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If there is one technology that typifies the shift we are currently experiencing in IT, it is application containerisation.
The shift we refer to here is digital transformation, and encompasses almost everything about the way organisations build, deliver and support applications.
Containerisation – usually delivered via...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to invest more than £1.8bn over the next two years in building out its UK datacentre presence, as demand for its public cloud services continues to grow.
The cloud giant said this commitment meant it was on course to more than...
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Social media conglomerate Meta is expanding its European datacentre presence by commencing the build-out of a €1bn server farm in the Castilla-La Mancha region of Spain next year.
The company, which owns and operates the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp social media platforms, confirmed the project in...
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The Uptime Institute estimated as far back as 2015 that idle servers could be wasting around 30% of their consumed energy, with improvements fuelled by trends such as virtualisation largely plateaued.
According to Uptime, the proportion of power consumed by “functionally dead” servers in the datacentre...
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A newly discovered vulnerability in the CRI-O Kubernetes container runtime engine has once again underscored a growing need to better protect Kubernetes environments from malicious actors, while a report has highlighted a concerning disconnect among IT leaders when it comes to protecting Kubernetes containers.
Tracked as...
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Intel has unveiled the first phase of an €80bn plan to develop semiconductor fabrication (fab) and packaging across the European Union over the next decade.
The investment covers an initial €17bn in a semiconductor fab “mega-site” in Germany, the creation of a new R&D and design...
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Nordic datacentre operator atNorth claims to have built Sweden’s first large-scale server farm dedicated to hosting compute-intensive high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
The operator, which has sites in Iceland, said its new datacentre in Kista, Stockholm is specifically designed to cater for users with high-density, artificial intelligence,...
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BT has signed a five-year deal with Google Cloud that will see the pair collaborate on a wide-ranging body of work geared towards helping the telco giant cut costs and build out new revenue streams.
Specifically, BT will be drawing on the Google Cloud portfolio of...
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Government IT leaders are failing to follow through on their commitments to increase the amount of hardware they reuse, suggests research from data sanitisation firm Blancco Technology Group.
In a poll of 596 government IT leaders from nine countries to gain an insight into their organisations’...
