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Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Cloud, compliance, Google, IBM, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

When Dutch hosting provider mijn.host launched what it claimed was “one of the Netherlands’ first digitally sovereign public clouds” late last year, it struck a chord with a growing European anxiety. Built entirely on open source Apache CloudStack technology and hosted exclusively within Dutch borders, the platform promised businesses a genuine alternative to American cloud…

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VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives

5 minutes of reading / Broadcom, Cloud, cloud-native, Computer, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, Oracle, Tech / By

Changes to Java and VMware software licensing that have been rolled out over the past few years have a material impact on the total cost of running existing Java-based enterprise systems. IT decision-makers are having to weigh up the extra costs with the additional cost and potential disruption arising from reengineering enterprise Java applications to…

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Nutanix escapes the datacentre with Cloud Native AOS

3 minutes of reading / Amazon, Broadcom, Cloud, containers, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, multicloud, Tech / By

In another move beyond the bounds of strictly hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), Nutanix has launched Cloud Native AOS. In other words, this is the operating system (OS) that underlies all its HCI products but available for deployment separately and without the need for a hypervisor. In this way, Nutanix hopes to enable its customers to extend…

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Podcast: Quantum lacks profitability but it will come, says CEO

9 minutes of reading / AI, cloud-native, containers, Dell, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Kubernetes, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s plans as it orients from a historical legacy in tape storage to flash and disk for artificial intelligence (AI), extreme capacity and very long retention periods, all in the context of a commercially challenging few years. You’d only just need two hands…

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Hitachi Vantara: VSP One leads revamped storage portfolio

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Cisco, cloud-native, containers, Flex, Hitachi, hybrid cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Tech / By

In this storage supplier profile, we look at Hitachi Vantara, which is a small part of a very big organisation. Since we last looked at Hitachi Vantara, its storage portfolio has undergone something of a revamp, based around its VSP One family that offers block, file and object storage – with performance profiles that range…

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VMware patches put spotlight on support

4 minutes of reading / automation, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud-native, Computer, Kubernetes, multicloud, Tech, Technology / By

Organisations using VMware now have no choice but to buy an annual subscription for a bundled product if they plan to continue using the hypervisor. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, Broadcom has simplified the VMware product family, which is now only available as a subscription, licensed on a per-core basis. Some organisations, like Telefónica…

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Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, Atlassian, AWS, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud, data science, Google, Jira, Kubernetes, machine learning, Microsoft, quantum computing, Tech / By

Markus Schümmelfeder has spent more than a decade looking for ways to help biopharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim exploit digital and data. He joined the company in February 2014 as corporate vice-president in IT and became CIO in April 2018. “It was a natural evolution,” he says. “Over time, you see what can be done as…

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Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging

3 minutes of reading / AI, Git, GitHub, Kubernetes, machine learning, open source, Tech / By

Nvidia has made its KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes-native graphics processing unit (GPU) scheduling tool, available as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. KAI Scheduler, which is part of the Nvidia Run:ai platform, is designed to manage artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on GPUs and central processing units (CPUs). According to Nvidia, KAI is able to…

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KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up

5 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, DevOps, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Kubernetes, machine learning, open source, software engineering, Tech / By

During a discussion at the recent KubeCon + Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Europe 2025 event in London, panel members discussed one of the big criticisms of modern software development: why is code deployment still fraught with problems? Shifting left, where developers take on more responsibility for putting their code into production appears to have…

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Nutanix event shows massive interest in VMware migration

5 minutes of reading / Broadcom, cloud-native, DevOps, Kubernetes, Tech / By

More than 900 people attended the Nutanix Next Tour event in London in February. For Nutanix, many were not existing customers – the majority were customer prospects, and the ongoing concerns about VMware now being owned by Broadcom means that many people – including many attendees – are looking for alternatives. The completion of VMware’s…

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