Replace the ordeal of hardware admin with the insight of the cloud – that’s the benefit promised to customers that deploy HPE’s Alletra MP storage arrays with HPE GreenLake. Alletra MP, launched in April, is based on a scale-out architecture of Proliant servers chassis and Aruba switches with nodes that can be compute only –…
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has credited a shift in its customers’ cloud-spending priorities as playing a pivotal role in helping the e-commerce giant post a better than expected set of second quarter results. The results period, which covers the three months to 30 June 2023, saw Amazon report a revenue of $134.4bn for Q2, which…
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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) stands accused of “paying lip service” to smaller suppliers after embarking on a revamp of the “underused” Cloud Compute Framework to make it more accessible to SMEs. The government’s procurement arm is inviting submissions from prospective suppliers for the £1.35bn Cloud Compute 2 framework until 21 August 2023, but Computer…
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CoreWeave, an NVIDIA-backed cloud service provider specializing in GPU-accelerated services, has secured a debt facility worth $2.3 billion using NVIDIA’s H100-based hardware as collateral. The company intends to use the funds to procure more compute GPUs and systems from NVIDIA, construct new data centers, and hire additional personnel to meet the growing needs for AI…
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Vast Data aims to get vaster with the launch of the Vast Data Platform that will provide customers with AI/ML-focused storage infrastructure that is intended to replace existing database, data lake and data warehouse functionality. In terms of scale and outcomes, it aims at “global learning” and “constant realisation” from the AI systems it will…
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Cloud object storage at up to 20% of the cost quoted by the big public cloud providers. That’s the promise of Italy-based Cubbit with its distributed DS3 storage, which allows for cost-effective cloud-based object storage at a fraction of the cost of the big public cloud providers. Cubbit plans to expand into the UK, Germany and…
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As regulatory scrutiny intensifies, organisations must prepare for closer monitoring of their sustainability practices. Navigating the expanding landscape of rules and regulations concerning Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions poses a pressing challenge. Enterprises must ensure they have the necessary capabilities to report emissions as accurately as possible. Additionally, as environmental sustainability takes…
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The government’s decision to prolong the life of the 13th iteration of the G-Cloud framework is making it a commercially unviable way for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to sell cloud services to the public sector, it is claimed. The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) confirmed in June 2023 the G-Cloud 13 framework would now expire…
Earlier in July, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced the availability of Llama 2, which will be made available in the Microsoft Azure AI model catalogue, as well as AWS. Meta describes Llama 2 as “the next generation” of its open source large language model. But while it is free for research and commercial…
IBM is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help enterprises monitor and manage the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by their use of the tech giant’s various cloud-based products and services. The IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator is generally available now and consists of an AI-based dashboard that will enable enterprise IT leaders to spot patterns…
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