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• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements

  Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  QStar launches tape access from anywhere with Global ArchiveSpace

  Tape veteran provides file and object access to Exabyte scale archives aimed at AI, high-performance computing and hyperscaler storage. Single-site for now, multi-site to follow

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

  New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant

  The CMA has reignited concerns about how its use of AWS could constitute a conflict of interest, given the public cloud giant is the subject of an anti-trust probe by the watchdog

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Bristol goes live with UK AI supercomputer

  The Isambard-AI supercomputer is set to revolutionise AI research in the UK

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

  SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity

  We speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

  Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT

  IT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints

  A Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage

  An IT outage that caused automated passport control e-gates to crash across the UK has been resolved, with a cyber attack ruled out as the cause

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads

  Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

  Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit

  Cubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure

  The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  Adobe expands bug bounty programme to account for GenAI

  Adobe has expanded the scope of its HackerOne-driven bug bounty scheme to incorporate flaws and risks arising from the development of generative artificial intelligence

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned

  The addition of a serious vulnerability in the GitLab open source platform to CISA’s KEV catalogue prompts a flurry of concern

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  Secure coding benchmark to increase standards among developers

  Developer security advocate Secure Code Warrior has launched what it claims is the industry’s first benchmark designed to quantify the security competence of its customers’ software developer teams

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  Google Cloud accelerates asteroid discovery for US-based non-profit

  Google Cloud opens up about the work it is doing with a US-based planetary science non-profit to help map the solar system

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  AWS results see public cloud giant tap into surging GenAI demand

  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims AWS has turned a corner where its customers’ worries about cloud cost optimisation are concerned

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity

  IBM sees a big opportunity to migrate customers to containers and OpenShift, with its $6.4bn acquisition of HashiCorp part of the plan

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  Arcitecta offers file and object storage with huge transfer rates

  Australian startup offers single namespace file and object storage with rapid access via a metadata database that puts the right data in the right place according to recent use

• April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

  Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey

  Oracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Microsoft sees datacentre investments key to AI leadership

  Microsoft is reportedly spending between $50 to $100m to build out AI infrastructure

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Alphabet earnings show drive to boost Google Cloud and AI adoption

  The parent company of Google has increased artificial intelligence R&D spending and raised cloud sales commissions to boost adoption of Google Cloud

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  Mandatory MFA pays off for GitHub and OSS community

  Mandating multifactor authentication for select developers has been a huge success for GitHub, the platform reports, and now it wants to go further

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  AI firm saves a million in shift to Pure FlashBlade shared storage

  AI consultancy Crater Labs spent vast amounts of time managing server-attached drives to ensure GPUs were saturated. A shift to all-flash Pure Storage slashed that to almost zero

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Enterprise AI: Free, premium or a bolt-on?

  SaaS 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

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Fujifilm plans to ‘make tape easy’ with Kangaroo SME appliance

  Fujifilm 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

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Digital Edge punching above its weight in Asia datacentre market

  Fast-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

• April 19, 2024 19 Apr'24

  How Manipal Hospitals is driving tech innovations in healthcare

  Manipal Hospitals’ video consultation services and a nurse rostering app are among the tech innovations it is spurring to improve patient care and ward operations

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes

  VMware 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

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  VMware: Broadcom faces EU complaint over unfair licensing

  CEO Hock Tan responds to complaints, opening up partner programme to smaller resellers and standardising on core licensing

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  CIO interview: Making datacentres greener

  We speak to the CIO of Danfoss about how the company has used HPE GreenLake to improve energy efficiency

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Leil wants to revive MAID as green storage tape substitute

  MAID 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

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS

  The Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  More social engineering attacks on open source projects observed

  In the wake of the recent XZ Utils scare, maintainers of another open source project have come forward to say they may have experienced similar social engineering attacks

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index

  When 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

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Breakthrough may herald secure home quantum computing

  An 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

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Cyber crooks poison GitHub search to fool developers

  Researchers share data on new technique whereby malicious actors are manipulating GitHub’s search function and using cleverly crafted repositories to distribute malware

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Google Cloud embeds Gemini across product portfolio

  Google Cloud’s Gemini model will power a slew of AI assistant capabilities across its portfolio to bring the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users

• April 05, 2024 05 Apr'24

  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

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  AWS cuts several hundred jobs to tackle ‘inefficiency’ as customer cloud cost-cutting continues

  Public cloud giant AWS is embarking on another round of job cuts, with analysts citing the fact it’s losing ground to Microsoft in the AI race

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  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

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  UK-based cloud provider Civo offers ‘unconditional’ data egress fees waiver to customers

  Stevenage-based ‘open’ cloud champion Civo becomes latest provider to waive data egress fee charges for customers, but claims its offer is unconditional, unlike how the hyperscalers are approaching the same issue

• April 04, 2024 04 Apr'24

  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

• April 02, 2024 02 Apr'24

  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

• April 01, 2024 01 Apr'24

  Open source alert over intentionally placed backdoor

  A backdoor in the open source XZ Utils data compression library could have led to widespread compromise across the Linux ecosystem - and the community is on the trail of a developer who seems to be behind it

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  Cern: Challenges of GPU datacentre management

  Cern is a major user of Kubernetes. The container orchestration technology offers a way to democratise AI hardware

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  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