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The State of digital government review, published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, has portrayed the highly fragmented nature of public sector digital services.
A root cause of the problems with public sector digital services, according to the review, is that fragmentation is a...
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The latest spending forecast from Gartner predicts that more than twice as much is being spent on AI-optimised servers compared with traditional servers. The analyst firm has forecast that $202bn will be spent on AI-optimised servers in 2025.
Gartner’s data shows that server spend amounted to...
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Recent research from Schneider Electric warns that datacentre electricity demand could more than double between now and 2026, reaching over 1,000 terawatt-hours.
This surge in power demand comes at a particularly challenging time, as the last Dutch provinces with available grid...
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Despite the government repeatedly hyping up the importance of the datacentre market to the UK economy, research shows the general public remains largely unaware of the important role server farms play in their everyday lives.
A poll of 2,000 UK consumers by colocation company Telehouse, geared...
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The risk of conflict, growing protectionism, tariffs and trade wars, and growing regulation threaten to disrupt the supply chains of companies, including access to datacentres and the ability to transfer data across borders.
Ahead of its 2025 annual meeting, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said experts,...
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DDN, which made its name in high-performance computing (HPC), has gained investment of $300m from US fund Blackstone, which it says will be used to translate leadership in supercomputing to storage solutions for artificial intelligence (AI).
While arrays aimed at the two workloads are similar in...
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Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a bang on the second Tuesday of January, dropping a massive Patch Tuesday update containing fixes for 159 vulnerabilities – rising to 161 incorporating two additional vulnerabilities through CERT CC and GitHub.
According to Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative,...
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Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke.
Effective backup has also become more complex as IT departments deal with a variety of systems –...
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Generative AI (GenAI) is being cited as the reason why the value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the global datacentre market hit a record high in 2024, with private equity firms responsible for the majority of the deals done.
Figures released by Synergy Research Group...
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Debate is raging about whether the UK government’s push to grow the number of homegrown datacentres with capabilities to host compute-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) will accelerate the adoption of AI technologies across public and private sectors.
As reported by Computer Weekly, the government has published its...
