Cloud

Source is ComputerWeekly.com US operator DISH Network has entered into a partnership with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transform how organisations order and consume 5G services or create their own private 5G networks. Under the strategic collaboration agreement, DISH has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com The Met Office has signed a deal with Microsoft to build one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.  The system is built around four quadrants, each comprising a Cray supercomputer and AMD processors, in a configuration designed to improve resiliency. The initial phase of the machine,...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Food waste is a known contributor to climate change, and it is a problem Swedish startup Karma is helping consumers and businesses tackle through its food rescue apps. The first of these apps is a consumer-facing offering that connects users to food retailers in their area...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com The UK government has renewed its longstanding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Microsoft so that public sector organisations can continue to access discounted pricing on the tech giant’s cloud infrastructure and software products. The Digital Transformation Arrangement 2021 (DTA21) MoU is set to run for three...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Microsoft is offering end-users the opportunity to take a virtual tour of a typical Azure datacentre so they can get a behind-the-scenes look at the technology powering the public cloud services they use.Access to the tour is provided through a dedicated online microsite, and users can...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Dell Technologies has announced that it will spin off its 81% equity ownership of VMware, forming two standalone public companies. According to the Wall Street Journal, this is worth around $52bn, and goes a long way to paying off the debt Dell accrued in its September...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Nvidia hopes to take graphics processing units (GPUs) in the datacentre to the next level by addressing what it sees as a bottleneck limiting data processing in traditional architectures. In general, the central processing unit (CPU) in a datacentre server would pass on certain data processing...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com We recently looked at the idea of the data lake, so now it’s time to head downstream and look at data warehouses. We’ll define data warehouses, look at the data types they comprise, the storage they need, and the products and services that have been...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com Nearly one-third of UK councils have suffered unplanned outages in the past 12 months with systems out for around five times the UK average. Those are some of the findings of a survey by backup product supplier Veeam, which questioned 112 UK local authorities via a...

Source is ComputerWeekly.com A fundamental of backup is 3-2-1 – often referred to as “the 3-2-1 rule”. But what is the 3-2-1 rule? Is it still of value to all organisations, especially in an era defined by increasing use of the cloud for backup and disaster recovery? This article...