The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will double its cloud spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the next 36 months, following the renewal of its controversial three-year hosting deal with the public cloud giant. The CMA’s latest three-year deal with AWS went live on 1 May 2024, and is valued at £437,151, which is…
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NetApp has refreshed its AFF all-flash storage arrays amid a marketing focus on artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and cutting energy waste in the datacentre. Alongside this comes an avowed target of more customers for its block access arrays and the availability of QLC drives across its Storagegrid object storage family, plus some additions in its…
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Microsoft is facing the prospect of an anti-trust probe at the hands of another overseas competition watchdog, following a complaint filed by a Spanish startup-focused trade association. The Spanish Startup Association (SSA) confirmed in a statement on Tuesday 7 May that it had filed a complaint with Spain’s National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) “in…
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Currys has chosen Microsoft and Accenture to enable it to develop core cloud technology infrastructure to support artificial intelligence (AI)-powered initiatives. The electronics retailer plans to use the latest AI technologies to enhance operations, elevate the shopping experience and improve the experience of its retail workforce. Through the contract, Accenture and Microsoft, together with their…
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Google I/O is one of the biggest technology events of the year, constantly competing with Apple’s WWDC annual developer conference. Both events usually occur within a month of each other, and this year is no exception.I/O 2024 kicks off on Tuesday, May 14th this year. There’s a ton of expected announcements around software and artificial…
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The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is dominant both in and outside of the tech sector at the moment, and a huge part of the Knowledge24 agenda focused on generative AI (GenAI), with many of the platform and product announcements made during the event featuring the technology, including the further embedding of GenAI into the…
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In what appears to be a mistake or a jump of the gun by ASUS, they have seemingly published a list of specifications for one of its key notebooks that all but allude to the next generation of AMD’s mobile processors. While we saw AMD toy with a new nomenclature for their Phoenix silicon (Ryzen…
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Asus on Tuesday said that it would announce its first ‘AI PC’ based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite system-on-chips later this month. The new laptop is set to be introduced at the Next Level. AI Incredible virtual launch event on May 20. The launch of Asustek’s new Vivobook S 15 will be hosted by Asus…
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Across EMEA, organisations must up their game when it comes to addressing the human factors leading to data breaches and cyber security incidents, according to telco Verizon, which this week issued a wake-up call in the form of the 17th annual edition of its landmark global Data breach investigations report (DBIR) In the compilation of…
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Barnsley has become one of the first councils to roll out generative AI (GenAI) tools across its entire organisation as part of a six-month trial of Copilot for Microsoft 365, which it hopes will take some of the heavy admin load off staff. Local councils have become perhaps an unexpected testing ground for GenAI as…
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