woensdag 24 april, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Hyve Managed Hosting has lifted the lid on the work it is doing to ensure the National Television Awards (NTAs) website has the capacity to cope with an influx of visitors to its website during the voting periods for this year’s show. This is the fourth...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core business functions, such as finance or enterprise resource planning (ERP), to niche tasks. This proliferation of SaaS technology has...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the public sector to procure Amazon and Microsoft public cloud services. Details about the CPS began emerging late last year with the publication of a request for...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian hailed the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as being one of the most “profound technology shifts in history” during the opening keynote of the 2023 Google Cloud Next partner and customer conference. This year’s event has seen the company open...

critical infrastructure

Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is critical infrastructure? Critical infrastructure is the collection of systems, networks and public works that a government considers essential to its functioning and safety of its citizens. The specific infrastructure that each nation considers critical varies. It usually includes electrical grids, public services and...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Nvidia has reported record revenue of $13.51bn for its second quarter of 2024, an increase of 101% from a year ago, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) accelerated computing applications. The company posted a 171% increase in datacentre revenue from the previous year, which CFO Collette Kress...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com The major European colocation hubs are expected to see a 17% year-on-year (YoY) increase in installed datacentre capacity by the end of 2023, despite the ongoing challenges operators face when trying to secure power sources for their sites. According to market data shared by real estate...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Broadcom has confirmed that its acquisition of virtualisation giant VMware is now on track to close on 30 October 2023 after the proposed merger secured regulatory approval from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).   The CMA published a statement on 21 August 2023 confirming...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com IOPS at 66.9 million and latency of 6.2µs on an eight-node software-defined hyper-converged cluster compared with 0.77 million IOPS and latency of 3.35ms on the same configuration but in Ceph. That’s the claim of Simplyblock, which has been launched by a German startup of the same...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com There is little surprise that Gartner’s latest research on emerging technology shows that generative AI is reaching a peak in hype. “The popularity of many new AI techniques will have a profound impact on business and society,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished vice-president analyst at Gartner. “The...