The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…
UK astronomers and software developers have created an infrastructure to process and distribute petabytes (PB) of information from a digital camera that is taking images from 20 billion light years in the past. Using “the largest digital camera in the world”, the Vera C Rubin Observatory is carrying out an astronomical survey of the entire…
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Pure Storage has launched Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC), which knits together several existing elements in its offering to provide enhanced visibility of data storage and simpler policy-based management-oriented outcomes for the business. It has also announced new high-performance flash arrays and the availability this year of a 300TB (terabyte) Direct FlashModule, including a solid-state drive…
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When Dutch hosting provider mijn.host launched what it claimed was “one of the Netherlands’ first digitally sovereign public clouds” late last year, it struck a chord with a growing European anxiety. Built entirely on open source Apache CloudStack technology and hosted exclusively within Dutch borders, the platform promised businesses a genuine alternative to American cloud…
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Manish Jethwa, chief technology officer (CTO) at Ordnance Survey (OS), has a career-long passion for turning geographical data into useful insight. At the UK’s national mapping service, he’s leading the organisation’s development of next-generation geospatial technologies. Jethwa studied engineering science at the University of Oxford, where he focused on what were then considered niche areas,…
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) plans to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into its business after completing a year-long migration of its data platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Its data platform will be integrated with every banking service channel and, through AI, will provide personalised services to customers. For example, using…
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With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital consideration for IT security teams and professionals. As such, AWS offers a broad range of cyber security tools to secure AWS-based tech stacks. They cover areas such as data privacy, access management, configuration management, threat detection,…
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Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix is among a number of suppliers that smell blood in the water when it comes to VMware and its customers following the virtualisation giant’s acquisition by Broadcom. At Nutanix’s annual .Next bash in Washington DC last week, migration away from VMware and to – it hopes – its own Acropolis hypervisor (AHV)…
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In this storage supplier profile, we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big organisation. Since we last looked at Hitachi Vantara, its storage portfolio has undergone something of a revamp, based around its VSP One family that offers block, file and object storage – with performance profiles that range…
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Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…
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