Cloud Cost Optimisation Tools Not Enough To Rein In ‘Uncontrolled’ Cloud Spending

[ad_1] APAC companies are struggling with wasteful cloud spending, according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting. Also, cloud cost management initiatives and tools are being introduced too late or without a full picture of their environment to be very effective. In the new…

ByBen AbbottApril 16, 20240Comments

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Get Lifetime 1TB of Cloud Storage for Just $120

[ad_1] Pretty much all of the tech giants offer cloud storage nowadays. However, you can easily find yourself shelling out serious money to store your digital data. As a more affordable alternative, Koofr is earning some serious plaudits. This innovative platform lets you upload and…

ByTechRepublic AcademyMarch 22, 20240Comments

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‘What if the operating system is the problem’: Linux was never created for the cloud — so engineers developed DBOS, a new operating system that is part OS, part database

[ad_1] Michael Stonebraker has developed several influential database management systems over the years, including Ingres, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB. Matei Zaharia is the creator of Apache Spark and co-founder and CTO of Databricks. Working with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, the pair have created a revolutionary prototype operating system called…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)March 17, 20240Comments

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Want to store 1PB of data in the cloud? This startup can do it for you for as little as $10,000 a month — Qumulo says it can scale to Exabytes off premise and wants to eradicate tapes once and for all

[ad_1] Qumulo has launched Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), which it claims is the first truly cloud-native, fully managed SaaS solution for storing and retrieving infrequently accessed “cold” file data. Fully POSIX-compliant and positioned as an on-premises alternative to tape storage, ANQ Cold can be used as a standalone file service, a backup…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)March 16, 20240Comments

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Fed up with OneDrive in Windows 11? Microsoft clarifies that you can easily remove the cloud storage app

[ad_1] Windows 11 users can uninstall OneDrive – in case you weren’t aware of that – and Microsoft has made this clearer with a change to a support document. Neowin picked up on this alteration Microsoft made to its guide on how to ‘Turn off, disable, or uninstall OneDrive’ which is part of its…

ByTeam TeachTodayMarch 11, 20240Comments

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Why you should make a cloud backup this March

[ad_1] March 30 is World Backup Day. No, you don’t get the day off. It’s an initiative backed by some of the providers we recommend in our cloud backup guide like Mega and Backblaze, and even Amazon, asking everyone - individuals? Organizations? - to make at least one backup of their precious data. At…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)March 10, 20240Comments

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UK’s NCSC Issues Warning as SVR Hackers Target Cloud Services

[ad_1] Russian state hackers are adapting their techniques to target organizations moving to the cloud, an advisory from the UK National Cyber Security Centre and international security agencies has warned. The advisory details how cyber espionage group APT29 is directly targeting weaknesses in cloud services…

ByOwen HughesMarch 1, 20240Comments

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Some of the world’s biggest cloud computing firms want to make millions of servers last longer — doing so will save them billions of dollars every year

[ad_1] Some of the world's largest cloud computing firms, including Alphabet, Amazon, and Cloudflare, have found a way to save billions by extending the lifespan of their servers - a move expected to significantly reduce depreciation costs, increase net income, and contribute to their bottom lines. Alphabet, Google's parent company, started this trend in…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)February 18, 20240Comments

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LG squares up with Samsung in red-hot B2B commercial display market — announces Business Cloud CMS for digital signage and LFDs

[ad_1] Following its recent move into smart factories, LG has cemented its plans to further expand into the B2B market, taking on South Korean rival Samsung in the intensely competitive business commercial display arena. LG CEO William Cho stated at CES 2024 that the company was planning to expand its B2B product portfolio to…

Bywaynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams)February 7, 20240Comments

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Google switches on its first Africa cloud region

[ad_1] In a significant move aimed at supporting and promoting digital transformation in Africa, Google Cloud has announced the operational readiness of a new cloud region placed in Johannesburg, South Africa - its first on the continent. The announcement explains how AWS high-performance, secure, and low-latency cloud services are now available to businesses across…

ByTeam TeachTodayFebruary 1, 20240Comments