SAP has announced that the BBC has continued its relationships with SAP to transform its IT systems – including finance, HR and procurement. The BBC will use RISE with SAP on Amazon Web Services (AWS). As part of the BBC’s continued digital transformation journey, the move to the cloud will mean it’s simpler and more cost effective for the BBC to run its IT systems – helping it focus investment on...
Alcatraz AI has presented its eBook, Navigating the Future of Data Center Security. As the number of data centers grows at an exponential rate leading up to 2025, Alcatraz AI has compiled best practices and strategies for securing sensitive information, beginning with protecting the data center’s perimeter. A Multi-Level Approach to Data Security Begins in the Physical World AI and the need ...
AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a secure physical location where you can bring your storage devices to upload data to the AWS Cloud faster. The first Data Transfer Terminals are located in Los Angeles and New York, with plans to add more locations globally. AWS says, “You can reserve a time slot to visit your nearest location and upload data rapidly and se...
Siemens Smart Infrastructure has published a new report entitled “Digital Transformation, Sustainable Returns: The New Pathway of Infrastructure”. It is based on a survey of 650 senior executives and explores how digitalization can be harnessed to accelerate decarbonization and transform the world’s infrastructure – particularly in energy, buildings and industrial operations. The findi...
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) public cloud services (PCS) market, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS), is projected to generate $203.0 billion in revenue for 2024. That’s according to the latest Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC), which forecasts tha...
The global Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure market is on track for unprecedented growth, poised to surpass $100 billion USD in spending by 2028, according to the latest findings from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Tracker. Organizations increased spending on compute and storage hardware infrastructure for AI deploymen...
Global data centre investors and operators are confident about the sector’s future, with 70% of respondents predicting increased investment in data centres in the next two years, new research by DLA Piper has found. Almost all respondents also foresee AI driving demand for data centres, primarily through machine learning and natural language processing. Those surveyed have also expressed significa...
Qareeb Data Centres, the Middle East’s edge data centre provider, and Gcore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Touchdown Middle East 2024 conference in Bahrain. This strategic partnership is set to boost digital infrastructure in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and support the region’s journey to becoming a hub of innovation, with a special focus on delivering cutting-edge A...
Juniper Networks and Finnish telecom and digital service provider Elisa Oyj have announced the deployment of 800Gbps Ethernet services over 800ZR coherent transceivers. Elisa is deploying 800Gbps technology within its backbone network, enhancing the development of mobile and optical fiber networks in Finland. The first deployment is in the Helsinki metropolitan area’s backbone network, using Junip...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced key advancements on the HPE GreenLake cloud that simplify management across complex, heterogeneous hybrid IT environments and enable customers to increase agility and innovation. HPE VM Essentials (VME) Software: HPE VM Essentials is a unified VM management experience that provides customers with choice and flexibility for managing their virtualized worklo...
Snowflake and Anthropic have announced a strategic multi-year partnership that will enable global enterprises to develop and scale easy, efficient, and trusted AI products, apps, and workflows powered by the latest state-of-the-art models. Anthropic’s newest Claude 3.5 models will be available for users to securely leverage within Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s fully managed AI service that prov...
Vultr has announced that NetApp has joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a partnership program consisting of industry-leading solutions enabling composable AI cloud services. By combining the capabilities of NetApp ONTAP with Vultr’s global network of cloud data center locations, organizations can now choose to use NetApp’s enterprise-grade data management features while leveraging Vultr’s...