A business (also known as an enterprise, a company or a firm) is an organizational entity involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers.Businesses serve as a form of economic activity, and are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods...
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What is the AS/400 (IBM iSeries, AS/400e, eServer iSeries/400, Power Systems)?
The IBM Application System/400 -- or AS/400 -- is a family of midrange computers that was released in 1988, succeeding both System/36 and System/38 platforms. The first generation of AS/400 was based on a...
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What is virtual networking?
Virtual networking is the abstraction of network resources from the underlying physical network infrastructure. A virtual network is the logical representation of the physical hardware, such as the switches and routers, that makes up the infrastructure.
Virtual networks reside on an...
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The unprecedented energy price and supply crisis blighting Europe, in the wake of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, has cast a long shadow on the UK datacentre market in 2022.
From operators being warned to ready themselves for the prospect of winter power cuts to soaring...
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The record-breaking heat that blighted the UK this week caused Google’s and Oracle’s local datacentre regions to experience technical difficulties on Tuesday 19 July, it has emerged.
On the same day the UK recorded the hottest day on record, two of the cloud market’s biggest players...
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Known as Schedule 7, the data protection part of the G-Cloud 14 framework agreement is being described by prospective suppliers as poorly drafted and nonsensical.And CCS is now facing urgent calls to revise its contents, amid concerns that – in its current state – Schedule 7...
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Norwegian colocation provider Green Mountain has signed a heat reuse agreement that looks set to pave the way for the creation of the world’s largest land-based trout farm.
The agreement will see the waste heated water generated by the firm’s DC2-Telemark facility in Rjukan, Norway, piped into...
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What is paravirtualization?
Paravirtualization is a type of hardware virtualization that enables the guest operating system (OS) in a virtual machine (VM) to access the hypervisor directly, rather than indirectly through a complex abstraction layer, as is the case with conventional full virtualization.
Full virtualization logically isolates the...
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Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes.
They might be deploying hyper-converged systems, or using on-premise implementations of cloud storage technology. And they are likely to have...
