Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
Boosting employee productivity is regarded as one of the big wins when deploying generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology, a survey has reported. However, in the next 24 months, a greater focus will be placed on functional and industry use cases. The study from IDC, based on a poll of 3,476 people, reported that 43% believe…
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Nvidia APU rumored to equal RTX 4070 laptop GPU in performanceLaptops are already being made with the APU, including from AlienwareThe Arm-based APU could outgun AMD’s Strix Halo by miles for efficiencyNvidia’s apparent plan to make an Arm-based CPU for PCs – in conjunction with MediaTek – raised some eyebrows, certainly, and now we’re hearing…
The reason I’m so excited about genAI products like ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Siri becoming personal assistants in the not-too-distant future is for one particular use case. I like genAI’s ability to answer all sorts of questions, even though I know it can hallucinate information. I’m also a fan of what OpenAI has achieved…
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Microsoft has taken issue with a newly formed cloud-focused lobbying body, known as the Open Cloud Coalition (OCC), describing the organisation is an “astroturf group” organised by Google. The OCC debuted on Tuesday 29 October, positioning itself as a group focused on making the public cloud a more transparent, open and competitive market for enterprise…
Samsung may have been the first to launch an “AI phone” this year, the Galaxy S24 series, which came with Galaxy AI preloaded, but Samsung didn’t offer a vision similar to Apple’s Apple Intelligence at the time. The Galaxy S24 offered plenty of AI features elsewhere at launch, like summarization, translation, and image generation, but…
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Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, especially when it comes to data in the cloud, but to know exactly what information they hold is…
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Niall Robinson, head of product innovation at the Met Office, is an experienced executive who turns novel ideas at the UK’s national weather and climate service into valuable outputs. He’s been with the organisation for 12 years and still finds places to drive change. “One of the cool things about the Met Office is the…
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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) business is set to hit an annual run rate for subscription renewals of $10bn. For the quarter that ended September 30, the company reported revenue of $65.6bn, up 16%. The Microsoft Cloud business posted revenue of $38.9bn, an increase of 22%, while its productivity and business processes business reported a 12%…
