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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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The past couple of years have seen unprecedented pressure on the global supply chain for electronics. The pandemic, manufacturing problems, shipping delays and even the weather have caused shortages in microchips, data storage and other electronic parts.
As a result, customers face waiting times of months,...
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As businesses increasingly rely on their digital infrastructure, downtime has a proportionally greater impact. However, while attention to reducing outages in the datacentre appears to be paying off, the costs per outage are not falling.
Andy Lawrence, executive director of research at Uptime, says a trend...
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Microsoft is taking steps to cut the amount of embodied carbon contained within the concrete and steel used to build its datacentres as part of its ongoing push to become a carbon-negative entity by 2030.
The software giant is experimenting with adding a microalgae-based limestone, as...
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Demand for colocation and hyperscale capacity within many of the major European datacentre hubs is soaring as enterprises seek to shutter their in-house datacentres and migrate more of their business-critical workloads to the public cloud.
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has only served to exacerbate...
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UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and beyond similar commitments recently made by the big three hyperscale cloud providers.
As previously reported by Computer Weekly, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google Cloud publicly committed...
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British Airways has confirmed that the unspecified “technical issues” that prompted it to cancel short-haul flights out of London Heathrow Airport on Saturday 26 February 2022 have now been resolved.
The airline’s IT issues began on the evening of Friday 25 February, with the official Heathrow...
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To tie in with the Spring 2023 statement, the prime minister and technology secretary unveiled £2.5bn in funding as part of a 10-year strategy to make the UK a leader in quantum computing.
The government funding will focus on ensuring the UK is home to world-leading...
