Apple has taught us to expect emotional Christmas commercials for its products around this time of year, and the company delivered yet another touching ad that will make you cry. Released on Thanksgiving Day, the Heartstrings ad already tops one million views on YouTube, though you’ll also catch it on other social media channels. The ad…
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IT leaders should address their internal processes to minimise their organisations’ IT security risk exposure and attack surface. This becomes ever more complex as business IT environments evolve. Leaders not only need to consider which employees and job roles require access to which IT systems, but also non-human access controls where either an internal or…
Cloud provider Continent 8 has shifted its virtualisation environment to Nutanix from VMware, in a move partly driven by changes to VMware licensing, but also in an infrastructure shift to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and because of influence gained in its ongoing partnership with Nutanix. The move has seen Continent 8 shift the bulk of its…
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Nationwide Building Society is drawing on HPE’s private cloud capabilities to help deliver on the next phase of its multi-year hybrid cloud strategy. The company, which has more than 17 million customers in the UK and employs 18,000 people, is in midst of a hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation project, geared towards improving the online experience…
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Alphabet’s partnership with Anthropic does not qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002. In October 2023, Alphabet invested $2bn in OpenAI rival Anthropic. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup has also received $4bn funding from Amazon. The CMA is concerned that the foundational…
Wi-Fi is the backbone of modern connectivity, evolving with each iteration to support our increasing reliance on the internet. We’re still a ways off from Wi-Fi 8, or IEEE 802.11bn Ultra High Reliability, as it is known right now. However, we’re finally starting to learn some key details about what to expect from the next…
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Apple is expected to unveil a bunch of new products in the first quarter of 2025, including an M4 MacBook Air refresh, the exciting iPhone SE 4, and a new iPad Air. But not all new Apple products set to hit stores in early 2025 will be updates to existing lineups.We learned a few days…
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In 2022, datacentres were estimated to consume about 2% of global energy. By 2026, that number is predicted to double to 4%, equivalent to about 1000 terawatt hours a year, which, according to Gartner, is equivalent to the consumption of a country the size of Japan. Lloyd Jones, vice-president analyst at Gartner, said the company’s…
Intel’s top-selling CPU is a lowly number 13 in Amazon rankingsTeam Blue is doing better in the Newegg CPU chart, but still not wellThis may reflect fallout from Intel’s recent fumbles with chip instability and the rocky Arrow Lake launchAMD is totally cleaning up in the world of desktop processors, with Intel lagging way behind…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to make storing data in the cloud as simple as possible, at least for end users. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels commented on S3’s 15th anniversary in…
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