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Data centre

• 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

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  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

• March 25, 2024 25 Mar'24

  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

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  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

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  The evolution of DevOps: Why platform engineering is gaining momentum

  Platform teams are extending their responsibilities to security as platform engineering takes DevOps to the next level

• March 21, 2024 21 Mar'24

  CCS holding firm on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements for prospective Lot 4 suppliers

  The government’s procurement arm is seemingly refusing to give in to supplier calls to extend its decision to revise down the insurance requirements for G-Cloud 14 to the framework’s fourth Lot

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy

  We speak to Oracle cloud chief technical architect Pradeep Vincent about cloud deployment scenarios

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  AWS Public Sector Day: AI-enabled care homes and using big data to ease biodiversity crisis

  At this year’s AWS Public Sector Day, delegates heard how AI and cloud-based data processing tools are helping address skills shortfalls in the health and social care sector, as well as the UK’s biodiversity crisis

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  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

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  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

• March 19, 2024 19 Mar'24

  EMEA security spend will have another boom year in 2024

  Cyber security services and technology will once again be the focus of major investment across EMEA during 2024, according to the latest Technology Spending Intentions study from TechTarget and ESG

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  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

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  Budgets rise as IT decision-makers ramp up cyber security spending

  Few IT leaders surveyed in the TechTarget/Enterprise Strategy Group 2024 Technology Spending Intentions study say they are spending less this year

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  CCS slammed over errors in G-Cloud 14 data protection documents

  The government’s procurement arm is under fire again, after prospective suppliers to the G-Cloud 14 framework raised complaints about CCS’s quality control procedures

• March 15, 2024 15 Mar'24

  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

• March 14, 2024 14 Mar'24

  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

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  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

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne

  The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  March Patch Tuesday throws up two critical Hyper-V flaws

  Two critical vulnerabilities in Windows Hyper-V stand out on an otherwise unremarkable Patch Tuesday

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  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

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services

  Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  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

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  CCS U-turns on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements after supplier backlash

  The government procurement agency has reversed previous plans for a £20m increase in insurance cover that threatened to deter smaller suppliers from bidding for cloud computing contracts

• March 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  BA sets out plan to revamp IT, add AI and update website

  Airline plans to migrate 700 systems to cloud and run custom version of Teams to support in-flight customer comms with ground staff

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Rapid7 hits out over botched vulnerability disclosure

  Software development firm JetBrains and security specialist Rapid7 fall out over the handling of a critical vulnerability disclosure, while customers are left rushing to patch

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Meta outage disrupts social media globally

  Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, have been downed in a brief service outage

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  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

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  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

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  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

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  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

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  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

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  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

• March 04, 2024 04 Mar'24

  G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements ‘under review’ by CCS after SME supplier backlash

  CCS has confirmed to Computer Weekly the insurance requirements for Lots 1 to 3 of the G-Cloud 14 framework are under review, as SME-focused minister pledges to investigate matter

• March 01, 2024 01 Mar'24

  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

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  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

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration

  Microsoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan

  The University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike

  The Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Microsoft goes public with pledges to foster innovation and drive competition in AI economy

  Microsoft lists all the ways it wants to ensure competition and support innovation in the AI economy by taking a proactive and constructive stance to working with regulators