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While on-premise object storage is a minority interest, relatively speaking, object storage in the cloud is huge. It is its natural home, and AWS’s S3 is the big beast that roams there.
While it’s hard to get a definitive figure, the most recent AWS (Amazon Web...
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Consumer rights advocate Which? is pursuing a £3bn legal action against Apple on behalf of millions of UK consumers it claims are locked into the technology giant’s iCloud storage platform.
Which? has instructed law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP to oversee the legal proceedings,...
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The latest machine on IBM’s quantum computing roadmap, Heron, has been given a hardware and software boost as the company pushes towards its goal of error correction.
Error correction is seen as the holy grail for quantum computing, which would open the gates to commercial adoption. This...
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To make data archives that last is an urgent task. That’s the message of the European Commission’s eArchiving initiative, which has just announced version 2.0 of its architecture and that its funding has been renewed for another two years.
Under the tutelage of the commission, the...
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Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise,...
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The surging demand for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) workloads is likely to lead to operational constraints in AI datacentres due to energy shortages, according to Gartner.
The analyst is predicting that 40% of existing AI datacentres will be affected by power supply issues by 2027, because...
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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...
