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• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  G7 nations sign deal to harness AI potential

  G7 nations will produce a joint report on how to increase artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, boost growth of the quantum sector and create an AI toolkit to inform policy-making

• 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 15, 2024 15 Mar'24

  UK government calls on comms firms to limit installation of telegraph poles

  After public demonstrations, minister urges communications industry to ‘do whatever it takes’ to share existing infrastructure to avoid ‘inappropriately or unnecessarily throwing up’ new telegraph poles

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  SEA-ME-WE 4 doubles undersea capacity with optical link

  Optical communications technology provider Ciena doubles capacity of undersea cable links covering South/Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to 122Tbps

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  UK gets funding boost through EU Horizon chip initiative

  Signing up to the Chips Joint Undertaking means the UK will receive up to £35m to support chip development

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  UK and German governments sign up to greater R&D collaboration

  Declaration aims to build on joint R&D efforts, as well as support artificial intelligence, quantum computing and clean tech

• 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

  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 06, 2024 06 Mar'24

  Apple patches zero-days amid ‘foundational’ post-quantum update

  Apple’s iOS 17.4 update not only fixes zero-day flaws that are being actively exploited, but includes important new security protocols to safeguard users against future attacks

• 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

  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

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Home Office GPS tagging of asylum seekers breaches data protection law

  The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued an enforcement notice against the Home Office after finding its programme to tag asylum seekers with GPS monitors breaches data protection law

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Windows 11: Not as big a priority in EMEA compared with North America

  Survey shows that IT decision-makers are prioritising desktop productivity and PC refreshes this year, with more in the US prioritising spending on PCs and Windows 11 upgrades

• February 28, 2024 28 Feb'24

  Government urged to take a pro-innovation approach to quantum regulation

  Responsible innovation, learning from AI and the use of foresight techniques should inform policymaking

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity

  TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories

• February 27, 2024 27 Feb'24

  Hycu uses AI to develop APIs for SaaS application backup

  SaaS applications don’t usually come with built-in data protection, but Hycu plans to tackle that gap in the market with AI to generate the connectors needed to backup user data

• February 26, 2024 26 Feb'24

  Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience

  The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Toshiba and Orange test quantum encryption on traditional network

  Researchers used QKD on a fibre-optic network spanning 184km to show how the technology could be used to secure networks cost-effectively

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’

  Jensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia

• February 21, 2024 21 Feb'24

  NasuniIQ brings visualisation of massive unstructured datasets

  Global file system provider adds visualisation of massive distributed unstructured datasets to allow customers to analyse data usage and prepare clean training data for artificial intelligence

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Rolls-Royce looks at viability of quantum computing in nuclear safety

  The manufacturing firm is one of several participating in a Digital Catapult programme looking at industrial applications for quantum computing

• February 19, 2024 19 Feb'24

  Music agency halves space and energy costs with switch to Pure

  SUISA handles billions of royalty payments, but had capacity and storage admin nightmares with its EMC hardware. It cued up Pure Storage for simple admin, space and cost savings

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Telia Lithuania offers businesses country-wide 800 Gbps service

  Leading Baltic supplier of telecom services uses coherent optics to bring customers faster speeds, more capacity and greater service reliability

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  B4RN brings gigabit fibre internet to Northern England

  Specialist in advanced broadband to rural homes, small villages, farms and dispersed settlements inks deal with AI-native networking company to future-proof communities and deliver equal access to digital services

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  What will result from Cohesity’s Veritas acquisition?

  The $7bn backup giant will leverage huge assets in enterprise customer base, compliance and governance intelligence, AI, R&D, and Kubernetes backup and storage

• February 13, 2024 13 Feb'24

  Cisco delivers 800Gbps on Amitié transatlantic cable

  Looking to enable rapid growth of cloud and artificial intelligence services, tech giant reveals transatlantic communications cable successfully transmits data at very high speed on 6,234km route from US to France

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  Government funds two semiconductor centres

  So-called information knowledge centres in Bristol and Southampton are each receiving £11m

• February 05, 2024 05 Feb'24

  UK quantum initiatives get funding boost

  Government funds new initiatives to drive quantum computing opportunities across the public sector

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Singtel ropes in industry partners in datacentre push

  Singtel inks partnerships with Nvidia, Gulf Energy, Medco and others in its efforts to grow its datacentre business and support AI adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  Forrester: Curb your AI enthusiasm

  Ongoing supply issues with semiconductors mean IT departments may have to wait up to a year for the latest hardware

• 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

  Quantum computing in 2024: What are the challenges?

  Research shows that while there has been a big reduction in quantum computing investment, governments have been ploughing in funding

• 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 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024

  A zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year

• January 24, 2024 24 Jan'24

  Cardiff University expands HPC cluster with Lenovo

  Expansion of university’s Hawk high-performance computing cluster promises to double the performance of some applications

• 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 17, 2024 17 Jan'24

  Data on Kubernetes Community aims at K8S storage scaling solution

  DoKC works on community solutions for Kubernetes. It aims to develop storage scaling automation for the containerised platform outside the orbit of the big vendors

• 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

  Gartner: PC market collapsed in 2023

  The post-Covid recovery of the PC industry is taking far longer than hoped, with businesses and consumers hanging onto devices

• 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

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  QuEra Computing sets out plan for error-correcting quantum computing

  QuEra Computing is betting on transversal gates, a technology which it believes is key to simplifying error correction

• January 04, 2024 04 Jan'24

  Risks and opportunities for the UK chip sector

  In May 2023, the UK government unveiled a national semiconductor strategy. We find out how it has been going

• 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 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

  Top 10 end user computing stories of 2023

  While the humble personal computer remains core to business productivity, IT admins now need to support a flexible and hybrid workforce

• December 13, 2023 13 Dec'23

  Microsoft’s Christmas present for cyber teams: no zero-days

  Barely 30 vulnerabilities, and no zero-days, have been fixed in the final Patch Tuesday drop of 2023

• December 11, 2023 11 Dec'23

  Panasas set for Mach.2 throughput with multi-actuator HDDs

  Scale-out NAS maker claims to be the first enterprise array maker to use multi-actuator HDDs designed for hyperscaler architectures and which double throughput