Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a minor change to its private-cloud appliance, AWS Outposts, that could significantly impact resiliency. The cloud provider has enabled local access to cloud administration, removing the applianceβs reliance on theβ¦
When energy costs began to rise steeply in 2021, and precipitously in 2022, it was clear that some digital infrastructure providers would be able to absorb these costs, while others would be forced to pass these costs onto their customers β despiteβ¦
A serverless platform is an abstracted cloud computing service that executes a userβs code without the user needing to provision the underlying server or operating environment. The physical server, resources and operating environment used to executeβ¦
IT hardware vendors, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), are pivoting their revenue models away from product sales toward service-based subscriptions. The objective is to make hardware appear more flexible and cloud-like, so buyersβ¦
Quantum computing promises a revolution in scientific discovery. Quantum computing's main advantage over digital computing is in quickly solving highly complex problems that require significant time or resources to process. Currently, solutions toβ¦
Although big-name hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft dominate the cloud arena, other companies also believe they have a role to play. Vultr, OVHcloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Bluehost and Scaleway, for example, donβt offer hugeβ¦
Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has successfully mounted a challenge to Intelβs dominance in data center processors by focusing on energy-efficient server chips. AMD plans to further expand its presence in data centers by bringing moreβ¦
Cloud providers tend to adopt the latest server technologies early, often many months ahead of enterprise buyers, to stay competitive. Providers regularly launch new generations of virtual machines with identical quantities of resources (such asβ¦
Direct liquid cooling (DLC) is a collection of techniques that removes heat by circulating a coolant to IT electronics. Even though the process is far more efficient than using air, the move to liquid cooling has been largely confined to selectβ¦
Last month 7,000 developers traveled to Valencia to attend the combined KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, the event for Kubernetes and cloud-native software development. A further 10,000 developers joined the conference online. Theβ¦
As a result of some high-profile outages and the growing interest in running critical services in a public cloud, the reliability β and transparency β of public cloud services has come under scrutiny.Cloud services are designed to operate with lowβ¦
Uptime Instituteβs data on power usage effectiveness (PUE) is a testament to the progress the data center industry has made in energy efficiency over the past 10 years. However, global average PUEs have been largely stalling at close to 1.6 sinceβ¦
A service level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a cloud provider and a user. The SLA describes the providerβs minimum level of service, specified by performance metrics, and the compensation due to the user should the provider fail to deliverβ¦
In general, the prices of cloud services either remain level or decrease. There are occasional price increases, but these are typically restricted to specific features; blanket price increases across product families are rare.Price cuts are oftenβ¦
Conditions will soon be ripe for widespread use of direct liquid cooling (DLC) β a collection of techniques that uses fluid to remove heat from IT electronics instead of air β and it may even become essential.