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Education bodies and charities are facing massive increases in VMware licensing fees after the virtualisation supplier’s new owner Broadcom withdrew a programme offering generous discounts to non-profit organisations.
Many customers also face extra costs associated with changes to VMware software bundles now being sold as well as...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made another round of job cuts, with several hundred tech and sales staff understood to be affected, according to media reports.
A report on the GeekWire news site said employees were informed of the decision via email on 3 April by AWS...
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The latest research from Boomi, conducted by Forrester, has reported that IT leaders expect their cloud costs will exceed budgets. The analyst firm has forecast that public cloud spending will hit more than $1tn globally by 2026.
In a survey of 420 IT decision-makers, Forrester found that IT...
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UK-based cloud services provider Civo claims its offer to abolish all data egress fees for its customers goes above and beyond similar commitments recently made by the big three hyperscale cloud providers.
As previously reported by Computer Weekly, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google Cloud publicly committed...
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Flash drive prices shot up by just over 25% in the final quarter of 2023, and are predicted to rise even further during 2024, largely as a result of manufacturers limiting supply in an effort to raise prices.
By October 2023, flash drive prices had dropped to...
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Users of the open source XZ Utils data compression library may have narrowly avoided falling victim to a major supply chain attack, after evidence of an apparently intentionally placed backdoor in the code was revealed.
The malicious code, embedded in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the library,...
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What are data center services?
Data center services provide all the supporting components necessary to the proper operation of a data center. They include all activities associated with data center implementation, maintenance and operation and involve hardware, software, processes and personnel.
Data center services are responsible for providing...
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Earlier in March, Cern, the European organisation for nuclear research, was awarded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Top End User Award during the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon event in Paris.
Cern has been a major user of Kubernetes, looking into how graphics processing units (GPUs) can be managed...
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In a push towards artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, HPE has upgraded its Alletra MP storage arrays to connect double the number of servers and provide 4x the capacity in the same rackspace.
A year after initial launch, Alletra MP now has four control nodes per chassis instead...
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At the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon event in Paris earlier this month, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs discussed the benefits of using Kubernetes to manage virtual machines (VMs).
While the headline news around the event was support for artificial intelligence (AI) and the use of Kuberntees to orchestrate...
