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• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation

  A likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay

• September 25, 2024 25 Sep'24

  NetApp E-series: Not part of the big message, but here to stay, says CEO

  We asked NetApp about its high-performance computing-focused E-series block storage arrays and found inconsistent messaging but ultimately a commitment from CEO George Kurian to retain it

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  Pure punts raft of unifying features in FlashBlade file and object

  Features are aimed at Pure’s file and object architecture with functionality based on software that aids management at system level

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  NetApp maintains push to data management for AI

  From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Home Office eVisa scheme is ‘broken’, says Open Rights Group

  Digital rights campaigners say the Home Office’s plan to make its new electronic Visa scheme a real-time online-only process is part and parcel of the 'hostile environment' around immigration status

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Medtech startup brings Oracle AI to bear on cancer drug research

  Learn how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its cutting-edge AI features are bringing new benefits to cancer care by helping doctors identify better treatment options

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  UN body urges ‘globally inclusive and distributed’ AI governance

  A United Nations body set up to investigate the international governance of AI says the nature of how the technology currently operates requires a global approach to regulation that prioritises equity and inclusion

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  CIOs urged to pace AI adoption

  At the recent Gartner IT Symposium 2024 in Gold Coast, experts call for CIOs to pace their adoption of AI, manage costs and embrace ‘augmented leadership’

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Europol provides detail on Ghost encrypted comms platform takedown

  Law enforcement bodies from across the world have revealed how they collaborated to bring down encrypted network Ghost and the new ways of working that have been established with Europol at the centre

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Salesforce’s agentic AI platform to transform business automation

  CRM giant’s Agentforce lets organisations build and deploy autonomous agents to automate business processes through advanced learning and data integration

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Toshiba follows the pack with launch of 24TB and 28TB HDDs

  Several months behind Seagate and Western Digital, Toshiba achieves the maximum possible in commercial HDDs and benefits from a speed boost over its rivals

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  European enterprise networking lacks hybrid maturity

  Deploying a complex hybrid and multicloud IT architecture has an impact on enterprise network management

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Oracle lauds customers and cloud collaboration at CloudWorld ’24

  Oracle’s leadership was in celebratory mood opening its annual CloudWorld jamboree, and with its announcement of a new cloud partnership with AWS, multicloud futures were high on everyone’s agenda

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  TSB systems could be on the move again as BBVA eyes its parent

  TSB was migrated to the systems of Sabadell in a project remembered for its monumental IT meltdown in 2018

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  Flash prices drop as drive production increases but demand lags

  Flash prices were high in the early part of this year as a result of manufacturer production squeezes but have since dropped because demand has been slack, with flash now costing just under 10 cents per gigabyte

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Nvidia drives forward accelerated computing advantage

  Nvidia is experiencing huge demand for accelerated computing using GPUs to run compute-intensive datacentre workloads

• August 29, 2024 29 Aug'24

  Primark adds five more years to IT outsourcing contract with TCS

  Retailer has worked with Indian IT services giant for eight years and new agreement will take the relationship to 13 years at least

• August 28, 2024 28 Aug'24

  Cambridge Enterprise saves big with Keepit SaaS backup

  University innovation body avoids hardware spend and saves management time as it switches from tape to cloud-to-cloud backup, instant recovery and decades-long retention from Keepit

• August 27, 2024 27 Aug'24

  AI innovation key to UK business, but obstacles threaten progress

  AI is seen by IT leaders as essential, but it requires innovation, skills and infrastructure – all of which are under pressure from day-to-day firefighting, energy costs and cyber threats

• August 22, 2024 22 Aug'24

  More execs recognise data as assets than in 2020

  Capgemini has updated its Data-Powered Enterprise study, which shows more businesses are deriving value from data

• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  CXL moves forward as memory technology for AI

  A recent demo has showcased how the new memory technology could be applied in Red Hat Linux to speed up AI workloads cost-effectively

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  NIST debuts three quantum-safe encryption algorithms

  NIST has launched the first three quantum-resistant encryption algorithms, and as the threat of quantum-enabled cyber attacks grows greater, organisations are encouraged to adopt them as soon as they can

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads

  Exascale is multitenant architecture for Oracle Database that promises performance equal to dedicated infrastructure and savings compared with existing products, with AI workloads in mind

• August 07, 2024 07 Aug'24

  Rocketing AI demand sees Lumen light up custom networks division

  Connectivity provider shakes up corporate structure in response to artificial intelligence economy changing business operations and companies recognising need for powerful network to manage unprecedented data flows and demand

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update

  CrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Cloud spend trumps AI but data, security and cost a common headache

  Nasuni-sponsored survey finds cloud projects higher on the to do list than AI, but data management, security and cost reduction are common themes in all areas of investment

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Setting the high bar in digital transformation

  Roel Louwhoff, Standard Chartered’s chief transformation, technology and operations officer, outlines what it takes for the company to become a client-focused, data-driven bank

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Fewer than half of organisations achieve GenAI efficiency gains

  Research finds that many organisations lack the IT infrastructure needed to deploy generative AI applications

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Tony’s Chocolonely gains Salesforce comfort with Own SaaS backup

  Tony’s Chocolonely sometimes lost Salesforce.com data and often hit storage limits, but cloud-to-cloud SaaS backup from Own allows it to easily recover customer data and archive old data

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Interview: Nvidia on AI workloads and their impacts on data storage

  We talk to Charlie Boyle of Nvidia about data challenges in artificial intelligence, key practical tips for AI projects, and demands on storage of training, inferencing, RAG and checkpointing

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  Kyndryl eyes mainframe workloads in ASEAN

  Kyndryl and AWS open centre of excellence in Malaysia to help ASEAN enterprises modernise and migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud

• June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

  How FWD is driving its digital strategy

  FWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services

• June 26, 2024 26 Jun'24

  Police Scotland did not consult ICO about high-risk cloud system

  Police Scotland chose not to formally consult with the data regulator about the risks identified with a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system, while the regulator itself did not follow up for nearly three months

• June 21, 2024 21 Jun'24

  ICO police cloud guidance released under FOI

  Long-awaited guidance from the UK data regulator on police cloud deployments highlights some potential data transfer mechanisms it thinks can clear up ongoing legal issues, but tells forces it’s up to them to decide if the measures would work

• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data

  Documents show Microsoft’s lawyers admitted to Scottish policing bodies that the company cannot guarantee sensitive law enforcement data will remain in the UK, despite long-standing public claims to the contrary

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  Artificial intelligence to make Olympic Games more inclusive

  The International Olympic Committee is working with Intel to use AI at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Q&A: Adalbjorn Thorolfsson on IT project management in Iceland

  With a small, but very sophisticated population, Iceland has unique ways of keeping up with the rest of the world in the IT sector. Adalbjorn Thorolfsson, president of the Icelandic Project Management Association, describes some lessons for the rest...

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Nuclear waste body cuts energy use by 20% as Pure replaces HPE

  French nuclear waste agency Andra has cut storage energy use by 20% and strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by deploying Pure Storage and 10-year controller upgrades

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

  Websites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI

  One supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Dell launches PowerStore Prime and hints at PowerScale AI boost

  Array range launched at Dell World 2024 in Las Vegas as PowerScale gets OS upgrade and new Intel Xeon CPUs, while Dell CEO hints at acceleration for PowerScale NAS

• May 28, 2024 28 May'24

  Executive Interview: Why Dell wants to be your one-stop AI shop

  At Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, artificial intelligence was the talk of the town as Dell staked out an all-encompassing strategy ahead of an anticipated goldrush. Dell’s Nick Brackney explains why the tech giant believes it's onto a winner

• May 26, 2024 26 May'24

  Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

  Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

• May 24, 2024 24 May'24

  Paula Vennells boasted about removing Horizon risk reference in Royal Mail flotation prospectus

  A reference to Horizon was removed from Royal Mail prospectus by Paula Vennells in the eleventh hour

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Infinidat adds smaller footprint G4 arrays with claimed 2x performance

  Purveyor of triple-controller all-flash and hybrid flash arrays aimed at high-end customers tails and tops InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA ranges, and adds Azure cloud storage to AWS

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Broadcom/VMware: Joining the dots to migrate off VMware

  It may take several years to move off VMware. In the meantime, Nutanix and Rimini Street have ramped up efforts to target unhappy customers

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  DataStax launches on-premise GenAI in ‘hyper-converged’ format

  NoSQL database specialist adds generative AI for datacentre deployments where cloud is a no-no for cost, security or compliance reasons, with a focus on vector storage

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Toshiba shows 32TB HDDs with heat-assisted and shingled drives

  Drive maker demonstrates 32TB and 31TB capacity hard drives that boost write density by use of heat and microwave assistance plus shingled – overlapped – drive tracks

• May 16, 2024 16 May'24

  Post Office IT boss failed to raise concern over false Horizon statements

  Former Post Office CIO Lesley Sewell failed to raise concern over Post Office’s false stance on Horizon integrity

• 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