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McDonald’s teams up with Google Cloud for AI and edge use cases

James Bourne — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:31:15 +0000

McDonald’s and Google have announced a multi-year global partnership to utilise Google Cloud technology in its restaurants – with a particular focus on generative AI and edge use cases. The agreement will see updates to various aspects of the McDonald’s restaurant and customer platforms, from the company’s mobile app to self-service kiosks. Edge computing capabilities... Read more »

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AWS re:Invent roundup: Next-gen chips, Amazon Q, and speedy S3

James Bourne — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:44:10 +0000

AWS re:Invent, which has been taking place from November 27 and runs to December 1, has had its usual plethora of announcements: a total of 21 at time of print. Perhaps not surprisingly, given the huge potential impact of generative AI – ChatGPT officially turns one year old today – a lot of focus has... Read more »

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ManageEngine launches cloud-based remote monitoring and management solution

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:42:51 +0000

ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, has launched Endpoint Central MSP Cloud, which it says brings the advantages of the cloud’s scalability, flexibility, and efficiency to the remote monitoring and management (RMM) of endpoints for managed service providers (MSPs). The launch also completes the first stage of the company’s vision for a... Read more »

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Nearly a quarter of businesses are losing more than £100,000 a year to IT skills shortage

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:38:06 +0000

Nearly a quarter of IT decision-makers (22%) estimate IT skills shortages are costing their business more than £100,000 a year in recruitment fees, temporary staffing, increased salaries and investment in lower-level employees to bring them up to speed over time. As the skills shortage worsens, over three-quarters of respondents polled (77%) say their organisation’s IT... Read more »

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HCLSoftware collaborates with AWS to provide SaaS products on AWS

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:21:44 +0000

HCLSoftware, a provider of enterprise software solutions, has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS that will allow customers to consume the HCLSoftware portfolio as cloud native SaaS in AWS Marketplace simplifying their procurement and deployment process. With Cloud-native architectures leveraging Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, HCLSoftware portfolio can seamlessly integrate into customers’ existing cloud environments,... Read more »

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Hackathon bridges data gaps on climate change and migration

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:06:57 +0000

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has hosted the first hackathon on ‘Bridging Climate Change and Human Mobility’, in collaboration with the data cloud company Snowflake, to provide insights on the intersection of environmental factors with migration management and policymaking in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA). The two-part hackathon brought together participants in... Read more »

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Policy as code a strategic imperative – but scalability remains difficult

James Bourne — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:08:00 +0000

Policy as code is becoming ‘integral to the fabric of cloud development’, according to Styra – yet a new survey from the company has shown that alignment, visibility, and consistency remain issues. The study from the cloud-native authorisation software provider, which surveyed 285 developers and technical decision makers, found that the overwhelming majority (94%) saw... Read more »

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40%+ of firms lose revenue from technology downtime and cloud complexity

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:50:19 +0000

55% of enterprises are struggling to derive meaningful insights from their data, highlighting an industry-wide need to deliver technology faster, more reliably and in more places, according to a survey by Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi. The survey revealed ongoing challenges related to security, inflexible systems, isolated... Read more »

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UK startups wasting over two weeks per year – costing the UK an estimated £37bn in GDP

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:00:37 +0000

UK startups and microbusinesses are wasting over two working weeks every year on admin tasks, including managing mobile phone contracts, choosing energy providers, and buying insurance – according to new research. The study, conducted by Beasy, which surveyed 500 business owners employing between 1-9 people, found that startup founders are spending an average of 5.5... Read more »

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Avanade launches cloud insights platform that identifies risks and unlocks cloud spend

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 20:14:57 +0000

Microsoft solution provider Avanade has launched a platform to help businesses establish an AI-ready digital core and unlock funding to reinvest in innovation. ‘Avanade Cloud Impact’ is a data platform that uses the latest in AI and machine learning to integrate and analyse industry, business and technical data sources and generate rich, tailored modernisation for... Read more »

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