Salameh Dibaei/Getty Images The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was founded in 2001 and has since gone on to become a staple of air travel in the United States. Over the last two decades, the agency has introduced cutting-edge equipment to analyze everything from passenger identification to luggage and personal items that enter security checkpoints. The…
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Geopolitical tension and its potential impact on open source was one of the main focus points during the OpenInfra Foundation European summit held in Paris on 16–19 October. When asked about OpenStack’s resilience given the volatile geopolitical climate, Jonathan Bryce, executive director at the OpenInfra Foundation, said: “The thing that I love about open source…
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Kubernetes and containerised applications are growing rapidly across enterprises. Although Kubernetes has been around for more than 10 years, it’s now predicted to become a mainstream part of IT architecture as organisations look to make more use of cloud-native applications. But take-up of Kubernetes – aka K8s – and storage and data protection in particular,…
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Cloud computing underpins countless applications, services, and company initiatives. However, the environmental footprint of these activities has started to come under scrutiny. Today’s IT leaders find themselves at a crossroads. On one hand they must embrace innovation – which includes using AI, machine learning, and big data analytics – to propel their organisations forward. And…
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Oracle’s recently announced Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) aims to improve performance for database workloads and reduce costs. The architecture in Exascale, which is Oracle’s multi-tenant architecture that intelligently allocates pools of compute optimised for its databases, is built on the same appliances – X8M, X9M and X10M – Oracle uses on its Exadata Database…
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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. Jan Safranek, principal software engineer at Red Hat, was there during the flurry of activity that saw Docker and then Kubernetes explode onto the scene and businesses and developers grapple with how to provide it with persistent storage. Safranek was there when…
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Datacentre industry stakeholders and regulators are expected to expand their energy efficient datacentre criteria to include assessments of IT equipment utilisation and work delivered per unit of energy consumed. While the industry has traditionally used Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) as the proxy metric for datacentre efficiency and sustainability, it does not address the efficiency of…
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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases, it wasn’t always in that position. Pronin recalls the early years when Kubernetes arrived in the market, pretty much locked into orchestration of…
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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, according to DataStax developer relations guy Patrick McFadin, the container orchestration platform is in a “surly teenager” phase, with some challenges in management efficiency still to be solved. He also recalls how Kubernetes, also known as K8s, overcame its early challenges…
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The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases. The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…
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