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Google Cloud Summit: Unifying data, data residency and agent-driven AI

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Google Cloud continues to gain traction as businesses roll out artificial intelligence (AI). Its data management and analytics tools are also receiving significant improvements. And Google is improving connections between its AI tools and the rest of its technology stack.  Google Cloud’s president of EMEA, Tara Brady, told attendees at the London edition of the…

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NetApp maintains push to data management for AI

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, Broadcom, Cloud, Flex, Google, Google Cloud, Lenovo, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

NetApp will maintain its big push towards data management for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and took the opportunity to explain that move at its Insight 2024 event in Las Vegas this week. Core to that is data management via a global metadata namespace in its Ontap storage operating system that aims to make corporate data…

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Google Cloud files complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices

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Google Cloud has emerged as the latest party to take issue with Microsoft’s strategy of charging enterprise customers more for running its software in competing cloud environments by filing a complaint with the European Commission. The internet search giant’s public cloud arm claims the practice harms customers and infringes European Union law, and has accused Microsoft…

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Securing data in GCP: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

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Listen to this podcast We speak to Google’s director of product management for confidential computing about ensuring the protection of data in use How do you offer a trusted environment for hosting applications and data in the public cloud? It is an area Google’s Nelly Porter is very much focused on. Porter is a director…

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What happens when the IT infrastructure is too big to fail?

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Today’s Microsoft outages, linked to a CrowdStrike update, shows the immense risk we face if we put all our eggs into one huge world-spanning basket. Some colleagues initially suggested this was part of a co-ordinated attack on Microsoft’s infrastructure which, though it turns out is most likely not the case, was a reasonable first guess…

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CrowdStrike update chaos explained: What you need to know

10 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, branding, business continuity, Cloud, cloud-native, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Sony, Tech, threat intelligence / By

On Friday 19 July 2024, the UK awoke to news of a fast-spreading IT outage, seemingly global in its nature, affecting hundreds – if not thousands – of organisations. The disruption began in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia, before spreading quickly across Asia, Europe and the Americas, with the travel industry among…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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SAP public cloud migration requires architectural rethink

3 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, internet of things, machine learning, Microsoft, SAP, Tech / By

While almost three-quarters (74%) of in-progress SAP S/4HANA implementation projects are being deployed on public clouds, analyst Gartner has urged IT leaders to avoid simply mirroring their on-premise setups in the cloud. Gartner’s Top practices for deploying SAP S/4HANA in the public cloud report identifies several benefits of public cloud deployments, including the ability to…

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CMA working paper outlines concerns about Microsoft’s competitive hold on UK cloud market

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The interim findings of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) investigation into Microsoft’s cloud software licensing strategy should be a significant cause for concern for the software giant, experts have warned. However, Microsoft maintains its behaviour is having no impact on its nearest competitors, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. The UK competition watchdog…

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