zaterdag 20 april, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com During the AWS annual Re:Invent conference in 2019, the public cloud provider announced Braket, a service and hardware initiative for quantum computing. The service was introduced in 2020 with support for three machines: a superconducting gate-based machine from Rigetti; a trapped-ion machine and a quantum annealing...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Disaster recovery planning is vital for smaller businesses. The rise of cyber attacks, especially ransomware, has increased the risk of disruption and data loss to smaller firms. SMEs are also vulnerable to risks in their digital and software supply chains. At the same time, enterprises and...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Managed cloud services provider Node4 has revealed details of how it helped one of its charity clients overcome its remote working technology woes in the wake of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic through the deployment of a VMware-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) setup. Its client – the...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com The majority of enterprises are seemingly oblivious to the environmental impact of their data storage strategies, suggests research commissioned by IT infrastructure and services company NTT. A total of 312 senior IT decision-makers from across the UK, Germany and the Netherlands participated in the research, which...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Datacentre leaders from across the UK and Ireland are scaling back and delaying their investments in net-zero initiatives to focus their attention on dealing with, what they term, more immediate business challenges. That’s according to Schneider Electric’s Missing the target report, which sought to highlight the...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Compute Express Link, otherwise known as CXL, is set to revolutionise the datacentre. So, what is it and what are the benefits?  Memory management is a key element that enables datacentres to utilise the optimum memory configuration, especially as they pivot towards increasingly data-intensive workloads, such...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Microsoft has published details of how a Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as Storm-0558 was able to get its hands on a Microsoft account (MSA) consumer key to forge tokens with which they accessed OWA and Outlook.com accounts at multiple high-profile customers. The...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com BMC’s annual mainframe survey has found that businesses continue to grow mainframe workloads. In 2016, 43% of organisations said the mainframe was attracting and growing new workloads; for 2023, this figure has risen to 63%. Almost all of the 800 IT and business executives who took...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com For many, the perceived image of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 would be associated with the futuristic NEOM megacity project, totally reimagining not only a city, but the country. For any of this to be realised, however, Saudi Arabia’s comms infrastructure and technological advancement has to be...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Three years after going public with its plan to open its first European datacentre in Dublin, Ireland, TikTok has confirmed the site is now operational and is in the throes of having user data migrated into it. The news was confirmed in a blog post by...