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Microsoft has reported revenue of $51.9bn for the quarter ended 30 June 2022, an increase of 12% compared to the same quarter last year.
Behind the headline figures, the company has made changes to the way it depreciates datacentre equipment, which will see it extend the...
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Google has reported second-quarter revenues of $69.7bn, up 13%. The company said it has seen momentum across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Workspace.
The bulk of revenues for the quarter ($62.8bn) came from services, comprising search and advertising revenues. The cloud business contributed approximately $6.2bn....
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Lambeth Council has been modernising its business applications environment over the past few years, against the background of cost pressure, Covid, and now the rising cost of living crisis.
With a long history as a progressive borough, even a militant one, Lambeth has a culturally diverse...
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust confirmed it is “working around the clock” to reinstate various IT systems that have experienced “significant disruption” in the wake of this week’s extremely high temperatures in the UK.
Its technical difficulties began on Tuesday 19 July, which is...
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Research from analyst Forrester has found that over half (56%) of IT decision makers responsible for IT infrastructure have made modernisation a top priority.
The analyst firm also reported that 87% of European enterprises are using multiple public cloud platforms. These headline figures from the report,...
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The record-breaking heat that blighted the UK this week caused Google’s and Oracle’s local datacentre regions to experience technical difficulties on Tuesday 19 July, it has emerged.
On the same day the UK recorded the hottest day on record, two of the cloud market’s biggest players...
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The Log4Shell vulnerability in Apache Log4j, which caused consternation across the technology industry when it surfaced at the end of 2021, will be with us for a long time to come, perhaps as long as a decade, according to a report produced by the US’s Cyber...
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Netflix has appointed Microsoft to help it with the roll-out of its first ad-supported subscription plan, which is a lower-cost offering that is being introduced to help the streaming service retain and attract subscribers.
The company has appointed Microsoft as its global advertising technology and sales...
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Gartner has forecast that worldwide IT spending will total $4.5tn in 2022, an increase of 3% from 2021. However, although enterprise IT spending is up, sales of devices have slowed during 2022 compared with 2021. Spending cutbacks on PCs, tablets and printers by consumers led to...
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The European Commission (EC) is being urged not to overlook the potential for energy storage technologies to ease the continent’s renewable power transition, as pressure grows on policymakers to bolster Europe’s energy security in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
As detailed in its recently published...
