Impact
Medium
Within the Impact facet, Medium impact intelligence highlights articles where the expected effect level, operational exposure, or decision relevance is comparable. Readers can use the page to separate routine market updates from higher-consequence governance, infrastructure, security, and investment signals that may affect planning, procurement, policy, or customer exposure. The page connects the consequence band to public evidence, related organisations, regional context, operating dependencies, service continuity, competition, investment timing, compliance, and customer risk. It helps readers decide which developments deserve deeper monitoring, which actors are most exposed, and how a signal may affect operations or market planning.

Global Cloud Services
5 advantages of hybrid cloud
Advantages of hybrid cloud computing include cost reduction, scalability, improved availability, and flexible application integration.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Akamai connected cloud offers an approach to cloud computing
Akamai Connected Cloud is a cloud platform by Akamai Technologies, designed to provide a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure for delivering digital content, applications, and services globally. It is built on Akamai’s Intelligent Edge Platform, spanning over 4,000…

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Marketing Cloud Connect is a key integration
Marketing Cloud Connect is a feature that enables seamless integration between Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Salesforce Sales and Service Clouds. It allows marketers to use customer data and insights from both clouds to create personalised marketing campaigns and deliver…

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
Ensuring data protection in Cloud Connect services
Cloud Connect is a technology that connects on-premises infrastructure with cloud services, ensuring secure and reliable connections between private networks and public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. It facilitates seamless data transfer, applications…

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What is cloud backup and recovery?
Businesses, regardless of size, generate and rely on vast amounts of data daily. This dependency makes the protection and recovery of data a critical task. Traditional methods of data backup, such as external hard drives and tapes, have their limitations. These include…

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Understanding cloud backup: How it functions and why it’s essential
Cloud backup, commonly referred to as online backup or remote backup, entails transferring a copy of a physical or virtual file or database to an off-site location managed by a third-party provider. This method ensures that in the event of equipment failure, site disaster, or…

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Shielding your coins: The rise of cryptocurrency insurance
Cryptocurrency insurance protects individuals and businesses from risks such as hacking and phishing scams to minimise asset loss.

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Dells unveils AI-enabled PCs, Nvidia-compatible servers
Dell Technologies has announced a new lineup of AI-enabled PCs featuring Qualcomm processors, along with an advanced server compatible with Nvidia’s latest chips in Las Vegas on Monday, aimed at bolstering Dell’s position in the competitive AI server market and anticipating a…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Google invests $1.14 billion in Hamina data centre in Finland
Expansion of data centre Google has announced plans to invest in expanding its data centre campus in Finland on this day to drive growth in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector in Europe. In a statement, Google said, “The heat generated at the Finnish data centre will be…

Leaders
OpenAI discusses voice similarity issue with Scarlett Johansson
OpenAI recently addressed a controversy involving its ChatGPT voice assistant, “Sky,” which bore a striking resemblance to actress Scarlett Johansson’s voice. This similarity sparked discussions and led to the removal of “Sky” from the platform, underscoring the importance of…

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Ukraine’s Kyivstar allocates $90 million to tackle cyberattack fallout
Ukraine’s telecommunications landscape is grappling with the aftermath of a significant cyberattack, as Kyivstar, the country’s mobile operator, allocates substantial funds to mitigate the fallout. Described as one of the most severe assaults on telecom infrastructure worldwide…

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Musk considering EV battery plant in Indonesia
Indonesia’s investment minister stated that Elon Musk will consider building an electric vehicle battery plant in the country.

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Venture capital crypto funding hits $2.4 billion in Q1 2024
Cryptocurrency market sees significant growth fuelled by rising investor confidence and escalating Bitcoin value in Q1 2024.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Textron Systems and Kodiak develop autonomous military vehicles
Kodiak Robotics is collaborating with Textron Systems to create a purpose-built, driverless military vehicle. The vehicle, which will integrate Kodiak’s autonomous technology, the Kodiak Driver, into a prototype, is not a retrofit of an existing vehicle but will be a significant…

Global Cloud Services Trends
What is spatial computing?
Spatial computing merges virtual and real worlds, enabling applications in GIS, urban planning, and beyond.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Top tech news stories today: May 21, 2024
Explore Microsoft’s AI-optimised Copilot+ PCs, Google’s billion-euro Finnish data center expansion. Dive into stories shaping the future!

Global Cloud Services Trends
Why edge computing is essential in today’s digital landscape?
Edge computing is a distributed model in which computing takes place near the physical location where data is being collected and analysed.

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Who is David Jones? Founder of Australian luxury department store David Jones
David Jones (1793-1873), was a Welsh-Australian merchant, and the retailer founder of David Jones Limited. As a merchant, he began in Pembrokeshire and London before moving to Sydney via Hobart. In 1838, he established ‘David Jones & Co‘, at 463 George Street, thereby…

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6 impressive benefits of Conversational AI
CAI is essential for businesses looking to stay competitive, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive operational efficiency.

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The difference between Conversational AI and GenAI
GenAI and CAI are both types of aAI and both use NLP, however, they are used for different purposes and have distinct characteristics.
