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Lenovo delivers AI at the edge, bringing next generation intelligence to data

Lenovo has revealed its new, first-to-market edge AI services and solutions designed to enable mass deployment of remote computing capabilities that will significantly accelerate AI readiness and empower new AI applications for any business.

New Lenovo TruScale for Edge and AI brings the proven cost benefits of Lenovo TruScale’s Infrastructure as-a-Service model to the broadest and most comprehensive edge portfolio on the market, enabling customers to leverage a pay-as-you-go...

26 September 2023 | AI

Salesforce standardises global hybrid cloud infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced that customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Salesforce is standardising its global hybrid cloud infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Helping the company to drive business transformation at scale to meet customer demand, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a more flexible and consistent foundation for security-enhanced hybrid cloud deployments. The platform enables Salesforce to free up valuable developer...

19 September 2023 | Applications

Accenture: “Now is the time for every enterprise to adopt edge”

A new report from Accenture has argued that businesses need to act now to avoid falling behind with edge computing – yet integration with cloud, data and AI will be ‘essential’ to accelerate innovation affordably.

The study, titled ‘Leading With Edge Computing: How To Reinvent With Data And AI’, polled 2,100 C-suite executives globally and found more than four in five (83%) see edge as ‘essential’ to remaining competitive in the future. A similar number (81%) agreed...

13 September 2023 | Cloud

SMEs combat rising cost of cloud services

Braced for a 10% increase in cloud costs this year, a report shows that 33% of SMEs plan to reduce the amount of data they store in the cloud and 24% to reduce the number of cloud services they use.

Almost two-thirds (62%) of UK small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) that use cloud computing will take steps to combat the rising of these services by the end of 2023, according to a report by Beaming.

The Making the cloud work for UK businesses report, which draws on a...

13 September 2023 | Cloud

Deep Green and Civo announce new partnership to make cloud sustainable

Deep Green, the team pioneering carbon-neutral compute, has partnered with Civo, the only pure-play cloud native service provider. The agreement will see Civo become Deep Green’s exclusive cloud partner.

The new partnership between Civo and Deep Green will give Civo customers the exclusive opportunity to run their cloud workloads on Deep Green’s servers, giving them access to a groundbreaking sustainable cloud solution. Not only will this help companies move towards a...

11 September 2023 | Applications

ABB invests in edge-to-cloud platform innovator Pratexo

electrification and automation specialist, ABB, is investing in a strategic partnership with Pratexo, an edge-to-cloud acceleration platform company.

The partnership involves a minority investment in Pratexo through ABB’s venture capital unit, ABB Technology Ventures (ATV). Financial details of the investment were not disclosed.

Pratexo’s technology platform supports IoT and artificial intelligence initiatives which demand compute power at the edge. The company’s...

25 August 2023 | Cloud

OVHcloud to acquire edge computing specialist gridscale

European cloud specialist OVHcloud has entered into negotiations for the full acquisition of German company gridscale, a software provider specialised in hyperconverged infrastructure.

This strategic acquisition will mark another important milestone for OVHcloud by enabling the group to significantly accelerate its geographical deployment, and to enter the emerging, very fast-growing market of edge computing.

gridscale offers an innovative range multi-tenant IaaS and...

8 August 2023 | Cloud

Hitachi Vantara launches solution with Microsoft Azure to improve hybrid cloud management

Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, has announced the next evolution of its collaboration with Microsoft to launch Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stack HCI.

The powerful and streamlined hybrid cloud solution increases business agility and delivers enhanced cloud management across multiple environments including data centers, branch offices and edge computing, providing businesses with greater...

3 August 2023 | Cloud

Technology investment to fast track UK large enterprise global growth in next year

UK CIOs of large global enterprises are increasing investment in technology to drive growth through global expansion in the next 12 months, according to new research by Expereo.

The survey of more than 200 CIOs in the UK shows that half (48%) have secured increased technology budgets specifically to deliver growth and overcome existing challenges.

The new insights, which are part of a global survey of over 650 CIOs in businesses with over $500 million annual revenues...

30 June 2023 | 5G

Edge computing and Kubernetes: Understanding the landscape

Edge computing differs from cloud computing in that information is processed nearer to the source of data. Yet the need for greater speed and efficiency in maximising resources as ever-increasing amounts of data get utilised are a common source of pain in both technologies.

It's not just the data, either. In edge use cases, which range from a security video camera to a remote oil rig, conditions may not always be optimal. As a result, the complexity needs to be managed....