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• February 02, 2024 02 Feb'24

  Meta ramps up GPUs to get ready for general intelligence

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg anticipates that training and running AI systems requires 10x computer capacity each year

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Seagate uses HAMR to hit 30TB in Exos hard drives

  HDD giant Seagate unveils 30TB Exos drives with higher areal density, aimed at hyperscaler customers, with products at 50TB promised for 2028 in its roadmap

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  We need backup! Pennsylvania police data loss shows why

  Police evidence systems data was lost during ‘routine maintenance’, with human error blamed – the case clearly illustrates why data protection can’t be left to chance

• January 30, 2024 30 Jan'24

  Inside India’s supercomputing journey

  India is looking to shore up its supercomputing capabilities, but more needs to be done to realise its ambition of becoming a world leader in the field

• January 25, 2024 25 Jan'24

  Cisco updates AppDynamics with Smart Agents to tackle sprawl

  As application architectures becomes more distributed, monitoring becomes increasingly complex – Cisco has a plan for simplification

• January 23, 2024 23 Jan'24

  NVM Express boosts computational storage standards

  New command sets allow for computational storage with NVMe flash and includes frameworks to allow local memory usage in processing workloads on storage hardware

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  ICO prompts confusion over police cloud legality

  The UK data regulator has suggested that, despite major data protection concerns, it is likely to greenlight police cloud deployments because of an information-sharing agreement with the US government

• January 16, 2024 16 Jan'24

  AMD bets on India, doubles down on AI

  The chipmaker recently inaugurated its largest global design facility in Bangalore as part of a $400m investment in India to support its expanded portfolio and build artificial intelligence capabilities

• January 11, 2024 11 Jan'24

  QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023

  Storage hardware innovation has taken a back seat – QLC flash excepted – as the big storage suppliers build around software-based variants and optimisation on modular product sets

• December 29, 2023 29 Dec'23

  Top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

  From the UK government’s publication of its long-awaited AI whitepaper to its convening of the world’s first AI Safety Summit, here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 AI regulation stories of 2023

• December 28, 2023 28 Dec'23

  Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

• December 27, 2023 27 Dec'23

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2023

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2023

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage stories of 2023

  In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more

• December 21, 2023 21 Dec'23

  Top 10 storage supplier strategy stories of 2023

  In 2023, we looked at the top storage suppliers, their market share and how they set themselves for a future of hybrid cloud, containerisation and consumption models of purchasing

• December 20, 2023 20 Dec'23

  Inside Zoom’s generative AI strategy

  Zoom’s federated approach towards generative AI allows it to use a combination of models that are most suitable for the task on hand while lowering costs for itself and customers

• December 15, 2023 15 Dec'23

  Police defend facial recognition target selection to Lords

  Senior police officers confirm to Lords committee that facial recognition watchlist image selection is based on crime categories attached to people’s photos, rather than a context-specific assessment of the threat presented by a given individual

• December 14, 2023 14 Dec'23

  Government plans to regulate to tackle datacentre threats

  DSIT outlines a range of proposals designed to protect data storage facilities from cyber attacks, as well as physical threats and the effects of climate breakdown

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  No UK AI legislation until timing is right, says Donelan

  The UK government will not legislate on artificial intelligence until it has a better understanding of the technology, so is instead focusing on building up regulatory capacity and conducting safety-focused research, says digital secretary

• December 07, 2023 07 Dec'23

  How server makers are surfing the AI wave

  While hyperscalers extend the life of their x86 equipment, the industry’s desperate pleas to find a new killer application to drive up server sales may well be coming true

• November 27, 2023 27 Nov'23

  Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2024

  Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for its 2024 Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives that have transformed organisations in six industries

• November 22, 2023 22 Nov'23

  Nebulon upgrades SPU to Medusa2 with Nvidia DPU hardware

  Nebulon aims to replace HCI with its OS on an offload card that it claims reduces server resource use by 25%. Medusa2 uses Nvidia DPU hardware and its own cloud control plane

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  Cubbit DS3 Composer brings DIY cloud to object storage pool

  Cubbit customers can now build and configure S3-compatible clouds from unused capacity and offer MSP-grade services with high levels of resilience, security and data sovereignty

• November 20, 2023 20 Nov'23

  IT not ready for AI, Pure Storage survey finds

  Storage, compute and networking hardware won’t cope without upgrades, and that often means total IT infrastructure overhaul

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Conflict of interest concerns raised over CMA's use of AWS UK public sector discount scheme

  Less than a month after the CMA confirmed it would be investigating the competitive impact of AWS preferential pricing deals on the UK cloud market, data reveals the CMA is benefiting from cut-price Amazon cloud services

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona

  VMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  AI Safety Summit review

  Computer Weekly takes stock of the UK government’s AI Safety Summit and the differing perspectives around its success

• October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23

  Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage

  Dell storage upgrades include improved AIOps, lower energy usage, real-time HA failover, seamless hardware replacement, and enhancements to take advantage of DPU acceleration

• October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

  Scality gets a jump with VMware Cloud Director integration

  S3-compliant object storage specialist will use new OSIS integration with VMware’s cloud management tool to target service providers that want to deliver regional cloud offers

• October 17, 2023 17 Oct'23

  What it takes to succeed in DevSecOps

  Providing engineering leadership and balancing between speed and security are some areas that organisations will need to focus on in their DevSecOps journey

• October 16, 2023 16 Oct'23

  How APAC organisations are tapping generative AI

  Organisations in the region are deploying and experimenting with generative AI in healthcare, citizen services and other use cases amid cost-related concerns and other challenges

• October 13, 2023 13 Oct'23

  CDO interview: Andrew Curry, manager of the Central Data Office, ExxonMobil

  The head of the oil and gas giant’s data organisation is leading a strategy to establish enterprise-wide principles for the use of data as part of a unified corporate ecosystem

• October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

  Scottish biometrics watchdog outlines police cloud concerns

  Police Scotland’s response to the biometrics commissioner’s formal information notice ‘did not ameliorate’ his concerns about the sovereignty and security of the sensitive biometric information being uploaded to cloud infrastructure that is subject ...

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Pure offers Evergreen energy and rackspace cost guarantees

  Pure Storage will take upfront payments for power and rackspace and guarantee those for product lifecycles in its Evergreen One, Flex and Forever consumption purchasing models

• October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

  HPE hones GreenLake strategy with AI moves, hybrid cloud management

  HPE has evolved its GreenLake strategy over the past five years, expanding beyond its as-a-service offerings to include a capital purchase model and a strong focus on hybrid cloud management and AI

• October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

  CDO interview: Lalo Luna, global head of strategy and insights, Heineken

  The brewing giant is building a data ecosystem to bring new insights to the business and to make the most of emerging developments in artificial intelligence capabilities

• October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

  Versity targets Exabyte volumes in data archiving

  Versity builds archiving for Exabyte data volumes on tape and in object storage. It has built its own S3 and transitioned to a GPL licence for supercomputing archives

• September 28, 2023 28 Sep'23

  How Akamai is driving growth in APAC

  Akamai's managing director for the region outlines the company’s growth journey, how it sets itself apart from competitors, and its strategies to drive the next phase of growth

• September 26, 2023 26 Sep'23

  Kubernetes storage: It’s object or nothing for MinIO

  SAN and NAS are finished in the age of the cloud when it comes to cloud-native Kubernetes storage, according to container-focused object storage maker MinIO

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  Cisco snaps up Splunk in $28bn application observability deal

  The acquisition builds out Cisco’s observability portfolio, with AI-based full-stack observability for hybrid cloud environments

• September 19, 2023 19 Sep'23

  New revelations from the Snowden archive surface

  A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1% of the documents have been published – but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by ...

• September 15, 2023 15 Sep'23

  Dunelm's journey to micro front ends

  We find out how Dunelm has modernised its platform and web development with in-house ecommerce and serverless systems

• September 01, 2023 01 Sep'23

  Police Scotland five-year digital strategy approved

  Police Scotland’s new strategy outlines how the force will approach and invest in its digital transformation over the next five years, but notes its ability to achieve its ambitions is subject to the availability of funding

• August 31, 2023 31 Aug'23

  Home Office and MoD seeking new facial-recognition tech

  The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator is running a ‘market exploration’ exercise on behalf of the Home Office to identify new facial-recognition capabilities for security and policing bodies in the UK

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  Accelerated datacentre computing propels record Nvidia revenue

  GPU company Nvidia has seen record growth, driven by demand for AI acceleration in datacentres

• August 23, 2023 23 Aug'23

  VMware works with Nvidia to deliver generative AI cloud

  The two companies are collaborating on a platform that uses Nvidia GPUs and VMware cloud infrastructure

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  IBM uses generative AI to modernise mainframe Cobol

  In combination with code discovery, IBM plans to offer artificial intelligence-based Cobol to Java application modernisation

• August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

  Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

  German startup Simplyblock aims to deliver low-cost high-performance flash and NVMe-over-TCP storage for service provider customers, and has Ceph deployments in its sights

• August 15, 2023 15 Aug'23

  Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box aims hyper-converged at AI/ML use cases

  Nutanix targets a pre-configured bundle of AI/ML and GPT software with hyper-converged infrastructure and GPT to help organisations safely take advantage of learning networks

• August 11, 2023 11 Aug'23

  IBM says all the building blocks for analogue AI are in place

  Analogue electronics promises a more efficient way to train AI systems than computers that rely on zeros and ones

• August 10, 2023 10 Aug'23

  Implications of SAP Rise premium strategy

  SAP dropped a bombshell during its second-quarter 2023 results call that will negatively impact those using S/4Hana on-premise or through a hosted service provider