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Feb 3 2025

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

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Dell, HP, Meta, Tech / By Comkex

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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Feb 1 2025

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

4 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex

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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Jan 19 2025

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 Comkex

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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Jan 17 2025

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 Comkex

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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Dec 24 2024

CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Tech / By Comkex

The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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Dec 24 2024

AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer, Tech / By Comkex

Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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Dec 22 2024

Defending against cyber grinches: AI for enhanced security

4 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, chatbot, cybersecurity, digital transformation, Facebook, Git, GitHub, Microsoft, social media, Tech / By Comkex

As the festive season approaches, it brings not only joy and celebrations but also a surge in cyber threats. Alarmingly, 84% of businesses have suffered a phishing attack, making cyber crime the world’s third-largest economy after the US and China. This isn’t set to slow down any time soon, with the estimated cost of global…

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Dec 17 2024

Google Cloud Platform: Key storage options in the Google Cloud

4 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Kubernetes, Microsoft, SAP, Tech / By Comkex

Google’s first step into the cloud was App Engine, launched in 2008. Google Cloud Storage followed later in 2010. Since then, the company has steadily expanded to what is now known as the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and consolidated its position as one of the three, global “hyperscale” cloud storage providers. Google Cloud is seen…

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Dec 14 2024

AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations

8 minutes of reading / Adobe, AI, Amazon, AWS, chatbot, cloud-native, Computer, software engineering, Tech / By Comkex

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set out how its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and software are saving customers money and helping them migrate their legacy Windows and VMware workloads off-premise much quicker. AWS CEO Matt Garman used the opening keynote at the public cloud giant’s Re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas,…

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