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08 May 2024
National Security Agency warns against paying ransoms
By Arielle WaldmanRob Joyce and David Luber discussed how the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare exemplified the cons of paying ransom demands.
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08 May 2024
Experts highlight progress, challenges for election security
By Alexander CulafiInfosec professionals at RSA Conference 2024 discussed digital and physical security challenges for election cycles across the globe in a post-COVID landscape.
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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.
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31 Jul 2023
SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play
By Aaron TanSUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code
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27 Jul 2023
Meta results show impact of data fines and datacentre upgrade strategy
By Cliff SaranThe owner of Facebook is battling with regulators over transferring EU data to the US. It is also seeing less improvements on CPUs
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27 Jul 2023
IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions
By Caroline DonnellyTech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities
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26 Jul 2023
Cyber attack on IT supplier hits two major ambulance trusts
By Alex ScroxtonAmbulance trusts serving millions across southern England have been hamstrung for the past week after a cyber attack took down their hosted patient records system
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25 Jul 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation
By Cliff SaranWith its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration
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25 Jul 2023
Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy
By Caroline DonnellyGoogle's latest annual environmental report reveals details about how the technology giant's ‘artificial intelligence-first’ policy is shaping its ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of its customers’ operations
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24 Jul 2023
CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity
By Yann SerraDeveloped out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity
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21 Jul 2023
How datacentres might avoid price hikes and keep more customers
By Fleur DoidgeThe most promising strategies for ensuring minimal price rises to customers require operators to start dissecting their approach to packaging and selling their wares
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21 Jul 2023
AI hype far exceeds its use within enterprises
By Antone GonsalvesExperts say most organizations are holding back on spending while investigating the cost, legal liabilities and data privacy risks associated with generative AI use.
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20 Jul 2023
Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression
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20 Jul 2023
Intec Microsystems gains fresh owners and sets sights on growth
By Simon QuickeDistributor picked up by private equity player and signals intent to grow, adding a channel veteran to help with strategy
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19 Jul 2023
CMA gives Broadcom/VMware deal provisional thumbs-up
By Cliff SaranThe $61bn acquisition of VMware by Broadcom is not being seen as anti-competive and should not stifle firm’s ability to innovate
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19 Jul 2023
Cloud service providers, OEMs, chip firms form Ultra Ethernet Consortium
By Joe O’HalloranConsortium formed to deliver on Ethernet-based open, interoperable, high-performance, full-communications stack architecture to meet the growing network demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale
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19 Jul 2023
Uptime’s annual datacentre market poll highlights industry’s sustainability reporting gaps
By Caroline DonnellyThe latest edition of the Uptime Institute’s annual industry survey highlights shortcomings in the datacentre sector’s reporting of key sustainability metrics amid growing regulatory scrutiny
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19 Jul 2023
Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows
By Caroline DonnellyThe latest global public cloud market data from Gartner suggests Google is gaining ground on its rivals, as it achieves higher annual growth than AWS and Microsoft
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19 Jul 2023
IT firms ramp up prices to drive post-pandemic revenue
By Cliff SaranThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts inflation at 6.5%. Some areas of IT spending have experienced double-digit growth
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18 Jul 2023
Traditional IT outsourcing rockets as Europe’s businesses cut costs
By Karl FlindersOverall spending on IT services is up in European countries despite continued reduction in investments in cloud-based contracts
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13 Jul 2023
Storage, server prices drop as inflation eases
By John MooreServer and storage prices declined in June, reflecting cooling inflation, but companies remain intent on containing costs and optimization.
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13 Jul 2023
RHEL users question Red Hat's reliance on CentOS Stream
By Ed ScannellDespite criticism from developers, Red Hat continues its commitment to CentOS as the delivery vehicle for RHEL, believing it benefits open source developers in the long run.
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13 Jul 2023
Synergy Research highlights how rise of the hyperscalers has hit on-premise datacentres
By Caroline DonnellyLatest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group highlights how shift in enterprise IT spending patterns has impacted on-premise datacentres
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13 Jul 2023
BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Three and Virgin Media commit to curbing telco supply chain GHG emissions
By Caroline DonnellyTwelve telcos and network infrastructure providers have vowed to join forces to help cut the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from their supply chains
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13 Jul 2023
Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon
By Aaron TanNutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments
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12 Jul 2023
Couchbase: Digital transformation needs have changed
By Simon QuickeCouchbase signals the need for a tailored pitch, with customer priorities shifting over the past couple of years
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11 Jul 2023
Microsoft repairs 5 zero-days for July Patch Tuesday
By Tom WalatThe company addressed 130 vulnerabilities and provided additional instructions to fully resolve several bugs, which will require extra attention from IT this month.
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11 Jul 2023
EU formally grants data adequacy to US
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe European Commission has formally granted the US data adequacy, allowing companies and organisations to freely transfer personal data across the Atlantic via the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. But privacy activist Max Schrems has already committed to legally challenging the decision
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11 Jul 2023
Legal & General signs seven-year datacentre migration deal with IBM spin-off Kyndryl
By Caroline DonnellyFinancial services giant L&G has enlisted the help of its long-standing technology partner to help accelerate the pace of its cloud-focused digital transformation plans
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10 Jul 2023
Met Office bids to make climate data more accessible with Esri
By Brian McKennaThe Met Office is offering a new data portal, built on Esri’s geographic information systems technology, to enable users to understand local and national impacts of climate change
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10 Jul 2023
Datacentre cross-sector collaboration needed to boost heat reuse rates, report claims
By Caroline DonnellyReport by datacentre consultancy BCS looks at what needs to be done to encourage more operators to reuse waste heat from their server farms
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10 Jul 2023
How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming
By Aaron TanConfluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services
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06 Jul 2023
VMware ramps up on sovereign cloud in APAC
By Aaron TanVMware is working with local partners to deliver sovereign cloud services in the region, amid growing sovereignty interests among governments and the need maintain business continuity
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06 Jul 2023
Schneider Electric makes bid to acquire Atos Group's EcoAct sustainability consultancy business
By Caroline DonnellyEnergy management giant Schneider Electric has entered into exclusive negotiations with Atos Group about acquiring the sustainability consultancy business it obtained in 2020
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05 Jul 2023
HSBC explores quantum-safe comms to AWS edge
By Cliff SaranBanking group HSBC is looking at how to secure transactions and the benefits of quantum computing in finance
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04 Jul 2023
Coping with the ongoing chip crisis in the UK
By Cliff SaranChina has imposed export restrictions on key semiconductor compounds, so how will the UK's National Semiconductor Strategy cope?
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04 Jul 2023
How Maxeon is forging the path to SASE
By Aaron TanMaxeon Solar Technologies is building out its security service edge capabilities with an eye on a SASE implementation that combines best of breed offerings from different suppliers
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30 Jun 2023
SGN pens IT service desk outsourcing deal
By Karl FlindersUtility company SGN renews its internal IT services managed services contract with new supplier
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30 Jun 2023
How STT GDC is cracking the Philippines datacentre market
By Aaron TanThe joint venture formed by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Globe and Ayala Corporation is building its largest datacentre in the Philippines among other efforts to meet the needs of an underserved market
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28 Jun 2023
PC market declines seen in TD Synnex numbers
By Simon QuickeDistributor shares Q2 results which saw revenue declines as the firm reacted to challenging market conditions
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28 Jun 2023
Supercomputing research collaboration to bring fusion energy to UK grid in 2040s
By Caroline DonnellyThe UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell Technologies and Intel to accelerate pace of fusion energy power plant development
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27 Jun 2023
WithSecure forges ahead with green coding initiative
By Alex ScroxtonWithSecure’s W/Sustainability programme kickstarts a number of initiatives, including a commitment to green coding the security supplier hopes will set an example for others to follow
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27 Jun 2023
Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx
By Antony AdsheadBuildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection
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22 Jun 2023
UK pension scheme expands relationship with IT services giant TCS
By Karl FlindersTata Consultancy Services retains contract with UK pension scheme for another decade after extending a contract that was first signed in 2011
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22 Jun 2023
Lloyds Bank to open tech centre in India
By Karl FlindersUK bank taps into Hyderabad tech ecosystem by opening a tech centre focused on improving digital experiences for customers
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21 Jun 2023
Critical VMware Aria Operations bug under active exploitation
By Alexander CulafiReports of exploitation for a critical command injection flaw in VMware Aria Operations for Networks came roughly a week after a researcher published a proof-of-concept for it.
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21 Jun 2023
Belgian researchers build energy-efficient AI frameworks
By Pat BransResearchers in Belgium are working on a new generation of platforms to support artificial intelligence applications in an energy-efficient manner
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20 Jun 2023
Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia
By Aaron TanOver half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds
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20 Jun 2023
HPE GreenLake expands further into AWS, VMware clouds
By Tim McCarthyUpdates to GreenLake services and new partnerships allow customers to integrate more AWS and VMware public cloud workloads into HPE's private cloud.
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20 Jun 2023
HPE offers Cray supercomputer cloud service for AI models
By Ed ScannellHPE unveils cloud AI services powered by its Cray supercomputers working in tandem with a version of its GreenLake for Large Language Models.
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20 Jun 2023
University of York shifts HPC workloads to Swedish EcoDataCenter colocation site in green IT push
By Caroline DonnellyWith the University of York using its HPC capabilities for climate research, it decided it was time to shift its IT infrastructure to a greener colo site in support of its net-zero goals
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20 Jun 2023
Union chief calls for outsourced services to be brought in-house
By Karl FlindersUnison general secretary calls on Labour to bring outsourced public sector contracts in-house if they fail to meet certain tests
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19 Jun 2023
Salvation Army’s trading arm sets sights on helping enterprises reuse their IT devices
By Caroline DonnellyTrading arm of Christian church charity The Salvation Army is expanding beyond textile recycling to help businesses reuse and recycle their e-waste
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19 Jun 2023
Nakivo adds ransomware scanning and new restore options
By Antony AdsheadBackup maker adds malware scanning with big names in security to immutable backup copy functionality. “Tape’s not dead” either, with restore from the venerable medium now possible
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16 Jun 2023
CGI to develop virtual, cloud-hosted ‘black box’ recorder technology for aircraft
By Caroline DonnellyIT consultancy CGI is developing an alternative to the traditional ‘black box’ recorders found in aircraft that will allow teams on the ground to intervene quicker in the event of an emergency onboard
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16 Jun 2023
Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments
By Aaron TanLenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner
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15 Jun 2023
Server prices drop while cloud costs rise in PPI data
By John MooreThe U.S. government's latest inflation reading shows moderating hardware prices, which spiked in mid-2022. Cloud costs, however, have been moving in the opposite direction.
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15 Jun 2023
Green tech startups urged to join Climate Tech Supercluster to boost their growth
By Caroline DonnellyThe Climate Tech Supercluster has been launched to aid the growth and development of the green tech startup scene in university towns across the UK and Europe
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15 Jun 2023
NBN Co sets out to achieve net-zero by 2050
By Aaron TanAustralia’s national broadband network operator plans to tap renewable energy and roll out energy-efficient fibre as part of its longer-term target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
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14 Jun 2023
Ransomware-stricken Capita to run Action Fraud successor
By Alex ScroxtonA £50m deal to replace the Action Fraud service has been handed to PwC and Capita, which is facing investigations over its handling of customer data in a ransomware incident
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14 Jun 2023
Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays
By Antony AdsheadFlash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre
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14 Jun 2023
June Patch Tuesday settles two Exchange Server bugs
By Tom WalatMicrosoft's plans for upcoming security hardening in Kerberos and Netlogon protocols will have admins busy with testing over the next several weeks.
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13 Jun 2023
Mandiant: New VMware ESXi zero-day used by Chinese APT
By Alexander CulafiVMware said the ESXi flaw was 'low severity' despite being under active exploitation because it requires the attacker to already have gained root access on the target's system.
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13 Jun 2023
Scotland in renewed push to attract more hyperscale and colocation datacentre development
By Caroline DonnellyAgainst a backdrop of the Scottish government continuing to court datacentre developers, Host In Scotland publishes report flagging 20 sites that are ripe for development
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13 Jun 2023
VergeIO's new IOfortify halts ransomware spread
By Tim McCarthyDiminutive snapshots, a new alert system and code improvements empower the software of HCI vendor VergeIO against ransomware attacks in its latest release.
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13 Jun 2023
RISC-V rises to software ecosystem challenge
By Cliff SaranThe open source hardware and software system on a chip specification has recognised the need to coordinate low-level software development
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12 Jun 2023
Ofcom data stolen in MOVEit cyber attack
By Alex ScroxtonCommunications regulator Ofcom says data on employees and regulated communications companies was stolen by the Clop gang
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12 Jun 2023
Rishi Sunak calls for urgency in building out UK tech
By Cliff SaranThe UK prime minister used his speech during London Tech Week to discuss funding tech, attracting talent and AI safety
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09 Jun 2023
UK-US Atlantic Declaration bolsters tech and data collaboration
By Cliff SaranJoe Biden and Rishi Sunak agree greater collaboration on responsible artificial intelligence, quantum computing and Open RAN
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08 Jun 2023
Clop may have been sitting on MOVEit vulnerability for two years
By Alex ScroxtonThe Clop cyber extortion gang may have been keeping the MOVEit SQL injection vulnerability they used to penetrate the systems of multiple victims secret for two years
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07 Jun 2023
Researchers in Belgium move towards industrial production of qubits
By Pat BransUsing existing equipment and know-how, researchers at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (Imec) in Belgium are finding ways of mass-producing qubits
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07 Jun 2023
Clop cyber gang claims MOVEit attack and starts harassing victims
By Alex ScroxtonThe Clop cyber extortion and ransomware operation is demanding organisations pay a ransom to avoid data stolen via an exploited vulnerability in a file transfer product being leaked
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06 Jun 2023
Indian IT services giant takes UK teachers’ pensions contract from Capita
By Karl FlindersTata Consultancy Services bolsters its growing UK public sector customer base with key contract win
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06 Jun 2023
ESA uses NetApp as-a-service for space data ‘hot’ archive
By Yann SerraThe European Space Agency collects data from millions of miles away. It must get storage right when there’s no chance of a u-turn to take more photos or re-record data
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01 Jun 2023
DE-CIX switches on Internet Exchange in Finland
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider celebrates 10 years of partnership with Internet Exchange operator and home to leading carrier and datacentre neutral interconnection ecosystem
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31 May 2023
Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings
By Cliff SaranThe hype around generative AI appears to be working – at least for HPE, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings
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31 May 2023
Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves
By Antony AdsheadScale-out NAS maker – which specialises in large capacity for AI/ML and HPC – has come out of its on-prem shell and now plans further moves towards cloud-friendly object storage
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30 May 2023
Nvidia CEO sees ChatGPT as iPhone moment for AI
By Cliff SaranIt took the iPhone to kickstart a revolution in mobile phone usage, and Jensen Huang believes datacentres will radically change to support AI workloads
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30 May 2023
Downstream breaches of Capita customers spreading
By Alex ScroxtonAs many as 90 organisations that used Capita services have now reported data breaches arising from various security incidents at the outsourcer
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25 May 2023
BASF ramps up petaflops with new Quriosity HPE-build hardware
By Cliff SaranThe AMD-powered 3 petaflops supercomputer will offer BASF the ability to run more complex simulations of chemical processes
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24 May 2023
Dell enters generative AI market with Nvidia partnership
By Esther AjaoThe initiative provides enterprises with both Dell servers and Nvidia's H100 GPUs and software. It could appeal to Dell users that want to create generative models on premises.
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24 May 2023
Almost all ransomware attacks target backups, says Veeam
By Antony AdsheadSome 93% of ransomware attacks go for backups and most succeed, with 60% of those attacked paying the ransom, according to a Veeam survey
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23 May 2023
Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware
By Antony AdsheadBackup supplier continues to enrich its ecosystem with more artificial intelligence for backup and ransomware, with chat-like reporting functions and new security partners in its alliance
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23 May 2023
Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage
By Antony AdsheadAMF1 race team tracks hundreds of car sensor metrics for raceday and post-event analysis that has seen it surge forward in recent Formula One rankings with NetApp NVMe storage
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19 May 2023
Early-stage companies pursue the practical at CIO event
By John MooreStartups in the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium's Innovation Showcase said their offerings tackle key enterprise IT concerns, from automating manual processes to cutting cloud costs.
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19 May 2023
CBRE predicts strong growth for European colocation firms in 2023, but suggests tough times ahead
By Caroline DonnellyCBRE's latest European colocation market tracker suggests 2023 will be a year of big growth for the sector, but suggests the slowdown in enterprise cloud spend might have a dampening impact on its prosperity in the years to come
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19 May 2023
National semiconductor strategy: Balancing skills, migration and security
By Cliff SaranThe UK government is putting £1bn into semiconductor research and design over the next 10 years to develop a robust chip sector
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18 May 2023
Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey
By Aaron TanThe Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes
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17 May 2023
CTO interview: Europe benefits from energy gains in AMD chips
By Pat BransAMD’s chief technology officer explains how the latest chip technology can help European organisations solve the energy puzzle facing IT departments
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16 May 2023
CIOs take on organizational adaptability, resilience
By John MooreCIOs and other tech executives are bracing their organizations to remain flexible in a period of unpredictable developments and bounce back when they take a punch.
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16 May 2023
Gartner highlights four trends shaping enterprise cloud, edge and datacentre investments
By Caroline DonnellyAnalyst lifts lid on how enterprise attitudes to cloud, datacentre and edge-related digital transformation projects are changing
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16 May 2023
NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout
By Antony AdsheadNetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families
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16 May 2023
Scality pushes anti-ransomware features in Artesca object storage
By Antony AdsheadObject storage specialist announces v2.0 of Artesca, with a heavy focus on functionality that can protect against ransomware such as object locking, sharding, backup to object etc
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16 May 2023
Imperial College London teams up with Intel and Lenovo for HPC push
By Caroline DonnellyImperial College London has joined forces with Lenovo and Intel to bolster its HPC capabilities for the benefit of its research teams
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16 May 2023
CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation
By Aaron TanDBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity
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15 May 2023
Demand for access to talent driving UK IT outsourcing growth
By Karl FlindersOrganisations in the UK are increasing the amount of IT work they outsource to enable them to access talent
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15 May 2023
Post Office executive told to report false bill of health on controversial software
By Karl FlindersA 2010 Post Office internal review of the Horizon software was designed to ignore the system’s problems to reassure stakeholders amid questioning of its reliability
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12 May 2023
IT leaders missing vital connection between enterprise network and employee experience
By Joe O’HalloranSurvey reveals that despite the rise of hybrid and remote working, and as digitisation demands increase, companies are struggling to connect their employees to the enterprise network
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12 May 2023
Microsoft, Singtel debut Azure public MEC in Singapore
By Aaron TanAzure public multi-access edge compute service will let enterprises deploy low-latency workloads and leverage public cloud services in edge locations
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11 May 2023
Kao Data unveils Tier II datacentre strategy by pledging to open Manchester facility in late 2025
By Caroline DonnellyHPC-focused colocation provider Kao Data is expanding its datacentre footprint into the north of England by pledging to open a 40MW facility by late-2025
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10 May 2023
Black Basta ransomware attack to cost Capita over £15m
By Alex ScroxtonExceptional costs arising from the March 2023 Black Basta ransomware attack on the systems of outsourcer Capita will be somewhere between £15m and £20m, the organisation says
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10 May 2023
Nebulon aims Tripline at ransomware detection in storage
By Antony AdsheadTripline claims ransomware detection from samples every 30 seconds and works in conjunction with snapshots to deliver recovery from an attack in four minutes
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10 May 2023
How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks
By Aaron TanApplying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats