IBM boss discusses long-term VMware plan
IBM’s latest quarterly earnings filing coincided with the company’s plans to spend $6.4bn acquiring HashiCorp. IBM reported revenue of $14.5bn, up 1% from the same…
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IT Sustainability Think Tank: Calculating IT equipment capacity – the challenging path forward
Datacentre energy consumption and operational efficiency are under intense scrutiny. Sensing a need to control datacentre growth, legislators and regulators have begun efforts to require…
Post Office misjudged campaigner it labelled a ‘bluffer’
Labelled a “bluffer” and an agitator, a former subpostmaster was proved right when he alerted Post Office boss Paula Vennells to a major software bug…
Security Think Tank: Maybe let’s negotiate with terrorists
Okay, hear me out. In the 1960s and 70s, the UK began to develop the policy of non-negotiation in response to the increasing number of…
Microsoft sees datacentre investments key to AI leadership
Microsoft announced revenue of $61.9bn for the quarter which ended 31st March 2024, representing an increase of 17% over the same quarter last year. The…
European Parliament approves platform worker directive
The European Parliament has overwhelming approved measures to ensure millions of people working for gig economy platforms have their employment properly classified, while also regulating…
Post Office ‘lied’ to subpostmasters when forced to meet them, says former federation representative
A former subpostmaster forced senior Post Office executives to meet him to discuss his unexplained shortfall, but they then “lied” to him about the ability…
Alphabet earnings show drive to boost Google Cloud and AI adoption
Google parent Alphabet has reported a 15% increase in its first-quarter revenue to $80.5bn. While advertising remains the biggest earner, the company’s cloud business, Google…
Progress being made on gender diversity in cyber
Gender diversity in the cyber security profession is improving, according to an ISC2 report on women in cyber security, which collated responses from 2,400 women…
More evidence emerges that Post Office executive misled High Court judge
Post Office executive Angela van den Bogerd was part of the subterfuge adopted by the company to hide problems with its IT system, which included…
Executive interview: Salesforce AI head discusses dynamic flowcharts
Salesforce senior vice-president of artificial intelligence (AI) Jayesh Govindarajan leads the company’s AI organisation and is responsible for the family of products the software-as-a-service (SaaS)…
Podcast: How to prepare your data for digital transformation
In this podcast with Chris Gorton, EMEA managing director at Syniti, we look at how to optimise data for digital transformation. We talk about how…