zondag 19 mei, 2024
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Containerisation typifies the biggest current shifts in IT. Containers are intended as lightweight and portable – between systems, between datacentre and cloud – and are a cornerstone of digital transformation and cloud-native application development. But while containerisation potentially simplifies the development, deployment and operation of application...

Wien's constant

Source is ComputerWeekly.com What is Wien's constant? Wien's constant is a physical constant that is used in defining the relationship between the thermodynamic temperature of a black body (an object that radiates electromagnetic energy perfectly) and the wavelength at which the intensity of the radiation is the greatest....
Source is ComputerWeekly.com NetApp has launched a new QLC flash storage array family – the C-series – aimed at higher-capacity use cases that also need the speed of SSD. It has also added an entry level AFF all-NVMe flash array, the AFF A150. In addition, NetApp has launched Advance,...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com UK firms that run a relatively small number of servers in their datacentres are more likely to prioritise achieving energy efficiency than those with a much larger server farm footprint, research suggests. A survey commissioned by server manufacturer, ASUS, reports that there is a distinct difference...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com A two-year-old heap overflow vulnerability in VMware ESXi hypervisors seems to have come to the attention of a ransomware operator that is targeting unpatched systems indiscriminately in what has the potential to become a serious incident, and may already have claimed more than 300 victims, according...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Backup is essential to ensure a business can survive all manner of incidents and mishaps, ranging from the minor – such as a deleted file or corrupted application – to full-scale disasters such as a fire, flood or ransomware attack. But backup or disaster recovery...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Amazon Web Services (AWS) has moved to assure the market that its new customer pipeline remains “healthy and robust” after its parent company reported another downbeat set of financial results. Amazon.com reported a quarterly revenue of $149.2bn for the three months to 31 December 2022, which...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Cisco has moved to fix two vulnerabilities – one live and one in yet-to-be-released code – that affect a wide range of enterprise and industrial network hardware products and left unchecked could allow attackers to gain persistent root access to the underlying system. Uncovered by Trellix...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Concerns about the cooling system setup in one of the datacentres used to host key healthcare systems for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust were raised in 2018 and never fully acted on, a report into the heatwave-related server farm outage it suffered in the...
Source is ComputerWeekly.com Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to migrate its entire enterprise IT infrastructure estate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, and has set itself a goal of moving 1,000 of its applications off-premise by 2025. The company, which specialises in the provision of a wide...