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
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Why are governments investigating cloud competitiveness?
In any market, fewer sellers or providers typically results in less choice for buyers. Where the number of sellers is very low this could, theoretically,
Users unprepared for inevitable cloud outages
Organizations are becoming more confident in using the cloud for mission-critical workloads — partly due to a perception of improved visibility into operational resiliency. But
Will high energy prices push operators to direct liquid cooling?
The data center industry and other large power-consuming industries continue to feel pressure from skyrocketing electricity prices. In Germany and France, wholesale energy prices this
AWS price cuts: is serverless gaining momentum?
A serverless platform is an abstracted cloud computing service that executes a user’s code without the user needing to provision the underlying server or operating
EU’s EED recast set to create reporting challenges
The European Commission’s (EC’s) proposed recast of its Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) sets out new and strict reporting requirements for data centers operating in the
This Halloween, beware the vampire server
Halloween brings joy to many in the form of tricks and treats. But to IT managers, Halloween is a stark reminder of the evil spirits
Data centers weather solar storms
The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued multiple geomagnetic storm watches throughout August and September 2022. Geomagnetic storms occur when solar storms interact with
Sacrifice speed to cut cloud carbon and costs
New findings from research by Uptime Institute Intelligence reveals that organizations can cut both their cloud carbon emissions and costs by moving workloads to different
New server leasing models promise cloud-like flexibility
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