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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E-Zine
07 Dec 2023
CW EMEA: Prepare for cyber war
When the war between Hamas and Israel began in October, cyber security professionals and major government and private organisations braced for an inevitable accompanying online war. In this issue of CW EMEA, we outline cyber war, patterns of threat activity, and find out what security teams can do to protect their organisations. We also look at Finland’s advances in quantum computing, how Belgian researchers have developed technology to help datacentres process data faster, and the secrets of KPN’s successful business transformation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2023
Belgian researchers raise speed limit in European datacentres
Researchers have developed a prototype of an optical receiver that will help datacentres process data at a much higher rate Continue Reading
By- Pat Brans, Pat Brans Associates/Grenoble Ecole de Management
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News
27 Jun 2024
Council denies planning bid for datacentre near M25 a second time on Green Belt grounds
Buckinghamshire Council rejects a second attempt by investment firm Greystoke Land to secure permission for a datacentre development in Iver on Green Belt protection grounds Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Jun 2024
Halo Trust partners with AWS to accelerate AI-led landmine clearance in Ukraine
Landmine clearance organisation Halo Trust is drawing on AWS’s AI expertise to see if the technology can accelerate the pace of its work in Ukraine Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
27 Jun 2024
Gulf Edge to operate Google Distributed Cloud in Thailand
The Gulf Energy subsidiary will offer Google’s sovereign cloud service in Thailand with a focus on air-gapped configurations Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
25 Jun 2024
European Commission declares Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with M365 anti-competitive
The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that selling Microsoft Teams bundled in with its Office 365 suite is anti-competitive Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
25 Jun 2024
UK government’s M365 use under scrutiny after Microsoft’s ‘no guarantee of sovereignty’ disclosure
Microsoft’s hold on government IT is under scrutiny, following a disclosure to a Scottish policing body that saw the software giant advise that it cannot guarantee data sovereignty in its cloud-based Microsoft 365 suite Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
25 Jun 2024
Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection
Google engineer Michelle Au was involved in Kubernetes storage early, as the container orchestration platform was developed to support data protection operations such as snapshots Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
25 Jun 2024
SAP public cloud migration requires architectural rethink
Research from analyst Gartner has identified common issues IT leaders may encounter when moving S/4HANA to the public cloud Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Definition
25 Jun 2024
second-level address translation (SLAT)
Second-level address translation (SLAT) is a hardware virtualization technology that reduces hypervisor overhead. SLAT is now available in many kinds of processors, including those from Intel and AMD. Continue Reading
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Definition
24 Jun 2024
Type 2 hypervisor (hosted hypervisor)
A Type 2 hypervisor is a virtual machine (VM) manager that is installed as a software application on an existing operating system (OS). Continue Reading
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Definition
24 Jun 2024
Virtual Machine Management Service
The Virtual Machine Management service, also known as VMMS or vmms.exe, is the main module in the Microsoft Windows operating system for controlling the virtual machines (VMs) on a Hyper-V server. Continue Reading
By- Robert Sheldon
- Ryann Burnett, Executive Managing Editor
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News
24 Jun 2024
Kmart taps event streaming for real-time insights
Retailer’s Hamilton event streaming platform delivers real-time insights on container shipments, sales and customer interactions to support its online retail business Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jun 2024
Pure’s storage as a service: We can offer what others can’t
All-flash storage vendor Pure makes bold claims about subscription pricing for storage, stating that the competition can’t offer what it can because its arrays are built for non-disruptive upgrades Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
24 Jun 2024
Macquarie Cloud debuts Australia-first hybrid offering
Macquarie Flex brings Azure services to a broader set of workloads that are not suited to run natively on public cloud Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2024
Digging into the Labour Party’s election manifesto datacentre planning reform pledge
The Labour Party is promising to reform the planning rules that govern whether new datacentre builds can proceed or not, but stakeholders warn the sector’s growth must not come at the expense of the environment Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Opinion
17 Jun 2024
Cloud security: Finding the right provider to protect your data
This month, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers how CISOs and security practitioners should ensure that the business can make use of public cloud services safely and securely and avoid accidental or deliberate data leakage. Continue Reading
By- Stephen McDermid
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News
13 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Labour promises to boost digital infrastructure
The Labour Party manifesto for the UK general election promises a new industrial strategy and an overhaul of planning rules to help support the digital and tech sector Continue Reading
By- Bryan Glick, Editor in chief
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News
13 Jun 2024
AI’s environmental cost could outweigh sustainability benefits
Artificial intelligence can help organisations manage and mitigate their environmental impacts in a number of ways, but the highly polluting nature of the technology could outweigh its other sustainability benefits if not dealt with Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Opinion
13 Jun 2024
Data leakage in the cloud – can data truly be safe in the cloud?
This month, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers how CISOs and security practitioners should ensure that the business can make use of public cloud services safely and securely and avoid accidental or deliberate data leakage. Continue Reading
By- Scott Swalling
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Feature
13 Jun 2024
Best practices to beat container misconfiguration
How can organisations ensure containerised environments are configured correctly and adequately defended, without getting lost in the complexity? Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2024
VMware/Broadcom: Prepare for legacy support
VMware is not going away anytime soon. While some IT leaders may be feeling the pain of Broadcom’s changes, they still need to seek a long-term plan Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
13 Jun 2024
Epicor rides Southeast Asia manufacturing boom
Midmarket ERP software supplier capitalising on growing investments by Chinese and local manufacturing firms in region to drive business Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Definition
12 Jun 2024
green IT (green information technology)
Green IT (green information technology) is the practice of creating and using environmentally sustainable computing resources. Continue Reading
By- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
- Emily McLaughlin, Coravin
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Tip
12 Jun 2024
8 green computing best practices
As climate change becomes a more pressing issue, these sustainability best practices can help your data center go greener, which benefits both your business and the environment. Continue Reading
By- Julia Borgini, Spacebarpress Media
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Opinion
12 Jun 2024
How to ensure public cloud services are used safely and securely
This month, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers how CISOs and security practitioners should ensure that the business can make use of public cloud services safely and securely and avoid accidental or deliberate data leakage. Continue Reading
By- Beji Jacob
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News
12 Jun 2024
CMA working paper outlines concerns about Microsoft’s competitive hold on UK cloud market
Microsoft has dismissed the idea its cloud licensing practices are affecting its two biggest competitors, but stakeholders claim the CMA's latest working paper could signify a day of reckoning over its pricing strategy Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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Blog Post
12 Jun 2024
How the data renaissance is forging a greener future
In this guest post from Cindi Howson, chief data strategy officer at business intelligence software supplier ThoughtSpot, shares her insights on the difference data is making in the fight against ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2024
Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption
Tableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
11 Jun 2024
Kubernetes at 10: Persistent storage matures, helped by Operators
Google engineer Saad Ali remembers the early days of Kubernetes, the storage challenges faced and overcome, and the revolution in application awareness that comes from Operators Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
11 Jun 2024
Nuclear waste body cuts energy use by 20% as Pure replaces HPE
French nuclear waste agency Andra has cut storage energy use by 20% and strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by deploying Pure Storage and 10-year controller upgrades Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Tip
10 Jun 2024
8 SaaS security best practices for 2024
SaaS has become ubiquitous. To secure it, take steps to inventory SaaS usage, securely authenticate usage, encrypt data, adopt single sign-on and more. Continue Reading
By- Ed Moyle, Drake Software
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News
10 Jun 2024
Driving customer experience through cloud and AI
Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Definition
07 Jun 2024
industrial control system (ICS)
In industrial settings, industrial control system (ICS) is a term used to describe the integration of hardware and software with network connectivity to support production processes in manufacturing or critical infrastructure. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2024
Nvidia sees massive datacentre compute growth, says networking is next
After posting revenues of $19.4bn in its datacentre business, Nvidia is now looking to revolutionise ethernet interconnects Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
05 Jun 2024
Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers
Australian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Jun 2024
SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux)
SELinux, or Security-Enhanced Linux, is a part of the Linux kernel that acts as a protective agent to the operating system. Continue Reading
By- Gavin Wright
- Tim Culverhouse, Site Editor
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News
05 Jun 2024
HPE takes $4.5bn in enterprise IT AI server orders
The server company is prepping everything for greater enterprise artificial intelligence demand Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Definition
05 Jun 2024
virtualization
Virtualization is the creation of a virtual version of an actual piece of technology, such as an operating system (OS), a server, a storage device or a network resource. Continue Reading
By- Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Site Editor
- Kate Brush
- Brian Kirsch, Milwaukee Area Technical College
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News
05 Jun 2024
How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’
Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Opinion
04 Jun 2024
Security Think Tank: The cloud just got more complicated
This month, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers how CISOs and security practitioners should ensure that the business can make use of public cloud services safely and securely and avoid accidental or deliberate data leakage. Continue Reading
By- Rob Dartnall, SecAlliance
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News
04 Jun 2024
Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI
One supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
03 Jun 2024
Dell launches PowerStore Prime and hints at PowerScale AI boost
Array range launched at Dell World 2024 in Las Vegas as PowerScale gets OS upgrade and new Intel Xeon CPUs, while Dell CEO hints at acceleration for PowerScale NAS Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
30 May 2024
CMA slammed for excluding public sector from UK cloud market antitrust user research
The Competition and Markets Authority is under fire for instructing the firm overseeing the user research part of its antitrust probe into the UK cloud infrastructure services market not to include public sector buyers Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
30 May 2024
FWD teams up with AWS on cloud
The pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Opinion
29 May 2024
How to avoid joining the Dead Java Code Society
Unused or dead Java code is bogging down software engineers and developers, causing weird dependencies and security risks. Eric Costlow of Azul shares some advice on how to avoid becoming a member of a rather unpleasant club Continue Reading
By- Eric Costlow
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Feature
29 May 2024
Storage technology explained: File, block and object storage
We ask the key questions about file, block and object storage: how they work on-premise and in the cloud, global file systems, and file and object locking Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
29 May 2024
Blackpool Council courts datacentre developers for tech-focused town regeneration project
Blackpool Council is seeking the support of the datacentre community for its bid to create a sustainable technology campus that will capitalise on the town’s proximity to transatlantic undersea cables Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
29 May 2024
How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves
Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy Continue Reading
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Definition
28 May 2024
bare-metal hypervisor (Type 1 hypervisor)
A bare-metal hypervisor, also known as a Type 1 hypervisor, is virtualization software that has been installed directly onto the computing hardware. Continue Reading
By- Robert Sheldon
- Brien Posey
- Kim Hefner, Managing Editor
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News
26 May 2024
Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI
Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments Continue Reading
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News
23 May 2024
CMA: AWS and Microsoft deny cloud discounts have anti-competitive effect on market
The CMA finds that IT buyers do not see the anti-competitive impact that discounts can have on the UK cloud market, despite acknowledging that preferential pricing can dictate their choice of cloud provider Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Datacentre Editor
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Tip
23 May 2024
Data center power backup options to deal with downtime
Generators, UPS systems and batteries work in tandem to safeguard data centers against power outages, fluctuations and grid failures. Admins must know what system is best for them. Continue Reading
By- Julia Borgini, Spacebarpress Media
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Podcast
22 May 2024
Podcast: AI and its impact on data storage
We talk to Shawn Rosemarin, vice-president for R&D at Pure Storage, about the requirements of AI workloads, and what data storage needs to cope with AI Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2024
Infinidat adds smaller footprint G4 arrays with claimed 2x performance
Purveyor of triple-controller all-flash and hybrid flash arrays aimed at high-end customers tails and tops InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA ranges, and adds Azure cloud storage to AWS Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
22 May 2024
G-Cloud 14: Overseas suppliers risk non-compliance as CCS changes stance on UK VAT requirements
After assuring overseas suppliers multiple times during the G-Cloud clarification period that they did not need a UK VAT number to participate in the framework, government procurement chiefs have now backtracked on this guidance by telling non-UK suppliers to get VAT registered by October or risk being non-compliant Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
22 May 2024
Broadcom/VMware: Joining the dots to migrate off VMware
It may take several years to move off VMware. In the meantime, Nutanix and Rimini Street have ramped up efforts to target unhappy customers Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
21 May 2024
Nutanix ramps up VMware opportunity
During its annual Next conference in Barcelona, Nutanix has expanded its hardware partner programme to grab new business from Broadcom Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
20 May 2024
Toshiba shows 32TB HDDs with heat-assisted and shingled drives
Drive maker demonstrates 32TB and 31TB capacity hard drives that boost write density by use of heat and microwave assistance plus shingled – overlapped – drive tracks Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 May 2024
Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves
Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Opinion
17 May 2024
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Helping CIOs and IT directors navigate the green IT landscape
CIOs and IT leaders must take action now to ensure they have an accurate overview of the carbon emissions, energy use and sustainability of their organisation's overall activities. But how should they go about this? Continue Reading
By- Shane Herath , Eco-Friendly Web Alliance
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News
17 May 2024
Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum
The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
15 May 2024
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to step down in June 2024
After three years heading up the world’s biggest public cloud company, Adam Selipsky is stepping down to be replaced by long-time Amazon staffer Matt Garman Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
15 May 2024
Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements
Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Opinion
14 May 2024
IT Sustainability Think Tank: How CIOs can navigate the green IT landscape
CIOs and IT leaders must take action now to ensure they have an accurate overview of the carbon emissions, energy use and sustainability of their organisation's overall activities. But how should they go about this? Continue Reading
By- Edward Barbor, PA Consulting
- Richard Barnes-Webb, PA Consulting
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Tip
14 May 2024
Safeguard data center power with regular UPS maintenance
There are several levels of testing to address when developing a UPS maintenance checklist. Be sure to conduct visual, thermal and load tests to verify UPS health. Continue Reading
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News
14 May 2024
QStar launches tape access from anywhere with Global ArchiveSpace
Tape veteran provides file and object access to Exabyte scale archives aimed at AI, high-performance computing and hyperscaler storage. Single-site for now, multi-site to follow Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Definition
14 May 2024
Docker image
A Docker image is a file used to execute code in a Docker container. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
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News
14 May 2024
NetApp upgrades AFF all-flash as it targets AI storage
New AFF arrays offer performance boost for artificial intelligence, while NetApp trumpets its advantages as a provider of sustainable and intelligent infrastructure for all kinds of workloads Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 May 2024
CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant
The CMA has reignited concerns about how its use of AWS could constitute a conflict of interest, given the public cloud giant is the subject of an anti-trust probe by the watchdog Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
13 May 2024
Bristol goes live with UK AI supercomputer
The Isambard-AI supercomputer is set to revolutionise AI research in the UK Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
13 May 2024
How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation
SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
13 May 2024
Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity
We speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Definition
10 May 2024
virtual machine escape
A virtual machine escape is an exploit in which an attacker runs code on a VM that lets the operating system (OS) running within it break out and interact directly with the hypervisor. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 May 2024
How to manage data privacy versus the growing grab bag of requirements
With a single worldwide approach to data privacy politically untenable, how can organisations best pick and mix what works for them? Continue Reading
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Feature
10 May 2024
Four key impacts of AI on data storage
We look at the key impacts of AI on data storage, including I/O and possible bottlenecks, how I/O differs across training and inference, plus data management and compliance concerns Continue Reading
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News
09 May 2024
Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs
Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
09 May 2024
Currys signs up Microsoft and Accenture to modernise IT
IT modernisation programme covers datacentre migration to Azure cloud and roll-out of AI to boost shopping experience Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
08 May 2024
Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints
A Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
08 May 2024
Cyber attack ruled out as source of UK Border Force outage
An IT outage that caused automated passport control e-gates to crash across the UK has been resolved, with a cyber attack ruled out as the cause Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
08 May 2024
Huawei launches exabyte-scale OceanStor A800 at AI workloads
Chinese storage array maker announces high-performance NAS that can build out to clusters in excess of 1 exabyte, plus NVMe flash drives of 128TB coming to market next year Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
07 May 2024
Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves
Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Definition
07 May 2024
Nutanix
Nutanix is a private and hybrid cloud software provider. It started as a hyperconverged infrastructure pioneer that now markets its technology as a building block for private clouds. Continue Reading
By- Gavin Wright
- Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor
- Sarah Wilson, Associate Site Editor
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News
07 May 2024
French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit
Cubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
07 May 2024
AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure
The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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E-Zine
07 May 2024
Casting a critical eye on HMRC’s IR35 checker tool
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we investigate what has been going on with HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool. We also speak to the CIO of Danfoss about making datacentres greener and explore the issue of restoring data and system backups after a ransomware or cyber attack. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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06 May 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
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News
03 May 2024
Adobe expands bug bounty programme to account for GenAI
Adobe has expanded the scope of its HackerOne-driven bug bounty scheme to incorporate flaws and risks arising from the development of generative artificial intelligence Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
03 May 2024
Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned
The addition of a serious vulnerability in the GitLab open source platform to CISA’s KEV catalogue prompts a flurry of concern Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Definition
03 May 2024
data center
A data center is a facility composed of networked computers, storage systems and computing infrastructure that organizations use to assemble, process, store and disseminate large amounts of data. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Peter Loshin, Former Senior Technology Editor
- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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Opinion
03 May 2024
IT Sustainability Think Tank: How CIOs can measure their carbon emissions and energy use
CIOs and IT leaders must take action now to ensure they have an accurate overview of the carbon emissions, energy use and sustainability of their organisation's overall activities. But how should they go about this? Continue Reading
By- Mattie Yeta, CGI
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News
01 May 2024
Secure coding benchmark to increase standards among developers
Developer security advocate Secure Code Warrior has launched what it claims is the industry’s first benchmark designed to quantify the security competence of its customers’ software developer teams Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Podcast
01 May 2024
Podcast: 32TB HDDs by 2029, but how much bigger can they get?
We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the roadmap for conventional magnetic recording on hard disk drives, the roadmap to 32TB, and what it would take to get to 100TB or 200TB Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
01 May 2024
Google Cloud accelerates asteroid discovery for US-based non-profit
Google Cloud opens up about the work it is doing with a US-based planetary science non-profit to help map the solar system Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
01 May 2024
Datacentres can play a bigger role in grid sustainability
While improvements in energy efficiency have kept electricity consumption in datacentres in check, according to the International Energy Agency, to reach net zero, emissions must halve by 2030. ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
01 May 2024
AWS results see public cloud giant tap into surging GenAI demand
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims AWS has turned a corner where its customers’ worries about cloud cost optimisation are concerned Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Podcast
01 May 2024
AWS & GenAI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
We speak to Francessca Vasquez, vice president, professional services and GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
30 Apr 2024
IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity
IBM sees a big opportunity to migrate customers to containers and OpenShift, with its $6.4bn acquisition of HashiCorp part of the plan Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Definition
30 Apr 2024
XaaS (anything as a service)
XaaS is a collective term that refers to the delivery of anything as a service. Continue Reading
By- Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Site Editor
- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
- Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor
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Opinion
30 Apr 2024
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Calculating IT equipment capacity – the challenging path forward
CIOs and IT leaders must take action now to ensure they have an accurate overview of the carbon emissions, energy use and sustainability of their organisation's overall activities. But how should they go about this? Continue Reading
By- Jay Dietrich, Uptime Institute
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News
30 Apr 2024
Arcitecta offers file and object storage with huge transfer rates
Australian startup offers single namespace file and object storage with rapid access via a metadata database that puts the right data in the right place according to recent use Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Definition
29 Apr 2024
disaster recovery plan (DRP)
A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented, structured approach that describes how an organization can quickly resume operations after an unplanned incident. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Kate Brush
- Paul Crocetti, Executive Editor