The Huawei Cloud Media & Entertainment Summit convened in Amsterdam today, gathering industry leaders from across the globe. The summit focused on leveraging AI to revolutionize the media and entertainment (M&E) industry and nurturing an ecosystem that promises a more vibrant and prosperous future. Jacqueline Shi, president of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service,… Read more »
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Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have formed a strategic partnership to deliver Oracle database services within the AWS cloud environment. The collaboration, set to launch in 2025, introduces Oracle Database@AWS, allowing customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database Service directly on AWS infrastructure. This new offering, account to a statement by… Read more »
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Data centres are going to be classified as critical national infrastructure by the UK Government, which means they will be in the same group as emergency services, finance, healthcare, energy and water. This classification will ensure that data centres receive more government protection than before in the event of a major incident, such as a… Read more »
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As businesses increasingly rely on cloud technologies, ensuring secure and efficient global connectivity is paramount. GNX, a provider of global internet and private connectivity solutions, is addressing this challenge head-on. Ahead of Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe, CloudTech caught up with Rick Mur, Co-Founder & CTO of GNX, to discuss the evolving landscape of… Read more »
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There aren’t many businesses out there today that don’t rely on at least some form of digitisation to survive. Whether it’s as simple as needing a dedicated email server or running a complex LAN that requires a dedicated IT department, cyber security for servers has become crucial in today’s business world. Thankfully, there are specialized… Read more »
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The exponential growth of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) could derail global efforts to reduce carbon emissions, potentially consuming as much energy as entire countries, according to a new report from SAS. The report, ‘Rethinking data and AI in the cloud: How to move to a sustainable future,’ emphasised how senior decision-makers in large organisations… Read more »
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When the science fiction writers of the mid-20th century wrote of artificial intelligence and the apocalyptic dangers contained therein, few speculated a problem as banal as the one we now face. This two-part problem, a syllogism, comes from the facts that AI is vastly useful. And that it is carbon-hungry on a scale few seem… Read more »
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Public cloud services are essential to any company’s scaling and innovation processes in the modern digital world. However, they have also proven that cost-efficiency management tools are far from perfect. The constant growth in cloud waste serves as solid proof of this concept. Resources not used to their full capacity — or unused — still… Read more »
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High-profile, wide-ranging cybersecurity breaches—the SolarWinds supply chain attack, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident, Russian hacking of Microsoft—have brutally exposed the consequences of having inadequate identity security controls. Stolen or mishandled credentials, lateral movement by hackers looking for sensitive data across a compromised network, and privilege escalation (in which a hacker gains unauthorised access) remain the… Read more »
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Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is reportedly considering building a large data centre in Vietnam, according to an unnamed source familiar with the plans. If realised, this would mark the first major investment of its kind by a U.S. technology giant in the Southeast Asian country. According to a confidential source, Google is assessing the… Read more »
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