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AWS talks up Q4 increase in large customer wins as global market share drops

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still feeling the effects of many of its customers embarking on cloud cost optimisation strategies, but said the pace of new customers joining its ranks is accelerating. The public cloud giant has posted its fourth quarter and full-year results, which revealed the firm has seen its revenue increase on a…

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AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) looks set to make more money on three multi-million pound government contracts that went live on the same day in December 2023 than it has previously amassed through its decade-long involvement with the G-Cloud procurement framework. The public cloud giant signed three 36-month contracts with several different major government departments that…

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Proton Pass Plus is getting cheaper

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In a matter of days, we learned not just about one but two massive password data breaches. One involved millions of leaked passwords, while the other concerned some 26 billion records, including passwords and other personally identifiable information.If you still don’t use a password manager to safely store all the passwords for your online accounts…

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Google Cloud abolishes data egress fees for global customer base

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Google will no longer charge customers fees for transferring their data out of its cloud when switching to a new provider, as part of a concerted push to distance itself from its public cloud competition. Amit Zavery, general manager, vice-president and head of platform at Google Cloud, announced the move in a blog post, and…

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Storage suppliers’ market share and strategy 2023

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Which are the top storage array makers and what are their strategies towards the cloud, containers and consumption models of procurement? In this article, we rank the top storage suppliers according to IDC market share statistics for 2022 in terms of enterprise external storage and give a brief summary of each player, where they’re at…

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Top 10 IT careers and skills stories of 2023

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The technology skills gap is still ongoing, with people not only lacking the technical skills needed for digital roles, but also some of the basic digital skills needed for day-to-day life. Workers were looking for digital skills, but they were also on the hunt for new jobs, as the tech hiring landscape became uncertain in…

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Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2023

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As with 2022, Computer Weekly technology and ethics coverage continued with a focus on working conditions in the tech sector, looking, for example, at the experience of UK Apple workers attempting to unionise and the efforts of digital gig workers who train and maintain today’s much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) systems. AI itself also took centre…

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Amazon Unveils Graviton4: A 96-Core ARM CPU with 536.7 GBps Memory Bandwidth

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Nowadays many cloud service providers design their own silicon, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) started to do this ahead of its rivals and by now its Annapurna Labs subsidiary develop processors that can well compete with those from AMD and Intel. This week AWS introduced its Graviton4 SoC, a 96-core ARM-based chip that promises to…

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Amazon’s Trainium2 AI Accelerator Features 96 GB of HBM, Quadruples Training Performance

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Amazon Web Services this week introduced Trainium2, its new accelerator for artificial intelligence (AI) workload that tangibly increases performance compared to its predecessor, enabling AWS to train foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) with up to trillions of parameters. In addition, AWS has set itself an ambitious goal to enable its clients to…

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Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended again

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The Post Office has extended a controversial agreement with IT supplier Fujitsu that will see it support two datacentres to the end of March 2025, at a total additional cost of £36m. Combined with an announcement earlier this year that a services contact with Fujitsu to support the Post Office’s branch accounting system, Horizon, was…

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