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Pentland Brands marshals Google BigQuery to improve customer insight

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Pentland Brands, a division of Pentland Group, the majority shareholder of JD Sports, has turned to Google Cloud’s BigQuery service to better understand its customers. The name behind well-known sports and outdoor apparel brands Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, Ellesse and Mitre, Pentland Brands’ products are sold in 190 countries. It’s also the…

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CCS urged to do more to make Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to SMEs

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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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Cubbit offers cut-price cloud with DS3 distributed storage

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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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G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through

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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…

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IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions

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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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Crucial X9 Pro and X10 Pro High-Performance Portable SSDs Announced

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Crucial’s X6 and X8 Portable SSDs have been attractive budget options for the mainstream consumers looking to purchase high-capacity direct-attached storage drives. The company has been delivering some industry-firsts in these drives. However, these drives use QLC and are not particularly attractive for power users (such as content creators) who require writing vast amounts of…

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Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy

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Google has lifted the lid on how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are assisting it with helping consumers and businesses shrink the environmental footprint of their activities by allowing them to make real-time adjustments that can curb their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Details of its work in this area can be found in…

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Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation

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Forestry and Land Scotland is among just a handful of organisations that has used Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure, as a stepping stone to cloud-first modernisation of its application estate. With support from Microsoft and Nutanix, the agency went through a thorough due diligence process to understand the implication of the public cloud…

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CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Cloud, Dell, Google, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, open source, Tech / By

The endless capacity of cloud object storage with Posix-compatible file access – that’s the promise of CunoFS, from Cambridge-based PetaGene, which aims to resolve the increasingly widespread challenge of how to combine high-performance compute and huge amounts of stored data. It’s a challenge for workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI), video production, medical research and…

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Xbox Game Pass Gets Celeste, Venba, Maquette, Toem, And More In The Latest Drop

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Microsoft has revealed the latest Xbox Game Pass offerings coming to the service, and it includes brand new games like Venba, returning favorites like Celeste, and more.  Before diving into the new and returning releases, Xbox Game Pass subscribers can check out Techtonica through Game Preview this month. This game pits you, either solo or…

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