Infinity Group, a Microsoft-focused cloud services, security and business applications partner in the UK, has acquired RedkiteCRM, one of the few Microsoft-focused Housing Management System providers serving the social housing sector. RedkiteCRM provides deep industry expertise and dedicated IP catering to the unique challenges faced by housing associations managing tenant communications and operations. In a… Read more »
Cloudflare says organisations are losing control over their IT and security environments – and the big cloud providers are holding all the keys to the castle. The web performance and security provider released a study alongside Forrester which polled almost 450 IT decision makers globally, and found that while organisations had seen a dramatic increase… Read more »
Vertice, an optimisation platform for SaaS and cloud spend, has unveiled the results of its global survey, ‘The State of Cloud Cost Optimisation’, which reveals that organisations are being held back from controlling their cloud spending and gaining ROI because of a lack of alignment between finance and tech leaders. Amidst cloud costs rising by… Read more »
Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider, has partnered with HMRC through to end of September 2024. Drawing on Kyndryl’s position in managed services, the deal will see Kyndryl continue to manage a proportion of HMRC’s (His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) mainframe services while Kyndryl Consult will undertake discovery work to prepare for cloud migration and… Read more »
Lenovo is betting on ‘everything-as-a-service’ (XaaS) to help organisations navigate their digital transformation journeys – and the stars now appear to be aligning to an end-to-end landscape. The value proposition is straightforward: one provider to plan, procure and manage a customer’s IT environment from a single source, offering full maintenance, support and management, real-time insights,… Read more »
Hybrid work is here to stay. The Survey of Business Uncertainty, run by the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, the University of Chicago and Stanford and which polls 500 US businesses each month, recently found that executives expect the number of hybrid workers in their firms to increase, as well as fully remote workers, between now… Read more »
Google Cloud has announced significant advancements in its AI-optimised infrastructure, including fifth-generation TPUs and A3 VMs based on NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Traditional approaches to designing and constructing computing systems are proving inadequate for the surging demands of workloads like generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Over the last five years, the parameters in LLMs… Read more »
The John Lewis Partnership, the UK’s largest employee-owned company, has formed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud, worth £100m over the next five years. The move represents a major expansion of the successful relationship it has had with Google since 2012. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in the John Lewis Partnership’s digital transformation… Read more »
An intelligent monitoring system has been successfully introduced by Scottish Water across rural locations in the Highlands and Islands, using Internet of Things (IoT) technology to gather essential data that helps keep the water network in Scotland safe. Using a device developed by CENSIS for M2M Cloud – Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and… Read more »
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to invest 1,05,600 crores (US $12.7 billion) into the Indian cloud infrastructure market by 2030 to meet growing customer demand in the country. The investment, announced at the AWS Summit in Mumbai, is planned to be for India’s data centre infrastructure and will support more than 130,000 full-time… Read more »