Google is playing catch-up in the cloud, and as such it wants to provide flexibility to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft. Today, the company announced a couple of new options to help ...

CRITICAL redundancy theory is built on a simple but powerful premise: systems become stronger, safer, and more resilient when their most essential functions are supported by intentional back-ups, ...

On Earth, data resilience is achieved through Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), a data-protection method used in ...

The proliferation of AI dramatically increases the amount of data that needs to be processed, stored, and moved, accelerating the aging of signal paths through which that data travels and forcing ...

Elsewhere, I have argued that despite all the buzz about micro-data centers at the base of cell towers, the first place “The Edge” will most likely materialize is inside traditional data centers ...

Most enterprises bring all their redundant data to the cloud, along with the security risk such redundancy creates. Here’s how to fix it When you move, you have a few choices of what to do with all ...

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In 2008, author Nicholas Carr argued that the IT department would not survive in the form most people were used to, as organisations moved the bulk of their IT out of owned facilities to the cloud.