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AI-First approach provides innovation success

Steve Young, UK SVP and MD, Dell Technologies, explains how can businesses can navigate the high upfront cost of AI while aiming for cost-saving and efficiencies, the importance of adopting an 'AI-first' approach to investment and how to go about devising and implementing an organisation-wide AI strategy that balances upfront costs versus anticipated benefits.

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Silicon photonics promises efficiency and sustainability in the data centre

Thomas Barber, Vice President, Communications Infrastructure and Datacenter at GlobalFoundries, explains how the adoption of silicon photonics in data centres enables ultra-fast data transmission between GPUs at double the speed, enhancing the efficiency and performance of communication systems to meet today’s demand for generative AI, while also providing a more sustainable method of data processing. Thomas also discusses other power management solutions that can save up to 10% of data centrepower consumption, and the promise of RF GaN technology for future communication needs.

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Oxford Ionics’ breakthrough promises ‘useful’ quantum computing within three years

Dr Chris Ballance, co-founder and CEO of Oxford Ionics, explains how the company has developed and proven the building blocks of a high-performance, scalable quantum computer, and has also demonstrated that its quantum chips can be produced at scale in a standard semiconductor factory. Chris says that its chip provides over twice the performance of previous world records - achieved without using error correction – detailing why he believes that useful quantum computers are now within touching distance.

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AI regulation - a delicate balancing act?

Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, also a Council of Europe adviser on AI and human rights, provides some fascinating insights into the EU AI Act, the UK’s upcoming AI Bill, as well as relevant US legislation, in terms of how much AI regulation is actually based on existing laws around privacy and non-discrimination and also about achieving the balance between AI innovation and AI ethics. Ultimately, AI is set to make a major, positive contribution to our quality of life, so long as AI-driven challenges, such as misinformation and bias, can be kept under control.

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Community Shield empowers MSPs

Dor Eisner, CEO and Co-Founder of Guardz. Discusses the launch of the company’s new, free Community Shield plan for MSPs. The offering is designed to help MSPs secure and insure their internal operations, offering automated detection and response across identities, emails, devices, and data. The Community Shield plan features a unified security platform that eliminates the need for multiple vendors, offering both ease of use and comprehensive protection. Advanced automation and AI streamline security operations, while the Guardz Growth Hub provides tools and resources to help MSPs confidently grow their businesses.

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Rapid edge expansion puts pressure on power infrastructure

Daniel Thorpe, Associate Director of Data Centre Research at JLL, explains the reasons behind the edge data centre market’s predicted doubling by 2026 – with data regulation, low latency demand and IoT growth the main drivers. Daniel also discusses the urgent need for the renewal of aging power infrastructure across Europe, and elsewhere, currently ill-equipped to handle the increased demand for both electrification and the digital infrastructure boom of which edge applications (many driven by AI) are a significant part.

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SMB MSPs - specialisation sales and marketing strategies to help grow the business

Alkesh Soneji, Director - Sales & Marketing, Infrassist, discusses the problems facing SMB MSPs as they are often too busy ‘keeping the lights on’ to be able to devote enough time an effort into growing their businesses. Alkesh offers some excellent advice as to the ways in which these MSPs can overcome this challenge, with industry and/or technology specialisation seen as a great strategy to win new customers relatively easily. He also emphasises the importance of working with digital marketing experts to provide their specialist knowledge along this growth journey.

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Strengthening cybersecurity resilience in a changing world

Hugo Bishop, Regional Sales Director - Northern Europe, Stellar Cyber, explains how MSSPs need to ensure that their SOC platform is designed to address the many, constantly evolving cybersecurity challenges they and their customers face in today’s digital workplace. Hugo goes on to explain that the features of a modern SOC platform should include: data integration, detection, signal correlation, analyst assistance and hyper automation.

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Penta Infra focuses on rapidly increasing edge data centre demand

Patrick van der Wilt, Chief Commercial Officer, Penta Infra, describes the journey on which the company has embarked as a fast growing European provider of edge data centres. Currently, the company’s portfolio consists of 12 data centres, with plans to grow to 30+ over the next few years, identifying new opportunities to bring sustainable facilities to communities across an increasing range of locations.

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A new era for the Red Hat ecosystem

Fevzi Konduk, EMEA Head of Software and ISV partners at Red Hat, explains Red Hat how the company’s ongoing work to transform the global partner engagement experience and offer greater simplicity, choice and flexibility to partners collaborating with the company, has already delivered a modular, globally standardised Partner Program, with streamlined partner incentives and an enhanced digital experience, as part of an ongoing process based on regular partner ecosystem feedback.

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World Quantum Readiness Day focuses on futureproofing cybersecurity

Dr. Avesta Hojjati, VP of Engineering at DigiCert, explains the thinking behind the creation of the first ever World Quantum Readiness Day – detailing the very real threat that quantum computing could compromise existing cryptographic algorithms used to secure data and the need for organisations to adopt a proactive stance on quantum readiness to safeguard against potential attacks.

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Infinidat raises the bar for cyber resilient storage services

Eric Herzog, Infinidat CMO, outlines the company’s recent technology launch – the InfiniBox G4 family of cyber secure storage arrays, which incorporates InfiniSafe, InfiniVerse and Storage as a Service innovations. As ever, Eric’s technology and business insights, with a particular focus on the need for end users to understand how storage and security come together as the foundation for an effective and optimised cyber resilience strategy, are invaluable.

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Predictive maintenance and forecasting for security and failures will be a growing area for MSPs with an interest in security, says Nicole Reineke, AI Strategist at N-able.
atNorth has signed an agreement with the Sollefteå Municipality with the intention of building a data center with an initial capacity of 200MW.
Venafi has published the findings of its latest research report: The Impact of Machine Identities on the State of Cloud Native Security in 2024. Surveying 800 security and IT decision-makers from large...
The Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) of Greece and Serverfarm, a global data center developer and operator, have signed a Heads of Agreement regarding the formation of Gemini, a Joint Venture...

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