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Forrester: Rethink your software asset management practices

Software asset management (SAM) has evolved from simple back-office record-keeping to more complex licence and contract management that integrates innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI). Successful SAM implementations save on licence costs, improve compliance and reduce true-ups. They also improve software utilisation, enabling firms to derive more…

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Forget Ryzen 9000, AMD’s next chip might be a Ryzen 5500X3D – and it might just be perfect for a budget gaming PC

AMD might be onto Ryzen 9000 processors at this point, but there’s a new CPU incoming from two generations back – if a new rumor is correct.Yes, AM4 (the previous CPU socket to the current AM5, which was introduced with last-gen Ryzen 7000) is still going, possibly, as leaker Harukaze5719 on X has uncovered an…

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Hoping for some cheap new GPUs from AMD soon? Sadly, new rumor suggests RX 7400 and 7300 aren’t happening

If you were hoping AMD might launch some new budget RDNA 3 GPUs in the near future, we’ve got bad news: unfortunately, the latest word from the grapevine is that this isn’t happening.We’ve previously been treated to rumors of an expansion for the current-gen range of graphics cards, with the possibility that AMD might debut…

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AI interview: Thomas Dekeyser, researcher and film director

April 1980, Toulouse. As the offices of multinational technology firms Philips Data Systems and CII-Honeywell-Bull sit burning, French authorities frantically search for the culprits of the suspected arson and bombing attacks. While there was some confusion in the immediate wake of the destruction over who was responsible, with militant left wing group Action Directe initially…

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Intel’s fix for unstable CPUs is here, in beta, and if you’re scared it might slow down your PC it seems that’s not the case

Intel’s much-awaited microcode update designed to fix instability issues with its 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs – or at least act as a preventative measure – is on the cusp of arriving, and Team Blue has assured us that it doesn’t come with any nasty side-effects on the performance front.Indeed, the patch is now in beta…

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IT Sustainability Think Tank: How IT leaders can balance innovation with sustainability

Cloud computing underpins countless applications, services, and company initiatives. However, the environmental footprint of these activities has started to come under scrutiny. Today’s IT leaders find themselves at a crossroads. On one hand they must embrace innovation – which includes using AI, machine learning, and big data analytics – to propel their organisations forward. And…

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Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads

Oracle’s recently announced Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) aims to improve performance for database workloads and reduce costs. The architecture in Exascale, which is Oracle’s multi-tenant architecture that intelligently allocates pools of compute optimised for its databases, is built on the same appliances – X8M, X9M and X10M – Oracle uses on its Exadata Database…

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Kioxia Demonstrates RAID Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives

At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by…

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Intel’s next desktop CPU will reportedly be Nova Lake, leaving Panther Lake to mobile

There have been plenty of rumors surrounding the upcoming Intel Panther Lake processor launch, including that it’s set to arrive in 2025. But now new rumors are painting a different story — one that confirms prior whisperings of Panther Lake being mobile-only and that a new series, the Nova Lake, will be Arrow Lake’s true…

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New version of Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card spotted with slower VRAM – here’s why that might just be a good thing

Nvidia’s previously rumored new spin on the RTX 4070 – with slightly slower video memory – is apparently real, as a graphics card maker appears to have such a variant in the works.This is Galax which has a new RTX 4070 OC 2X version incoming, or at least that’s what leaked materials obtained by VideoCardz…

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