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Jaap van Vliet, Ambit Software: Navigating the intricacies of digital transformation

Ryan Daws — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:39:12 +0000

In an interview at this year’s Digital Transformation Week Europe, Ambit Software Managing Director Jaap van Vliet delved into the intricacies of digital transformation and how the company utilises innovative strategies to assist clients globally. “We try to help to accelerate our customers to improve their business,” says van Vliet. “We do that from multi-angles:... Read more »

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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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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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Andrew Egoroff, ProcessUnity: On the increased cybersecurity threat and mitigating risks

Ryan Daws — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:53:45 +0000

Cloud Tech caught up with Andrew Egoroff, Senior Cybersecurity Specialist at ProcessUnity, to discuss the increased threat around the Russia-Ukraine crisis and how to mitigate risks from third parties. A business can implement excellent internal cybersecurity measures, but a slip-up from a third-party vendor can have devastating consequences. ProcessUnity specialises in helping businesses determine what... 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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Amazon criticises New York Times reporting of open source theft concerns

Ryan Daws — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:55:10 +0000

AWS vice president Andi Gutmans has penned a scathing response to an article highlighting concerns that Amazon is stealing the innovations of startups.

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London police using Big Data to tackle small crime

Ryan Daws — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:54:40 +0000

New software, developed by Accenture, pulls large amounts of data in-use by the police service and puts it through an advanced analytics engine to predict when criminals are likely to strike.

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China launches “Great Firewall” attack against iCloud

Ryan Daws — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:46:26 +0000

According to a report by web censorship watchdog Great Fire, China's infamous state firewall is performing a MITM (Man-in-the-Middle) attack against users of Apple's Cloud-based services.

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