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Sep 28 2025

What UK CIOs get wrong about AI and cloud … and how to fix it

5 minutes of reading / agile, AI, automation, compliance, digital transformation, HP, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex / Leave a Comment

Over the past decade, UK organisations have made significant strides in modernising their technology estate. Often though, when it comes to cloud and AI, many organisations still fall into the same trap: chasing capability without clarity; or implementing technology without fully understanding the business problem it’s meant to tackle. As someone who works daily with…

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Sep 8 2025

What Does It Mean When A USB Port Is Blue?

2 minutes of reading / 5G, HP, Tech / By Comkex

Minakryn Ruslan/Shutterstock The USB, or Universal Serial Bus, is a common type of connector or port that has been an integral part of our lives for many years. Most computing devices or peripherals we use, like our keyboards and mice, rely on USB for their data or power needs. While the newer USB Type-C port…

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Aug 25 2025

Lenovo partners its way up the storage maker rankings

7 minutes of reading / AI, Azure, Cloud, containers, Dell, Dropbox, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, hybrid cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Lenovo, Microsoft, NEC, Tech / By Comkex

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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Aug 22 2025

L’Oréal to promote cyber resilience for Britain’s beauty salons

4 minutes of reading / HP, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex

The UK and Ireland branch of multibillion-pound beauty giant L’Oréal is to work with the National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG) as a national ambassador, helping promote cyber resilience best practice across the UK’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) community, focusing on its huge network of customers who operate small, local beauty and hairdressing salons.…

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Aug 21 2025

Storage data management tools: What they do and what’s available

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, automation, Cloud, compliance, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Tech / By Comkex

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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Aug 21 2025

HPE taps into AI market demand with Nvidia Blackwell-powered servers

2 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Computer, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Microsoft, Tech / By Comkex

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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Jul 23 2025

UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity

3 minutes of reading / AI, Dell, HP, Intel, Tech, Technology / By Comkex

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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Jul 10 2025

British hacker IntelBroker faces years in a US prison cell

5 minutes of reading / Cisco, Computer, HP, Intel, Tech / By Comkex

A 25-year-old British national named as Kai West faces a lengthy prison term in the US after a series of charges against him were unsealed by the authorities, alleging his involvement in multiple cyber attacks. West is alleged to have been the man behind the IntelBroker identity. Working with a group of hackers, he is…

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Jun 17 2025

Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up

6 minutes of reading / ABB, AI, Computer, Ericsson, GDPR, HP, Intel, open source, robotics, Tech / By Comkex

Financiers picked up the pace of funding in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Sweden last month, after an urgent government AI Commission warned that a lack of private investment was hindering the country’s scientific and economic development. In the space of a fortnight at the end of May, the nation with one of the least…

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May 26 2025

Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

8 minutes of reading / AI, Azure, data analytics, digital transformation, e-commerce, Git, GitHub, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, Tech / By Comkex

When Rom Kosla, CIO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), joined the technology giant in July 2023, the move represented a big shift in direction. Previously CIO at retailer Ahold Delhaize and CIO for enterprise solutions at PepsiCo, Kosla was a consumer specialist who wanted to apply his knowledge in a new sector. “I liked the…

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