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During his keynote presentation at the start of Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference in Chicago, CEO Satya Nadella discussed artificial intelligence (AI) scaling, through which the capabilities of the tech is doubling every six months.
“Just like Moore’s Law, we saw the doubling in performance every 18...
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The AMD-powered El Capitan supercomputer, housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is now ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Built by HPE, the supercomputer uses AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing units (APUs). It achieved a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops based on...
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The government is seeking support from artificial intelligence (AI)-focused academics and entrepreneurs to help build clean energy systems and help the UK hit its net zero by 2050 goal.
Interested parties are invited to apply for funding to develop technologies that could decarbonise the UK energy...
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Power usage effectiveness is a metric that evaluates the energy efficiency of data centers worldwide. However, comparing measurements is difficult since factors like a data center's location and server workloads impact PUE readings.
Look further into how to calculate PUE, how data centers benefit from the...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to widen the scope of a mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) programme it introduced earlier this year, after seeing strong uptake among customers and a slump in password-related phishing attacks.
The cloud giant made MFA compulsory for management account root users in...
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Infinidat has launched a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) workflow architecture, deliverable as a consultancy service to its storage customers, which allows them to build in up-to-date, private data from multiple company data sources to artificial intelligence (AI) from any NFS storage in their organisation.
The move...
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IT leaders say they are overspending on cyber security tools, a survey of 800 IT leaders from Flexera has found.
The poll reported that 31% of the IT decision-makers who took part in the survey ranked IT security tools as the top area of overspending. This...
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Google has partnered with retail giant Schwarz Group to deliver what the pair claim is truly secure and sovereign cloud-based collaboration for German and European regulated industries.
Through the partnership, Schwarz Group’s StackIT, the cloud provider for the retailer, which operates as an independent company offering...
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While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there.
While it’s hard to get a definitive figure, the most recent AWS (Amazon Web...
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Consumer rights advocate Which? is pursuing a £3bn legal action against Apple on behalf of millions of UK consumers it claims are locked into the technology giant’s iCloud storage platform.
Which? has instructed law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP to oversee the legal proceedings,...
