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• January 19, 2025 19 Jan'25

  ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses

  The Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Global IT spending to soar in 2025

  S&P Global Ratings expects a 9% surge in global IT spending for 2025, fuelled by demand for AI and cloud technologies, despite potential trade headwinds and a slowing global economy

• December 27, 2024 27 Dec'24

  Top 10 ANZ stories of 2024

  The 2024 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with developments spanning cloud migrations and AI adoption to heightened data security and real-time data streaming

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Top 10 Kubernetes and storage stories of 2024

  In this 2024 review, Computer Weekly looks at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  IaaS firm uses Pure Storage as a service for ‘virtual datacentres’

  Espresso Gridpoint moved from largely NetApp to Pure Storage FlashBlade file and object for its ‘virtual datacentres’ business model that offers VMware, Hyper-V and ProxMox VMs

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  VMware ‘shock’ spawned lock-in rebellion, says NetApp

  NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure

• December 01, 2024 01 Dec'24

  How SkyLab is democratising hybrid cloud management

  SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers

• November 29, 2024 29 Nov'24

  Atos readies ‘adaptive and intimate’ Invictus Games IT service

  IT services company will ship 50 of its staff from Europe to Canada to work onsite at the tournament in February 2025

• November 25, 2024 25 Nov'24

  Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

  Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024

  Real estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts

  There has been a spate of developments in the server space, as manufacturers focus on supporting inference workloads at the edge

• November 05, 2024 05 Nov'24

  Nakivo aims at VMware refugees tempted by Proxmox

  Version 11 of Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backups, support for Proxmox virtualisation backups – following Veeam – and NAS file data backups to cloud targets

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  Western Digital boosts HDD capacity with 32TB shingled drives

  An 11th platter gives extra capacity, while shingled (overlapped) writes – best suited to sequential recording use cases – allow for greater density and big gains in thoughput

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Nvidia deepens investment in India’s AI ecosystem

  Nvidia is expanding its presence in India through new partnerships focused on building AI infrastructure, developing Indian language models and training AI professionals

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Synology takes aim at enterprise customers and flash storage

  Best known as an SME and consumer brand, Synology claims multiple enterprise customers especially in backup and storage of infrequently accessed data, but has plans for flash, too

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Foxconn and Nvidia to build Taiwan’s fastest supercomputer

  The supercomputer, powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, will drive breakthroughs in cancer research, large language models and smart city initiatives

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future

  The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  Printing vulnerability affecting Linux distros raises alarm

  Security pros need to get in front of a series of vulnerabilities affecting the Cups Linux printing service after an apparently botched disclosure process saw technical details published in advance of a patch

• 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

  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 13, 2024 13 Sep'24

  Municipal makeover: Indian cities embrace cutting-edge tech

  From AI-powered stray dog management to blockchain-secured building permission certificates, municipal corporations across India are ditching outdated processes for digital tools

• 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 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 26, 2024 26 Aug'24

  Linus Torvalds discusses Linux development, security and AI at KubeCon

  Linus Torvalds delves into the challenges in Linux development, the importance of swift security responses, and artificial intelligence’s future role in kernel programming

• August 21, 2024 21 Aug'24

  QiStor flashes key-value storage software for hardware acceleration

  US-based startup will develop storage software allied with FPGA chips to allow data storage to bypass spinning disk era block addressing to speed performance and cut energy use

• August 19, 2024 19 Aug'24

  Singtel expands GPUaaS offering to Southeast Asia

  Singapore telco teams up with the Bridge Alliance industry group to bring its GPU-as-a-Service to enterprises across Southeast Asia

• August 15, 2024 15 Aug'24

  ASEAN organisations lack mature AI strategy

  IBM-commissioned study reveals that while ASEAN organisations are engaging with AI, only 4% have reached a transformative level of AI maturity

• 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

• July 22, 2024 22 Jul'24

  CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’

  The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous

• July 21, 2024 21 Jul'24

  CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices

  About 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Massive hyperscaler GenAI spend raises questions on costs

  How much will IT buyers be expected to pay, as hyperscalers ramp up investment in AI-powered servers to support GenAI?

• July 08, 2024 08 Jul'24

  Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT

  More cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning

• 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

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Gulf Edge to operate Google Distributed Cloud in Thailand

  The Gulf Energy subsidiary will offer Google’s sovereign cloud service in Thailand with a focus on air-gapped configurations

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Macquarie Cloud debuts Australia-first hybrid offering

  Macquarie Flex brings Azure services to a broader set of workloads that are not suited to run natively on public cloud

• 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 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers

  Australian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery

• 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

• 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 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Dell Technologies World: AI at core of Dell’s next chapter

  With a significant anniversary just passed, Dell CEO Michael Dell was in reflective mood as he looked ahead to the impact of artificial intelligence on the tech giant’s product stack

• 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

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Breakthrough may herald secure home quantum computing

  An emerging approach to quantum security dubbed blind quantum computing may one day help spur mass adoption of quantum computing safely and securely, using technology that is already available today

• April 02, 2024 02 Apr'24

  Flash storage prices rise by 25% as manufacturers chase profitability

  Analysis of 30,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte rose sharply since October 2023, as memory manufacturers limit supplies and increase prices

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI

  HPE doubles controller nodes, boosts capacity with denser drives, cuts caches and builds in 100Gbps links to bring denser, faster storage aimed at all parts of the AI/ML pipeline

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  GTC 2024: Storage suppliers queue up to ride the Nvidia AI wave

  Storage supplier announcements at Nvdia conference centre on infrastructure integration, tackling the GPU I/O bottleneck and AI hallucinations by running Nvidia NeMo and NIM microservices

• March 19, 2024 19 Mar'24

  Vast targets AI checkpointing write performance with distributed RAID

  AI checkpointing operations targeted by Vast Data as it touts QLC-based storage for AI workloads

• 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 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