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Taking a ‘good enough’ approach with cloud security isn’t enough

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Thanks to cloud computing, organisations of all shapes and sizes have benefitted from the flexibility of IT capacity without the cost and challenges of maintaining their own infrastructure. Hyperscale public cloud providers and SaaS tools to help with a vast array of business processes have been a particular boon for small and fast-growing organisations, helping…

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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, Git, GitHub, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, social media, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…

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UK government to address balancing energy sustainability with AI growth demands

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The government is turning its attention to ensuring its commitment to positioning the UK as an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower does not come at the expense of the environment or the nation’s energy security. It is a balancing act the UK’s newly formed AI Energy Council will be tasked with managing, while also exploring ways…

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Can regulatory oversight alone unlock cloud competition?

6 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, digital transformation, fintech, Google, Google Cloud, hybrid cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By

Cloud computing’s rise is a success story under scrutiny. It has been nothing short of transformative, enabling businesses to scale operations, innovate rapidly, and optimise costs. It has become an essential pillar of modern enterprise IT, supporting mission-critical workloads across industries. From finance and healthcare to artificial intelligence (AI) and retail, the cloud is now…

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CMA urged to expedite proposed ‘targeted interventions’ against AWS and Microsoft

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support its claims the public cloud giant’s anti-competitive behaviour is harming how the domestic cloud infrastructure market operates. The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) published the provisional findings from its multi-year antitrust investigation into the inner workings…

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Podcast: S4Capital’s Martin Sorrell on AI and the enterprise

9 minutes of reading / Adobe, agile, AI, Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Cisco, Computer, copywriting, fintech, Google, Meta, Netflix, Tech, Tencent / By

Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services.He talks about the use cases in advertising and marketing, limited currently, but where activities like planning and buying media will likely become automated by AI…

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DeepSeek is rushing to get its next-gen R2 model out sooner than expected

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After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning model in January, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly looking to maintain the momentum by rushing its new R2 model to market as quickly as possible, Reuters reports.DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the…

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Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Google, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted approach to levelling the playing field for smaller providers operating in the UK cloud services market.The published provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into how the UK cloud infrastructure services…

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The CMA anti-trust investigation into AWS and Microsoft explained: Everything you need to know

11 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, Dell, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By

Cloud computing has always been marketed to enterprises as a more cost-effective way for companies to access the compute resources they need, because they only pay for what they use and can easily scale back how much they are using, based on demand. Enterprises were encouraged, on the back of these benefits, to streamline their…

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Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs

3 minutes of reading / AWS, Azure, Google, Kubernetes, Tech / By

AWS EBS – Elastic Block Storage – customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity and pay way more than they should. Capacity utilisation on EBS is between 10% and 30%, according to Datafy, a startup that claims it can slash AWS customers’ EBS bills by adding greater granularity to their cloud block storage deployments. According…

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