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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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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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Cloud infrastructure spending ticks over thanks to complex workloads and AI

James Bourne — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:44:08 +0000

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments went up almost 8% year on year for the second quarter of 2023 to $24.6 billion (£20.36bn), according to IDC. The biggest winner among the categories was shared cloud infrastructure, for which spending grew 13.7% year on year to $17.9bn in the quarter, and has... Read more »

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Cloudflare points finger at hyperscalers holding cloud data captive

James Bourne — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:17:18 +0000

Cloudflare says organisations are losing control over their IT and security environments – and the big cloud providers are holding all the keys to the castle. The web performance and security provider released a study alongside Forrester which polled almost 450 IT decision makers globally, and found that while organisations had seen a dramatic increase... Read more »

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Why Lenovo’s XaaS play is gaining strength: Keys for digital transformation success

James Bourne — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:06:15 +0000

Lenovo is betting on ‘everything-as-a-service’ (XaaS) to help organisations navigate their digital transformation journeys – and the stars now appear to be aligning to an end-to-end landscape. The value proposition is straightforward: one provider to plan, procure and manage a customer’s IT environment from a single source, offering full maintenance, support and management, real-time insights,... Read more »

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The everlasting IaaS evolution: $100bn revenues and networking maturation

James Bourne — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 06:39:00 +0000

The tech media has spent years arguing whether innovation and market size within infrastructure as a service (IaaS) has finally topped out – but the most recent figures show there is still some way to go yet. 2022 saw the worldwide IaaS market grew by almost 30% (29.7%) to total $120.3 billion (£93.6bn) in revenue,... Read more »

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AWS to put $13 billion into India cloud infrastructure by 2030

James Bourne — Mon, 22 May 2023 08:26:55 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to invest 1,05,600 crores (US $12.7 billion) into the Indian cloud infrastructure market by 2030 to meet growing customer demand in the country. The investment, announced at the AWS Summit in Mumbai, is planned to be for India’s data centre infrastructure and will support more than 130,000 full-time... Read more »

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Why cyber resilience remains an underrated element of the security strategy

James Bourne — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:13:00 +0000

A curious article from February 1’s issue of the Borneo Post shone a light on the gap between expectation and reality when it comes to cyber recovery. Professional services provider KPMG surveyed Asia-Pacific organisations and found almost three quarters (73%) of CISOs did not have the influence to protect their companies fully. Moreover, while progress... Read more »

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Here comes the supercloud: What does it mean for multi-cloud complexity?

James Bourne — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:08:42 +0000

A new concept for cloud networking aims to bring clarity to multi-cloud and bring the true aspirational path we were all promised. Except it’s not that new. Say hello to the supercloud. This time last year, Lori MacVittie, distinguished engineer at F5, wrote for Network Computing around the results of the multi-cloud security and app... Read more »

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