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One of the side-effects of Brexit is UK citizens will no longer be under the protection of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). An exclusive Reuters report claims Google will be moving all of the data it has on UK citizens out of Ireland, which will remain in the EU, and into a yet undisclosed location, under the jurisdiction of the United States. Google decided to...

Dell Technologies announced it has entered into an agreement to sell the show’s parent organization RSA to a private equity consortium led by Symphony Technology Group (STG) for $2.1 billion. The all cash deal not only includes RSA’s conference arm, but RSA Archer, RSA NetWitness Platform, RSA SecurID, RSA Fraud and Risk Intelligence. The deal does have to clear the customar...

Dell has introduced a batch of new hardware and software to make it easier for businesses to build and manage edge data centers – and analyze data – in cramped, remote, or rugged locations for edge computing. The company on Tuesday announced a new micro data center that’s about the size of a refrigerator, a new small-footprint server, a new streaming analytics engine for sto...

A new study found that total operator-billed revenue from 5G IoT connections will reach $8bn by 2024; rising from $525m in 2020, which is a growth of over 1,400% over the next five years. The report by Juniper Research identified the automotive and smart cities sectors as key growth drivers for 5G adoption over the next five years, and the research anticipated that revenue f...

Google have this week announced that it has acquired Cornerstone, a Dutch company that specializes in helping enterprises migrate their legacy workloads from mainframes to public clouds. Cornerstone, which provides very hands-on migration assistance, will form the basis of Google Cloud’s mainframe-to-GCP solutions. This move is very much in line with Google Cloud’s overall e...

Delayed but by no means forgotten, Three is the last of the four major UK operators to launch 5G. Despite officially launching its 5G network in parts of central London in August, delays have meant the company’s wider rollout across 66 locations is scheduled to take place later this month. Now, the operator has announced that it will be partnering with altnet CityFibre, leve...

Conditional planning permission has been granted for a large new Amazon data centre development just outside Drogheda. The new facility will employ up to 400 people during the peak of its construction and once operational will provide permanent jobs for dozens of workers. The data storage complex will be located in the IDA Business and Technology Park, Donore Road, Drogheda,...

Predicting severe weather and the impacts of climate change will be faster and more accurate than ever before, thanks to confirmation of £1.2 billion government funding to develop a state-of-the-art supercomputer, Business and Energy Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma announced today (17 February 2020). Data from this new supercomputer – expected to be the world’s mos...

Cisco has appointed David Meads as its new chief executive for UK & Ireland in an aim to bolster digital transformation in the region. Meads, who will take on the role of Chief Executive for UK & Ireland with immediate effect in place of Scot Gardner, has over 30 years’ experience in ICT, having joined Cisco in 1996. Gardner, meanwhile, will go on to lead strategy and sales ...

Chipmaker Nvidia posted strong earnings, with its fourth-quarter sales jumping 41 percent over last year's results to $3.11 billion. Its data center revenue rose by 43 percent to $968 million. The scale of the increase was somewhat helped by last year's poor performance, when Nvidia suffered a slump as cryptocurrency miner orders cooled. Big in the cloud Nvidia CFO Colette K...