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December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21
Barclays selects HPE GreenLake to host 100,000 workloads

Bank sees a need to provide more personalised digital experiences, and GreenLake is providing the IT infrastructure to help it get there
December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21
HPE results boosted by new orders rush

A rush on new orders to avoid HPE price hike, along with some help from Oracle, has helped to boost revenue
November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21
UK MSP set to use Nebulon cloud-defined storage IaaS

UK service provider Inca to use “cloud-defined storage” to support managed service provider offer in move which shunned hyper-converged infrastructure because of cited costly overheads
November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21
Video firm gets Qumulo scale-out NAS and super-fine metrics

Cognacq-Jay Image shunned Scality and Isilon to get Qumulo scale-out NAS for extremely elastic video workloads and built fine-grained metrics to troubleshoot complex processes

Finland moves to industrialise quantum computing

For the Finnish government, now is the time to start preparing for the day when quantum computers will have practical value Continue Reading
New supercomputer opens doors for researchers in Sweden

More than twice as powerful as its predecessor, a new supercomputer ushers in new opportunities for researchers who rely on artificial intelligence and machine learning Continue Reading
Scale-up vs scale-out: Horizontal vs vertical scaling for storage

We look at the differences between scale-up and scale-out in storage – or horizontal vs vertical scaling – and the key ways it can be carried out on-prem and in the cloud Continue Reading

Is the commodity server bandwagon running out of steam?

The term “paradigm shift” gets flung about far too much in IT, but we may be at one of those few times that genuinely deserves it. For decades now, specialised hardware devices have been losing ... Continue Reading
Moore's Law is anti-sustainability

The tech sector is laser-focused on driving upgrades. For decades the sector has rewarded shareholders with high growth, thanks to the prophecy that every 18 months to two years, computing doubles ... Continue Reading
Throwback Thursday: x86 Server virtualisation check point

As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a weekly stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives. To say that server – and indeed data centre – virtualisation has ... Continue Reading

The new future of work

We may come to stop talking about ‘remote’ working altogether after the coronavirus pandemic. It could become just ‘working’ – part of the normal mix of how things are done Continue Reading
Security Think Tank: In-depth protection is a matter of basic hygiene

The belief that effective perimeter security is the best way to protect data is a fallacy that is being repeatedly exposed. We must recognise the need for a data-centric security model to protect data from both internal and external threats, but what does this mean for security professionals? 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

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
Why Fitness First consolidated onto Nutanix

Fitness First has migrated its traditional datacentre installation to a Nutanix converged infrastructure