vrijdag 29 november, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. It’s a decade that started with containers emerging as a novel way of virtualising applications but storage and data protection that was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com The French agency for the management of radioactive waste (Andra) has cut power and cooling costs by a fifth in an upgrade that has seen HPE 3PAR arrays replaced by Pure Storage FlashArray flash storage hardware purchased over 10 years with non-disruptive controller upgrades. Among the issues...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com SaaS has become the normative path for many enterprises in how they consume business applications. Data from Productiv, which makes software to help businesses manage their application spending, showed that the average company used 342 SaaS applications in 2023. In addition to the quantity, the ways that...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is an industrial control system (ICS)? In industrial settings, industrial control system (ICS) is a term used to describe the integration of hardware and software with network connectivity to support production processes in manufacturing or critical infrastructure. ICS is a general term for any system used to...

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Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is virtualization? Virtualization is the creation of a virtual version of an actual piece of technology, such as an operating system (OS), a server, a storage device or a network resource. Virtualization uses software that simulates hardware functionality to create a virtual system. This practice lets IT...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup and long-term storage and archiving. Those applications make the most of tape’s...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Nvidia has reported a record quarter in its datacentre division, which posted revenue of $19.4bn, up 427% from a year ago. The company said the results reflect higher shipments of the Nvidia Hopper GPU computing platform used for training and inferencing with large language models, recommendation...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux)? SELinux, or Security-Enhanced Linux, is a part of the Linux kernel that acts as a protective agent to the OS. In the Linux kernel, SELinux is a mandatory access controls (MAC) mechanism that restricts programs with rules and policies set by the...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Growth in the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems was among the big wins for HPE as it announced its second-quarter financial results. The company posted Q2 revenue of $7.2bn, up 3%.  New AI servers are being delivered in as little as six weeks after the company fixes...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com The cloud recently became more complicated and more important than ever; but I’ll leave the best bit to the end. One of the main security concerns with using the cloud, although I accept that there are several, are misconfigurations. These lead to data breaches or, in...