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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will hand over the reins of the company to the head of the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing arm, Andy Jassy, during the second half of 2021.
News of the change in company leadership coincided with the publication of Amazon’s record-breaking...
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Google parent Alphabet reported a profit of $41.2bn for the full year 2020 as total sales of advertising soared.
The company’s total sales in 2020 reached $182.3bn after its fourth-quarter sales, at $57bn, were 23% higher than the same period in 2019. Advertising accounting for most...
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A newly discovered strain of malware, dubbed Hildegaard, points to an imminent campaign of cyber attacks against Kubernetes clusters by the cloud-centric TeamTNT cyber crime gang, according to researchers on Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team.
Hildegaard was first spotted in January 2021, and its infrastructure...
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Unstructured data is proliferating massively. It is growing in volume by more than 50% a year, and according to IDC, it will form 80% of all data by 2025 and does so already for some organisations.
That means unstructured data is a potential storage headache,...
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IBM has refreshed the entry-level flash storage arrays in its FlashSystem line with the introduction of the all-NVMe flash 5200, plus the 5015 and 5035 that can be equipped with SAS-connected flash drives or spinning disk.
The move completes that hardware refresh begun on the FlashSystem...
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The Ducati MotoGP has signed a three-year deal with long-standing technology partner Lenovo that will see the team double-down on its use of data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing devices to improve the performance of its riders during the 2021 racing season.
The deal...
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A £2bn procurement framework has gone live that will offer public sector datacentre operators access to technologies that will assist with the decarbonisation of their server farms.
The Zero Carbon Delivery Framework, which went live in January 2021, is set to run for four years and...
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Oracle is continuing to build out its hybrid cloud strategy, with the introduction of an edge computing-enabling device for enterprises that need to host workloads in remote locations with limited connectivity.
The Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure devices are ruggedised, on-premise units containing scalable server nodes that...
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Next week, an HPE edge computer will be launched into space on a trip to the International Space Station (ISS), where it is being deployed to provide artificial intelligence (AI) processing.
The hardware, built around HPE’s Edgeline EL4000 converged edge device and HP ProLiant DL360 Gen110...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted almost every part of work and public life, with the education sector hit particularly hard. Universities were forced to change their ways overnight and students were unable to attend lectures in person.
But some were able to reduce the sudden impact...
