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German software giant SAP’s S/4HANA data migration and management is a huge challenge. Organisations in the midst of transitioning to the platform lack comprehensive data strategies, find responsibilities split between departments, lack skills, can’t access data and report slow progress to use of artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Security services and technology have again maintained the number one priority for IT spending across the EMEA region, according to this year’s Technology spending intentions research from TechTarget and ESG, to the extent that it’s also leading investment in areas beyond merely cyber, including networking, infrastructure,...
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Vast Data will boost write performance in its storage by 50% in an operating system upgrade in April, followed by a 100% boost expected later in 2024 in a further OS upgrade. Both moves are aimed at checkpointing operations in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
That roadmap pointer...
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Almost half (46%) of organisations surveyed in the TechTarget/Enterprise Strategy Group 2024 Technology spending intentions study say they are increasing their budget.
The poll of 1,432 technology decision-makers worldwide found that security is the number one priority for businesses.
Almost a fifth (19%) of IT decision-makers say they...
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Cohesity won’t abandon any NetBackup product, force migration to Cohesity or leave any NetBackup customers behind. And all that while the backup giant aims to become a leader in security and artificial intelligence (AI) data management.
That’s the promise of Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen and finance director...
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What is paravirtualization?
Paravirtualization is a type of hardware virtualization that enables the guest operating system (OS) in a virtual machine (VM) to access the hypervisor directly, rather than indirectly through a complex abstraction layer, as is the case with conventional full virtualization.
Full virtualization logically isolates the...
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Known as Schedule 7, the data protection part of the G-Cloud 14 framework agreement is being described by prospective suppliers as poorly drafted and nonsensical.And CCS is now facing urgent calls to revise its contents, amid concerns that – in its current state – Schedule 7...
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Extreme weather events and warnings from experts that keeping temperature rises below the 1.5°C limit is becoming increasingly difficult have raised public awareness of the impact of global warming.
Businesses and consumers alike are thinking more about climate change, the environment and sustainability. Mattie Yeta, chief sustainability...
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A global IT outage that forced fast food chain McDonald’s to temporarily suspend its operations in multiple countries has been blamed on a third-party provider error made during a configuration change, with no suspicion of any form of cyber attack.
The issues were first observed in Australia...
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French datacentre operator Data4 is partnering with the University of Paris-Saclay to prototype a means of reusing waste server farm heat to create sustainable sources of biomass-based energy.
The question of what to do with the waste heat their facilities produce is an enduring problem for datacentre...
