The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a tool pitched at small businesses and sole traders that is designed to help them create bespoke privacy notices without fuss. UK data protection laws say every organisation that holds people’s information must explain why it does so, and what it does with it, for customers, suppliers,…
As the deployment of PCIe 5.0 picks up steam in both datacenter and consumer markets, PCI-SIG is not sitting idle, and is already working on getting the ecosystem ready for the updats to the PCIe specifications. At FMS 2024, some vendors were even talking about PCIe 7.0 with its 128 GT/s capabilities despite PCIe 6.0…
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Overspending awaits the unwary when managing heterogeneous IT environments incorporating on-premise software, cloud apps and software as a service (SaaS), even as software asset management (SAM) continues to adapt, evolving beyond mere inventory audits. According to Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, IT service management (ITSM) marketing director at ManageEngine, which develops various IT management offerings, SAM remains a…
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It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…
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The chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves is being urged to review the anecdotal jump in public sector spending caused by the roll-out of the April 2017 IR35 reforms, as she sets about closing the £22bn gap in the public’s finances left by the previous government. Reeves revealed details of the “projected overspend” the previous government’s…
As mainstream power supplies continue to make their subtle shift to the ATX 3.1 standard, the pace of change is picking up. Already most vendors offer at least one ATX 3.1 unit in their lineups, and thanks to the relatively small set of changes that come with the revised standard, PSU vendors have largely been…
The Corsair RM750e ATX 3.1 Review: Simple And Effective Read More »
Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…
Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads Read More »
Google has dramatically changed course on its proposals to deprecate third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser in favour of a “new experience” that it claims will enable people to make an “informed choice” about their web privacy. The changes, which mirror those made already in the Firefox and Safari browsers, would have been due…
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In response to the increasing popularity of compact and portable gaming PCs in the past couple of years, we’ve seen several PC peripheral manufacturers release larger collections of SFX form factor cases and power supplies. Chief among these has been Cooler Master, where the prolific PC part vendor recently expanded their SFX series to include…
The Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold ATX 3.0 PSU Review: Small Scale Read More »
Scottish biometrics commissioner Brian Plastow is calling for the UK data regulator to formally investigate whether Police Scotland’s cloud-based Digital Evidence Sharing Capability (DESC) is compliant with data protection laws, after Microsoft disclosed it cannot guarantee the sovereignty of UK policing data hosted in the Azure public cloud. Plastow told Computer Weekly the Microsoft disclosure,…
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