Meta’s Ye (Charlotte) Qi took the stage at QCon San Francisco 2024, to discuss the challenges of running LLMs at scale. As reported by InfoQ, her presentation focused on what it takes to manage massive models in real-world systems, highlighting the obstacles posed by their size, complex hardware requirements, and demanding production environments. She compared… Read more »
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Despite widespread market volatility and geopolitical tensions, the global tech sector is demonstrating unexpected resilience, according to a comprehensive new industry survey released by international law firm DLA Piper. The firm’s 2024 Tech Index, which expanded its scope beyond Europe for the first time to include 1,200 executives in six major regions, reveals a tech… Read more »
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To modernise legacy software across multiple central government departments, the UK government has committed up to £366 million ($461 million) to upgrade key ERP, HR, and finance systems by transitioning them to the cloud. As reported by The Register, SAP has signed a £246 million ($310 million) agreement with His Majesty’s Customs & Revenue (HMRC)… Read more »
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NetApp has joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a collaboration of technology providers focused on delivering adaptable AI cloud services. The alliance leverages each member’s unique strengths to address the growing demand for scalable and composable infrastructure for cloud and AI workloads. The integration of NetApp’s ONTAP platform with Vultr’s global network of data centres provides… Read more »
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Software-as-a-service has transformed how businesses operate and innovate. SaaS technologies are game-changers, delivering new functionalities that support innovation for staff throughout an organisation. But while SaaS is easy to adopt, it’s difficult to manage. As usage of SaaS applications grows rapidly, the complexities associated with it can grow greatly. IT staff may have a hard… Read more »
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A new survey has found that more than half of respondents who excel at collecting product usage data use those insights to shape their product roadmaps. The findings are available in the Revenera Monetisation Monitor: Software Usage Analytics 2025 Outlook report. “Effective usage data collection practices are clearly providing an advantage to those software producers,”… Read more »
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Have you ever noticed how the rise of AI and cloud computing has supercharged energy demands? Data centre, the unsung heroes of our digital world, are now grappling with a growing dilemma. While they power our online lives, they’re also some of the biggest energy guzzlers, contributing significantly to global power consumption. With generative AI… Read more »
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The relentless march of artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing data centre cooling systems to their absolute limits. Inside these massive computing facilities, densely packed servers generate enough heat to require industrial-scale cooling solutions, with some areas reaching critical temperatures exceeding 100°F (37.8°C). As AI workloads continue to multiply exponentially, traditional cooling methods are struggling to… Read more »
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IBM is setting its sights on a major upgrade in AI hardware, with the company in talks with AWS to access Nvidia’s highly sought-after AI chips. The deal, worth an estimated $475 million over five years, would grant IBM access to AWS’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers, which are powered by Nvidia GPUs. As part… Read more »
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NTT DATA, a global leader in IT and digital business services, has announced the expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud in an attempt to boost the adoption of generative AI solutions and cloud-based data analytics in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Combining Google Cloud’s AI resources, cloud services, and data analytics capabilities with NTT… Read more »
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