Expert talks
EU Digital Sovereignty and the Cloud
All nations, organisations, and individuals are interconnected and interdependent, following almost a century of globalisation. One area where this rings especially true is the digital economy, which relies on American processors such as Intel or AMD, and chips from TSMC in Taiwan. The question of ... Read more
Vantage Data Centers comes to London with €560 million investment
Vantage Data Centers announced its start on the London market with the development of a 48MW datacenter campus valued at £500 million (about €560 million).
The new campus will be situated on nearly five acres (two hectares) in the PowerGate neighborhood of North Acton in the northwest part of... Read more
Arista launches 800G switches for data-hungry cloud giants
Arista is extending the 7050X4 Series en 7060X5 Series of spine and leaf datacenter switches, including support for 800Gbps connections. The advanced automation capabilities enable organizations to manage IT environments with ease and efficiency.
These switches boast an impressive range of featu... Read more
Paessler PRTG monitoring increases relevance by cloud and enterprise focus
At Paessler, the development of a monitoring tool with a variety of use cases is in full swing. Additional focus on the cloud, enterprises and industries shows PRTG is working on further relevance.
Paessler exists 25 years this year and in that time it has made network monitoring its specialty. ... Read more
‘Zero trust high on agenda due to cloud, potential untapped’
The security world has been under the spell of zero trust for some time. Zscaler research now confirms that organizations also see the framework as an ideal tool for securing users, workloads and devices. Cloud migration contributes to this: 91 percent of the organizations have implemented or are i... Read more
ScaleFlux: Computational storage, mainstream is no daydream
Storage needs a makeover. Often thought of as back-office donkey/grunt work, we all recognise the need and importance of storage, but not many of us want to focus on it as a computing discipline in and of itself. Which is wrong, obviously.
Notwithstanding the fact that one Australian tech news p... Read more
HYCU bridges clouds, bridge to SaaS under construction?
Recently in Silicon Valley, we were guests of HYCU, a company generally characterized as yet another backup vendor. During HYCU's presentation, the goal was clear: to convince us that the company is more than a backup vendor. HYCU bridges the gap between different clouds for data protection, disast... Read more
Software’s post-pandemic recessionary lag factor
Knowledge is power. But further than any mere level of learning by rote understanding, we use the term ‘savvy’ to denote a particular level of practical knowledge and ability.
Coming out of the post-pandemic period of preparation for the ensuing recession will (arguably) require more savvine... Read more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022: Eight ‘bits’ of cloud-native
Eight years ago, at GOTO Berlin, John Wilkes announced the first release of Kubernetes.
It was like giving the flux capacitor to datacentre platform teams - the cluster management kernel that powers Google's internal Borg system ("Borg for the rest of us", was a common refrain at that time) and ... Read more
OpenStack community releases Zed, even more emphasis on security and hardware enablement
Zed consists of 15,500 changes, by 710 contributors from 140 organizations across 44 countries. A successor to the Yoga version released earlier this year, Zed again sees the necessary emphasis on hardware enablement. In addition, security is also an important focus area.
With Zed, OpenStack has... Read more