Given digital technology is so central to how we live, work, transact and communicate, we have recently seen the finalisation of an unprecedented amount of digital regulation in both the UK and the EU. In such a fast-moving environment, this begs the question, how should companies stay ahead of the curve? Although the exact response…
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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US lawmakers have hit out at the Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK orders requiring them to hand over their users’ data. In an unprecedented intervention, five lawmakers from both sides of the US political divide, led by senator…
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A cloud market characterised by openness, interoperability, and fairness has to be the aspiration for Europe, but we are currently far from that. I fear policymakers may feel that efforts to tackle cloud switching through the Data Act and contestability in digital markets through the Digital Markets Act (DMA) may have already set us on…
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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has held a day-long secret hearing into an appeal brought by Apple against a government notice requiring it to provide law enforcement access to data encrypted by its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service on the iCloud, despite calls for the hearing to be opened to the public.A consortium of 10…
September 2020: An affiliate of the ransomware company REvil reveals the details of a cyber attack he carried out a few months earlier against the French company Elior. At the time, ransomware was already a significant threat, but nowhere near the scale it was about to take on. It was at this time, however, that…
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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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Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) dropped over the last two quarters – since the beginning of September 2024 – while SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased over the same period. Flash drive prices (MLC, TLC and QLC) fell from an average of $0.085/GB to just under $0.079/GB. That’s a 7% decrease. At…
Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce Read More »
In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an important part of its storage portfolio, has been eclipsed as the tech world’s largest ever. But…
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Apple has withdrawn from providing its UK smartphone and computer users with encrypted cloud storage following a secret government order to require the company to provide back-door access to encrypted data. The tech firm confirmed it will no longer offer UK users its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service which allows users to store data in…
