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June 12, 2023 12 Jun'23
How Dell is easing edge deployments

Dell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases
May 31, 2023 31 May'23
Generative AI boosts HPE Q2 earnings

The hype around generative AI appears to be working – at least for HPE, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings
May 31, 2023 31 May'23
Panasas to add S3 support to edge storage and cloud moves

Scale-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
May 30, 2023 30 May'23
Nvidia CEO sees ChatGPT as iPhone moment for AI

It took the iPhone to kickstart a revolution in mobile phone usage, and Jensen Huang believes datacentres will radically change to support AI workloads

May 29, 2023 29 May'23
Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic

Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms
May 25, 2023 25 May'23
BASF ramps up petaflops with new Quriosity HPE-build hardware

The AMD-powered 3 petaflops supercomputer will offer BASF the ability to run more complex simulations of chemical processes
May 23, 2023 23 May'23
Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region
May 23, 2023 23 May'23
Cohesity Turing aims AI tools at backup and ransomware

Backup 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
May 23, 2023 23 May'23
Aston Martin gets F1 pole position with NetApp storage

AMF1 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
May 22, 2023 22 May'23
Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments

In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure

May 19, 2023 19 May'23
CBRE predicts strong growth for European colocation firms in 2023, but suggests tough times ahead

CBRE'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
May 18, 2023 18 May'23
HPE and CCS sign memorandum of understanding to accelerate pace of public sector cloud migrations

Tech giant signs memorandum of understanding with UK government’s procurement chiefs to help public sector organisations sustainably move to cloud
May 18, 2023 18 May'23
Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

The 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
May 16, 2023 16 May'23
NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout

NetApp 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
May 16, 2023 16 May'23
Imperial College London teams up with Intel and Lenovo for HPC push

Imperial College London has joined forces with Lenovo and Intel to bolster its HPC capabilities for the benefit of its research teams
May 16, 2023 16 May'23
CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation

DBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity
May 12, 2023 12 May'23
IT Priorities 2023: Budgeting for IT innovation

In spite of the economic slowdown, IT leaders are driving forward investments in IT
May 12, 2023 12 May'23
Microsoft, Singtel debut Azure public MEC in Singapore

Azure public multi-access edge compute service will let enterprises deploy low-latency workloads and leverage public cloud services in edge locations
May 11, 2023 11 May'23
Google AI targets programmer productivity

Google is opening up more capabilities in its generative AI model, with tools for peer programming and automatic code generation
May 11, 2023 11 May'23
Google Cloud and SAP in enterprise open data push

Long-time technology collaborators Google Cloud and SAP are embarking on a push to make it easier for enterprises to derive value from their data and put it to use in artificial intelligence and machine learning settings
May 11, 2023 11 May'23
Kao Data unveils Tier II datacentre strategy by pledging to open Manchester facility in late 2025

HPC-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
May 10, 2023 10 May'23
Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services

A Public Accounts Committee report has found many applications are based on legacy IT and paper-basd systems, holding back digitisation
May 10, 2023 10 May'23
How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks

Applying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats
May 09, 2023 09 May'23
OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup
May 08, 2023 08 May'23
How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO
May 04, 2023 04 May'23
IT Priorities 2023: Significance of cloud investments rises as economic woes bite

Technology decision-makers across the UK and EMEA are increasingly looking to do more with cloud over the coming year, TechTarget/Computer Weekly research shows
May 03, 2023 03 May'23
AWS confirms Scope 3 GHG emissions data will be made freely available to customers in ‘early 2024’

With regulators increasingly calling on companies to transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions data, Amazon Web Services has confirmed users will get access to Scope 3 data from early next year
May 02, 2023 02 May'23
IT Priorities 2023: Software development

Organisations are investing in technology-led business initiatives to tackle the economic slowdown
May 02, 2023 02 May'23
SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises
April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23
AWS suffers year-on-year drop in profit and revenue growth as enterprises curb cloud spend

The first quarter results for AWS show the firm is continuing to feel the effects of enterprise customers “optimising” their cloud spend
April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23
Intel results reveal a push to address AI shortcomings

The chipmaker has been impacted by poor PC sales, but aims to drive adoption of its AI inferencing technology
April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23
Google Cloud seals bug that could have led to data breaches

The Asset Key Thief vulnerability gave rise to multiple potential attack scenarios that could have impacted thousands of Google Cloud users, but has now been safely fixed
April 26, 2023 26 Apr'23
Google researchers identify hole in Intel TDX

Intel has worked with Google to figure out how to harden the TDX module in Xeon chips to boost the security of virtual machines
April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23
Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023

Veritas InfoScale aims to provide high-performance block access storage despite limitations such as a maximum node count of 16 per cluster
April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23
AWS under fire for delays in delivering Scope 3 GHG emissions data to enterprises and governments

With regulator scrutiny of their environmental footprint on the rise, AWS customers are growing increasingly concerned about the public cloud giant’s slow progress in making its Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions data freely available to users
April 21, 2023 21 Apr'23
Prepare for hybrid cloud headaches

IT will often need to run different workloads on-premise or in multiple cloud environments
April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23
SDIA applauds EU-led push to make datacentres reuse waste heat and report environmental data

The European Parliament and European Council have finalised the text of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), which will see datacentre operators in member states forced to publicly disclose more environmental data and pressured to reuse their ...
April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23
‘Inadequate data’ holding enterprises back from making progress on ESG goals, IBM study finds

IBM survey shines light on barriers stopping enterprises from realising their ESG goals, as well as how consumer attitudes are affected
April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23
IT Priorities 2023: Cloud and disaster recovery top storage and backup plans

Cloud storage still the biggest project planned in data storage in 2023, with disaster recovery the most important area in data protection cited by TechTarget/Computer Weekly survey respondents
April 18, 2023 18 Apr'23
Focus on these three risky behaviours to boost cloud security

Some 80% of cloud security alerts are triggered by just 5% of security rules. Security teams can substantially improve their resilience by zeroing in on a small set of risky behaviours, according to a report
April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23
Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022
April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23
Alibaba Cloud unveils cheaper cloud options, new language model

Alibaba has introduced cheaper instances of its compute and storage services in China and is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with its Tongyi Qianwen language model
April 14, 2023 14 Apr'23
BAE Systems partners with Microsoft Azure to revamp data use across defence sector

Defence contractor BAE Systems and Microsoft are taking a cloud-centric approach to changing how data is used in various parts of the defence sector
April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23
How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services
April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23
Enterprises downgrade ESG investments amid economic uncertainty, Google Cloud study finds

The second annual Google Cloud sustainability study reveals that economic uncertainty is forcing some enterprises to cut corners on their sustainability strategy to save money
April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23
Experian names AWS as preferred cloud partner for multi-year off-premise migration project

Credit reporting agency Experian is embarking on a multi-year cloud migration project with AWS
April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23
Gartner forecasts massive growth in software and IT services

IT leaders are set to deploy more workloads on infrastructure-as-a-service public clouds as they attempt to keep costs under control
April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23
Ofcom's interim UK cloud market report flags competition concerns about AWS and Microsoft

Ofcom has flagged concerns about anti-competitive behaviour from AWS and Microsoft in its interim report into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure market
April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23
Oracle to open second cloud region in Singapore

The move comes less than two years after Oracle opened its first cloud region in Singapore which is already supporting over 1,000 customers across Southeast Asia
April 04, 2023 04 Apr'23
HPE launches GreenLake for File and Block, and unified arrays

HPE upgrades its storage-as-a-service offer with Greenlake for File and for Block, configurable via the cloud but deployable on-prem. Meanwhile it shows new Alletra MP arrays