Fifty years ago, three IBM System 370 mainframes powered a pioneering scheduling system run by the UK’s national rail operator, British Rail. Called Total Operations Processing System (Tops), when it went live on 27 October 1975, the system revolutionised the control of all rail freight operations across Britain online and in real time. It used…
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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…
The government has fleshed out details of how it plans to spend £55bn on research and development (R&D) out of the £86bn committed as part of the 2025 Spending Review. The funding, spread over the next five years, is a key pillar in Labour’s industrial strategy to grow the economy and improve people’s lives. Earlier…
Most enterprises now run applications in containers, and so they must pay attention to how they store and manage data for containerised applications. The Nutanix enterprise cloud index, compiled for the cloud software supplier by VansonBourne and published earlier this year, found 54% of firms have containerised all their applications and as many as 98%…
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Despite publicly belittling software patents and lobbying for patent reform that would make it difficult for companies to use such patents in patent-based lawsuits, Google is building an impressive arsenal of patents of its own at a much faster rate than in previous years. While the move may be perceived as an attempt to defend its…
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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…
Europe’s quantum startups fear a bureaucratic European Union (EU) administration will take too long to implement its strategy to become a global leader in the emerging technology, while inhibitive native investors threaten to starve them out of business for want of capital.With the second administration of European Commission (EC) chief Ursula von der Leyen concerned with US…
Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud. The latest block storage offerings make use of the cloud’s advantages, without sacrificing performance. Such offerings allow customers to run applications in the cloud and use block storage there, such as proof-of-concept projects before they’re rolled…
Asked for his advice as to whether it’s a smart idea to switch from being an IT leader to running your own company, Nassib Chamoun has some advice for potential poachers turned gamekeepers. “If you’re looking for stability, my recommendation is to stay where you are as an employee,” he says. “If you can accept…
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IBM and Nasa have made available on Hugging Face an open source artificial intelligence (AI) model called Surya, trained to understand and predict how solar activity affects Earth and space-based technology. Surya applies AI to solar image interpretation and space weather forecasting research. According to IBM, it can be used to help protect GPS navigation,…
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