Microsoft has pushed back against claims its decision to cancel and defer at least 2GW of datacentre projects in the US and Europe is indicative of its “fraying relationship” with OpenAI. US analyst TD Cowen published a research note on 26 March 2025 that suggested the public cloud giant had cancelled and deferred datacentre lease agreements…
Until now, IT leaders have needed to consider the cyber security risks posed by allowing users to access large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT directly via the cloud. The alternative has been to use open source LLMs that can be hosted on-premise or accessed via a private cloud. The artificial intelligence (AI) model needs to…
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Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left some enterprises facing higher costs, with some considering a move to alternative virtualisation environments. For those considering that, the challenge is to ensure any…
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The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – quad-level cell (QLC) flash storage into array markets and use cases that were once considered nearline. Alongside this, we saw the…
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