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Digging into the CMA’s provisional take on AWS and Microsoft’s hold on UK cloud market

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have not taken kindly to the UK competition watchdog’s proposal to take a targeted approach to levelling the playing field for smaller providers operating in the UK cloud services market.The published provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into how the UK cloud infrastructure services…

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

6 minutes of reading / AI, Azure, Cloud, data analytics, Google, Google Cloud, hybrid cloud, Intel, machine learning, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

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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Barclays takes on more GreenLake

2 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, digital transformation, HP, hybrid cloud, multicloud, Tech / By

Barclays has extended a private cloud contract with HPE to use GreenLake Cloud as a core pillar of its hybrid cloud strategy. Barclays signed a strategic contract with HPE in 2021 to deliver a global private cloud platform, hosting more than 100,000 workloads across the bank’s strategic hubs in the UK, the US and Asia.…

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Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads

5 minutes of reading / Accenture, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, data analytics, Dell, Hitachi, HP, hybrid cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, multicloud, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Tech / By

Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…

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Hybrid cloud storage vs on-premise: What data goes where?

5 minutes of reading / AI, AWS, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, hybrid cloud, multicloud, SAP, Tech / By

For enterprises that want to extend their storage strategy, the public cloud is a place to start that can bring quick wins. After all, cloud technology is quick to deploy, needs little to no capital outlay, and can grow quickly with the business to store more data, especially unstructured data. Analyst Gartner predicts that enterprises…

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Storage technology explained: AI and data storage

8 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, chatbot, Cloud, Dell, Hitachi, HP, hybrid cloud, IBM, internet of things, machine learning, microservices, multicloud, Tech / By

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) promises a step change in the automation fundamental to IT, with applications ranging from simple chatbots to almost unthinkable levels of complexity, content generation and control. Storage forms a key part of AI, to supply data for training and store the potentially huge volumes of data generated, or…

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IT leaders dial back cloud-first strategies as hybrid IT becomes more of an investment priority

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, automation, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Computer, digital transformation, hybrid cloud, multicloud, Tech, Technology / By

Cloud-first IT strategies seem to be falling out of favour with technology decision-makers and business leaders, suggests data from the TechTarget/ESG 2024 Technology Spending Intentions study. More than 1,400 technology decision-makers and business leaders participated in the study, which aims to shine a light on the IT investment priorities of enterprises around the world over…

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CMA sets initial scope of UK cloud market anti-trust probe into AWS and Microsoft

3 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provided some further details on the initial scope of its anti-trust investigation into the UK cloud services market, in the wake of Ofcom’s concerns about the stronghold Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft have on the sector. The CMA has confirmed that its investigation will initially focus on…

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Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft?

7 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, Microsoft, multicloud, Tech / By

Ofcom’s work uncovered three types of prevailing anti-competitive behaviour and practices within the UK public cloud market, which is what prompted it to refer the sector over to the CMA for a more thorough probe.This behaviour included the charging of egress fees when customers attempt to extricate their data from a public cloud provider’s servers,…

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Cosmetics giant L’Oréal turns to Databricks for cloud data-led customer personalisation push

3 minutes of reading / AI, multicloud, Tech / By

Cosmetics giant L’Oréal has turned to Databricks to help pull together all of the data stored in its disparate cloud platforms to help support its push to personalise the customer experience. The company is pursuing a multicloud strategy in support of its Beauty Tech Data Platform, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and company data to…

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