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EMEA security spend will have another boom year in 2024

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Security services and technology have again maintained the number one priority for IT spending across the EMEA region, according to this year’s Technology spending intentions research from TechTarget and ESG, to the extent that it’s also leading investment in areas beyond merely cyber, including networking, infrastructure, applications (DevSecOps) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). With 48%…

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Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy

5 minutes of reading / Azure, Cloud, compliance, data privacy, Microsoft, multicloud, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Tech / By

Pradeep Vincent is the chief technical architect and senior vice-president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). His role involves internal engineering of all the services in OCI. At Oracle Cloud World in London earlier this month, Vincent talked about the work Oracle has done with Microsoft, first with a cloud interconnect, and most recently, putting the…

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IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud

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A survey of 706 IT leaders conducted by Red Hat for its 2024 Global tech trends report has found that many organisations have figured out the mix between public and private cloud infrastructure. Compared with the previous year’s data, workload migration management saw a nine-point drop to near the bottom of the IT management funding priorities…

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Oracle to fine-tune AI for the enterprise

6 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, compliance, data privacy, Database, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Tech / By

Oracle’s plans to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings could just be one of many such announcements to come in the enterprise application space, but the database application suite giant has, in fact, been working on adding artificial intelligence across its stack for some time. In September 2023, it announced its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative…

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Top 10 storage stories of 2023

3 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Computer, data privacy, disaster recovery, Tech, Toshiba / By

Will flash kill spinning disk in the next five years? One notable storage player believes so, but plenty of voices argue there is life in the hard disk drive (HDD) yet. Meanwhile, quad-level cell (QLC) flash went mainstream with benefits in cost and capacity. Toyota suffered an outage for 36 hours at 14 car plants.…

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Top 10 business applications stories of 2023

8 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Computer, data privacy, digital transformation, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Tech / By

In the realm of business applications, the underlying complexities of the western economic crisis and war in Ukraine and the Middle East were obscured in 2023 by the hype surrounding generative AI (GenAI). It would be eccentric, indeed churlish, to downplay the significance of GenAI, and so the first four articles selected here are, indeed, about…

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Palantir awarded NHS FDP data contract

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NHS England has awarded a £330m, seven-year contract to run its new Federated Data Platform (FDP) to controversial US data platform Palantir, prompting fresh concerns from data privacy practitioners. The long-anticipated FDP supersedes the Covid-19 Data Store, which also involved Palantir, as well as Google and Microsoft. This platform, stood up in difficult circumstances at…

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Data-sharing management gap highlights cyber risk, says report

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As organisational use of communications tools to share relevant data with third-party suppliers and partners spike, a lack of attention paid to security is cranking up risk levels, according to a global study of 781 IT, cyber and risk and compliance pros, 29% of which are drawn from EMEA geographies, which was conducted for Kiteworks,…

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