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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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Nordic cloud provider DataCrunch raises €13M to scale AI infrastructure

Dashveenjit Kaur — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:00:41 +0000

Helsinki-based cloud infrastructure provider DataCrunch has secured €13 million in seed funding to expand its specialised computing services across Europe. The investment round was led by byFounders, with participation from J12 Ventures, Local Tapiola, Nordea, and several technology sector investors, positioning the company to develop its cloud infrastructure optimised explicitly for artificial intelligence workloads. DataCrunch, […]

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VAST Data extends global namespace capabilities to Google Cloud

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:20:00 +0000

VAST Data, a AI data platform company, hads made the VAST Data Platform available with Google Cloud. By extending the VAST Data Platform’s global namespace with Google Cloud, organisations have the flexibility to deploy multi-node VAST Clusters either independently with Google Cloud or in conjunction with on-premises VAST clusters, offering the full suite of platform features to […]

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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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NVIDIA GTC roundup: Next-gen data centres and cloud provider partnerships

James Bourne — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:04:41 +0000

NVIDIA’s 2024 GTC event, taking place through March 21, saw the usual plethora of announcements one would expect from a major tech conference. One stood out, from founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote: the next-generation Blackwell GPU architecture, enabling organisations to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models. “The future is […]

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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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Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud: Cost optimisation, FinOps and GenAI key takeaways

James Bourne — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:57:48 +0000

Flexera has admitted that 2024 is a ‘complex’ year for cloud adoption as the company publishes its latest State of the Cloud report – and while cost optimisation remains key, sustainability is slowly emerging as an important differentiator. The report – the 13th – is often regarded as a benchmark study for the industry, with […]

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UK cloud consultancy Rebura acquired by global tech distributor Westcon-Comstor

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:47:30 +0000

Cloud consultancy Rebura, which specialises in supporting AWS cloud migrations and modernisations across the UK, Nordics and central Europe, has been acquired by global technology distributor Westcon-Comstor. Founded in 2017, London-based Rebura supports companies of all sizes as they build and optimise their apps and workloads on AWS, increasing productivity, scalability, cost efficiency and security. […]

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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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