SAP has posted cloud revenue of €4.2bn, up 25% for the second quarter of 2024. The company said the increase in cloud revenue was underpinned by 33% Cloud ERP Suite revenue growth. The move to the cloud also showed up as a decline in software licence revenue, which fell by 27% compared with the same…
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Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…
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The UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children says Apple has been undercounting how often child sexual abuse material appears on its platforms. According to a The Guardian story, Cupertino isn’t reporting the actual number of CSAM detections on its products.As tech companies are obligated to share possible child sexual abuse material…
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Amazon employees are calling the contents of the company’s annual environmental report into question, including the retail giant’s claim to have reached its goal to become a 100% renewably powered company seven years ahead of schedule. The online retail giant published its sixth annual Global sustainability report on Wednesday 10 July, which revealed Amazon had…
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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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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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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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One of the most important features coming with iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, iPadOS 18, and visionOS 2 is the all-new Passwords app. When Apple finally releases these software updates this fall, the company will finally move passwords from a buried subsection on Settings to its standalone app.After years of users asking for the passwords section…
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The year-on-year (YoY) growth of cloud storage and computing suggests an unstoppable trend of customers that have moved away from owning and running their own datacentres, compute, storage and networking hardware. But although the cloud continues to grow – accounting for as much as 50% of the world’s IT infrastructure – the trend no longer…
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Switching from Android to iOS—or vice versa—can be challenging because there’s always the chance you’ll end up losing data in the process. This could be due to a lack of an app, an incompatibility between the systems, or a minor bug.While Apple offers Android users the Move to iOS tool and Google has a similar…
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