In our series of Hard Disk Drive guides, here’s the latest update to our list of recommended HDDs. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of writing. Best Internal Hard Drives: Holiday 2023 Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. SSDs have taken over the…
A card in your servers that can cut server resource usage by 25%. That’s the equivalent of buying three servers instead of four. And all done by offloading networking, storage and data services to a DPU-based PCIe card. That’s the promise from Nebulon, which sees its Services Processing Unit (SPU) revamped as the Medusa2 with…
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NHS England has set its sights on growing the number of users who rely on its FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration platform from just over 310,000 today to 600,000 by 2025. The growth projection follows NHS England’s renewal of its hosting and support contract for the platform with SME public sector IT services provider Kahootz. The two-year…
Cyber security companies BeyondTrust and Cloudflare have criticised identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta after both became ensnared in yet another cyber attack against the latter’s systems. BeyondTrust said it detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta admin account on 2 October 2023, which used a valid session cookie stolen from Okta. It…
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Solidigm’s datacenter SSD offerings have been clearly delineated into different categories – the D3- SATA offerings for legacy servers, the D5- QLC-based offerings (with different models offering different tradeoffs between cost and endurance), and the D7- NVMe drives for the best performance and endurance ratings. The company has been using TLC NAND in the D7…
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Credential management software supplier 1Password has disclosed it has been caught up in the same breach of the tech support systems of fellow identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta that impacted BeyondTrust and Cloudflare. 1Password chief technology officer (CTO) Pedro Canahuati said the firm detected suspicious activity on the Okta tenant it uses to…
Microsoft has posted revenue of $56.5bn, up 13% for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, partially driven by demand for its AI-infused (artificial intelligence) products and the Azure public cloud. CFO Amy Hood said the company’s Azure cloud platform had experienced higher than expected AI consumption, which contributed to revenue growth in Azure. The company…
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In its latest quarterly results, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, reported $2.9bn savings on server life extension. For the quarter which ended on September 3, the company reported revenue of $77bn. The internet giant’s latest quarterly results shows the company has made significant savings by extending the life of datacentre servers from five to…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set its sights on building an independent, sovereign cloud platform to meet the data residency and regulatory needs of its European customers, with the first region set to open in Germany. The public cloud giant said the AWS European Sovereign Cloud offering will help its public sector customers, and those…
The CEO of direct-to-consumer fitness apparel startup Gymshark has turned to Google Cloud to help standardise the “mish-mash” of IT underpinning its operations, and is drawing on the hyperscaler’s artificial intelligence (AI) expertise to explore how generative AI (GenAI) could benefit its business. The e-commerce company, founded in 2012, has recently branched out into bricks…
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