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• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Banks move to contain impact of Samsung biometric flaw

  NatWest and Nationwide have moved to lock down their mobile banking apps after Samsung warned of a biometric security flaw on its Galaxy and Note S10 devices

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Executive interview: How Moleskine digitises ideas

  Handwritten notes jotted down on paper are not often shared, but capturing these digitally can encourage a creative approach to collaboration

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  NordVPN blames datacentre provider for server breach

  VPN provider insists no user data was compromised in a March 2018 server breach, and says its datacentre provider failed to inform it of the issue

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  APAC spending on AI systems to hit $6.2bn in 2019

  Led by China and organisations in the banking industry, APAC spending on artificial intelligence is set to grow by almost 64% this year, according to IDC

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Edge computing, 5G spur mobile mixed reality market

  Research identifies 5G networks and edge computing as two key emerging technologies that will accelerate the development of mixed reality from 2020

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers

  Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  O2 promises ‘revolutionary’ offers as it joins UK 5G party

  O2 has become the latest operator in the UK to offer a 5G network and claims to be able to demonstrate real-world 5G business use cases that can potentially boost the British economy

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Amazon consumer devices vulnerable to two-year-old exploit

  Millions of older Amazon Echo and Kindle devices are still susceptible to a Wi-Fi vulnerability that was first disclosed in 2017

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  BEIS launches multimillion-pound security investment package

  Government is making available more than £50m to support a range of new cyber security initiatives and collaborations, including the latest phase of its Digital Security by Design programme

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Barclays demonstrates proof-of-concept quantum clearing algorithm

  Barclays and IBM researchers publish paper on a quantum computing algorithm for securities transaction trading

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Commvault adds Metallic SaaS backup and Hedvig features

  Backup software maker adds software-as-a-service Metallic, which can protect on-premise, cloud and hybrid platforms. Meanwhile, Hedvig gets datacentre features and erasure coding

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Intel makes Pivot towards 5G with Smart Edge acquisition

  Chip giant Intel has signed a definitive agreement to buy the Smart Edge intelligent-edge platform business from infrastructure and service provider Pivot Technology Solutions

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Attackers hunt iPhone jailbreakers in click fraud campaign

  Research by Cisco’s Talos threat intel unit has identified a new click fraud campaign targeting people looking to jailbreak their iPhone devices

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  AI Singapore to set up on-premise HPC infrastructure

  Singapore’s national AI programme is getting its own high-performance computing infrastructure to support more compute intensive workloads

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  PLC flash: A solid state candidate for analytics and archives?

  We thought flash would end at QLC, but storage media makers are working on penta-level cell, which could push capacity to double figures, but at a further performance cost

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  HP Inc announces restructuring as it tries to get European supplies moving

  PC and print manufacturer faces an uphill battle in its printer supplies business, particularly in Europe

• October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19

  Microsoft delivers Surface with benefits for enterprise IT

  It may not be headline-grabbing news, but the Surface Pro has screws – it can be taken apart and components such as disk drives can be swapped out

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Intel previews Optane persistent memory, QLC SSD and even PLC

  Intel sets out roadmap for second-generation Optane persistent memory – between SSD and DRAM – as well as QLC SSD, with talk of PLC (penta-level cell) after that

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  HPE refurbishes legacy IT assets to make money for users

  HPE Financial Services is giving old IT assets a new lease of life at its tech renewal site in Erskine, near Glasgow, as part of a promotion of the circular economy

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Mayor launches guidance on building access to increase mobile coverage

  London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new standard agreement for commercial landlords and public property owners to make it easier to access rooftops to install 5G

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  How Graphcore is putting AI on steroids

  UK chipmaker Graphcore’s intelligence processing unit may just hold the key to unlocking the full potential of artificial intelligence

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Gartner: 5G launch fails to stem decline of smartphone sales

  Consumers see no reason to upgrade their current high-end 4G devices. But next year, 5G's greater security and faster speeds may reverse this trend

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  How drones and machine learning can prevent crocodile attacks

  Cloud-powered drones equipped with machine learning algorithms will soon be able to detect crocodiles lurking in the waters of Queensland, Australia

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  National Library of Scotland says aye to Scality object storage

  National digitised archives move off Hitachi SANs and Qualstar tape, object storage is embraced and a “no backup” strategy put in place with petabyte-scale Scality S3/file deployment

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Why quantum needs a classic approach for supremacy

  Google claims it has developed an algorithm for a quantum computer that would take a traditional “classical” computer 10,000 years to run. We investigate

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Pure adds Optane and QLC flash to boost performance and capacity

  Flash storage player adds Intel Optane modules performance, a capacity flash range based on QLC drives, plus rebranding and GA of its on-premise/cloud leasing service

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  Cloud provider sweeps away legacy storage for 1PB of Infinidat

  Core DataCloud decommissions storage from several vendors to consolidate to 1PB on Infinidat Infinibox, with DRAM and flash to accelerate hot data in front of disk back end

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  AWS G4 aims to lower cost of GPU-powered AI inference

  Amazon Web Services seeks to cut the cost of running artificial intelligence inference engines with the introduction of a Nvida V100 GPU-based instance

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  The perfect storm for silicon photonics

  By packaging optics with silicon chips, silicon photonics will enable datacentres to keep up with the exponential growth in demand for bandwidth

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  IBM opens new centre to house 53-qubit quantum computer

  IBM hopes its cloud-connected quantum computer in New York will encourage the development of quantum-optimised software

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Robotics and Automation: UK must tackle skills, immigration and SME challenges

  Home-grown skills may not be enough to enable the UK to build on the government's Industrial Strategy and push robotics and automation

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise

  Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  IBM introduces z15 mainframe with security data passport

  In the new z15 enterprise server, IBM has focused on making data secure and auditable wherever it resides.

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Spectra tilts at HSM with StorCycle storage management software

  Spectra Logic unveils newly-developed storage management platform and two-tier file access and object storage with all data visible to all users for restore

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Ctera launches hybrid cloud HC2400M at media use cases

  Edge filer specialist hits up the media and entertainment market with its NAS-like hardware that caches data locally, syncs with other nodes and stages data to the cloud

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  Commvault buys Hedvig in push for global storage player status

  Backup player Commvault aims to bring together datacentre and multi-cloud operations with software-defined storage that can unify access to almost any storage medium, anywhere

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Virtual Instruments brings automated VM right-sizing in v6.2

  Storage and app performance specialist can now change virtual machine compute and network resources according to workload, with increased shift to analytics and proactive monitoring

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  How the University of Liverpool balances HPC and the cloud

  The University of Liverpool has been running a hybrid HPC environment since 2017, which uses PowerEdge nodes and AWS public cloud services

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  At least 47,000 servers vulnerable to remote attack

  All organisations using Supermicro servers are being urged to update firmware to block remote attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  Aberdeen Standard Investment deploys Igel for VDI

  The investment management group is rolling out virtual desktop infrastructure globally and will use the secure Linux platform Igel to manage the VDI environment

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  Assessing China’s machine learning platforms

  In a new market research report, technology analyst firm IDC offers insights on key suppliers of machine learning platforms in China

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  European colocation market set for another record-breaking year, but London market growth slows

  CBRE's quarterly colocation tracker shows the Frankfurt market is leading the way in take-up rates, as London’s 2019 growth rates suffer a hangover

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  5G testbed brings Li-Fi broadband to Orkney

  A number of homes on the remote island of Graemsay in the Orkneys are testing so-called Li-Fi technology as a broadband delivery mechanism

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Tech firms join forces to boost cloud security

  Top tech firms are to collaborate on open source technologies, tools, frameworks and standards that accelerate the adoption of confidential computing to boost security in cloud and edge computing

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Almost 40% of UK tech talent resides in London bubble

  Despite cities around the UK being home to a multitude of tech talent, the London bubble still prevails, with a majority of those with digital skills collecting in the capital

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Huawei to US: Ban violates free market principles

  Huawei has hit back at the US government’s latest moves to restrict its activities

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  Startup unveils trillion-transistor AI accelerator chip

  The AI chip has 10,000 times more bandwidth to accelerate artificial intelligence training

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  US extends temporary stay on Huawei ban

  American network operators given extra wiggle room to wean themselves off Huawei’s hardware

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Cisco frozen out of China as Trump’s trade war rages on

  Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins reveals the firm is being edged out of the Chinese market

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Cloud demand fuels 18% rise in colocation M&A activity in first half of 2019

  Merger and acquisition activity in colocation market leaps as demand for cloud continues to reshape the enterprise and hyperscale datacentre landscape