Google Cloud has confirmed the withdrawal of a complaint it filed with the European Commission (EC) in September 2024, relating to Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing strategy, whereby it charges customers higher fees for wanting to run its software in competing cloud environments. The issue has seen Microsoft repeatedly come in for criticism and scrutiny from…
Google Cloud has secured another multimillion-pound contract to supply a military organisation with secure sovereign cloud capabilities, several months after inking a similar deal with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The public cloud giant has agreed a deal to supply the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) with its air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) setup,…
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Health insurance provider Vitality is deepening its ties with the Google tech ecosystem with the launch of an artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to help millions of people make better-informed decisions about their health and lifestyle. Known as Vitality AI, the platform is built using Google Cloud’s AI and data analytics tools, including its fully managed…
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Saudi Arabia’s push to transform its healthcare system has taken a bold technological leap. The Ministry of Health (MoH), in partnership with Lean Business Services and Google Cloud, has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered health coach in the country’s national Sehaty app, a move that brings AI directly into citizens’ hands and helps with daily…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit project for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Computer Weekly has learned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the government tax collection agency needs a hyperscale provider to manage the migration…
Chris Belasco, chief data officer (CDO) at the City of Pittsburgh, is focused on his team’s triumphs. While some data leaders might like to bask in the glory of their personal achievements, Belasco says success in the fast-moving digital age is very much about taking a collegiate approach: “The complaints should come to me, and…
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Sales of enterprise software through hyperscale cloud marketplaces hosted by the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google are expected to top $163bn by 2030, having hit $30bn in 2024. According to research from IT market watcher Omdia, the rise in sales can be attributed to increasing enterprise use of hyperscale cloud procurement…
Oracle has issued a fix for a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) as the well-used ERP software package emerges as the latest vector for mass Cl0p (aka Clop) ransomware attacks. The Oracle EBS ecosystem is deeply embedded in enterprise financial and operational systems, which offers hackers access to a…
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At its annual Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, identity and access management specialist Okta has been expanding its vision to be a first port of call to securing non-human identities (NHIs) as a swelling wave of artificial intelligence (AI) agents causes their numbers to swell dramatically. Among the announcements made today are new…
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File servers are at the core of almost all IT infrastructures. File sharing is essential to collaboration and is a vital component of growing volumes of unstructured information. File storage is a key part of general document storage, and access to the information therein is vital for analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI). File systems also…
