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Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006.
The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to make storing data in the cloud as simple as possible, at least for end users. As Amazon...
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By 2022, datacentres are forecast to consume about 2% of global energy. By 2026, that number is predicted to jump by 4%, to about 100 terawatt hours a year, which, according to Lloyd Jones, vice-president analyst at Gartner, is equivalent to the consumption of a country...
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The ongoing procurement process for NHS England’s Outcomes and Registries Platform (ORP) continues to draw concerns over the state of the project’s data security practices, amid claims that the whole enterprise may be riding roughshod over compliance with public sector procurement regulations.
The ORP project is...
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NetApp has upgraded its AFF A- and C-series flash storage arrays while also boosting capacity and performance in StorageGrid object storage and E-series storage area networks (SANs), mostly as a result of new 60TB arrays plus central processing unit (CPU) and backplane enhancements.
AFF A- and...
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With rising demand for data storage, there is a need to build more data centers. To limit the amount of land these facilities would use, there are unique environments, such as space, that could house data centers.
Data centers in space may sound like a far-out,...
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An increase in energy consumption puts data centers under more pressure to find sustainable resources to power facilities.
Facility owners can choose from multiple sustainable resources, with solar power emerging as a top interest. Solar power offers a reduction in carbon emissions, cost savings over the...
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Storage has long been the monolith of datacentre components. Deployed in forklift upgrades on multi-year refresh cycles, shiny new arrays have not taken long to lose their sheen and become complex to manage and laggardly in performance.
Meanwhile, the cloud has emerged and made pay-as-you-go a...
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The idea of lifting and shifting workloads into the public cloud is never going to deliver a good return on investment. Instead, according to analyst firm Gartner, IT leaders need to focus on consolidating applications. In particular, CIOs need to “get rid of the old wood”,...
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The UK public is generally accepting of having datacentres built in their communities, despite research showing that large numbers of people have little understanding of what server farms do.
That’s according to research commissioned by colocation giant CyrusOne, which saw 13,000 people from the UK, Ireland,...
