The government wants the UK to lead the way in artificial intelligence (AI) capacity in Europe, and research from Barclays Corporate Banking shows that business leaders recognise the need to invest in AI and emerging technology. This week, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and OpenAI announced they are building out significant datacentre capacity in the UK.…
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File servers are at the core of almost all IT infrastructures. File sharing is essential to collaboration and is a vital component of growing volumes of unstructured information. File storage is a key part of general document storage, and access to the information therein is vital for analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI). File systems also…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and AI agents are seemingly everywhere. Be it with conference show floors or television adverts featuring celebrities, suppliers are keen to showcase the technology, which they tell us will help make our day-to-day lives much easier. But what exactly is an AI agent? Fundamentally, AI agents – also known as agentic AI…
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Few fields are currently as fertile and fast moving as robotics. Across the globe, companies are developing a new generation of robots that are more intelligent, connected, and advanced than ever before. Powered by significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI), sensing, connectivity and advanced materials, these robots are poised to transform industries as diverse as…
When ASN Bank chief technology officer (CTO) Sebastiaan Kalshoven isn’t driving IT and business change at the Dutch retail bank, he can often be found at the local swimming pool training his daughter and other kids to become competitive athletes. His 10-year-old daughter dreams of winning Olympic gold, so three times a week Kalshoven trains…
Restaurants with three Michelin stars represent the pinnacle of fine dining. In the UK, The Fat Duck by Heston Blumenthal, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, Core by Clare Smyth and The Waterside Inn in Bray are among the establishments in that illustrious bracket. And next up: the wellness products and services retailer, Holland & Barrett.…
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has become the latest to add his voice to a cacophony of warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) is eliminating entry-level jobs. A recent report by job search engine Adzuna indicated that vacancies for graduate jobs, apprenticeships, internships and junior jobs with no degree requirement had dropped 32% since the launch of…
The digital skyline will be dominated by factories, artificial intelligence (AI) factories. That is if you believe the hype – but what is an AI factory, and how can organisations benefit from this industrial revolution of technology? Factories mass-produce the same product over and over again. In doing so, they cut the cost of production…
For the better part of a decade, digital transformation has been discussed in terms of apps, data and cloud platforms. These are worthy topics, but they tend to float above the actual places where work happens. Offices, campuses, shared spaces: the physical backdrop has been an afterthought. That’s changing. The next phase of digital transformation…
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Pure Storage’s recent launch of its Enterprise Data Cloud reignited debate around storage and data management. Pure claims its EDC addresses the management of growing volumes of data in a complex regulatory environment, and the demands storage faces from artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The idea of a single management layer for storage is not new.…
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