the Horizon Shortfalls Scheme can appeal the settlements through a new independent process
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03 Sep 2024
Flash prices drop as drive production increases but demand lags
By Antony AdsheadFlash 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