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The government’s decision to stop a proposed datacentre being built on an undeveloped piece of protected green land in west London highlights the pressure operators are under when balancing the demands of their investors with meeting the UK’s ever-growing need for compute capacity in a sustainable...
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Italy-based startup Cubbit has announced the availability of the DS3 Composer, which will create S3-compatible private object storage clouds from on-premise, bare metal colocation and cloud storage capacity.
DS3 claims its storage is resilient and secure, and can be configured as-a-service for users and customers. It...
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Most organisations just don’t have the IT infrastructure to handle the compute, storage and energy requirements that artificial intelligence (AI) deployments bring. In fact, one-third think a total overhaul of their IT estate will be needed to be able to handle AI workloads.
Storage, compute and...
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Well-known charity Cancer Research has moved its donations platform on to AWS architecture, and has since been experimenting with ways to use the technology.
Cancer Research has been on a digital transformation journey for a long time – most organisations are in an ongoing state of...
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Music streaming service Spotify is digging deeper into the portfolio of its long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to explore how its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools can help boost the experience for its 574 million-strong user base.
Since becoming its preferred cloud provider in...
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An annual sustainability study from SAP has revealed that 83% of UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in sustainability activities by 2026, but a third still lack funding. While it deems the results of the study relatively promising, SAP is worried that UK business...
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What is network load balancing (NLB)?
Network load balancing (NLB) is a feature in multiple versions of the Microsoft Windows Server operating system (OS), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud service providers that distribute network traffic among multiple servers or virtual machines (VMs) within...
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Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics processing, and to speed storage input/output (I/O).
DPUs are deployed in servers and are the latest in an evolution of offload...
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Kent-based construction design consultancy Frankham Group has ditched tape-based backup and deployed Rubrik appliances in a move that has seen it slash data restores from days to hours and gain the use of full disaster recovery (DR) provision when needed.
The Sidcup-based company – which is...
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At the EIT Grow Digital event in Brussels in June, Sean O’Reagain, the deputy head of Industry 5.0 for the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation, was tasked with trying to find a way to explain Industry 5.0 in simple terms. You could almost...
