All posts by Duncan MacRae

Akamai launches new sites, services and capabilities 

Akamai Technologies, a cloud company that powers and protects life online, has opened the doors on three cloud computing sites that bring to life the company’s vision for a new kind of cloud designed to meet the needs of modern applications that require higher performance, lower-latency, and true global scalability current cloud architectures were not… Read more »

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Qlik launches London and Frankfurt cloud regions

Qlik has launched its new cloud regions in London, UK, and Frankfurt, Germany, enhancing its continued commitment to support growing demand for cloud adoption and innovation in EMEA and around the world. Specifically, these new regions support organisations with UK- and Germany-based footprints that require alignment with region-specific data privacy laws and data locality requirements… Read more »

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Businesses facing multi-cloud challenges ‘must consolidate to a single provider’

Businesses choosing to spread their operations across multiple cloud platforms are currently running into issues when it comes to efficiently extracting data and insights across their operations. With 70% of businesses using different analytics platforms per cloud, operators are finding it more and more time-consuming when it comes to receiving insights due to the mass… Read more »

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Alibaba Cloud launches AI image generation model, Tongyi Wanxiang

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has unveiled its latest AI image generation model, Tongyi Wanxiang (‘Wanxiang’ means ‘tens of thousands of images’). The cutting-edge generative AI model is now available for enterprise customers in China for beta testing. In addition, the cloud pioneer announced the launch of ModelScopeGPT, a versatile framework designed… Read more »

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DigitalOcean snaps up Paperspace to enhance AI offerings

DigitalOcean Holdings, a cloud for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups, has acquired Paperspace, a provider of cloud infrastructure as a service for highly scalable applications leveraging graphics processing units (GPUs). The acquisition and integration of Paperspace’s advanced technology into the DigitalOcean platform will extend DigitalOcean’s offerings, enabling customers to more easily test, develop… Read more »

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VMware and industry leaders collaborate to accelerate adoption of confidential computing

VMware has joined forces with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V Keystone community to simplify the development and operations of confidential computing applications. These industry and community leaders will work together to ease the transition to practical confidential computing by collaborating on and contributing to the open source Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing project.  … Read more »

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Salesforce to invest $4 billion in its UK business over five years

Salesforce, a specialist in CRM, has revealed it plans to invest $4 billion in its UK business in the next five years. Salesforce is experiencing rapid growth in the UK as companies invest in their digital transformations and leverage the incredible innovation cycle around artificial intelligence. The company has been investing in the UK over… Read more »

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Rackspace Technology partners with Google Cloud to offer generative AI services

Rackspace Technology, and end-to-end, multicloud solutions company, has extended its partnership with Google Cloud. Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace (FAIR) for Google Cloud is dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of generative AI solutions in enterprises across all industries. “This partnership is a force multiplier to accelerate the pragmatic and secure… Read more »

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Gcore launches UK-based AI cloud cluster

Gcore, an international cloud and edge solutions provider, has opened an AI Cloud cluster in Newport, Wales. Built with Graphcore’s innovative IPUs, it provides even the smallest companies with access to enterprise-scale IT resources, democratising opportunities for AI development across the UK and Europe. The opening of the new cluster in Newport marks the third… Read more »

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Colt expands cloud voice services with Genesys, Twilio and Zoom

Colt Technology Services (Colt) the digital infrastructure company, has expanded its Colt Intelligent Communication services (CIC) portfolio to meet growing demand from customers requiring agile, cloud-based global voice solutions. New Colt Cloud SIP is a flexible service which seamlessly connects across the Colt IQ network to platforms from leading communication service providers (CSPs) including Genesys, Twilio and Zoom.… Read more »

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