Category: Cloud Computing

[ad_1] Data centres are going to be classified as critical national infrastructure by the UK Government, which means they will be in the same group as emergency services, finance, healthcare, energy and water. This classification will ensure that data centres receive more government protection than before in the event of a major incident, such as…

[ad_1] As businesses increasingly rely on cloud technologies, ensuring secure and efficient global connectivity is paramount. GNX, a provider of global internet and private connectivity solutions, is addressing this challenge head-on. Ahead of Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe, CloudTech caught up with Rick Mur, Co-Founder & CTO of GNX, to discuss the evolving landscape…

[ad_1] https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-data-center-servers-8018881 There aren’t many businesses out there today that don’t rely on at least some form of digitisation to survive. Whether it’s as simple as needing a dedicated email server or running a complex LAN that requires a dedicated IT department, cyber security for servers has become crucial in today’s business world. Thankfully, there…

[ad_1] The exponential growth of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) could derail global efforts to reduce carbon emissions, potentially consuming as much energy as entire countries, according to a new report from SAS.  The report, ‘Rethinking data and AI in the cloud: How to move to a sustainable future,’ emphasised how senior decision-makers in large…

[ad_1] Kerry Wan/ZDNET Every year, iPhone enthusiasts eagerly await Apple’s latest release. But this year, as Apple introduces the iPhone 16, the excitement feels underwhelming. A few months ago, I wrote about why you shouldn’t buy the iPhone 16 for Apple Intelligence, and now that the launch is here, I stand by my initial assessment. …

[ad_1] Streaming data and Kafka specialist Confluent on Monday announced that it has acquired WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming data solution. Confluent plans to use WarpStream’s cloud-native solution to fill out its portfolio by offering a new service (Confluent WarpStream) that can sit in between its fully managed Confluent Cloud and self-managed Confluent Platform. As Confluent…

[ad_1] When the science fiction writers of the mid-20th century wrote of artificial intelligence and the apocalyptic dangers contained therein, few speculated a problem as banal as the one we now face. This two-part problem, a syllogism, comes from the facts that AI is vastly useful. And that it is carbon-hungry on a scale few…

[ad_1] Other data fabric solutions featured in Forrester’s Wave are Cloudera, Informatica, Denodo, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise IBM, InterSystems, K2view, Microsoft, Oracle, Qlik, Solix Technologies, Teradata, and TIBCO Software. “A data fabric integrates various structured and unstructured data sources to provide a unified view and access across your enterprise to accelerate business insights,” says Armon…

[ad_1] Scientists have discovered a common food colorant has a remarkable property – making the skin of live mice transparent, so the organs beneath become visible. The dye – tartrazine, aka E102 – is a mostly-harmless dye used to make food yellow. In a paper published in the journal Science last week, scientists describe how…

[ad_1] This city of the future hosts OpenInfra Summit Asia.  sjvn/ZDNET Suwon, South Korea: Quite discreetly, the OpenInfra Foundation and the open-source projects it promotes (such as OpenStack, and the Kata Containers, virtual machines (VM) as containers) are changing the world. That became clear to everyone who attended OpenInfra Summit Asia.    OpenStack has long…