Lenovo is notable among storage array makers for a recent rapid rise in market share, and the prominence of the partnering strategy it has employed to get there. While it lacks some things that most other storage makers possess – namely its own cloud, or cloud offer via the hyperscalers, or a container management platform…
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Pure Storage’s recent launch of its Enterprise Data Cloud reignited debate around storage and data management. Pure claims its EDC addresses the management of growing volumes of data in a complex regulatory environment, and the demands storage faces from artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The idea of a single management layer for storage is not new.…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is capitalising on the surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technology with the release of its latest Nvidia Blackwell-powered graphics processing unit (GPU) servers. According to IDC, servers with embedded GPUs, like the Nvidia Blackwell architecture, are projected to grow 46.7% year-over-year, representing almost 50% of the total market value. The…
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Over 100 models of Dell laptop PCs across the enterprise-centric Latitude and Precision ranges, and many thousands of individual devices, are at risk of compromise through a series of five common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that affect their security firmware and associated Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces (APIs), according to a disclosure from the Cisco…
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AMD has a new RX 7400 GPU outIt’s for PC makers only at the moment, though – and it’s likely to stay that wayHowever, a low-end Battlemage GPU from Intel could be in the worksAMD has quietly released a new low-end desktop graphics card, but it’s not likely to be the solution to your budget…
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AMD’s head of client CPUs says it’s looking into dedicated NPU acceleratorsThese would be the equivalent of a discrete GPU, but for AI tasksSuch boards would lessen demand on higher-end GPUs, as they’d no longer be bought for AI work, as they are in some casesAMD is looking to a future where it might not…
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With the Bristol Isambard-AI supercomputer now live, the UK government has unveiled a roadmap to delivering 420 Exaflops of compute power by 2030. The £1bn set aside in the spending review is being used to increase the UK’s compute infrastructure and drive forward artificial intelligence (AI) development. The government’s goal is to reduce the UK’s…
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The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…
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2024 was a banner year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, Qualcomm’s keynote presentation last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars from makes of many of…
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A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is blocked by uncertainty over pricing amid US president Donald Trump’s recent flurry of on-off, up-down tariffs. PAH saved £500,000 when it migrated from VMware on end-of-life EMC VNX storage arrays to Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) several years…
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