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AI clouds for optimal business objectives and outcomes

Yoram Novick — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:52:00 +0000

As AI is gaining traction, many cloud solutions are enhanced to better support AI use cases. One of the biggest advantages of AI-enhanced clouds is their ability to optimise infrastructure resources to fit the particular AI Inference needs of any business. Whether a company is working on tasks like financial planning, improved customer support, or […]

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Defra and Kyndryl extend partnership to improve digital services for UK citizens

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:19:00 +0000

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has selected IT infrastructure services provider, Kyndryl, to oversee and support its core network infrastructure. It is hoped this one-year extension of their existing partnership will enable Defra to further reduce technical debt as part of its cloud adoption journey. Defra provides numerous critical digital services […]

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Less than a fifth of IT professionals say cloud infrastructure meets their needs

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:45:00 +0000

Less than one in five (18%) IT professionals believe their present cloud infrastructure satisfies their business needs, indicating a large disconnect between expectations and reality when it comes to cloud adoption. This is according to new data from SolarWinds, based on a survey of 272 global IT professionals, which shows that despite the cloud’s promises […]

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Wipro extends relationship with the John Lewis Partnership to complete cloud transformation

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:40:00 +0000

Wipro, a technology services and consulting company, has been selected by the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) to transform and modernise the firm’s IT infrastructure. The transformation project will help the UK retailer advance its industry leadership and future-proof its business to drive ongoing, sustainable growth. As part of this engagement, Wipro FullStride Cloud will extend […]

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AWS Deadline Cloud launched to transform content rendering pipelines

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:29:00 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled AWS Deadline Cloud, a fully managed service that helps customers set up, deploy and scale rendering projects in minutes, so they can improve the efficiency of their rendering pipelines and take on more work. With Deadline Cloud, customers creating computer graphics, visual effects (VFX), or innovating their pipelines to […]

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Half of EMEA cloud costs going to fees, but most plan to increase capacity

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:20:00 +0000

European organisations are still beleaguered by storage bills as 50% of all cloud storage costs in EMEA go to data access and usage fees rather than capacity, according to the 2024 Global Cloud Storage Index from Wasabi Technologies. Still, EMEA companies see the value of cloud storage services and plan to increase their spend in […]

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IT leaders are choosing hybrid cloud strategies due to flexibility, cost-effectiveness and security

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:50:20 +0000

25% of organisations surveyed in the UK have already moved half or more of their cloud based-workloads back to on-premises infrastructures, or are considering doing so, in a phenomenon known as cloud repatriation. This is according to a recent study by Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, in which 350 IT leaders were […]

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China cloud infrastructure spend hits $9.2bn in Q3 with ‘relentless’ AI focus

James Bourne — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:16:54 +0000

Spending on cloud infrastructure services in mainland China hit $9.2 billion USD (£7.29bn) in the third quarter of 2023 accounting for 12% of global cloud spend, according to analyst firm Canalys. The three largest vendors in China – Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent – represent almost three quarters (73%) of the market and customer spending. Alibaba […]

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Oracle offers OCI compute services anywhere with Compute Cloud@Customer

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:50:55 +0000

Oracle has unveiled Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, a rack-scale cloud infrastructure that enables organisations to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compute services anywhere. With Compute Cloud@Customer, customers can develop, deploy, secure, and manage workloads using the same software stack as OCI in deployments as small as a single rack. Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer enables organisisations to run applications and middleware […]

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90% of IT buyers have bought tech their infrastructure can’t support

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 24 May 2023 07:45:46 +0000

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), a specialist in data storage technology and services, in partnership with Wakefield Research, has released a new report identifying the obstacles organisations across industries face in today’s digital economy while on the path to modernisation, and the investment priorities they are focused on to support business growth. The new report, “IT […]

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