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Cloud database giant Oracle has provided further details about the decade-long cloud deal it has signed with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in support of its cross-departmental, shared services-focused Synergy Programme.
DWP is the sponsoring department for the programme, which was setup to enable a...
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The UK government, through Crown Commercial Services (CCS), has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft for access to its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered products and services.
Microsoft said the agreement, which will be effective from 1 November, will enable eligible public sector organisations, via their chosen...
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Synology is best known as a network-attached storage (NAS) provider in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and even consumer space, but it has plans to get into the enterprise.
It’s a specialist in hard disk drive (HDD)-based NAS boxes – although it has an SSD range,...
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There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a recent rise to prominence with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI).
You may have also heard...
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The majority of business leaders polled in a recent survey for Kyndryl (94%) list technology modernisation as a high priority for their companies, yet Kyndryl has found almost half (44%) of the critical IT infrastructure it manages for customers is approaching end-of-life.
The poll, presented in the...
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Google Cloud continues to gain traction as businesses roll out artificial intelligence (AI). Its data management and analytics tools are also receiving significant improvements. And Google is improving connections between its AI tools and the rest of its technology stack.
Google Cloud’s president of EMEA, Tara Brady,...
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AWS has been working with Formula One (F1) since the middle of 2018. “We formed our collaboration strategically,” says AWS principal sports partnership manager, Neil Ralph. Data is collected during each race weekend, and is processed and analysed to provide insights for F1 fans to enable...
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Google has signed what it claims is the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs). The reactors, which will be developed by Kairos Power, are part of Google’s efforts to develop and commercialise what it says is a broad...
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To tie in with the government’s International Investment Summit, US tech firms CyrusOne, ServiceNow, Cloud HQ, CoreWeave and ServiceNow have announced major UK expansion worth a total of £6.3bn.
Last month, the government took steps to classify UK datacentres as critical national infrastructure (CNI), and in...
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has gone live with its Parallelstore managed parallel file storage service, which is aimed at intensive input/output (I/O) for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and is based on the open source – but developed by Intel – Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) architecture....
