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The global Microsoft outage caused by a botched update from security firm CrowdStrike has highlighted the dangerous business continuity risk arising from concentrating so much of the world’s technology infrastructure in the hands of a very small number of businesses, experts are warning.
The outage, which began...
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Amazon employees are calling the contents of the company’s annual environmental report into question, including the retail giant’s claim to have reached its goal to become a 100% renewably powered company seven years ahead of schedule.
The online retail giant published its sixth annual Global sustainability report...
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The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050.
In support of these goals, obligations...
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It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up.
Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services...
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On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations.
The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are new and different to those we’ve seen previously in the enterprise. They range from intensely compute-intensive training to day-to-day inferencing and RAG referencing that barely tickles CPU and storage input/output (I/O).
So, across the various genres of AI workload, the I/O profile...
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Derby City Council aims to save almost £12.5m a year in costs by rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its staff.
The council, which covers the East Midlands city of some 264,000 people, has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements.
Within that, the...
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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases, it wasn’t always in that position.
Pronin recalls the early years when Kubernetes arrived in...
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Police Digital Service (PDS) CEO Ian Bell is no longer a director of the company, two weeks after it emerged two of its employees had been arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct in public office.
A Companies House filing, dated 16 July 2024, confirms Bell’s...
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The Labour government has announced its legislative agenda for the new Parliament, with the King’s Speech outlining bills covering cyber security, data sharing and skills among proposals likely to impact IT professionals – but there are no plans for artificial intelligence (AI) regulation at this stage.
The...
