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Object storage specialist Scality has launched Ring XP, a tuned-up version of its existing Ring platform aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) data lake use cases that promises microsecond (µs) storage access times.
That tune-up centres on the use of a stripped-down version of S3 object storage...
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A coalition championing openness and interoperability within the cloud market has launched to support competition authorities and watchdogs that are in the throes of investigating claims of anti-competitive behaviour involving hyperscalers.
The newly formed Open Cloud Coalition (OCC) launched on 29 October 2024 with 10 founding...
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Western Digital has pushed the capacity of its spinning disk hard disk drives (HDDs) by 2TB (terabytes) with the addition of an 11th platter. That has manifested in two new drives, the standard recording 26TB DC H590 and the new 32TB SMR (shingled magnetic recording) DCH...
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The surge of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has contributed to unprecedented demand on datacentre infrastructure.
Existing facilities are no longer fit for purpose and AI-ready capacity is in short supply, exacerbated by the existing demand from hyperscalers and cloud providers.
Hyperscaler providers, such as Amazon Web...
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The fact that ARM64 processors are low powered in terms of energy consumption means more servers can be crammed into the same volume of datacentre space than x86 hardware.
If workloads can run on ARM64 hardware, there is potentially more processing power available per datacentre rack. Each...
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Ransomware attacks have become ever more sophisticated. Attackers no longer just encrypt data – they threaten to expose sensitive data, though double extortion and triple extortion attacks. And ransomware attacks increasingly target backups as well as operational data.
From an attacker’s point of view, to target backups...
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Cloud database giant Oracle has provided further details about the decade-long cloud deal it has signed with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in support of its cross-departmental, shared services-focused Synergy Programme.
DWP is the sponsoring department for the programme, which was setup to enable a...
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The UK government, through Crown Commercial Services (CCS), has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft for access to its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered products and services.
Microsoft said the agreement, which will be effective from 1 November, will enable eligible public sector organisations, via their chosen...
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Synology is best known as a network-attached storage (NAS) provider in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and even consumer space, but it has plans to get into the enterprise.
It’s a specialist in hard disk drive (HDD)-based NAS boxes – although it has an SSD range,...
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There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a recent rise to prominence with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI).
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