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January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22
Gartner: IT spending forecast points to skills rebalance

Latest forecast on IT spending shows that more IT workloads are being deployed in the cloud, and outsourcing is also set for a boost
January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22
Thailand builds new supercomputer to boost research

The National Science and Technology Development Agency’s new supercomputer will boost research in pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and weather forecasting, among other areas
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
Top 10 cloud storage, DR and datacentre storage stories of 2021

Key articles from 2021 that demonstrate the growing importance of cloud storage and disaster recovery, but also the snags that lead to cloud repatriation and difficulties restoring from the cloud

EDSFF brings built-for-NVMe connectivity to the datacentre

Aimed at enterprise use cases, EDSFF offers incredible flash density in shared storage and hyperscale deployments, but storage products that use it are still thin on the ground Continue Reading
Object storage: How research institute got 850TB for €150,000

French scientific research institute had its budgets cut and to meet the new cost constraints, it settled on Swarm software-defined object storage from DataCore Continue Reading
Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Assessing risk and business impact

In the first in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we provide a step-by-step guide to building firm foundations for the disaster recovery plan, with risk assessment and business impact analysis Continue Reading

The critical importance and utility of the modern mainframe

IT resilience and security is essential to today's businesses, so dependent are they on their IT systems. For some of those who have been around this industry more than a decade or two, this raises ... Continue Reading
Has the data centre of the future already arrived?

Predicting the future is full of potential pitfalls, but analysts still insist on trying to do it, even when a study of the evidence illustrates how wild some forecasts have proven to be. But back ... Continue Reading
The consequence of IT failure on a space mission

If everything goes to plan, an HPE edge server, Spaceborne Computer-2, will soon be running on the International Space Station, proving that commodity x86 hardware can be used to run mission ... Continue Reading

Why the London Data Charter could be a foundation stone in the city’s recovery

London First’s director of connectivity and competitiveness, David Lutton, explains why data is at the core of the capital’s recovery plan Continue Reading
Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications

Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
As data volumes grow, backup needs analytics, says StorageCraft CEO

Backup appliance maker’s CEO says backup needs analytics so customers can prioritise restore of critical data in a world where volumes increase by 50% a year Continue Reading

2017 IT Priority Study: Trends in the APAC converged/hyper-converged market

Find out what converged/hyper-converged initiatives IT decision makers are planning in 2017
2017 IT Priority Study: Trends in APAC DevOps

Find out what DevOps initiatives IT decision makers are planning in 2017
2017 IT Priority Study: Trends in the EMEA converged/hyper-converged market

Find out what converged and hyper-converged initiatives IT decision makers are planning in 2017