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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sent shockwaves through the tech industry in October 2023 when it announced its investigation into potential anti-competitive practices in the UK cloud infrastructure services market.
The CMA is not ploughing a lonely furrow: regulators across the world – from...
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The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals.
The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS)...
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Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands.
The local authority’s latest cloud hosting...
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The rise of generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping industries, but it’s also creating an unprecedented demand for energy.
Datacentres supporting AI workloads are expanding at a breakneck pace to meet the needs of increasingly complex large language models (LLMs).
However, this growth comes at a cost:...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has hit the headlines and the datacentres, but with it comes a range of performance and operating considerations that impact storage as much as any other IT discipline.
In this review, we look at the key demands of AI processing on data storage,...
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The AI bubble is ballooning, and the demand for AI chips is rising. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI technology industry has seen an arms race take off. Hardware companies around the globe rush to build the strongest and most advanced processors...
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As the year winds down, it’s clear that IT sustainability has made significant strides but still faces challenges. The growing urgency of environmental concerns has driven many companies to adopt greener practices, yet economic pressures have sometimes slowed progress.
For IT leaders, the task is to...
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“Not everyone runs Kubernetes in production, but everyone has a Kubernetes proof-of-concept project” – that’s the kind of thing you hear from IT industry analysts.
Kubernetes is the application virtualisation standard for containers in the cloud-native era. It offers rapid builds, scalability and flexibility in application...
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It has been a year of real highs and lows for the hyperscale cloud giants, with the big three all reporting far more upbeat financial results than in 2023, as their businesses have reaped the benefits of the growing enterprise demand for artificial intelligence (AI).
Particularly...
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The hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has showed no signs of slowing down this year, and the impact of enterprises rushing to adopt the technology has dominated the datacentre news agenda in 2024.
The UK has seen all three of the major public cloud giants commit...
