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Google Cloud unveils AI-optimised infrastructure enhancements

Ryan Daws — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:01:41 +0000

Google Cloud has announced significant advancements in its AI-optimised infrastructure, including fifth-generation TPUs and A3 VMs based on NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Traditional approaches to designing and constructing computing systems are proving inadequate for the surging demands of workloads like generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Over the last five years, the parameters in LLMs... Read more »

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Microsoft buys stake in London Stock Exchange Group in twist on digital transformation deals

James Bourne — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:25:55 +0000

Microsoft has announced a 10-year strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to put the financial markets providers’ infrastructure and data analytics onto the Microsoft cloud – and has acquired a 4% stake in the group in the process. Seasoned cloud industry watchers will know how these sorts of strategic partnerships play out.... Read more »

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Why it’s time to ‘embrace the discomfort’ with cloud vendor lock-in

James Bourne — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:53:47 +0000

Vendor lock-in, alongside security, are issues that have pervaded IT and software procurement, whether computing has been centralized or not. In the era of the cloud, with benefits ranging from scalability to speed, the hoped-for panacea has turned out to be less than expected. For a while, the vendors and analysts thought they’d cracked it... Read more »

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Equinix Cloud Transformation Conference 2022: The key takeaways

Ryan Daws — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:23:43 +0000

This year’s Cloud Transformation Conference, powered by Equinix and TechForge, saw industry leaders gather to discuss the importance of a “digital-first” strategy. For this roundup, CloudTech caught up with some of the world-class speakers at the event to get their thoughts on the key topics discussed during the conference. Here’s a list of the speakers... Read more »

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IDC predicts cloud infrastructure spending this year will hit $90.2B

Ryan Daws — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:59:56 +0000

IDC forecasts that cloud infrastructure spending will exceed $90 billion in 2022. In Q1 2022, IDC found that spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments – including dedicated and shared environments – increased 17.2 percent year-over-year to $18.3 billion. The firm’s analysts note the strong growth is despite “tight supply of some... Read more »

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Alibaba launches ‘Data-as-a-Service’ firm Lingyang

Ryan Daws — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:57:27 +0000

Alibaba has spun out a “Data-as-a-Service” (DaaS) business called Lingyang Intelligent Service Company. Lingyang will offer solutions to enterprises that were initially developed for Alibaba. “The launch of the new firm is an important step taken by Alibaba after long-term consideration,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba. The team behind Lingyang has vast... Read more »

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Greg Day, Palo Alto Networks: On protecting our way of life in the digital age

Ryan Daws — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:12:06 +0000

Security threats have evolved considerably over the years and Palo Alto Networks knows more than most that “protecting our way of life” also requires a digital approach in the modern world. Historically, nations would protect their way of life by having the sharpest swords, the biggest guns, the sturdiest tanks, or the fastest planes. Nowadays,... Read more »

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UK government advises firms to use cloud to reduce carbon emissions

Fin Strathern — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:10:14 +0000

UK businesses are being told to accelerate cloud adoption in an upscaled effort to tackle climate change, the UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has advised. The recommendation is part of a series of steps that businesses are being told to consider to help curb their carbon emissions by making changes... Read more »

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Building trust will be “deciding factor in cloud service provider competition” in 2021

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 21 May 2021 12:41:46 +0000

Spend on cloud infrastructure services by US-based companies grew 29% in Q1 2021 to a record $18.6 billion (£13.10bn), after global cloud spend consolidated in 2020. Total cloud expenditure in the US increased $4.2bn (£2.96bn) in the past year and $621 million (£437m) in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest Canalys... Read more »

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Oxford University partners with Oracle to ID COVID-19 variants

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:22:00 +0000

Oxford University has selected Oracle to help speed up the identification of COVID-19 variants. A specialist platform developed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will help with global genomic sequencing and examination, thereby mitigating the impact of potentially dangerous strains. The emergence of more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus is threatening to slow the global recovery... Read more »

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