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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft claim their ability to accurately assess the Scope 3 emissions generated by their activities is being hampered by lacklustre embodied emissions data provided by the third parties that build and kit out their datacentres.
The three hyperscale public cloud firms,...
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When Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line for his emotional win in the 2024 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, there would have been a good few fist pumps from the IT team at his Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team.
While fans focus on the race engineers that...
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The latest Gartner worldwide IT spending forecast shows that the analyst firm expects a 7.5% increase in spending compared to 2023. Total spending on IT is set to reach $5.26tn in 2024, driven by an increase in datacentre investments powered by demand for generative AI (GenAI).
Gartner...
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What is Vblock (VCE Vblock)?
Vblock is a family of converged infrastructure (CI) systems from Dell EMC that integrate advanced compute, network and storage technologies from three industry leaders: VMware, Cisco and Dell EMC.
The strategic alliance and partnership between these companies was formally known as the Virtual...
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The year-on-year (YoY) growth of cloud storage and computing suggests an unstoppable trend of customers that have moved away from owning and running their own datacentres, compute, storage and networking hardware.
But although the cloud continues to grow – accounting for as much as 50% of the...
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What is an automatic transfer switch (ATS)?
An automatic transfer switch (ATS) is a device that automatically transfers a power supply from its primary source to a backup source when it senses a failure or outage in the primary source. Following the failure, the ATS automatically invokes...
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Farming is one of the oldest industries in the world, with evidence of agriculture being found as far back as 21,000 BC. However, with an increasing population and environmental disruption through climate change, farming needs to find new solutions to improve food security.
One way more food...
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The Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body stands accused of selling its members down the river, after agreeing a $22m deal to withdraw its long-standing anti-trust complaint against Microsoft.
The pair have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that commits Microsoft to making an...
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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, according to DataStax developer relations guy Patrick McFadin, the container orchestration platform is in a “surly teenager” phase, with some challenges in management efficiency still to be solved.
He also recalls how Kubernetes,...
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For enterprises that want to extend their storage strategy, the public cloud is a place to start that can bring quick wins. After all, cloud technology is quick to deploy, needs little to no capital outlay, and can grow quickly with the business to store more...
