Data centre
Deciding where and how to build and operate a datacentre is one of the most important decisions your organisation will make. This section covers how to build a solid datacentre infrastructure, including selecting the right location to build your new facility, best practices for designing a new datacentre, and cooling and air flow techniques. Learn about green IT, data management systems, servers and operating systems.
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Feature
29 Nov 2024
Cloud data lakes: Where do they fit and what are their benefits?
We look at cloud data lakes, what they are, where they fit in the data management lifecycle, their benefits and the key providers in the hyperscaler clouds Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Nov 2024
Case study: Manchester Airports Group using AWS to revamp its data strategy
Manchester Airports Group is using AWS technology to improve passenger experience through a revamp of its data strategy, as set out by the organisation's chief digital officer, Ryan Cant Continue Reading
By- Madeline Bennett, Mowser Media
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News
17 Apr 2024
CIO interview: Making datacentres greener
We speak to the CIO of Danfoss about how the company has used HPE GreenLake to improve energy efficiency Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Definition
17 Apr 2024
building management system
A building management system (BMS) is a control system that can be used to monitor and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical services in a facility. Continue Reading
By- Paul Kirvan
- Sharon Zaharoff, Associate Site Editor
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News
16 Apr 2024
Leil wants to revive MAID as green storage tape substitute
MAID sought to provide energy-efficient disk storage with quicker access times than tape. Estonian startup Leil wants to supplant tape with green storage spin-down SMR drives Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
16 Apr 2024
VMware users hit by licence hikes after Broadcom takeover
In this week’s Computer Weekly, VMware users are facing licence fee increases after the acquisition by Broadcom, with education bodies worst hit – we talk to unhappy customers. We visit Helsinki and find out why the Finnish capital is leading on smart city developments. And we examine how to reduce environmental impact through software development. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Apr 2024
Assessing the sustainability of cloud AI services
Using AI-optimised hardware and minimising data movements are some of the ways to mitigate the environmental impact of using cloud AI platforms Continue Reading
By- Ed Anderson
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News
15 Apr 2024
Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS
The Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme Continue Reading
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News
15 Apr 2024
More social engineering attacks on open source projects observed
In the wake of the recent XZ Utils scare, maintainers of another open source project have come forward to say they may have experienced similar social engineering attacks Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
15 Apr 2024
Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index
When the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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15 Apr 2024
Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
UK non-profit London Grid for Learning and Belgian university KU Leuven are just two of the academic organisations facing huge licensing increases after Broadcom scraps VMware academic discount scheme Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Apr 2024
Making software development greener
We look at what IT leaders can do to help reduce the environmental impact associated with developing software Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
- Adrian Bridgwater
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Feature
12 Apr 2024
The UK government’s G-Cloud procurement framework: Everything you need to know
The G-Cloud procurement framework emerged in 2012 to provide UK public sector buyers with a faster, easier and more transparent means of acquiring IT services. How has it fared in achieving its aims? Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
11 Apr 2024
Storage technology explained: AI and data storage
In this guide, we examine the data storage needs of artificial intelligence, the demands it places on data storage, the suitability of cloud and object storage for AI, and key AI storage products Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
10 Apr 2024
Breakthrough may herald secure home quantum computing
An emerging approach to quantum security dubbed blind quantum computing may one day help spur mass adoption of quantum computing safely and securely, using technology that is already available today Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
10 Apr 2024
Cyber crooks poison GitHub search to fool developers
Researchers share data on new technique whereby malicious actors are manipulating GitHub’s search function and using cleverly crafted repositories to distribute malware Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
09 Apr 2024
Google Cloud embeds Gemini across product portfolio
Google Cloud’s Gemini model will power a slew of AI assistant capabilities across its portfolio to bring the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
09 Apr 2024
Top AI infrastructure considerations
Artificial intelligence workloads can put considerable strain on technology infrastructure. Here are some of the key considerations when deploying AI infrastructure to harness its full potential Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
05 Apr 2024
How to optimise cloud security without budget blowout
Budgets cannot stretch to accommodate infinite cost increases, not least to meet expanding cloud security requirements Continue Reading
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News
05 Apr 2024
Datacentre outages are happening less often and becoming less severe
Uptime Institute's annual outage tracker report suggests frequency and severity of crashes are declining, but warns datacentre operators not to get complacent Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
04 Apr 2024
AWS cuts several hundred jobs to tackle ‘inefficiency’ as customer cloud cost-cutting continues
Public cloud giant AWS is embarking on another round of job cuts, with analysts citing the fact it’s losing ground to Microsoft in the AI race Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
04 Apr 2024
Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
UK non-profit London Grid for Learning and Belgian university KU Leuven are just two of the academic organisations facing huge licensing increases after Broadcom scraps VMware academic discount scheme Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
04 Apr 2024
UK-based cloud provider Civo offers ‘unconditional’ data egress fees waiver to customers
Stevenage-based ‘open’ cloud champion Civo becomes latest provider to waive data egress fee charges for customers, but claims its offer is unconditional, unlike how the hyperscalers are approaching the same issue Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
04 Apr 2024
Forrester: IT departments are blowing their cloud budgets
A poll of IT decision-makers has found that cloud spending is rising, driven by more workloads and ineffective IT architecture planning Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
02 Apr 2024
Flash storage prices rise by 25% as manufacturers chase profitability
Analysis of 30,000-plus drive prices shows cost of flash drives per gigabyte rose sharply since October 2023, as memory manufacturers limit supplies and increase prices Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
01 Apr 2024
Open source alert over intentionally placed backdoor
A backdoor in the open source XZ Utils data compression library could have led to widespread compromise across the Linux ecosystem - and the community is on the trail of a developer who seems to be behind it Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Definition
28 Mar 2024
data center services
Data center services provide the supporting components necessary to the proper operation of a data center. Continue Reading
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Podcast
28 Mar 2024
Podcast: What is distributed cloud storage and what are its benefits?
We talk to Enrico Signoretti of Cubbit about how distributed cloud allows customers to control their data in hybrid and multicloud storage and the workloads the company targets Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Mar 2024
Cern: Challenges of GPU datacentre management
Cern is a major user of Kubernetes. The container orchestration technology offers a way to democratise AI hardware Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
26 Mar 2024
Alletra MP hardware changes see HPE orient arrays towards AI
HPE doubles controller nodes, boosts capacity with denser drives, cuts caches and builds in 100Gbps links to bring denser, faster storage aimed at all parts of the AI/ML pipeline Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Mar 2024
Goldman Sachs discusses virtues of Kubernetes for virtual machine management
Kubernetes is not only a platform for orchestrating containers – Goldman Sachs has found it offers the same benefits when used to manage virtual machines Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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E-Zine
26 Mar 2024
What are IT buyers spending their money on?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal the findings of our annual survey into the technologies that IT buyers are spending their money on this year. The European CIO at PepsiCo explains how to make digital transformation go with a pop. And we look at the growing importance of cloud-to-cloud backup for data protection and resilience. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2024
IBM enhances network IT automation capabilities with Pliant acquisition
Tech giant makes strategic purchase to further boost software networking capabilities, offering customers the tools to enable network infrastructure observability, connectivity, control and automation across hybrid cloud environments Continue Reading
By- Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly
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Podcast
25 Mar 2024
Cloud Native Computing: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
We speak to Priyanka Sharma, the executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Forum about having blind faith in tech innovation Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
25 Mar 2024
Biodiversity's importance to sustainable datacentre computing
Want to advance sustainability targets? It’s time to add biodiversity to your cloud equation Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2024
Nutanix CEO: VMware customers ‘not in a happy place’
Company CEO Rajiv Ramaswami claims VMware customers have doubts about whether VMware will be the right long-term platform for them, singling out those that have made the switch to Nutanix Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2024
The evolution of DevOps: Why platform engineering is gaining momentum
Platform teams are extending their responsibilities to security as platform engineering takes DevOps to the next level Continue Reading
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News
21 Mar 2024
CCS holding firm on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements for prospective Lot 4 suppliers
The government’s procurement arm is seemingly refusing to give in to supplier calls to extend its decision to revise down the insurance requirements for G-Cloud 14 to the framework’s fourth Lot Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
20 Mar 2024
Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy
We speak to Oracle cloud chief technical architect Pradeep Vincent about cloud deployment scenarios Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
20 Mar 2024
AWS Public Sector Day: AI-enabled care homes and using big data to ease biodiversity crisis
At this year’s AWS Public Sector Day, delegates heard how AI and cloud-based data processing tools are helping address skills shortfalls in the health and social care sector, as well as the UK’s biodiversity crisis Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
20 Mar 2024
Maybe Einstein Was Wrong with E and MC - Apparently SoftIron = VM Squared...
Let’s face it, the scenario facing VMware for resellers and customer alike, post-Broadcom acquisition is common knowledge – the future landscape is not as it was. On top of that, it has to be ... Continue Reading
By- Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing
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News
20 Mar 2024
SAP S/4HANA data migration beset by poor and fragmented strategy
Survey finds customers transitioning to S/4HANA lack strategic thinking and skills, can’t access data, face challenges in data duplication, can’t use AI, and worry about compliance Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Mar 2024
Singtel to host Vultr’s GPU workloads in AI datacentres
Vultr users will be able to deploy large-scale clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs in Vultr’s Singapore region hosted in Singtel’s AI datacentres by the third quarter this year Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
19 Mar 2024
EMEA security spend will have another boom year in 2024
Cyber security services and technology will once again be the focus of major investment across EMEA during 2024, according to the latest Technology Spending Intentions study from TechTarget and ESG Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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19 Mar 2024
How to improve IT sustainability
With every business function being asked to reduce their carbon footprint, we look at ways to achieve greener IT operations. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
19 Mar 2024
What went wrong with Birmingham’s Oracle project?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, after Birmingham City Council’s disastrous Oracle project cost over £100m, we analyse where it all went wrong. Our new buyer’s guide examines building a sustainable IT strategy. And we find out how Thomson Reuters is using AI to enhance its product offerings. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2024
Cohesity: We won’t abandon NetBackup customers or force migration
CEO promises no forced migration to Cohesity and not to abandon any NetBackup product while building new leadership in artificial intelligence and security around Cohesity Gaia Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
18 Mar 2024
Budgets rise as IT decision-makers ramp up cyber security spending
Few IT leaders surveyed in the TechTarget/Enterprise Strategy Group 2024 Technology Spending Intentions study say they are spending less this year Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Definition
18 Mar 2024
paravirtualization
Paravirtualization is a type of hardware virtualization that enables the guest operating system (OS) in a virtual machine (VM) to access the hypervisor directly, rather than indirectly through a complex abstraction layer, as is the case with conventional full virtualization. Continue Reading
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News
18 Mar 2024
CCS slammed over errors in G-Cloud 14 data protection documents
The government’s procurement arm is under fire again, after prospective suppliers to the G-Cloud 14 framework raised complaints about CCS’s quality control procedures Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
18 Mar 2024
Tips to improve IT sustainability
With every business function being asked to look closely at their carbon footprint, we look at ways to achieve greener IT operations Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
15 Mar 2024
Global McDonalds IT outage result of third-party error
An IT outage that forced McDonald's to temporarily shutter thousands of restaurants has been blamed on a configuration error by a third-party supplier, but there is no suspicion of foul play Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
14 Mar 2024
French datacentre operator to prototype using site's waste heat to generate renewable energy
Data4 is partnering with the University of Paris-Saclay to experiment with reusing waste datacentre heat to grow algae for use in green energy generation Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
13 Mar 2024
VMware/Broadcom: Should you consider the Nutanix hypervisor?
Nutanix’s latesting quarterly filing shows the company is benefiting from the fallout following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
13 Mar 2024
AWS launches Builder Studio in Melbourne
The Builder Studio will help customers and partners build prototype AI projects to validate and test their ideas before deployment Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2024
March Patch Tuesday throws up two critical Hyper-V flaws
Two critical vulnerabilities in Windows Hyper-V stand out on an otherwise unremarkable Patch Tuesday Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
12 Mar 2024
Hammerspace leverages smart metadata handling for AI/ML workloads
Software-defined storage maker separates metadata from files to provide view-from-anywhere file system visibility. It has now leveraged that for AI/ML workloads in Hyperscale NAS Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Tip
11 Mar 2024
5 PaaS security best practices to safeguard the app layer
Underlying APIs, language choice and cybersecurity features can vary widely across PaaS providers. These five security best practices can help in almost any PaaS scenario. Continue Reading
By- Ed Moyle, Drake Software
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Podcast
11 Mar 2024
Podcast: Immutable storage essential against ransomware, but...
...not all immutable storage is created equal. That’s the message from Paul Speciale of Scality, who looks at immutable storage, its variants and what’s needed to secure data Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Definition
11 Mar 2024
AWS CloudFormation (Amazon Web Services CloudFormation)
AWS CloudFormation is a free service that provides Amazon Web Services customers with the tools they need to create and manage the infrastructure a particular software application requires to run on AWS. Continue Reading
By- Andrew Zola
- Katherine Martin, Former Associate Editor, Content Strategy
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News
11 Mar 2024
How Microsoft is easing GenAI adoption into financial services
Microsoft is supporting enterprise deployment models, addressing the risks of the technology and leveraging its industry cloud capabilities to ease generative AI adoption in the financial sector Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
11 Mar 2024
TechUK calls for next government to introduce ‘industrial strategy’ for AI
Trade group TechUK publishes blueprint calling for winner of next election to boost tech startups, digitise government services and accelerate technology R&D Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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Feature
11 Mar 2024
A better way to manage hybrid or multicloud deployments
Cloud-native strategies notwithstanding, workloads running on-premise or in private clouds will continue to present management challenges Continue Reading
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Definition
08 Mar 2024
Google App Engine
Google App Engine (GAE) is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) product that enables web app developers and enterprises to build, deploy and host scalable, high-performance applications in Google's fully managed cloud environment without having to worry about infrastructure provisioning or management. Continue Reading
By- Rahul Awati
- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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Tip
07 Mar 2024
5-step IaaS security checklist for cloud customers
Get expert advice on patching, data encryption, and identity and access management responsibilities in this enterprise IaaS security checklist. Continue Reading
By- Ed Moyle, Drake Software
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News
07 Mar 2024
CCS U-turns on G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements after supplier backlash
The government procurement agency has reversed previous plans for a £20m increase in insurance cover that threatened to deter smaller suppliers from bidding for cloud computing contracts Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Bryan Glick, Editor in chief
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News
07 Mar 2024
BA sets out plan to revamp IT, add AI and update website
Airline plans to migrate 700 systems to cloud and run custom version of Teams to support in-flight customer comms with ground staff Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
05 Mar 2024
Rapid7 hits out over botched vulnerability disclosure
Software development firm JetBrains and security specialist Rapid7 fall out over the handling of a critical vulnerability disclosure, while customers are left rushing to patch Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Tip
05 Mar 2024
Guide to lift-and-shift data center migration
The lift-and-shift approach moves an app and its data from one environment to another. Understanding the pros and cons can help a data center admin decide on proper strategies. Continue Reading
By- Julia Borgini, Spacebarpress Media
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News
05 Mar 2024
Meta outage disrupts social media globally
Meta services, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, have been downed in a brief service outage Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Tip
05 Mar 2024
Importance of backup generator power for data centers
Data center generators are rarely run; however, they must go through regular testing and maintenance to ensure they work when a power outage occurs to prevent server downtime. Continue Reading
By- Robert McFarlane, Shen Milsom & Wilke LLC
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News
05 Mar 2024
IT leaders dial back cloud-first strategies as hybrid IT becomes more of an investment priority
Latest data from TechTarget and ESG reveals changing attitudes towards cloud deployments within the enterprise Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
05 Mar 2024
Unexpected costs hit many as they move to cloud storage
A Wasabi survey of cloud storage customers finds more moving to the cloud, but they are experiencing busted budgets and unexpected fees, and expect big demands from artificial intelligence workloads Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
05 Mar 2024
Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud
The ‘European cloud services in an open federated ecosystem’ (ECOFED) project is co-funded by the Dutch government and will run from 2024 to 2027 Continue Reading
By- Kim Loohuis
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News
05 Mar 2024
Keepit brings backup and restore to unprotected SaaS applications
SaaS backup specialist keeps data in its own cloud datacentres, protects cloud data across numerous platforms and aims to give customers the ability to rapidly add data sources Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
05 Mar 2024
AI-acceleration deployments curbed by datacentre design considerations
In addition to a shortage of GPUs for AI-optimised servers, IT leaders need to consider how well their datacentre power and cooling will cope with artificial intelligence workloads Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
05 Mar 2024
Own targets SaaS backup and offers analytics insight
Targeting a growing market – SaaS applications that lack backup – Own offers backup, fine-grained restores and analytics on data stores that can bring business insight Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Definition
04 Mar 2024
application containerization (app containerization)
Application containerization is a virtualization technology that works at the operating system (OS) level. It is used for deploying and running distributed applications in their own isolated environments, without the use of virtual machines (VMs). Continue Reading
By- Robert Sheldon
- Linda Rosencrance
- Cameron McKenzie, TechTarget
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News
04 Mar 2024
G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements ‘under review’ by CCS after SME supplier backlash
CCS has confirmed to Computer Weekly the insurance requirements for Lots 1 to 3 of the G-Cloud 14 framework are under review, as SME-focused minister pledges to investigate matter Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
04 Mar 2024
Forrester: Tips for assessing hybrid cloud management
Cloud-native works for new workloads, but legacy IT needs a different approach, which is why IT leaders rely on hybrid cloud deployments Continue Reading
By- Forrester analysts
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Tip
01 Mar 2024
Use Glances to monitor your data center systems
Glances is a real-time, Python-based performance monitor. Administrators with data centers that house multiple OSes should consider installing Glances. Continue Reading
By- Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction
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Feature
01 Mar 2024
Pseudo-SLC flash storage: What is it, what’s it good for and what does it cost?
Pseudo-SLC takes MLC, TLC flash and changes data storage at cell level to get better endurance and performance, but it’s mostly aimed at edge applications and is costly Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
01 Mar 2024
APAC firms bullish on IT spending
More than half of organisations plan to spend more on key areas such as cyber security, generative AI and cloud in a sign of growing optimism across the region Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Tip
29 Feb 2024
Sustainability benefits of cloud computing data centers
Cloud computing data centers use large amounts of electricity, but a main sustainability benefit is the cloud's large scale and ability to store more data. Continue Reading
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News
29 Feb 2024
Post-production company to go ‘all-in’ on Deep Green’s heat-reusing datacentre in Devon
Datacentre startup Deep Green confirms long-standing client Dirty Looks has committed to moving all of its workloads to its heat-reusing server farm, located in a leisure centre in Devon Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Answer
28 Feb 2024
Can ransomware infect backups? 3 tips to protect data
Backing up data is one way to guard against threats such as ransomware, but attacks designed to infect backups can compromise data protection efforts. Continue Reading
By- Mitch Lewis, Evaluator Group
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News
28 Feb 2024
Microsoft reinvents ERP into total enterprise integration
Microsoft is offering a complete one-stop shop of enterprise services from infrastructure through to remote worker powered by AI Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Feb 2024
Broadcom’s VMware acquisition explained: The impact on your IT strategy
In this guide, we look at Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and how it influences your IT desktop, server, cloud and supplier management strategies Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
28 Feb 2024
UC finetunes tech strategy to support digital masterplan
The University of Canberra is scoping a new project to determine data, integration and multicloud strategies to support its long-term digital roadmap Continue Reading
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News
28 Feb 2024
CCS accused of pricing G-Cloud SMEs out of framework with £20m insurance cover hike
The Crown Commercial Service’s commitment to helping SMEs win more government cloud deals is being called into question again, following news that it is planning to up the insurance cover required by G-Cloud 14 suppliers by £20m Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Feb 2024
Microsoft goes public with pledges to foster innovation and drive competition in AI economy
Microsoft lists all the ways it wants to ensure competition and support innovation in the AI economy by taking a proactive and constructive stance to working with regulators Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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27 Feb 2024
Tracking the change in enterprise attitudes to hybrid cloud
Hybrid cloud deployments are poised to become even more prevalent in the enterprise as public cloud fails to live up to the hype on cost savings Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2024
Competition in the cloud: Microsoft's ‘unfair’ licensing tactics go under the microscope
Microsoft’s share of the global cloud infrastructure market is growing at a time when its customer recruitment and retention techniques are coming under increased regulatory scrutiny Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2024
Storage and backup spend in 2024 targets risk and resilience
The TechTarget and ESG spending intentions survey finds big bias towards averting risk and building organisational resilience, but on-premise storage a significant planned outlay Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Feb 2024
TechUK warns datacentre operators government could get powers to enforce heat reuse
UK tech trade body publishes report about challenges datacentre operators may face if the government gets powers that require them to join heat reuse schemes Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
26 Feb 2024
Tracking the change in enterprise attitudes to hybrid cloud
Hybrid cloud deployments are poised to become even more prevalent in the enterprise as public cloud fails to live up to the hype on cost savings Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
22 Feb 2024
Nvidia CEO sees shift in datacentres to ‘AI generation factories’
Jensen Huang used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings to discuss the massive growth in accelerated datacentre computing experienced by Nvidia Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
21 Feb 2024
NasuniIQ brings visualisation of massive unstructured datasets
Global file system provider adds visualisation of massive distributed unstructured datasets to allow customers to analyse data usage and prepare clean training data for artificial intelligence Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
21 Feb 2024
IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud
Survey shows that fewer IT leaders are prioritising workload migration, which suggests they are happy with their deployment plans Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Blog Post
21 Feb 2024
How data centres are preparing for AI and greater tech responsibility
In this guest post, Wesley Anastase-Brookes, commercial sales director at colocation company Ark Data Centres, talks about the importance of responding to the surging demand for artificial ... Continue Reading
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Definition
20 Feb 2024
workload
In computing, a workload is typically any program or application that runs on a computer. Continue Reading
By- Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Site Editor
- Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor