File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so, but with adaptations to the use case, performance and cost constraints of cloud storage. In this article, we look at the fundamentals…
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Nearly two-thirds (64%) of CEOs surveyed in a recent poll say their organisation must take advantage of technologies that are changing faster than employees can adapt. The global poll of 2,500 CEOs, conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBM IBV) in cooperation with Oxford Economics, found almost two-thirds (61%) are pushing their organisation…
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One of Norway’s largest financial services companies has divested from IBM over the role its biometric database technologies play in maintaining illegal Israeli settlements, in a move that could set a precedent for other European investors. Storebrand said the global tech giant was providing biometric databases to the Israeli government that were being “used to…
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Cloud customers are failing to see how the offering of committed spend discounts could contribute towards them becoming locked in to hyperscale cloud platforms, according to the interim findings of an anti-trust probe into the inner workings of the UK cloud industry. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published the first of a…
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The UK and South Korean governments have secured voluntary commitments from 16 global artificial intelligence (AI) companies to safely develop the technology, including firms from the US, China and UAE. Signed during the first day of the AI Seoul Summit, the Frontier AI Safety Commitments said the companies will not develop or deploy AI systems…
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IBM came within a whisker of taking over from Fujitsu as the Post Office’s core system provider, until complexity forced an “anxious” Post Office into a u-turn, the public inquiry has heard. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry hearing, it emerged that although IBM had started work on the £100m project to replace…
There is a healthy relationship between large language models (LLMs) and graph databases, which are used to draw in information across different networks of data, according to Jim Webber, chief scientist at Neo4j. Computer Weekly spoke to Webber following the ratification of the GQL ISO standard, which provides a standard way to run searches across…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise technologies. According to IBM, 42% of firms with more than 1,000 employees now use AI in their business. A further 40% are testing or experimenting with it. Much of that innovation is being driven by generative AI (GenAI), or large language models (LLM), such as ChatGPT.…
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65TB per hour, from anywhere on earth to anywhere else, no matter the quality of the connection between them. That’s the transfer speed achieved by the shared storage solution from Arcitecta, which operates across cloud storage and on-site locations. Like Hammerspace, Nasuni, Panzura and Ctera, Arcitecta’s Mediaflux solution enables file shares across multiple sites internationally,…
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IBM’s latest quarterly earnings filing coincided with the company’s plans to spend $6.4bn acquiring HashiCorp. IBM reported revenue of $14.5bn, up 1% from the same quarter in 2023, with software revenue growing 5% to $5.9bn. Automation, with growth of 14%, was the biggest contributor to IBM’s software revenue; meanwhile, Red Hat grew 9%. IBM chairman…
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