Microsoft Bets Big on UK AI with $3.2bn Investment
Microsoft’s biggest investment in the U.K. to date will see the company double its AI data centre footprint and deliver skills training to more than one million people.
Data Centers
The traditional data center is undergoing many changes, if not a revolution. Hybrid cloud infrastructures, hosted servers, virtualized servers, and new methods to save energy and reduce costs in the data center create an ever-challenging array of decisions for today’s data center managers.
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Gartner's distinguished VP analyst Dennis Smith speaking at the firm's IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies conference in London in November 2023. Image: Gartner Cloud Gartner: By 2028, 70% of Workloads Will Run in a Cloud Computing Environment
According to Gartner, the next wave of cloud computing will see even more complicated workloads migrated over, plus new options and requirements for cloud customers.
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Illustration: Lisa Hornung/TechRepublic Security Microsoft Improves Windows Security with a Path to Move Off NTLM
It’s time to stop relying on the insecure authentication protocol built into Windows. Microsoft is making it easier to switch to secure modern options.
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Image: Corona Borealis/Adobe Stock Australia AI Causing Foundational Data Centre Power and Cooling Conundrum in Australia
Australian data centres are about to consume a lot more power and become much harder to cool thanks to a boom in energy-intensive, much hotter artificial intelligence computing technologies.
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Image: Sashkin/Adobe Stock Big Data 4 Data Center Migration Best Practices
Master data center migration, from strategic planning and asset inventory to continuous testing and post-migration optimization and understand its challenges, for a seamless transition.
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Multiple NVIDIA GH200 chips working together. Image: NVIDIA Innovation Supercomputing ‘23: NVIDIA High-Performance Chips Power AI Workloads
NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise software shown at Supercomputing ‘23 connects accelerated computing to large language model use cases.
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Image: Sashkin/Adobe Stock Security Sandworm, a Russian Threat Actor, Disrupted Power in Ukraine Via Cyberattack
Any company that is strategic could be targeted for the same kind of actions as this cyberattack. Follow these tips to mitigate your company’s risk to this cybersecurity threat.
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Image: The Rebel Fleet Australia Some of the Biggest Movies, TV Shows You Love Rely on Local Data Centre Infrastructure
Australia and New Zealand-based film production partner The Rebel Fleet works on movie and TV projects big and small. CEO Michael Urban says data centre infrastructure is making it all possible.
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Image: Pixabay Cloud Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s $5 Billion Investment in Australia
Microsoft plans to more than double its cloud computing capacity in Australia over the next two years and expand its support for critical national cyber security and technology skills priorities.
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Cloud Google Cloud Platform: What Is It, and Should You Use It?
This guide covers the Google Cloud Platform, its pros and cons and everything a business needs to know about its portfolio.
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Image: ipopba/Adobe Stock Big Data Understand the Basics of Data Governance in E-Commerce
Data governance is necessary in e-commerce as it ensures that decisions are based on quality data while simultaneously managing risk and upholding compliance standards.
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Image: iStockphoto/Vladimir_Timofeev Cloud Impact of Recent Australian Data Centre Outages on Businesses and Risk Mitigation
AWS and Equinix offer advice for hybrid and multicloud strategies to help mitigate data centre risk in light of a recent outage in Australia that hit Bank of Queensland and Jetstar.
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Image: JHVEPhoto/Adobe Stock Security Intel Innovation 2023: Attestation and Fully Homomorphic Encryption Coming to Intel Cloud Services
The attestation service is designed to allow data in confidential computing environments to interact with AI safely, as well as provide policy enforcements and audits.
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Image: ArtemisDiana/Adobe Stock Cloud Cloud Strategies Are Facing a New Era of Strain in Australia, New Zealand
Australian and New Zealand enterprises in the public cloud are facing pressure to optimize cloud strategies due to a growth in usage and expected future demand, including for artificial intelligence use cases.