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Body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch recovered after freak storm

Following the sinking of his luxury yacht on Monday, Reuters has reported that the body of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered.Lynch was among six people who have been confirmed to have died when the yacht sank after being hit by a sea tornado, known as a waterspout, in the early hours of Monday…

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Kubernetes at 10: CRDs at core of extensible, modular storage in K8s

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. Xing Yang, cloud-native storage tech lead at VMware by Broadcom, started working on storage in Kubernetes in 2017 on projects based around custom resource definitions (CRDs), which allow the orchestration platform to work around an extensible core. Later, she went on to see container…

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What are the options when migrating from VMware?

It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…

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AWS profits and revenue rise as public cloud giant plots AI infrastructure investments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported a 19% year-on-year (YoY) increase in revenue, and a 72% uptick in operating income in its second quarter results, and pledged to grow its artificial intelligence (AI)-related datacentre investments. The quarter covers the three months to 30 June 2024, which also saw Amazon.com report a total revenue of $148bn,…

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Microsoft outages: The implications of downtime on the delivery of critical public services

It quickly became clear the problem was not an issue with Microsoft’s Azure service, as it first appeared, but an issue with a single software provider – named CrowdStrike – who released a faulty update to their software, which was then distributed rapidly around the world via the Azure global networks.As reported by Computer Weekly,…

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Natural History Museum partners with AWS to restore and protect urban nature

Now, the museum is turning its attention to the future, unveiling its new gardens in July as a centre piece of the Urban Nature Project. The project is the NHM’s response to a growing need to monitor and record changes to UK urban nature and support its recovery in the face of challenges such as…

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CMA cloud licensing: Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of ‘muddying’ anti-trust debate

Microsoft’s response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing investigation into its cloud licensing practices has seen it accuse arch-rivals Amazon and Google of “muddying the waters” with their contributions to the probe. The software giant has issued a 27-page response to a working paper the CMA published in June 2024 that detailed the…

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Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry

UK innovation agency Digital Catapult has set it sights on helping the creative industry grow by revamping its production processes using artificial intelligence (AI) through the launch of its latest startup initiative. The organisation is offering nine British startups the opportunity to join its ranks and, with the support of the BBC and Amazon Web…

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Hybrid multicloud storage: Pros, cons and key workloads

Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…

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Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims

Amazon employees are calling the contents of the company’s annual environmental report into question, including the retail giant’s claim to have reached its goal to become a 100% renewably powered company seven years ahead of schedule. The online retail giant published its sixth annual Global sustainability report on Wednesday 10 July, which revealed Amazon had…

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