Cisco has unveiled its plans to prepare networking for the era of quantum computing. As it officially opened its Quantum Labs in Santa Monica, the company announced that it has developed a prototype quantum network entanglement chip, in collaboration with the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara. According to Cisco, the chip generates pairs of…
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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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Dozens of technology firms are continuing to put the lives and livelihoods of supply chain workers at risk by failing to meet even the most basic due diligence expectations around forced labour and human rights abuses, finds sectoral analysis. Conducted by KnowTheChain (KTC) – a project run by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre…
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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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A paper published by Microsoft, which demonstrates a radical new approach that promises to accelerate the path towards commercially viable quantum computing systems, shows the extent of industry innovation. Almost every week sees new research, which moves the dial closer to commercial reality. But quantum computing is still a nascent technology, and some industry watchers…
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In the opening keynote at its annual Cisco Live EMEA event, regional leadership moved to cement the networking giant’s embrace of artificial intelligence (AI) with a raft of technology launches, some of them previously trailed. Marking the supplier’s 40th anniversary, EMEA president Oliver Tuszik spoke about how the organisation began with the idea of connecting…
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At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, the networking giant launched a number of artificial intelligence (AI) and datacentre infrastructure products and opened up over some of the tricky issues around supporting the intense energy demands that AI workloads make of current systems, that have been a subject of discussion and concern since ChatGPT went mainstream…
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Around the world, security leaders say they are struggling to balance the need to appropriately secure their data and the need to maximise efficient use of this data to hit their business objectives, according to a study produced by analysts at Gartner, who found that only 14% of cyber leaders were keeping on top of…
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Applause, which provides digital quality and crowd-sourced testing, has worked with Cisco to ensure ongoing accessibility assessments of Webex Suite and to achieve consistent conformance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) standards for eight Webex products to date. Cisco said it has tripled its team of “accessibility champions”, who ensure inclusivity…
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Demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) services is being cited as the reason why spending on datacentre hardware and software hit a record high in 2024. According to figures from IT analyst Synergy Research Group, total spending in the datacentre hardware and software market was up 34% year-on-year during 2024, as a result of hyperscale…
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