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Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least one big drive maker, some researchers and startups, and in the NVMe Key-Value command set.
Productised manifestations of key-value storage are more...
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Flash drive prices fell steadily over the first three quarters of 2024 to an average of $0.085 per gigabyte (GB) in September 2024. That’s a drop of just over 10% since April and is the result of prices slackening after highs earlier in the year.
Flash prices...
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Containerisation is synonymous with cloud-native application development, and Kubernetes is key among container orchestration platforms available.
In this article, we look at containerisation, what defines it, how Kubernetes fits with containerisation, how Kubernetes is organised, and how it handles persistent storage and data protection.
We also look at the...
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While there is no shortage of hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), businesses are beginning to realise just how difficult it can be to deliver something useful with the technology.
The headline-grabbing revenue of chipmaker Nvidia is an indicator of how much money is being spent on building...
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Nvidia has posted a 154% increase in revenue for its datacentre business in the second quarter of 2025, compared with the same period a year ago, generating $26.3bn.
Overall, the company posted what it said was “record quarterly revenue” of $30bn, up 15% from the first quarter...
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Cambridge Enterprise has saved tens of thousands of pounds and freed up administrators to do more productive work after switching from traditional tape-based backup to software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud-to-cloud backup from Keepit.
Cambridge Enterprise is a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Cambridge. It’s a non-profit organisation...
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Like the pilots he helps to serve, Nick Woods always has one eye on the horizon. But as CIO for Manchester Airports Group (MAG), Woods is looking for data-led technologies that will help his business develop a competitive edge in operational activities and customer experiences.
“Our mission...
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Most UK IT leaders (91%) recognise AI is a key opportunity to transform their organisation, and while almost all of them plan to adopt it, almost all of them (88%) predict AI-generated data will soon outgrow their current datacentres and 78% are worried their infrastructure can’t...
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The current wave of digital transformation, accelerated by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), presents both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges. As AI continues to advance, it demands increasingly sophisticated datacentres and high-performance computing capabilities, raising critical concerns about its environmental impact. For CIOs and...
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Existing flash storage is power-hungry and wasteful of datacentre performance because its data allocation method is rooted in the distant past of spinning disk hard drives and their fixed block pattern. The solution is to write data in key-value format and cut out the block addressing...
