Articles by Ross Kelly, News and Analysis Editor, ITPro

Ross Kelly is News & Analysis Editor at ITPro, responsible for leading the brand's news output and in-depth reporting on the latest stories from across the business technology landscape. Ross was previously a Staff Writer, during which time he developed a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership, cloud computing, and emerging technologies.

He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro in 2022 after four years working in technology conference research.

Articles by: Ross Kelly

TensorWave, Tecfusions announce 1GW AI compute power deal amid rising power demands

By Ross Kelly published 4 November 24

TensorWave anticipates rising demand for AI compute services in the year ahead.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at Nvidia's pre-Computex 2024 keynote

Nvidia has renamed its Blackwell Ultra product series — here’s why

By Ross Kelly published 3 November 24

News Nvidia has rebranded its Blackwell Ultra series, with the B200 Ultra series now known as the B300.

Bitwarden clarifies open source commitment amid user concerns

By Ross Kelly published 29 October 24

Some users worried the password management platform could be moving to a more restrictive licensing scheme

Liquid Web launches new GPU hosting service for AI and HPC — and users can access a range of Nvidia GPUs (including H100s)

By Ross Kelly published 24 October 24

Liquid Web has unveiled the launch of a new GPU hosting service designed to keep pace with growing high-performance computing (HPC) requirements.

V-color RGB DDR5 O CUDIMM memory sticks lying flat on a surface

Want your server to access more than 16,000 DIMM slots in one go? This Korean startup claims that its CXL 3.1-based technology can help you scale to more than 16PB of RAM — but it will cost nearly $1 billion

By Ross Kelly published 23 October 24

The possibilities are endless, but the costs might be a bridge too far for even the largest enterprises.

Will LLMs become the ultimate mediators for better and for worse? DeepMind researchers and Reddit users seem to agree on that

By Ross Kelly published 22 October 24

Researchers at Google DeepMind have explored the use of AI to mediate political disputes - and the results were surprising.

Want to have access to 96TB (yes Terabytes) of RAM? Check out this CXL expansion box that shows what the future of memory looks like

By Ross Kelly published 21 October 24

244 DIMM slots for a single server? That packs a serious punch.

This tiny Ryzen 9 PC can drive three, yes three, 8K monitors thanks to a low profile video card with a proper Geforce RTX 4060 GPU - but the best part is that it costs less than $1000 with 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD

By Ross Kelly published 16 October 24

Minisforum 790S7 is compact, powerful, and won’t take up too much desk space alongside several monitors.

The Dynabook Portege X30L-M laptop pictured on a white background.

Dynabook launches “world’s lightest” AI-powered laptop

By Ross Kelly published 15 October 24

The Microsoft Copilot-powered business laptop is a lightweight powerhouse with a sleek new design.

Mysterious new LG laptop that appeared online could be unannounced 16-inch touchscreen LG Gram Pro portable workstation with Lunar Lake CPU and Wi-Fi 7

By Ross Kelly published 8 October 24

News Device test results show LG could be preparing for a new notebook launch.

Microsoft’s new H200 v5 series VMs for Azure aim to supercharge GPU performance

By Ross Kelly published 7 October 24

New VM series drastically improves performance and cost efficiency for LLM inferencing

Scale of Verizon outage impact laid bare in Cloudflare report

By Ross Kelly published 7 October 24

News Users in several locations were hit harder during the Verizon outage

Google's AI powerhouse finds millions of new crystals that could change the fate of humanity forever — and, for better or worse, it is just getting started

By Ross Kelly published 15 December 23

Using a powerful new AI tool, Google DeepMind researchers have dramatically increased the speed of inorganic materials discovery

Samsung Galaxy smartphone held in hand with blurry background

You can connect your Samsung Galaxy smartphone to this incredible laptop and turn it into a second notebook — could that be the game changing feature that finally makes Android tablets useful?

By Ross Kelly published 18 November 23

Using Samsung DeX, users can get the best of both worlds from their laptop and smartphone.

The GeForce RTX 4090 has a more powerful sibling with twice the memory that few people know — meet the fantastic L40S, the cheaper alternative to the uber-expensive Nvidia H100

By Ross Kelly published 10 November 23

The L40S is both cheaper and easier to get your hands on, making it a hidden gem on the GPU market.

Want to boost your Steam Deck storage capacity? Someone added a 61TB Solidigm SSD to Valve's popular gaming console — but it comes with one huge (obvious) disadvantage

By Ross Kelly published 10 November 23

An enterprise grade SSD on Steam Deck? Sounds great, but there’s a catch…

An image of a BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster at sea

The first AI nation? A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

By Ross Kelly published 5 November 23

The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster would be a roaming AI powerhouse at sea.

Finally! This affordable, super fast external SSD is on the way after a 2-year wait — but you will still need to have a USB4 or Thunderbolt port to make the most out of it

By Ross Kelly published 3 November 23

ADATA’s SE920 external SSD is a powerful piece of kit, albeit with some glaring limitations.

A cloud storage vector illustration featuring an image of a cloud with connecting server links

No, this free cloud data migration tool will not save you from the dreaded "Gmail Full Storage error" — but at least SMBs will be able to move to a cheaper no-egress cloud storage option

By Ross Kelly published 2 November 23

IDrive’s data migration tool cuts the costs and hassle of transfers.

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