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The take-off of video-led social networking giant TikTok has led to its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, being classified as a hyperscale datacentre operator, Synergy Research has confirmed.
The analyst house’s quarterly hyperscale datacentre market tracker data shows that in just three years, ByteDance has risen from...
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Vehicle manufacturer Renault, is one of the early adopters of cloud-based supply chain technology from Google. Google Cloud’s Supply Chain Twin aims to provide companies with a way to develop digital twin simulations that are able to simulate a physical supply. According to Google, by orchestrating...
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Oracle has announced a 4% increase in year-on-year first-quarter results for its fiscal year 2021-2. The supplier declared $9.7bn revenue for the quarter.
Safra Catz, CEO at Oracle, said: “Oracle’s two new cloud businesses, IaaS and SaaS , are now over 25% of our total revenue...
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The leak of a database of the records of users of Apple HealthKit and Google FitBit services, alongside several other brands of fitness tracker products, has highlighted once again the critical importance of securing enterprise databases, and could put more than 61 million people – including...
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The UK government has taken stakes in 158 high-growth startups after its Covid support loans converted into equity, according to data from the British Business Bank.
Launched in April 2021 by finance minister Rishi Sunak to support startups and loss-making companies with the investment needed to...
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The datacentre industry still has more work to do when it comes to embracing sustainability, according to the findings of the Uptime Institute’s 2021 global datacentre survey.
More than 800 datacentre operators and owners took part in this year’s survey, which saw participants quizzed on a...
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The cost of a ransomware attack to a financial services organisation now clocks in at an average of $2m (£1.44m), exceeding the global average of $1.85m (£1.33m) by a small margin, however, the financial sector is also one of the most resilient industries when it comes...
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With data storage predicted to increase by 240% by 2025, a new study has found that database administrators (DBAs) are growing their teams to enable them to manage larger database server estates.
IDC’s latest Global StorageSphere forecast, 2021-25, shows that worldwide data storage capacity will grow...
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Apple has issued a patch for a recently discovered vulnerability that has reportedly been exploited by government customers of Israeli cyber security firm NSO Group to install its Pegasus spyware on target Apple devices.
Listed as CVE-2021-30860, the arbitrary code execution vulnerability was uncovered by The...
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It’s that time of the year again, when Apple unveils its latest gadgets ahead of the holiday season.On Tuesday, the iPhone maker will hold its annual product event — virtually, because of the coronavirus pandemic — and present its newest lineup. The new products...
