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Enterprises in a wide range of industries are increasingly drawing on the tools and techniques used by computer game developers to deliver new offerings for their users, research by DevOps and automation software maker Perforce suggests.
The company’s 2024 State of game technology report featured input from...
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Demand is fast-outstripping supply in terms of datacentre capacity across Europe, with quarterly market data from real estate consultancy CBRE revealing that vacancy rates have hit an all-time low across Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin (FLAPD).
CBRE’s market tracker data shows that vacancy rates within the...
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In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first public cloud provider, offered publicly available services such as Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3). Four years later, in 2010, Microsoft launched Microsoft Azure (which was initially called Azure). Lastly, in 2011, Google introduced...
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Dublin in Ireland is the world’s third-largest hyperscale datacentre hub, according to a study by US-based analyst Synergy Research Group.
This conclusion is based on the company’s analysis of the datacentre footprint of 19 of the world’s largest cloud and internet service providers, with Dublin reportedly home...
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) has completed the migration of its electronic patient records system fully onto Microsoft Azure. The hospital, which has 20,000 staff, began the migration of its software, PPM+, to Azure in early 2022, as part of a wider programme to improve the...
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In this podcast, we look at storage features expected in Kubernetes 1.31 with Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases.
Pronin talks about storage functionality expected in this week’s 1.31 release, but also what he sees as...
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Oracle’s recently announced Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) aims to improve performance for database workloads and reduce costs.
The architecture in Exascale, which is Oracle’s multi-tenant architecture that intelligently allocates pools of compute optimised for its databases, is built on the same appliances – X8M, X9M and...
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Software asset management (SAM) has evolved from simple back-office record-keeping to more complex licence and contract management that integrates innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI).
Successful SAM implementations save on licence costs, improve compliance and reduce true-ups. They also...
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Kubernetes and containerised applications are growing rapidly across enterprises. Although Kubernetes has been around for more than 10 years, it’s now predicted to become a mainstream part of IT architecture as organisations look to make more use of cloud-native applications.
But take-up of Kubernetes – aka K8s...
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Among the arms races taking place in the public cloud is one focused on providing the most trusted environment for hosting applications and data.
It is an area Google’s Nelly Porter is very much focused on. Porter is a director of product management at Google, with responsibilities...
