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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...
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In this podcast, we look at ransomware and data storage with Chris McKean, a solutions specialist at NetApp.
McKean talks about what storage suppliers can build into storage products that can help protect and remediate against the effects of ransomware attacks. These include detection, protection of data...
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Computers separate the OS into two modes for resource allocation and security purposes.
The distinction protects a computer system's basic functionality and ensures stability. While the computer is operating, it separates more abstract functions from those that involve the computer's essential components to improve fault tolerance.
The computer's...
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Thousands of organisations using NetSuite SuiteCommerce are unknowingly exposing their most sensitive data as a result of misconfigured access controls in custom record types (CRTs) contained in their SuiteCommerce instances, researchers are claiming.
According to Aaron Costello, chief of software-as-a-service (SaaS) research at AppOmni, the impact of...
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Enterprises in a wide range of industries are increasingly drawing on the tools and techniques used by computer game developers to deliver new offerings for their users, research by DevOps and automation software maker Perforce suggests.
The company’s 2024 State of game technology report featured input from...
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Demand is fast-outstripping supply in terms of datacentre capacity across Europe, with quarterly market data from real estate consultancy CBRE revealing that vacancy rates have hit an all-time low across Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin (FLAPD).
CBRE’s market tracker data shows that vacancy rates within the...
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In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first public cloud provider, offered publicly available services such as Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3). Four years later, in 2010, Microsoft launched Microsoft Azure (which was initially called Azure). Lastly, in 2011, Google introduced...
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Dublin in Ireland is the world’s third-largest hyperscale datacentre hub, according to a study by US-based analyst Synergy Research Group.
This conclusion is based on the company’s analysis of the datacentre footprint of 19 of the world’s largest cloud and internet service providers, with Dublin reportedly home...
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) has completed the migration of its electronic patient records system fully onto Microsoft Azure. The hospital, which has 20,000 staff, began the migration of its software, PPM+, to Azure in early 2022, as part of a wider programme to improve the...
