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The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them.
In the first, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block. We looked at developing the DR plan...
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Datacentre operators still have a long way to go to fully grasp what it means to run a sustainable business, despite numerous pronouncements from the colocation and cloud giants about wanting to curb their carbon emissions and ramp up their use of renewables.
The last couple...
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The Uptime Institute is embarking on a push to shine a light on the wide range of career opportunities that exist in the datacentre market, with the support of tech giants Google, Meta and Microsoft.
The datacentre resiliency think tank has launched its free Career Pathfinder...
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Without doubt, the climate agenda has intensified in recent times, culminating in the COP26 conference in Glasgow last November. Whether you see the conference as a success, a disappointment or something in between, it cemented climate change and climate risk as a key issue for our...
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As Computer Weekly’s sister publication, SearchCIO, recently reported, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, IBM and Meta are among 29 major IT firms announcing changes to their business plans in Russia. There are a few new notable exceptions, one of which is software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant Salesforce, which...
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Micron has started to ship its new 7450 NVMe SSDs, which bring 176-layer NAND capacity to the datacentre for the first time.
In capacity terms that means drives of 15.36TB, compared with 7.68TB in the preceding 7400 product with 96 layers. The extra capacity afforded allows...
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The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) indicates that 600,000 fewer people are employed now than at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, while a further 400,000 have become economically inactive. In fact, there are now 1.1 million fewer workers in the labour market than there would...
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Microsoft has announced it is to suspend all new sales of its products and services into Russia, making it the latest, and so far largest, technology company to withdraw from the market as a direct result of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Microsoft said it was...
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The UK was the first nation to set a legal commitment for net-zero carbon emissions in 2019. This requires tackling hard-to-abate sectors while ensuring that day-to-day functions are not disrupted.
The internet provides many services for a large part of our lives and this has increased...
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Banking software supplier Vialink needed a high-performance storage array, but deployed Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) instead. It didn’t start out looking for the server functionality that comes with HCI, but it came in cheaper than alternatives that only offered storage. And, Vialink realised that choosing hyper-converged...
