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VMware has promoted product and cloud services COO Raghu Raghuram (pictured above) to the role of CEO, as the virtualisation giant readies itself to be spun off from its parent company, Dell Technologies, later this year.
Raghuram is a longstanding VMware employee, having joined the company...
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The Irish datacentre industry must throw its full weight behind initiatives geared towards bolstering the sustainability of the country’s electricity grid or risk losing its position as one of Ireland’s largest export industries.
The warning features in a new report by Irish datacentre market champion Host...
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Handling data at the network edge is not a new idea, but it is becoming more important as organisations grapple with growing data volumes and the need to process information quickly.
Computational storage is, however, a relatively new way to tackle that challenge.
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The shift in consumer habits brought about by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic are writ large over the first quarter results of online retail giant Amazon, with the company posting a profit three times larger than it was 12 months ago.
During the three months...
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Public sector organisations are “sleepwalking” into losing track of their data, as a survey by UKCloud suggests many have no clear idea about where their business information is stored.
The cloud provider polled 300 IT and business leaders for its State of digital and data survey,...
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The US Court of Federal Claims’ decision not to dismiss allegations that presidential interference played a role in Amazon Web Services (AWS) losing a $10bn government cloud contract “changes little”, Microsoft claims.
The two cloud giants have been at loggerheads and embroiled in a legal battle...
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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has reported a 34% jump in revenue to $55.3bn for the quarter ending 31 March 2021.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said: “Over the last year, people have turned to Google Search and many online services to stay...
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Gamers are being urged to donate their idle PC compute power to a US-based startup that has set its sights on creating a distributed computing network that it hopes will go on to become the world’s largest supercomputer.
Utah-based Salad Technologies said its setup will provide...
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Scality has launched Artesca, which will provide persistent object storage for Kubernetes that runs from the container orchestrator cluster. It can provision object storage to container instances across on-site datacentres and the cloud.
Artesca will also hook up with HPE for a six-month period of...
