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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has pledged to invest £8bn between now and 2028 in the development and maintenance of new datacentres in the UK.
The public cloud giant claims its five-year datacentre investment plan will add an estimated £14bn to the UK’s total gross domestic product by...
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Oracle top brass led out their annual CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on 10 September with a focus on the multicloud future but also a customer-centric love-in, as CEO Safra Catz took to the stage to laud the partnerships Oracle has built over its near-50...
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Software security specialist JFrog and open source development community service GitHub are unveiling integrations that bring the capabilities of JFrog’s Software Supply Chain Platform to bear within GitHub’s code development platform.
The partners claim the tie-up will deliver a unified view of project status and security posture,...
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As founder Larry Ellison made final tweaks to his keynote speech at Oracle’s annual CloudWorld fest in Las Vegas, the venerable software supplier teased several key developments to expand upon in the coming days, amid predictably strong quarterly numbers.
Leading the pack out of the gate is...
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While software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) evolved from the need to provide branch offices with access to corporate applications and enterprise software distributed over the public internet, they are less well-suited to the highly distributed nature of today’s IT environment. In the past, organisations based network...
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Cloud repatriation – sometimes called “reverse migration” – is something any organisation that uses cloud storage should consider.
It’s the process of moving workloads and data back from public cloud infrastructure to on-premise hardware. This could be to a business-owned datacentre, colocation or other shared facilities.
Organisations might...
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Information security is essentially an information risk management discipline. By rendering many information systems inoperable, the global outage precipitated by Crowdstrike prevented several companies from accessing critical business information due to unplanned and extended downtime.
The unavailability was not only to information systems, but also to related...
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Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least one big drive maker, some researchers and startups, and in the NVMe Key-Value command set.
Productised manifestations of key-value storage are more...
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Flash drive prices fell steadily over the first three quarters of 2024 to an average of $0.085 per gigabyte (GB) in September 2024. That’s a drop of just over 10% since April and is the result of prices slackening after highs earlier in the year.
Flash prices...
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Containerisation is synonymous with cloud-native application development, and Kubernetes is key among container orchestration platforms available.
In this article, we look at containerisation, what defines it, how Kubernetes fits with containerisation, how Kubernetes is organised, and how it handles persistent storage and data protection.
We also look at the...
