Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…
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Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) can have some very clear and expensive consequences. Movie studio Lionsgate recently joined a long list of organisations discovering that quotations and citations from generative AI (GenAI) systems need to be verified like any other source; Microsoft is being sued by a German journalist after Bing Copilot suggested he had committed crimes…
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Organisations are constantly looking to identify different use cases to integrate AI into their business processes and accelerate the adoption of generative AI technologies. Companies are also finding ways to build innovative AI solutions to meet this demand. As a result, the usage of cloud infrastructure and, thereby, the global cloud computing footprint continues to…
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When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, especially when it comes to data in the cloud, but to know exactly what information they hold is…
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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 its productivity and business processes business reported a 12%…
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Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to tracking website Layoffs.fyi, tech companies laid off more than 165,000 people in 2022 and 264,000 people in 2023, with the latest data showing that 410 tech firms have laid off…
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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. Xing Yang, cloud-native storage tech lead at VMware by Broadcom, started working on storage in Kubernetes in 2017 on projects based around custom resource definitions (CRDs), which allow the orchestration platform to work around an extensible core. Later, she went on to see container…
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Microsoft and CrowdStrike have defended themselves against a series of accusations by Delta, saying the US airline, which was particularly badly hit during the 19 July software outage, rejected their offers of help and had only itself to blame for cancelling thousands of flights, including some scheduled to deliver American athletes to the Paris Olympics.…
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It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…
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It quickly became clear the problem was not an issue with Microsoft’s Azure service, as it first appeared, but an issue with a single software provider – named CrowdStrike – who released a faulty update to their software, which was then distributed rapidly around the world via the Azure global networks.As reported by Computer Weekly,…
