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Revenue generated by the activities of the global public cloud service and infrastructure market’s players was up 26% year-on-year during the first quarter of 2022, fuelling demand for more hyperscale datacentres.
That is according to the public cloud ecosystem tracking data accrued by IT market watcher...
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Cloudflare has confirmed that the short-lived outage that knocked hundreds of websites offline on Tuesday 21 June was caused by a planned network configuration change within 19 of its datacentres and was not the result of malicious activity.
As previously reported by Computer Weekly, a wide...
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We talk to Candida Valois, field chief technology officer (CTO) at Scality, about the legacy applications and modern, cloud-native environments that are driving the need for object storage.
In this podcast, we look at organisations with requirements to keep large volumes of unstructured data both online...
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Vodafone has added Oracle to its roster of cloud provider partners, with the pair set to work together on a multi-year basis to revamp the telco giant’s IT infrastructure.
The company already has a multi-year deal in place with public cloud giant Google, and is now...
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What is economizer?
An economizer is a mechanical device that reduces the amount of energy used to cool a data center or other buildings. It is integrated into the building's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, which is why it is sometimes called a...
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Hundreds of websites and services have been rendered inaccessible by a now-resolved outage at web application security and performance firm Cloudflare.
The company confirmed in a statement on its service status page that it had suffered a “critical incident” and connectivity in its network has been...
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When it comes to enterprise applications, access to data – and lots of it – is usually a good thing. And the greater the volume of required data held locally to where it is processed, the better for the business, its applications, decision-making and, in some...
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What is z/OS?
Introduced in 2000, IBM z/OS is a 64-bit mainframe operating system (OS) developed by IBM for its family of enterprise z/Architecture mainframe computers that organizations use for running mission-critical applications.
The mainframe continues to be used by the largest enterprises in the...
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A team of Proofpoint researchers say they have discovered potentially dangerous standard functionality in Microsoft Office 365 that could allow ransomware to encrypt files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive in such a way that they become completely unrecoverable without dedicated backups or a decryption key.
The...
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In the realm of datacentres, circularity efforts typically focus on the upgradability, refurbishment, reuse and disposal of end-of-life IT products. Heat reuse – the process of capturing the waste heat from datacentre operations for heating purposes at other facilities – is also part of the circularity...
