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Sheffield-based datacentre immersion cooling systems manufacturer Iceotope Technologies has secured £30m in funding from a global investment syndicate that is focused on helping the server farm industry become more environmentally friendly.
The syndicate is led by Singapore private equity firm ABC Impact and involves several other...
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Vodafone’s big data-focused technology tie-up with Google Cloud continues to go from strength to strength, with the roll-out of a jointly created artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to help the telco giant improve its customers’ experience.
The platform, known as AI Booster, has been 18 months...
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The Irish High Court has potentially scuppered Apple’s bid to sell on a plot of land it owns in Athenry, County Galway, as a datacentre development opportunity, by quashing the planning permission extension it had secured for the site.
The consumer technology giant secured a five-year...
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Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object.
This article will define and expand on the characteristics of these three, while also looking...
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If organisations depend on their data, then they need robust backups – but making sure backup is effective is a challenge. Backing up business data has become easier over the past decade, through improvements in backup technologies, better-performing storage systems and the option to backup to...
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What is a distributed application?
Distributed applications (distributed apps) are applications or software that run on multiple computers within a network at the same time and can be stored on servers or cloud computing platforms. Unlike traditional applications that run on a single system, distributed...
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Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) claims to have completed its transition into becoming a purveyor of “as-a-service” offerings to enterprises that want to run workloads in private and hybrid cloud environments.
The company has spent the past three years working to reposition itself as an “edge-to-cloud company”, with...
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More than 90% of the funding for datacentre-related mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came from private equity sources during the first half of 2022, data from Synergy Research Group shows.
The market watcher’s datacentre M&A activity tracker shines a light on how private equity houses’ hold on...
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Google Cloud has outlined its commitment to helping enterprises “authentically” tighten up their sustainability strategies and become more environmentally friendly.
Ahead of the Google Cloud Sustainability Summit, which is taking place today (28 June 2022), the company’s managing director for sustainability, Justin Keeble, spoke at length...
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Data protection heavyweight Veritas is aiming to rework its core software offering NetBackup around autonomous functionality.
Its Autonomous Data Management project will see the development of, for example, autonomous provisioning capabilities where backup software seeks out data to be protected across on-premise capacity and...
