The hyperscaler cloud providers plan to spend $1tn on hardware optimised for artificial intelligence (AI) by 2028, according to market researcher Dell’Oro.Meanwhile, enterprises are spending big on AI, with plans for AI projects fuelling record spending on datacentre hardware in 2024. In Asia, IDC found the region’s top 100 companies plan to spend 50% of…
BT Group is doubling down on its cloud-led digital transformation efforts with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by signing another five-year strategic agreement with the public cloud giant. The agreement is in support of BT Group’s Build, Connect and Accelerate strategy, which is geared towards positioning the company as the UK’s “most trusted connector”. As detailed…
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OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has released two large language models (LLMs) under the Apache 2.0 open source licence. The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are open-weight language models, which OpenAI claimed deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. According to OpenAI, the new models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks and are optimised…
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Changes to Java and VMware software licensing that have been rolled out over the past few years have a material impact on the total cost of running existing Java-based enterprise systems. IT decision-makers are having to weigh up the extra costs with the additional cost and potential disruption arising from reengineering enterprise Java applications to…
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Daniele Tonella, global head of IT at ING Bank, tells Computer Weekly about his first nine months in the job, which has so far seen him navigate four layers of tech. The chief technology officer (CTO), who describes himself as “a mechanical engineer by mistake” with a passion for tech, started coding when he was…
Cyber security, whether singly or in tandem with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), dominates enterprise IT investment plans in 2025, according to Informa TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group’s annual spending intentions research. The research, based on responses from 1,351 IT and business professionals worldwide, found that cyber security outpaces all other categories of initiative, with a dramatic…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has hit the headlines and the datacentres, but with it comes a range of performance and operating considerations that impact storage as much as any other IT discipline. In this review, we look at the key demands of AI processing on data storage, the type of storage AI requires, and the suitability…
The big news from online marketplace Notonthehighstreet.com (NOTHS) in the build-up to peak trading is its new partnership with delivery platform Deliveroo, announced in September. NOTHS is one of the early wave of non-food-specific retail businesses partnering with Deliveroo to add speedy fulfilment options to their offering. Screwfix led the charge in 2023, and others…
Salesforce and Nvidia have committed to a partnership that will see Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform – including accelerated computing capability and AI software – brought to bear alongside the Salesforce platform and its new Agentforce AI agent service, developing more advanced AI capabilities for organisations with autonomous agent and interactive avatars, among other things.…
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It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…
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