dinsdag 19 maart, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com A global IT outage that forced fast food chain McDonald’s to temporarily suspend its operations in multiple countries has been blamed on a third-party provider error made during a configuration change, with no suspicion of any form of cyber attack. The issues were first observed in Australia...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com French datacentre operator Data4 is partnering with the University of Paris-Saclay to prototype a means of reusing waste server farm heat to create sustainable sources of biomass-based energy. The question of what to do with the waste heat their facilities produce is an enduring problem for datacentre...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com For its 2024 second-quarter filing, Nutanix reported revenue of $525m, with annual contract value rising 23% to $330m, while recurring revenue grew 26% to $1.74bn. The company’s president and CEO Rajiv Ramaswami recently discussed the huge opportunity Nutanix sees in the future: “With VMware now acquired by Broadcom,...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Microsoft has fixed a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Windows Hyper-V, one leading to remote code execution (RCE) if exploited, on a remarkably light Patch Tuesday. The fixes come amid a slimline update comprising barely 60 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), none of them rated as...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Software-defined storage maker Hammerspace claims its Hyperscale NAS functionality will offer a global file system that’s built for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads and for the high demands of GPU-driven processing. It offers performance usually only provided by dedicated high performance computing (HPC) storage products, but...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com PaaS is a cloud model through which service providers deliver an environment where customers can develop, run and manage applications. Because PaaS providers host the hardware and software on their infrastructure, customers aren't burdened with having to do so in-house.This sounds simple enough, but when it...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is 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. However, customers must pay for the AWS...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com In this podcast, we look at immutable storage with Paul Speciale, chief marketing officer at object storage specialist Scality, which released survey findings last week that found 94% of businesses rely on immutable storage or plan to implement it in the next 12 months. We talk about...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Businesses continue to invest in data analytics, despite a growing emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Business intelligence and data analytics projects continue to offer the prospect of more efficient and effective operations in both the commercial and public service sectors, with organisations looking to derive more value from...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Tech companies have urged the next government to adopt an “industrial strategy” to accelerate the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI) across UK businesses. The recommendation is one of seven urgent policy interventions identified by the UK’s technology sector for the first parliament of the next government. With the...