Cloud

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Ransomware has pushed backup and recovery firmly back onto the corporate agenda. Without a sound backup and recovery strategy, firms have little chance of surviving a ransomware attack, even if they pay the ransom. IBM, for example, named ransomware as the leading cyber security...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Rackspace Technology is considering selling off at least one of its business units, having determined the “sum of its parts” could be more valuable than the company is in its current form. The company’s CEO, Kevin Jones, made the admission in a statement, released in response...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com The complexity of corporate IT systems has grown significantly in the past 10 years, first with the move from fixed on-premise systems to the cloud, and latterly with the growth of web apps and cloud-based services providing new more efficient ways of doing business. While some...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Low-cost airline Ryanair has revealed how it is using Amazon’s cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) tools to forecast what in-flight refreshments it should stock to avoid disappointing its passengers. The airline is known to be a long-term Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, with the firm’s public cloud...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Pure Storage has announced a partnership with Snowflake that will allow customers to integrate the cloud data warehouse platform with their on-premise fast object storage from the storage supplier. “What we’re hearing from customers is that they want to access the power of Snowflake while keeping...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Kao Data has set its sights on educating primary and early secondary school-aged children about what datacentres are, as part of a push to teach kids about the important role played by server farms in our everyday lives. The Harlow-based colocation provider, which specialises in the...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com NetApp’s competitors are “in a world of hurt” and “years behind”, said NetApp vice-president and general manager for public cloud Anthony Lye, as he explained the company’s recent decision to buy cloud database platform provider Instaclustr. According to Lye, the acquisition of Instaclustr is the next...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com IBM has updated its quantum computing roadmap to reflect how quantum processors, central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) will be woven into a compute fabric capable of solving computationally complex problems. “We think we have found what it takes to scale quantum computers...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Simon McKinnon, chief digital information officer of DWP Digital, the technology arm of the Department for Work and Pensions, has set out a three-year plan to reimagine digital services. “We are at the start of an exciting journey to change the way we deliver services,” McKinnon...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published a refreshed set of guidelines to support organisations in migrating their online services and sensitive data into the cloud, setting out the groundwork for what it describes as a “more adaptable approach” to assure technology. Dating back...