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IT Sustainability Think Tank: How cloud AI technologies can help enterprises go green

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The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050. In support of these goals, obligations will come to the fore as organisations develop…

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How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC

5 minutes of reading / Azure, Microsoft, SAP, Tech, Technology / By

Retailer Co-op has been running a retail business transformation programme powered by SAP’s Retail ECC (enterprise core components) suite on Hana software to improve stock visibility and forecasting across its stores. It has now migrated all its SAP systems onto the SAP Rise cloud as a stepping stone to migrating off ECC and onto S/4Hana…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally

3 minutes of reading / Azure, disaster recovery, Microsoft, Tech, Twitter / By

Systems using Microsoft Windows software were affected by a major global outage due to a configuration which caused PCs to crash with a “blue screen of death”. The BBC reported that Sky News and a number of airlines including KLM were affected by the outage. Some services are now back online, but others are still…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

5 minutes of reading / agile, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a Crowdstrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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CMA looks deeper into Microsoft’s AI hirings

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun an initial investigation of Microsoft latest attempt to build out its artificial intelligence (AI ) strategy. In March, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the company had hired Inflection AI’s co-founders Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, with Simonyan also being the startup’s chief scientist.  At the time, Nadella…

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How Howdens used GenAI to power app user experience

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Howdens, which supplies kitchens to tradespeople, has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app to provide technical knowledge. Chip uses Microsoft’s generative AI (GenAI) technologies, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure AI Search and Applied AI Services. Chip has been designed to provide Howdens’ trade customers with the information they need to do…

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Microsoft and CISPE’s settlement in long-running cloud antitrust dispute proves controversial

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body stands accused of selling its members down the river, after agreeing a $22m deal to withdraw its long-standing anti-trust complaint against Microsoft. The pair have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that commits Microsoft to making an enhanced version of its Azure Stack HCI offering…

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Microsoft and Google’s GHG emissions gains call viability of net-zero targets into question

9 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By

The financial results of the world’s biggest three hyperscale cloud companies have seen Amazon, Google and Microsoft all credit growing customer demand for artificial intelligence (AI) services for boosting their respective profit, revenue and market share totals. The downside to this growth, particularly where Google and Microsoft are concerned, is that it appears to be…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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