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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) business is set to hit an annual run rate for subscription renewals of $10bn.
For the quarter that ended September 30, the company reported revenue of $65.6bn, up 16%. The Microsoft Cloud business posted revenue of $38.9bn, an increase of 22%, while...
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Microsoft has taken issue with a newly formed cloud-focused lobbying body, known as the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), describing the organisation is an “astroturf group” organised by Google.
The OCC debuted on Tuesday 29 October, positioning itself as a group focused on making the public cloud...
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Beyond the continuous upgrades to the cars throughout the Formula One racing season, there is a constant stream of tech innovation driving fan engagement and supporting broadcasters who want to put viewers closer to the race action.
For AWS principal sports partnership manager Neil Ralph, Formula One...
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Object storage specialist Scality has launched Ring XP, a tuned-up version of its existing Ring platform aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) data lake use cases that promises microsecond (µs) storage access times.
That tune-up centres on the use of a stripped-down version of S3 object storage...
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A coalition championing openness and interoperability within the cloud market has launched to support competition authorities and watchdogs that are in the throes of investigating claims of anti-competitive behaviour involving hyperscalers.
The newly formed Open Cloud Coalition (OCC) launched on 29 October 2024 with 10 founding...
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Western Digital has pushed the capacity of its spinning disk hard disk drives (HDDs) by 2TB (terabytes) with the addition of an 11th platter. That has manifested in two new drives, the standard recording 26TB DC H590 and the new 32TB SMR (shingled magnetic recording) DCH...
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The surge of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has contributed to unprecedented demand on datacentre infrastructure.
Existing facilities are no longer fit for purpose and AI-ready capacity is in short supply, exacerbated by the existing demand from hyperscalers and cloud providers.
Hyperscaler providers, such as Amazon Web...
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The fact that ARM64 processors are low powered in terms of energy consumption means more servers can be crammed into the same volume of datacentre space than x86 hardware.
If workloads can run on ARM64 hardware, there is potentially more processing power available per datacentre rack. Each...
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Ransomware attacks have become ever more sophisticated. Attackers no longer just encrypt data – they threaten to expose sensitive data, though double extortion and triple extortion attacks. And ransomware attacks increasingly target backups as well as operational data.
From an attacker’s point of view, to target backups...
