In this storage supplier profile, we look at HPE. But perhaps the key thing about HPE is that it’s not just a storage company – it can offer customers all key elements in the IT stack from storage, through servers to the software that can orchestrate complex information systems. As a company it has a…
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Over the years, motherboard manufacturers have consistently pushed the limits on top-end motherboards with striking designs and PCBs filled to the brim with the latest controllers and feature sets. Although these typically come with a high price premium, these ‘flagships’ represent the latest components, designed to operate the fastest processors to deliver leading-edge performance while…
ASRock Industrial has introduced a new lineup of NUC-like systems based on AMD’s Ryzen 7040-series ‘Phoenix’ processors for laptops and compact desktops. The new 4×4 Box 7040 series compact PCs can be used for a wide variety of workloads given their high performance, advanced built-in graphics, rich connectivity, and USB4 support. ASRock’s 4×4 Box 7040…
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Many cloud applications are slow, clunky, bloated or otherwise fail to meet user expectations – yet answers on how to address this are out there already, if teams are given the resources to follow through from first principles. Owen Rogers, cloud research director at Uptime Intelligence, says cloud apps should be architected to be scalable…
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While greenwashing continues to confuse and even block the best intended emissions reduction plans, a 495MW €3.5bn (£3bn) datacentre project in Portugal is making progress on Scope 3 accounting. The Sines 4.0 datacentre campus, which is the work of sustainable server farm developer Start Campus, is predicted to become one of the largest hyperscale sites…
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In previous essays, we discussed ethics as a process of reflection and deliberation; an iterative and participatory process in which you look at your project from four different ethical perspectives: consequentialism (pluses and minuses), duty ethics (duties and rights), relational ethics (interactions and power), and virtue ethics (virtues and living together). We will now test…
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The Trades Union Congress has launched an AI “taskforce” and is calling for new laws to safeguard workers’ rights and ensure the technology has broad social benefits. The taskforce, which the TUC said will corral specialists in law, technology, politics, HR and the voluntary sector, will publish an AI and Employment Bill early in 2024.…
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In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core business functions, such as finance or enterprise resource planning (ERP), to niche tasks. This proliferation of SaaS technology has helped organisations to modernise, digitise and automate business processes.…
Plans by the government in the Online Safety Bill to require tech companies to scan encrypted messages will damage the UK’s reputation for data security, the UK’s professional body for IT has warned. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, which has 70,000 members, said that government proposals in the new laws to compromise end-to-end encryption…
The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has approved a five-year digital strategy for Police Scotland that seeks to shift the force from “doing digital” to “being digital” through a series of investments into both new and existing technology capabilities. Drafted with the assistance of consultancy firm Ernst & Young and XXX Capgemini, the strategy outlines priorities…
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