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The UK government’s G-Cloud purchasing agreement was hailed – from the time of its launch in spring 2012 – as a model for how all government departments would buy their IT.
G-Cloud contracts were initially capped at 12 months in length, to give buyers the freedom to...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) promises a step change in the automation fundamental to IT, with applications ranging from simple chatbots to almost unthinkable levels of complexity, content generation and control.
Storage forms a key part of AI, to supply data for training and store...
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Scientists at Oxford University Physics have made a major breakthrough in the development of quantum security that could one day pave the way for people to unleash the true power of quantum computing safely and securely, including, potentially, in the home.
The so-called blind quantum computing approach...
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With Gartner forecasting another 20% jump in public cloud services spending and a 7% rise in overall IT spending for 2024, keeping the lid on budget sub-categories such as security for cloud applications and DevOps looks increasingly painful.
Neil Clark, cloud services director at managed services provider...
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A disaster recovery plan is only effective if you can restore data. But despite the growing risks – especially from ransomware – not all organisations are sure they actually can recover from their backups.
When it comes to backup and recovery, regular and rigorous testing should be...
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The frequency and severity of datacentre-related outages are going down, according to resiliency think-tank Uptime Institute.
The organisation’s sixth annual outage analysis report says the number of datacentre-related crashes has been declining for several years, despite marked increases in the number of facilities in operation across the...
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Education bodies and charities are facing massive increases in VMware licensing fees after the virtualisation supplier’s new owner Broadcom withdrew a programme offering generous discounts to non-profit organisations.
Many customers also face extra costs associated with changes to VMware software bundles now being sold as well as...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made another round of job cuts, with several hundred tech and sales staff understood to be affected, according to media reports.
A report on the GeekWire news site said employees were informed of the decision via email on 3 April by AWS...
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The latest research from Boomi, conducted by Forrester, has reported that IT leaders expect their cloud costs will exceed budgets. The analyst firm has forecast that public cloud spending will hit more than $1tn globally by 2026.
In a survey of 420 IT decision-makers, Forrester found that IT...
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UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and beyond similar commitments recently made by the big three hyperscale cloud providers.
As previously reported by Computer Weekly, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google Cloud publicly committed...
