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19 Dec 2024
Top 10 women in tech and diversity in tech stories of 2024
As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout 2024
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18 Dec 2024
CISA issues mobile security guidance following China hacks
Following the Salt Typhoon attacks, CISA offers advice to 'highly targeted' individuals, such as using end-to-end encryption and moving away from purely SMS-based MFA.
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18 Dec 2024
Enterprises shift to on-premises AI to control costs
In 2025, many companies will shift to on-premises AI to cut cloud costs that can easily reach $1 million a month for large enterprises.
Data Center News from the past 365 days
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05 Apr 2024
Datacentre outages are happening less often and becoming less severe
Uptime Institute's annual outage tracker report suggests frequency and severity of crashes are declining, but warns datacentre operators not to get complacent
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05 Apr 2024
Environment Agency dumps Fujitsu as Post Office scandal takes its toll
Troubled supplier loses flood warnings contract with government department after almost a decade
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04 Apr 2024
Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
UK non-profit London Grid for Learning and Belgian university KU Leuven are just two of the academic organisations facing huge licensing increases after Broadcom scraps VMware academic discount scheme
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04 Apr 2024
Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets
A poll of IT decision-makers has found that cloud spending is rising, driven by more workloads and ineffective IT architecture planning
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03 Apr 2024
Ransomware kill switch may save 99% of files from encryption
MDR specialist Adlumin says its new features will help customers stop in-progress ransomware attacks before they can cause significant damage
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02 Apr 2024
Flash storage prices rise by 25% as manufacturers chase profitability
Analysis of 30,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte rose sharply since October 2023, as memory manufacturers limit supplies and increase prices
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28 Mar 2024
Government lifts chip strategy with a bit more cash
Unlike the EU and US, the UK government appears to be taking its time on providing a large cash injection to build out the UK semiconductor sector
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26 Mar 2024
Cern: Challenges of GPU datacentre management
Cern is a major user of Kubernetes. The container orchestration technology offers a way to democratise AI hardware
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26 Mar 2024
Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI
HPE doubles controller nodes, boosts capacity with denser drives, cuts caches and builds in 100Gbps links to bring denser, faster storage aimed at all parts of the AI/ML pipeline
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26 Mar 2024
Goldman Sachs discusses virtues of Kubernetes for virtual machine management
Kubernetes is not only a platform for orchestrating containers – Goldman Sachs has found it offers the same benefits when used to manage virtual machines
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26 Mar 2024
GTC 2024: Storage suppliers queue up to ride the Nvidia AI wave
Storage supplier announcements at Nvdia conference centre on infrastructure integration, tackling the GPU I/O bottleneck and AI hallucinations by running Nvidia NeMo and NIM microservices
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25 Mar 2024
IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition
Tech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments
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22 Mar 2024
Nvidia partners, customers drive AI into data centers
Nvidia and its partners are providing the tools and infrastructure to build and deploy AI applications that companies say could transform their businesses.
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22 Mar 2024
Fujitsu won’t sign any new business in Ireland
Fujitsu is closing down its Irish business after a review of the operation’s current performance and market outlook
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22 Mar 2024
Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’
Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix
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20 Mar 2024
SAP S/4HANA data migration beset by poor and fragmented strategy
Survey finds customers transitioning to S/4HANA lack strategic thinking and skills, can’t access data, face challenges in data duplication, can’t use AI, and worry about compliance
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20 Mar 2024
Singtel to host Vultr’s GPU workloads in AI datacentres
Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region hosted in Singtel’s AI datacentres by the third quarter this year
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19 Mar 2024
Vast targets AI checkpointing write performance with distributed RAID
AI checkpointing operations targeted by Vast Data as it touts QLC-based storage for AI workloads
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18 Mar 2024
Nvidia unveils new AI Blackwell chip, microservices and more
The vendor launched a barrage of AI tech including faster chips in its new Blackwell infrastructure and new microservices that enable enterprises to create custom applications.
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18 Mar 2024
Spring Budget risks funding legally questionable police tech
Open legal questions around how UK police are using facial recognition and cloud technology could undermine the £230m investment committed in the Spring Budget to “time and money-saving technology” for police
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18 Mar 2024
Cohesity: We won’t abandon NetBackup customers or force migration
CEO promises no forced migration to Cohesity and not to abandon any NetBackup product while building new leadership in artificial intelligence and security around Cohesity Gaia
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18 Mar 2024
G7 nations sign deal to harness AI potential
G7 nations will produce a joint report on how to increase artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, boost growth of the quantum sector and create an AI toolkit to inform policy-making
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15 Mar 2024
Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error
An IT outage that forced McDonald's to temporarily shutter thousands of restaurants has been blamed on a configuration error by a third-party supplier, but there is no suspicion of foul play
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14 Mar 2024
French datacentre operator to prototype using site's waste heat to generate renewable energy
Data4 is partnering with the University of Paris-Saclay to experiment with reusing waste datacentre heat to grow algae for use in green energy generation
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13 Mar 2024
UK gets funding boost through EU Horizon chip initiative
Signing up to the Chips Joint Undertaking means the UK will receive up to £35m to support chip development
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13 Mar 2024
VMware/Broadcom: Should you consider the Nutanix hypervisor?
Nutanix’s latesting quarterly filing shows the company is benefiting from the fallout following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware
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12 Mar 2024
March Patch Tuesday fixes critical Hyper-V vulnerabilities
Microsoft also corrects a remote code execution flaw on Exchange Server and issues an advisory related to changes with an outdated file-scanning feature on the messaging platform.
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12 Mar 2024
UK and German governments sign up to greater R&D collaboration
Declaration aims to build on joint R&D efforts, as well as support artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean tech
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12 Mar 2024
Hammerspace leverages smart metadata handling for AI/ML workloads
Software-defined storage maker separates metadata from files to provide view-from-anywhere file system visibility. It has now leveraged that for AI/ML workloads in Hyperscale NAS
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11 Mar 2024
TechUK calls for next government to introduce ‘industrial strategy’ for AI
Trade group TechUK publishes blueprint calling for winner of next election to boost tech startups, digitise government services and accelerate technology R&D
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05 Mar 2024
Meta outage disrupts social media globally
Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, have been downed in a brief service outage
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05 Mar 2024
IT leaders dial back cloud-first strategies as hybrid IT becomes more of an investment priority
Latest data from TechTarget and ESG reveals changing attitudes towards cloud deployments within the enterprise
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05 Mar 2024
Unexpected costs hit many as they move to cloud storage
A Wasabi survey of cloud storage customers finds more moving to the cloud, but they are experiencing busted budgets and unexpected fees, and expect big demands from artificial intelligence workloads
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05 Mar 2024
Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud
The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027
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05 Mar 2024
Keepit brings backup and restore to unprotected SaaS applications
SaaS backup specialist keeps data in its own cloud datacentres, protects cloud data across numerous platforms and aims to give customers the ability to rapidly add data sources
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05 Mar 2024
AI-acceleration deployments curbed by datacentre design considerations
In addition to a shortage of GPUs for AI-optimised servers, IT leaders need to consider how well their datacentre power and cooling will cope with artificial intelligence workloads
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05 Mar 2024
Own targets SaaS backup and offers analytics insight
Targeting a growing market – SaaS applications that lack backup – Own offers backup, fine-grained restores and analytics on data stores that can bring business insight
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01 Mar 2024
APAC firms bullish on IT spending
More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region
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29 Feb 2024
Post-production company to go ‘all-in’ on Deep Green’s heat-reusing datacentre in Devon
Datacentre startup Deep Green confirms long-standing client Dirty Looks has committed to moving all of its workloads to its heat-reusing server farm, located in a leisure centre in Devon
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28 Feb 2024
Government urged to take a pro-innovation approach to quantum regulation
Responsible innovation, learning from AI and the use of foresight techniques should inform policymaking
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27 Feb 2024
Hycu uses AI to develop APIs for SaaS application backup
SaaS applications don’t usually come with built-in data protection, but Hycu plans to tackle that gap in the market with AI to generate the connectors needed to backup user data
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26 Feb 2024
Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience
The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay
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26 Feb 2024
TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse
UK tech trade body publishes report about challenges datacentre operators may face if the government gets powers that require them to join heat reuse schemes
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22 Feb 2024
Toshiba and Orange test quantum encryption on traditional network
Researchers used QKD on a fibre-optic network spanning 184km to show how the technology could be used to secure networks cost-effectively
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22 Feb 2024
Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’
Jensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia
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21 Feb 2024
NasuniIQ brings visualisation of massive unstructured datasets
Global file system provider adds visualisation of massive distributed unstructured datasets to allow customers to analyse data usage and prepare clean training data for artificial intelligence
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21 Feb 2024
Co-op signs TCS deal for cloud-first push
The Co-operative Group has contracted IT service provider Tata Consultancy Services to support its move to a cloud-first IT environment
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21 Feb 2024
IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud
Survey shows that fewer IT leaders are prioritising workload migration, which suggests they are happy with their deployment plans
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20 Feb 2024
Cloud costs continue to rise in 2024
Enterprises might look more closely at workload allocation and explore alternative platforms amid ongoing cloud price hikes. Storage costs are also trending upward.
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20 Feb 2024
HM Treasury signs AWS hosting environment management deal with Keysource
HM Treasury has enlisted datacentre management services provider to help operate the AWS environment used to host cross-government spending data system
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20 Feb 2024
University of Lincoln undergoes edge datacentre modernisation project
The University of Lincoln reveals details of the work it has done, with the help of Schneider Electric and RMD UK, to ensure the resiliency of its edge datacentre environments
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20 Feb 2024
Competition in the cloud: Microsoft's ‘unfair’ licensing tactics go under the microscope
Microsoft’s share of the global cloud infrastructure market is growing at a time when its customer recruitment and retention techniques are coming under increased regulatory scrutiny
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20 Feb 2024
Rolls-Royce looks at viability of quantum computing in nuclear safety
The manufacturing firm is one of several participating in a Digital Catapult programme looking at industrial applications for quantum computing
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19 Feb 2024
Music agency halves space and energy costs with switch to Pure
SUISA handles billions of royalty payments, but had capacity and storage admin nightmares with its EMC hardware. It cued up Pure Storage for simple admin, space and cost savings
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19 Feb 2024
Virtus plots colocation campus in Buckinghamshire as demand for London datacentres soars
Virtus is committing to bringing a new datacentre campus online by 2026, as data shows the demand for colocation capacity continues to outstrip supply
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16 Feb 2024
Green IT: How Google’s cloud and AI tools are supporting a methane-tracking satellite project
Cloud and AI will help to analyse data from MethaneSAT, due to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in March 2024
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15 Feb 2024
Generative AI for enterprises: ADP, IKEA launch tools
The human capital management company and the retailer have taken different roads to GenAI deployment. But both enterprises aim to boost customer experience.
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15 Feb 2024
Legacy kit undermining sustainability efforts
Daisy research has shone a light on an issue causing high numbers of customers ESG and budgetary headaches
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13 Feb 2024
February Patch Tuesday corrects two Windows zero-days
Administrators should focus on quickly deploying a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and exercising caution when applying an Exchange Server 2019 cumulative update.
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13 Feb 2024
What will result from Cohesity’s Veritas acquisition?
The $7bn backup giant will leverage huge assets in enterprise customer base, compliance and governance intelligence, AI, R&D, and Kubernetes backup and storage
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09 Feb 2024
HSBC and Google Cloud partner up for climate tech startup growth push
Banking giant HSBC will work with Google Cloud-affiliated climate tech startups to help them access funding to support their future growth
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09 Feb 2024
Digital experience becomes new boardroom metric
Networking technology and services giant outlines new paradigm in experience economy, where next generation of chief digital officers demand unified understanding of every component of networked applications
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08 Feb 2024
Swedish CIO contributes best practices for ethical use of artificial intelligence
IT leaders are scrambling to keep up with AI technology, but many are losing sight of its ethical impact – and what CIOs need to do to ensure responsible use
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07 Feb 2024
Government funds two semiconductor centres
So-called information knowledge centres in Bristol and Southampton are each receiving £11m
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06 Feb 2024
Dell looks for growth with partner programme enhancements
Supplier keen to use improved rewards and simplified processes to garner further channel growth
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05 Feb 2024
UK quantum initiatives get funding boost
Government funds new initiatives to drive quantum computing opportunities across the public sector
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02 Feb 2024
Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipates that training and running AI systems requires 10x computer capacity each year
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01 Feb 2024
FASB rule could shake up, simplify software cost reporting
Stakeholders want a single rule for reporting software development costs in a simplified manner, which the Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering.
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31 Jan 2024
Astera Labs uses CXL to accelerate AI, expand memory
Astera Labs is using the CXL interface in its now longer Smart Cable Module to spread out energy consumption while enabling GPU clusters to meet growing AI demands.
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31 Jan 2024
Aviva signs 15-year contract with Indian IT giant
Tata Consultancy Services continues to make large gains in the UK life insurance and pensions sector
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31 Jan 2024
Singtel ropes in industry partners in datacentre push
Singtel inks partnerships with Nvidia, Gulf Energy, Medco and others in its efforts to grow its datacentre business and support AI adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia
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31 Jan 2024
Forrester: Curb your AI enthusiasm
Ongoing supply issues with semiconductors mean IT departments may have to wait up to a year for the latest hardware
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31 Jan 2024
Datacentre operators face capacity planning challenges as AI use soars
A report by real estate consultancy JLL highlights the pressures datacentres operators are facing as they respond to the growing demand for artificial intelligence workloads
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31 Jan 2024
Seagate uses HAMR to hit 30TB in Exos hard drives
HDD giant Seagate unveils 30TB Exos drives with higher areal density, aimed at hyperscaler customers, with products at 50TB promised for 2028 in its roadmap
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30 Jan 2024
Quantum computing in 2024: What are the challenges?
Research shows that while there has been a big reduction in quantum computing investment, governments have been ploughing in funding
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30 Jan 2024
Juniper claims first AI-native networking platform
AIOps and virtual network assistant expanded with first integrated digital experience twinning and end-to-end insight across campus, branch and data centre infrastructures to drive more speed, scale and value
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30 Jan 2024
We need backup! Pennsylvania police data loss shows why
Police evidence systems data was lost during ‘routine maintenance’, with human error blamed – the case clearly illustrates why data protection can’t be left to chance
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30 Jan 2024
Inside India’s supercomputing journey
India is looking to shore up its supercomputing capabilities, but more needs to be done to realise its ambition of becoming a world leader in the field
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25 Jan 2024
Datacentres set to consume third of Ireland’s energy by 2026
Forecast data from International Energy Agency shines light on how booming demand for datacentres is affecting energy usage levels in different geographies
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24 Jan 2024
Cardiff University expands HPC cluster with Lenovo
Expansion of university’s Hawk high-performance computing cluster promises to double the performance of some applications
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24 Jan 2024
Uptime Institute predicts 2024 will see datacentre operators start row back on net-zero commitments
Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Insitute predicts 2024 will mark the start of a testing time for operators when it comes to delivering on their net-zero commitments
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23 Jan 2024
NVM Express boosts computational storage standards
New command sets allow for computational storage with NVMe flash and includes frameworks to allow local memory usage in processing workloads on storage hardware
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19 Jan 2024
Democratizing machine learning hits cultural, tech snags
Forrester Consulting-Capital One study points to organizational silos, disconnect between line-of-business and data managers, and hard-to-use machine learning tools as challenges.
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19 Jan 2024
Google invests $1bn in expanding UK datacentre footprint with Hertfordshire facility
Google is embarking on a sizeable expansion of its UK datacentre footprint, with plans to build a server farm on a 33-acre patch of land it acquired in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire
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19 Jan 2024
AWS plans huge investment in Japan cloud infrastructure
Amazon Web Services plans to invest over $15bn into its existing cloud infrastructure in Tokyo and Osaka by 2027 to meet growing customer demand
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18 Jan 2024
Gartner: The big IT outsourcing contract returns
Gartner’s latest spending forecast shows IT services is set to become the largest segment of IT spending in 2024
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17 Jan 2024
D&H strategy illustrates distributor priorities
Firm shares its views around areas of interest, with many echoing the thoughts and experiences of their counterparts in the UK
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17 Jan 2024
Data on Kubernetes Community aims at K8S storage scaling solution
DoKC works on community solutions for Kubernetes. It aims to develop storage scaling automation for the containerised platform outside the orbit of the big vendors
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16 Jan 2024
Prices rise as IT spending trends upward for servers, storage
IT prices increased in December across four key commodities -- a pattern that coincides with a revival in demand for servers and storage following a 2023 drop.
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16 Jan 2024
Vodafone looks to ‘hyperscale’ IoT through Microsoft strategic partnership
IT giant and telco unite with plan to transform customer experience using generative AI, looking to scale standalone IoT business and accelerate digital transformation
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16 Jan 2024
AMD bets on India, doubles down on AI
The chipmaker recently inaugurated its largest global design facility in Bangalore as part of a $400m investment in India to support its expanded portfolio and build artificial intelligence capabilities
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15 Jan 2024
Octopus Energy invests £200m in datacentre heat reuse startup Deep Green
Utility provider Octopus Energy has committed to investing £200m in datacentre heat reuse startup Deep Green to help the company scale
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15 Jan 2024
Digital Realty opens datacentre in Chennai
Datacentre developed through joint venture will support high-density power requirements and tap Jio’s connectivity infrastructure across India
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11 Jan 2024
QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023
Storage hardware innovation has taken a back seat – QLC flash excepted – as the big storage suppliers build around software-based variants and optimisation on modular product sets
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10 Jan 2024
HPE nabs Juniper Networks in $14bn deal to boost networking
The two companies position the combined business as a major force in enterprise and datacentre networking
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09 Jan 2024
Microsoft starts year with a subdued January Patch Tuesday
For the second month in a row, Microsoft had no zero-days and relatively few vulnerabilities for administrators to address.
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09 Jan 2024
QuEra Computing sets out plan for error-correcting quantum computing
QuEra Computing is betting on transversal gates, a technology which it believes is key to simplifying error correction
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08 Jan 2024
Inside the Met Police’s investigation into EncroChat crime gangs
The Met’s senior investigating officer responsible for investigating criminals using the EncroChat encrypted phone network tells the inside story of the UK’s biggest organised crime bust in a BBC podcast series released this week
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08 Jan 2024
Datacentre operators form APAC industry group
The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association will advocate for policies to drive the security and resiliency of datacentres and minimise environmental impact, among other goals
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04 Jan 2024
Risks and opportunities for the UK chip sector
In May 2023, the UK government unveiled a national semiconductor strategy. We find out how it has been going