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13 Dec 2024
Last-minute geek gift ideas for the holidays
Still searching for holiday gifts for geeks? Try these offbeat suggestions recommended by our panel of consultants, from the practical to the fantastic and everything in between.
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13 Dec 2024
Google Cloud’s Agentspace to unlock enterprise data
Agentspace uses AI agents to automate workflows and connect to multiple data sources to perform tasks and deliver insights, boosting enterprise productivity and efficiency
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13 Dec 2024
High health costs force small employers to up cost-sharing
As small businesses struggle to keep up with rising healthcare costs, many have increased cost-sharing for their workers in both single and family coverage.
Cloud Computing News from the past 365 days
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05 Feb 2024
What’s standing in the way of the UK being an AI superpower?
Artificial intelligence (AI) could bring a big economic boost to the UK, says report, but there are still barriers to overcome
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05 Feb 2024
Is SAP on the rise?
This year represents a tipping point for SAP to convince cagey customers of the value of cloud enterprise resource planning
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02 Feb 2024
AWS talks up Q4 increase in large customer wins as global market share drops
Amazon Web Services clocked up double-digit revenue growth during the final quarter of 2023, but analyst figures show the company is losing market share to Microsoft
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01 Feb 2024
SME market trends supporting further MSP growth
The CEO of Kaseya has shared his thoughts on the reasons why the year ahead will be a positive one for managed service providers
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31 Jan 2024
Hitachi Vantara and Cisco roll out managed services offering
The channel is getting its hands on the fruits of a tie-up that should make life easier for customers looking for a hybrid cloud service
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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
Microsoft results show benefits of AI on Azure
The company’s cloud business posted revenue of $33bn, with new AI inferencing workloads driving up demand
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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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30 Jan 2024
TD Synnex, Westcon-Comstor and Infinigate expand portfolios
Distributors are making moves to ensure they have a mix of products and services that appeal to their channel partner bases
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30 Jan 2024
Oracle to fine-tune AI for the enterprise
Oracle AI developments aim to blend enterprise data and LLMs across its technology stack and SaaS portfolio
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29 Jan 2024
Channel must be able to support cloud repatriation shift
Citrix shines a light on a growing trend as strategies are reconsidered in the face of security and cost concerns
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29 Jan 2024
Google Cloud teams up with Singapore government on AI initiatives
Over 100 generative AI use cases have been tested through the AI Trailblazers programme, among other initiatives to spur AI adoption and build AI talent in the city-state
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26 Jan 2024
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright
AI firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishers, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime would be too complex and costly
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26 Jan 2024
SAP puts the focus on AI, but cloud is still the key
ERP giant wants to boost its AI capabilities, but there remains work to be done persuading customers to shift to its cloud offerings
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26 Jan 2024
8x8 enhances experience communications as a service suite
XCaaS platform to now include capabilities such as AI-generated post-meeting smart summaries and action items, omnichannel experiences, global workforce support, and deeper technology partner integrations
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24 Jan 2024
Box acquires no-code document automation tool Crooze
The acquisition gives Box both the talent and the technology Crooze provided for large customers, according to Box's vice president of product strategy.
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24 Jan 2024
Inside Cisco’s security platform strategy
Raj Chopra, senior vice-president of Cisco’s security business, outlines the company’s security platform strategy and how it brought different products together into a single platform
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24 Jan 2024
Critical vulnerability exposes Fortra GoAnywhere users
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT users must take steps to address a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability without delay
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22 Jan 2024
Westcon-Comstor adds AWS depth with Rebura buy
Distributor moves for cloud consultancy in bid to beef-up ability to support partner base
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21 Jan 2024
Stellar Lifestyle opens high-tech retail space
The Hive 2.0 retail space in Esplanade Xchange uses AI and robots to enable self-checkout, prepare and serve beverages, and deliver items to offices in a nearby building
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19 Jan 2024
ICO prompts confusion over police cloud legality
The UK data regulator has suggested that, despite major data protection concerns, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information-sharing agreement with the US government
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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
Tech firms: Investigatory Powers review will undermine privacy of UK citizens
Trade group TechUK argues in a briefing sent to the Home Office that proposed amendments to the Investigatory Powers Bill could have a far-reaching impact on privacy and security
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17 Jan 2024
Dura Software expands UK footprint with Invosys buy
The examples of consolidation continue to stack up, with comms services player Dura Software the latest to be caught up in M&A activity
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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
Google’s data egress offer – no such thing as a free migration?
Google’s offer to allow free data egress from its cloud platform is a first from the hyperscalers, but the small print means for most it lacks any great benefit
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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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15 Jan 2024
AI likely to worsen economic inequality, says IMF
While artificial intelligence will replace some jobs and complement others, the International Monetary Fund says that, in most of the scenarios it envisages, the technology will likely deepen macro-economic inequalities
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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
Google Cloud abolishes data egress fees for global customer base
With the charging of data egress fees considered to be an anti-competitive practice, Google Cloud has agreed to stop charging customers for moving data out of its cloud
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15 Jan 2024
Santander bank added 4,500 tech staff last year
Santander added thousands of IT staff to its global operation last year, as part of its digital transformation
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12 Jan 2024
AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day
Amazon Web Services’ hold on the UK public sector continues to tighten, following the revelation that on a single day in late 2023 it clinched contracts worth £894m with three central government departments
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11 Jan 2024
Channel facing a delicate AI pitch into SMEs
There is a clear appetite for artificial intelligence technology, but there is a gap in perceptions of its purpose between those buying the tech and those using it
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11 Jan 2024
CES 2024: Volvo Penta advances sea vehicle intelligence
Automotive giant’s new platform combines dual power propulsion and smart features ranging from eco mode to assisted docking to dynamic positioning through electronic vessel control system for a premium on-water experience
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10 Jan 2024
Logicalis looking to raise the managed services bar
Channel player ushers in a number of enhancements on its Managed Data Fabric Platform to provide users with deeper insights
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10 Jan 2024
Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs
Microsoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors
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10 Jan 2024
Scotland ‘sleepwalking’ to mass surveillance with DPDI Bill
The independent checks and balances over biometrics and biometric-enabled surveillance must be strengthened to prevent Scotland from sliding into a surveillance state along with the rest of the UK
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09 Jan 2024
Print managed services part of a sustainability pitch
It’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
The 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
Wireless 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
Cloudflare’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
We 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
We 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
Generative 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
Here 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
Organisations 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
Ransomware 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
In 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
In 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
Move 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
Acquisition 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
The 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
Zoom’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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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 information management stories of 2023
Generative 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
Alibaba’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
DSIT 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
Microsoft’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