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George Fitzmaurice

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George Fitzmaurice is a former Staff Writer at ITPro and ChannelPro, with a particular interest in AI regulation, data legislation, and market development. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in English Language and Literature, he undertook an internship at the New Statesman before starting at ITPro. Outside of the office, George is both an aspiring musician and an avid reader.

Bird's eye view of white sustainability target symbol in the middle of the rainsfoest with cloads around edges of frame

Third-party AI tools are muddying sustainability metrics

News The climate impact of AI tools has become an increasingly important conversation at firms

Microsoft staff face second round of layoffs as firm continues cost-cutting measures

News The size of the layoffs has not been specified, though Microsoft has said they will be small

By George Fitzmaurice Published 15 January 25

News
Data centers are growing in size and number as AI prompts widespread global expansion

Analysis Generative AI continues to push up demand for more sites and increased capacity at physical locations

By George Fitzmaurice Published 15 January 25

Analysis
Microsoft sharpens agentic AI focus with new ‘CoreAI’ division

The new department will bring together teams from across engineering and AI

By George Fitzmaurice Published 14 January 25

Developers are struggling to build generative AI applications – here's why

News AI coding tools could help, though experts told ITPro that businesses should keep a focus on core software engineering skills

By George Fitzmaurice Published 13 January 25

News
“A huge disaster”: Marc Benioff hits back at Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, claims customers don’t take Copilot seriously

News Benioff fired the latest shot in an ongoing war of words over Microsoft's Copilot service

By George Fitzmaurice Published 13 January 25

News
Admins beware, these Microsoft 365 features are being cut in 2025

News IT workers face further challenges on top of ones already posed by an approaching Windows 10 EOL

By George Fitzmaurice Published 10 January 25

News

Microsoft is planning another round of job cuts

News The firm said it always takes the appropriate action when staff are underperforming

By George Fitzmaurice Published 10 January 25

News
"Thinly spread": Questions raised over UK government’s latest cyber funding scheme

The funding will go towards bolstering cyber skills, though some industry experts have questioned the size of the price tag

By George Fitzmaurice Published 9 January 25
Interest in traditional programming languages is declining

News Research raises questions about the relationship between AI coding tools and changing developer skill sets

By George Fitzmaurice Published 8 January 25

News

CMA sets out plans for new digital markets regime – with Apple and Google expected to be first in its sights

News The regulator will use new powers to launch three investigations in the coming months

By George Fitzmaurice Published 7 January 25

News
UN aviation body investigates potential data breach

News The agency is acting on a hacker forum post which claimed 42,000 records had been stolen in a recent incident

By George Fitzmaurice Published 7 January 25

News
What is Cloud Hosting?

Feature Hosting websites and applications on the cloud can deliver huge gains in flexibility and scalability

By George Fitzmaurice Published 27 December 24

Feature

Almost half of US organizations still using Kaspersky, researchers claim

News A ban was introduced due to Kaspersky’s supposed links to the Russian government

By George Fitzmaurice Published 20 December 24

News
CISA issues new directive to bolster cloud security – and Microsoft was singled out

News The directive is a strong push towards bolstering cloud and SaaS security practices

By George Fitzmaurice Published 19 December 24

News
Broadcom records huge growth as CEO Hock Tan hails “successful integration” of VMware

Analysis The VMware acquisition is finally paying dividends for Broadcom

By George Fitzmaurice Published 18 December 24

Analysis

IT leaders fear a repeat of the CrowdStrike outage in 2025

News Many organizations are woefully unprepared for a serious IT outage

By George Fitzmaurice Published 17 December 24

News
Klarna has stopped hiring amid its relentless AI efficiency drive

News The firm previously boasted that its in-house AI assistant does the work of hundreds of staff

By George Fitzmaurice Published 16 December 24

News
Enterprises are ramping up investment in private AI systems

News Firms will move out of public cloud services for AI needs, though smaller businesses will still opt for plug-and-play solutions

By George Fitzmaurice Published 13 December 24

News

AWS wants to drastically cut down AI hallucinations – here's how it plans to do it

News The tool will act as a guardrail against AI hallucinations in specific use cases

By George Fitzmaurice Published 12 December 24

News
Google wants regulators to break up Microsoft's OpenAI deal

News Google has already been nipping at Microsoft’s heels in the European cloud market over competition concerns

By George Fitzmaurice Published 12 December 24

News
AI is causing a data storage crisis for enterprises

News Many organizations will need to rethink data management strategies and storage architectures to keep pace

By George Fitzmaurice Published 11 December 24

News

AWS puts AI evolution front and center at re:Invent 2024

Analysis AWS re:Invent 2024 was a testament to the cloud giant’s commitment to AI diversification as it looks to take market share in the next era of AI

By George Fitzmaurice Published 6 December 24

Analysis
AWS sharpens sustainability focus as AI environmental concerns rise

News The hyperscaler says sustainability plays a part in core decision-making in the age of AI

By George Fitzmaurice Published 6 December 24

News
AWS re:Invent 2024 live: All the news and updates from day-three in Las Vegas

Live Blog ITPro is live on the ground in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2024 – keep tabs on all the news and updates from day-three here

By George Fitzmaurice Last updated 5 December 24

Live Blog

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