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In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan in detail in the second.
In this article, we look at staff...
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When Brian Roche was appointed director of IT at George Best Belfast City Airport (BCA) in November 2019, it was a first for him personally and the business.
An experienced IT professional who had previously worked in consulting and in senior roles for technology firms, Roche...
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Imperial College London is working with the Abu Dhabi-based Technology Innovation Institute to create an operating system (OS) that is intended to change the way datacentre operators secure their cloud technology stacks.
The two organisations are embarking on a three-year programme of research that they claim...
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PCIe connectivity has gained an increased profile in enterprise data storage in recent years, in particular with the emergence and takeover of mainstream flash storage by NVMe-based hardware.
For decades, data storage connectivity centred on SCSI-based protocols (eg, SAS and SATA). And when NVMe flash...
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Carbon emissions data will become a key selection consideration for IT buyers when sourcing hyperscale cloud services in the next three years, predicts Gartner.
The IT market watcher claims the amount of carbon emitted by cloud service providers will become an increasingly important factor for IT...
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There is huge momentum in moving IT infrastructure to the public cloud. It enables IT departments to avoid the up-front costs of buying hardware and maintaining on-premise enterprise systems.
In Forrester’s The future of enterprise data storage report, analysts discussed how and why enterprise data stored...
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What is virtual to virtual (V2V)?
Virtual to virtual (V2V) refers to the migration of an operating system (OS), application program and data from a virtual machine (VM) or disk partition to another virtual machine or disk partition. The target can be a single system...
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Behind the figures in Gartner’s latest forecast for worldwide IT spending, there are a number of trends that suggest a shift in the way the IT function operates.
The headline figure from Gartner is that worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5tn in 2022, an...
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High-performance computing (HPC) is the practice of using parallel data processing to improve computing performance and perform complex calculations. HPC achieves these goals by aggregating computing power, so even advanced applications can run efficiently, reliably and quickly as per user needs and expectations. It thus delivers...
