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• 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

  UK AI Safety Institute to open San Francisco branch

  News of the AI Safety Institute’s expansion to the US follows the first public release of its AI safety testing results

• 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 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

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage

  New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Major breach of customer information developing at Dell

  Almost 50 million data records relating to Dell customers appear to have been compromised in a major cyber breach

• May 10, 2024 10 May'24

  Over 5.3 billion data records exposed in April 2024

  The number of data records breached in April 2024 hit over five billion, a staggering year-on-year increase

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads

  Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit

  Cubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure

  The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  Lords say government must ‘go beyond’ current approach to LLMs

  Chair of the Lords Communications and Digital Committee has written to the UK’s digital secretary about the government’s approach to generative AI, lamenting a lack of support for copyright holders and measures to ensure competition in AI markets

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  Autonomous weapons reduce moral agency and devalue human life

  Military technology experts gathered in Vienna have warned about the detrimental psychological effects of AI-powered weapons, arguing that implementing systems of algorithmic-enabled killing dehumanises both the user and the target

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  Global majority united on multilateral regulation of AI weapons

  Foreign ministers and civil society representatives say that multilateralism is key to controlling the proliferation and use of AI-powered autonomous weapons, but that a small number of powerful countries are holding back progress

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  Arcitecta offers file and object storage with huge transfer rates

  Australian startup offers single namespace file and object storage with rapid access via a metadata database that puts the right data in the right place according to recent use

• April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

  Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey

  Oracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  European Parliament approves platform worker directive

  The approval of the platform worker directive gives member states two years to incorporate its measures into their national legislation, which includes provisions on how to classify the employment of gig workers and deploy algorithmic ...

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  AI firm saves a million in shift to Pure FlashBlade shared storage

  AI consultancy Crater Labs spent vast amounts of time managing server-attached drives to ensure GPUs were saturated. A shift to all-flash Pure Storage slashed that to almost zero

• April 23, 2024 23 Apr'24

  Lords split over UK government approach to autonomous weapons

  During a debate on autonomous weapons systems, Lords expressed mixed opinions towards the UK government’s current position, including its reluctance to adopt a working definition and commit to international legal instruments controlling their use

• April 22, 2024 22 Apr'24

  Fujifilm plans to ‘make tape easy’ with Kangaroo SME appliance

  Fujifilm to add 100TB SME-focused Kangaroo tape infrastructure in a box to existing 1PB offer, as energy efficiency and security of tape make it alluring to customers

• April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  TUC publishes legislative proposal to protect workers from AI

  Proposed bill for regulating artificial intelligence in the UK seeks to translate well-meaning principles and values into concrete rights and obligations that protect workers from systems that make ‘high-risk’ decisions about them

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes

  VMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Leil wants to revive MAID as green storage tape substitute

  MAID sought to provide energy-efficient disk storage with quicker access times than tape. Estonian startup Leil wants to supplant tape with green storage spin-down SMR drives

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index

  When the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  Facial recognition to play key role in UK shoplifting crackdown

  UK government will fund roll-out of police facial recognition across the country as part of its crackdown on shoplifting and violence against retail staff, but civil society groups say the government is attempting to police its way out of the ...

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers

  With more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents

• April 11, 2024 11 Apr'24

  Government dismisses Lords’ concerns over facial recognition

  UK government is claiming police forces’ use of live facial recognition is comprehensively covered by existing laws, in response to a Lords investigation that found police lacked a clear legal basis to deploy it

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Public worried by police and companies sharing biometric data

  More than half of the British public do not feel comfortable with police forces sharing biometric data with the private sector, including facial recognition images, to tackle crimes such as shoplifting

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Greek government fined over AI surveillance in refugee camps

  Greece’s Data Protection Authority has issued a €175,000 fine against the country’s migration ministry over its deployment of artificial intelligence-powered security systems in refugee camps after the watchdog’s investigation found ‘serious ...

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  UN adopts ‘landmark’ resolution on making AI safe and trustworthy

  A UN draft resolution promoting the use of artificial intelligence in sustainable development and the protection of human rights was backed by over 120 member states

• 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 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI

  Legislation is needed to seize the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimising its risks, says Lord Holmes - but the government’s ‘wait and see’ approach to regulation will fail on both fronts

• 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 25, 2024 25 Mar'24

  IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition

  Tech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto

  The Open Data Institute has launched a policy manifesto ahead of the UK general election that outlines policies and issues it believes must be part of the political discussion around digital and data

• March 22, 2024 22 Mar'24

  Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’

  Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  Inclusive approaches to AI governance needed to engage public

  Technology practitioners and experts gathered at an annual Alan Turing Institute-run conference discussed the need for more inclusive approaches to AI governance that actually engage citizens and workers

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  How Vast Data is simplifying data infrastructure

  Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company’s unified data platform that combines storage, database and compute capabilities into a single technology stack can improve the efficiency of analytics and artificial intelligence workloads

• March 20, 2024 20 Mar'24

  SAP S/4HANA data migration beset by poor and fragmented strategy

  Survey finds customers transitioning to S/4HANA lack strategic thinking and skills, can’t access data, face challenges in data duplication, can’t use AI, and worry about compliance

• 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 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  Spring Budget risks funding legally questionable police tech

  Open legal questions around how UK police are using facial recognition and cloud technology could undermine the £230m investment committed in the Spring Budget to “time and money-saving technology” for police

• March 18, 2024 18 Mar'24

  Cohesity: We won’t abandon NetBackup customers or force migration

  CEO promises no forced migration to Cohesity and not to abandon any NetBackup product while building new leadership in artificial intelligence and security around Cohesity Gaia

• March 14, 2024 14 Mar'24

  Questions raised over NHS deletion of thousands of emails during whistleblower tribunal

  NHS doctor Chris Day has won the right to challenge a tribunal ruling that found no procedural unfairness when an NHS trust deleted thousands of emails. The case that raises wider questions about the use of electronic evidence

• March 13, 2024 13 Mar'24

  AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne

  The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Industry partnerships and data key to better public services

  Using public-private partnerships and improving the use of data are key to improving public services and the government’s ‘science and technology superpower’ ambitions, says digital secretary Michelle Donelan

• 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 07, 2024 07 Mar'24

  Government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on military AI

  The government has responded to calls from a Lords committee that it must “proceed with caution” when it comes to autonomous weapons and military artificial intelligence, arguing that caution is already embedded throughout its approach

• 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

  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