Esteban Prieto

AMD has finally come up with its answer to Nvidia’s dominance in the artificial intelligence (AI)-optimised server space. The chipmaker has unveiled a datacentre processor and open source software stack for artificial intelligence, and Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro, Arista, Broadcom and Cisco are among the companies that have announced their … Leer más

McBride, which produces white-labelled cleaning products for major retailers, is embarking on a major business transformation that will involve replacing all of its existing business processes with S/4Hana. Speaking to Computer Weekly during the UK and Ireland SAP User Group Connect23 annual conference in Birmingham, the company’s chief transformation officer, Chris Ward, describes the … Leer más

At the UK and Ireland SAP User Group’s (UKISUG) annual Connect conference in Birmingham last month, SAP tried to rebuild trust after the furore over its Rise strategy. SAP recently changed its plans regarding how its S/4Hana ERP customers receive new functionality. Such updates were previously included as part of the company’s annual software maintenance … Leer más

Back in July 2021, I wrote a piece for Computer Weekly on what security teams like mine needed to consider with employees returning to the office. Back then, we all faced several challenges. One of these was where our employees could work from. Essentially, it broke down into three categories: Mandatory return to the … Leer más

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has quietly renewed the preferential pricing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows public sector IT buyers to buy its public cloud services at discounted prices, despite anti-competitive concerns being raised about such schemes. Known as the One Government Value Agreement (OGVA), the scheme allows public sector IT … Leer más

The government has confirmed that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is behind a long-running  hacking campaign that targeted politicians, civil servants, journalists and civil society organisations. The Russian campaign targeted high-profile individuals with phishing emails in an attempt to obtain information to interfere with UK politics and the democratic process. The hacking group, known … Leer más

Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, the hype surrounding generative AI (GenAI) and foundational models, server company execs are talking about a turning point in servers, and are reporting growth in the need to run AI and machine learning workloads. There appears to be strong demand for high performance computing (HPC) hardware … Leer más