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AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued an apology to its customers inconvenienced by its largest US datacentre region suffering a 14-hour outage on 20 October, in a blog detailing the precise nature of the technical difficulties its services suffered. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the outage originated in the public cloud giant’s US-East-1 datacentre…

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Cloud file storage: Key benefits and use cases

4 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, containers, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Kubernetes, Microsoft, serverless, Tech / By

File servers are at the core of almost all IT infrastructures. File sharing is essential to collaboration and is a vital component of growing volumes of unstructured information. File storage is a key part of general document storage, and access to the information therein is vital for analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI). File systems also…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Dunelm’s journey to micro front ends

4 minutes of reading / automation, AWS, digital transformation, e-commerce, Git, IBM, Kubernetes, microservices, open source, serverless, software engineering, Tech / By

Software engineering covers all of Dunelm’s business domains. Over the past few years, the retailer has updated its IT infrastructure from running off-the-shelf ecommerce via IBM WebSphere on Rackspace to building everything in-house. “Like many companies, digital transformation starts with the website and goes deeper and wider after that,” says Paul Kerrison, director of engineering…

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Going cloud-native: How to develop better cloud apps

5 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, automation, AWS, cloud-native, Intel, machine learning, serverless, Tech / By

Many cloud applications are slow, clunky, bloated or otherwise fail to meet user expectations – yet answers on how to address this are out there already, if teams are given the resources to follow through from first principles. Owen Rogers, cloud research director at Uptime Intelligence, says cloud apps should be architected to be scalable…

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How to boost developer productivity

6 minutes of reading / AI, API, automation, cloud-native, Git, open source, serverless, software engineering, Tech / By

The Tackling the software skills crunch study from Freeform Dynamics recently found that a fifth of organisations consider their development tools, processes and methods not fit for purpose. A further 22% anticipate these will become problem areas going forward.The majority of the 50 senior IT leaders and managers surveyed for CIO WaterCooler employ software developers…

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