zondag 19 mei, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com With the recent launches and enhancements to product lines from NetApp and Pure Storage, QLC flash storage has pushed itself further into the spotlight. QLC is quad-level cell flash storage, and allows for much higher capacity and density in solid-state drives (SSDs). In this article, we’ll...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com IT efficiency is often overlooked in the digital infrastructure sustainability discussion. The sustainability reports of many IT operators make little or no mention of IT efficiency. Operators with exemplary programs sometimes ignore or downplay their IT achievements to protect confidential business information. For others, sustainability teams...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Online bookies need to cope with the usual peaks and troughs around football, horse racing, motorsports and other major sporting events, but few seem to attract the betting level of the Grand National, and if a site is overloaded or taking too long to respond, punters...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com ITV and Channel 4’s terrestrial Freeview channels are now running in the cloud as a result of a multimillion-pound contract that will make use of BT’s smart broadcast network. Digital 3&4 (D3&4), the multiplex broadcasting joint venture set up by ITV and Channel 4, has hailed...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Liverpool Football Club has moved almost all of its IT operations to the cloud, mostly to cloud storage in Wasabi, with some data held in AWS. The move – which was influenced by changes to working practices during the pandemic – has allowed it to save...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com As sustainability becomes a global priority, enterprises are feeling the heat to adopt sustainability goals and to reduce their environmental impact. Sustainability in IT refers to the adoption of sustainable practices in the development, deployment, and disposal of IT infrastructure and systems. However, anecdotal evidence suggests...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Sustainability programmes often begin without digital technology. The baseline from a digital technology perspective includes spreadsheets and software that can help with tracking, compliance, risk avoidance and isolated projects for cost savings. IT professionals have the opportunity to advance sustainability beyond compliance, help their enterprise reach...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com The UK will struggle to cement its position as a science and technology “superpower”, and unlock its growth potential without a long-term, nationally coordinated public compute infrastructure strategy. That’s according to the findings of the government’s Future of compute review, which describes the UK’s current public...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com In this podcast we look at database as a service (DBaaS) with Tobias Ternström, who is vice-president and general manager of databases at hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Nutanix.Also, Ternström talks about the sweet spot in terms of use cases and organisation size that DBaaS can address. Antony...

IBM Roadrunner

Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is IBM Roadrunner? Roadrunner was a supercomputer developed by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This hybrid supercomputer cost $133 million to develop. In 2008, Roadrunner became the first computer to break what has been called the petaflop barrier --...