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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Losing access to cloud data can topple reputations, derail compliance efforts and cause irreparable damage to valuable customer relationships. I’ve seen it firsthand. Failure to protect your cloud ...

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