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  • 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