Welcome to the tenth issue of IT Pro 20/20, our digital magazine that brings all of the previous month's most important tech issues into clear view.
The coronavirus has forced every single company to re-evaluate how they do business. Strategies, verticals, and even the way employees work have all been disrupted, and the tried and tested products and services that have likely come to define your business may be in jeopardy.
It’s important to remember, however, that disruption is not inherently a bad thing. Being forced to reshape your business to fit the current climate presents an opportunity to demonstrate resilience. Businesses have spent months in damage mitigation mode – it’s now time to grow once again.
In this issue, we show that a business is only as agile as the data centre it relies on, and how new designs that embrace cutting-edge computing are providing the flexibility businesses need to enter new markets quickly. We also assess the volume of options available on the cloud market and whether this is causing fatigue for customers. You'll find a handy guide to managing all the various risks associated with employees working outside the company firewall, and a run-through of some of the technology your business should consider investing in to really hit the ground running in 2021.
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Swiss government data published following supply chain attack – here’s what we know about the culpritsNews Radix, a non-profit organization in the health promotion sector, supplies a number of federal offices, whose data has apparently been accessed.
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke thinks there’s still a place for junior developers in the age of AINews GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke believes junior developers still play a crucial role in the hierarchy of software development teams, and AI won't change that any time soon.
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So much for data sovereignty — AI infrastructure is dominated by just a handful of countriesNews Oxford researchers suggest AI infrastructure will decide a nation's global impact in the future, just as oil production has over the last few decades.
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‘This is the largest AI ecosystem in the world without its own infrastructure’: Jensen Huang thinks the UK has immense AI potential – but it still has a lot of work to doNews The Nvidia chief exec described the UK as a “fantastic place for VCs to invest” but stressed hardware has to expand to reap the benefits
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Google shakes off tariff concerns to push on with $75 billion AI spending plans – but analysts warn rising infrastructure costs will send cloud prices sky highNews Google CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed the company will still spend $75 billion on building out data centers despite economic concerns in the wake of US tariffs.
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Cisco wants to capitalize on the ‘DeepSeek effect’News DeepSeek has had a seismic impact, and Cisco thinks it has strengths to help businesses transition to AI-native infrastructure
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CoreWeave’s first two UK data centers are now operationalNews The company's European plans for this year also include new facilities in Norway, Sweden, and Spain
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AWS eyes ‘flexible’ data center expansion with $11bn Georgia investmentNews The hyperscaler says the infrastructure will power cloud computing and AI growth
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Future-proofing operationsWhitepaper The Foundational Role of IT Infrastructure and Connectivity Solutions in Achieving Business KPIs
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Quantitative analysis of a prefabricated vs. traditional data centerWhitepaper Apples to apples cost analysis between data centre types
