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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

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Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…

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AWS and Microsoft could face ‘targeted intervention’ from CMA over UK cloud competition concerns

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The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…

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Labour’s AI Action Plan – a gift to the far right

18 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, automation, AWS, ChatGPT, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Tech / By

Labour has published its AI Opportunities Action Plan (The Plan). The Prime Minister is very bullish about The Plan, and peppers his foreword with muscular terms like growth, revolution, ambition, strength and innovation. In itself, The Plan is full of claims that AI is essential and inevitable, and urges the government to pour public money…

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Backup technology explained: The fundamentals of enterprise backup

10 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Broadcom, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Backup is a fundamental protection required by any IT system. That’s all the more so in a world where ransomware attacks can take out company data in a stroke. Effective backup has also become more complex as IT departments deal with a variety of systems – including virtual servers and desktops, and containerised applications –…

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