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17 Jan 2025
CMS releases final ACA marketplace payment notice for 2026
By Kelsey WaddillThe 2026 updates to the ACA marketplace include calculation updates for risk adjustment, slight changes to cost-sharing reduction loading practices and more.
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17 Jan 2025
Treasury Department sanctions company tied to Salt Typhoon
By Arielle WaldmanThe sanctions were in response to significant cyberattacks by Chinese nation-state threat groups against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure in recent months.
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17 Jan 2025
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
By Alex ScroxtonThe US Supreme Court has upheld a legal ban on TikTok, meaning that the video-sharing application will be shut down from midnight on Sunday 19 January
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23 Apr 2024
Enterprise AI: Free, premium or a bolt-on?
By Cliff SaranSaaS providers will have to offer AI in their product mix. But they need to make a huge upfront investment in AI infrastructure, which impacts revenue
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22 Apr 2024
Fujitsu to cut UK jobs as Post Office scandal fallout hits sales
By Karl FlindersJapanese supplier’s role in the Post Office Horizon scandal is beginning to hurt its UK business, with job cuts announced
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22 Apr 2024
Fujifilm plans to ‘make tape easy’ with Kangaroo SME appliance
By Antony AdsheadFujifilm to add 100TB SME-focused Kangaroo tape infrastructure in a box to existing 1PB offer, as energy efficiency and security of tape make it alluring to customers
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22 Apr 2024
Digital Edge punching above its weight in Asia datacentre market
By Aaron TanFast-growing datacentre provider Digital Edge is eyeing business from hyperscalers and counting on its strengths in datacentre operations and local partnerships to stand out from rivals
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17 Apr 2024
VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes
By Aaron TanVMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term
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17 Apr 2024
CIO interview: Making datacentres greener
By Cliff SaranWe speak to the CIO of Danfoss about how the company has used HPE GreenLake to improve energy efficiency
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16 Apr 2024
Dell partners with Intel, releases file storage for Azure
By Adam ArmstrongWith the recent Intel and Azure partnerships, Dell continues to expand its on-premises options for AI while expanding its Apex data file services in the cloud.
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16 Apr 2024
Leil wants to revive MAID as green storage tape substitute
By Antony AdsheadMAID sought to provide energy-efficient disk storage with quicker access times than tape. Estonian startup Leil wants to supplant tape with green storage spin-down SMR drives
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15 Apr 2024
Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS
By Stephen WithersThe Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme
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15 Apr 2024
OpenText expands GenAI for enterprise content, IoT
By Don FluckingerOpenText finds a novel use for generative AI: combing through, sorting and summarizing massive amounts of IoT data. It also launched new enterprise content management features.
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15 Apr 2024
Swedish company first to use STMicroelectronics chips
By Pat BransPowerful new processors help power next-generation industrial human machine interfaces, starting in the Nordics
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15 Apr 2024
Arm accelerates Edge AI with Ethos-U NPU and IoT reference design
By Joe O’HalloranNPU said to deliver 4x performance uplift for high performance edge AI applications such as factory automation and smart cameras through new IoT reference design platform to accelerate deployment of voice and vision systems
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15 Apr 2024
Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index
By Antony AdsheadWhen the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure
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12 Apr 2024
Government could still replace Fujitsu in key nuclear contract
By Karl FlindersFujitsu’s first government contract of the year could be just a stay of execution as department says that all replacement options are still being considered
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11 Apr 2024
How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers
By Josh OsmanWith more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents
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11 Apr 2024
Fujitsu public sector contracts dry up in Post Office scandal aftermath
By Karl FlindersDisgraced IT supplier has won just one public sector contract following public anger over Post Office scandal
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10 Apr 2024
Breakthrough may herald secure home quantum computing
By Alex ScroxtonAn emerging approach to quantum security dubbed blind quantum computing may one day help spur mass adoption of quantum computing safely and securely, using technology that is already available today
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10 Apr 2024
How Intel's new AI Gaudi 3 chip compares with Nvidia chips
By Esther ShittuThe new chip matches the Nvidia H100 but lacks in performance compared with the Nvidia Blackwell. The vendor also introduced new edge computing offerings.
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10 Apr 2024
The challenges of securing a UK semiconductor supply chain
By Cliff SaranThe UK’s national semiconductor strategy aims to establish the country's credentials as a leader in the sector. We look at how it stacks up
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10 Apr 2024
Qt Group teams with Qualcomm to streamline industrial IoT UI
By Joe O’HalloranProduct development lifecycle software provider partners with mobile processor platform giant to reduce time-to-market for IoT manufacturers
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10 Apr 2024
Embedded World 2024: Edge AI to transform industry
By Joe O’HalloranKeynote from global chip manufacturer says rapid developments in both artificial intelligence and edge computing are setting new standards, with real-time performance, data security and customisation as critical reasons for growth
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09 Apr 2024
Microsoft corks Windows zero-day on April Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatThe company delivered one of its largest security update releases in recent years with a proxy driver spoofing vulnerability topping the patching priority list.
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09 Apr 2024
Report highlights shortcomings in UK chip plans
By Cliff SaranThe national semiconductor strategy needs to encourage greater collaboration with international parters such as South Korea
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08 Apr 2024
MPs will grill Cabinet Office over Fujitsu contract bidding pause
By Karl FlindersParliamentary select committees have their eyes trained on Fujitsu’s response to the Post Office Horizon scandal, with its pause on bidding for contracts under scrutiny
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05 Apr 2024
Datacentre outages are happening less often and becoming less severe
By Caroline DonnellyUptime 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
By Karl FlindersTroubled 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
By Cliff SaranUK 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
By Cliff SaranA 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
By Alex ScroxtonMDR 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
By Antony AdsheadAnalysis 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
By Cliff SaranUnlike 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
By Cliff SaranCern 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
By Yann SerraHPE 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
By Cliff SaranKubernetes 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
By Antony AdsheadStorage 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
By Joe O’HalloranTech 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
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia 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
By Karl FlindersFujitsu 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’
By Stephen WithersCompany 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
By Antony AdsheadSurvey 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
By Aaron TanVultr 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
By Antony AdsheadAI 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
By Esther ShittuThe 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonOpen 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
By Yann SerraCEO 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
By Lis EvenstadG7 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
By Alex ScroxtonAn 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
By Caroline DonnellyData4 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
By Cliff SaranSigning 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?
By Cliff SaranNutanix’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
By Tom WalatMicrosoft 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
By Cliff SaranDeclaration 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
By Antony AdsheadSoftware-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
By Bill GoodwinTrade 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
By Alex ScroxtonMeta 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
By Caroline DonnellyLatest 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
By Antony AdsheadA 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
By Kim LoohuisThe ‘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
By Antony AdsheadSaaS 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
By Cliff SaranIn 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
By Antony AdsheadTargeting 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
By Aaron TanMore 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
By Caroline DonnellyDatacentre 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
By Cliff SaranResponsible 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
By Yann SerraSaaS 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
By Antony AdsheadThe 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
By Caroline DonnellyUK 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
By Cliff SaranResearchers 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’
By Cliff SaranJensen 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
By Antony AdsheadGlobal 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
By Karl FlindersThe 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
By Cliff SaranSurvey 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
By John MooreEnterprises 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
By Caroline DonnellyHM 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
By Caroline DonnellyThe 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
By Caroline DonnellyMicrosoft’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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Antony AdsheadSUISA 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
By Caroline DonnellyVirtus 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
By Steve RangerCloud 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
By John MooreThe 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
By Simon QuickeDaisy 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
By Tom WalatAdministrators 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?
By Yann SerraThe $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
By Caroline DonnellyBanking 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
By Joe O’HalloranNetworking 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
By Pat BransIT 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
By Cliff SaranSo-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
By Simon QuickeSupplier 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
By Cliff SaranGovernment 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
By Cliff SaranMeta 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
By Makenzie HollandStakeholders 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
By Adam ArmstrongAstera 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
By Karl FlindersTata 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
By Aaron TanSingtel 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
By Cliff SaranOngoing 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
By Caroline DonnellyA 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
By Antony AdsheadHDD 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?
By Cliff SaranResearch 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
By Joe O’HalloranAIOps 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