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Australian broadcast media delivery service MediaHub has ditched SAN and NAS storage for object storage from Scality. It has built its storage-as-a-service offering, ArkHub, around a 3.5PB Scality Ring – with expected growth to 20PB-plus by 2024 – and saved millions of dollars on what it would have spent on block and file access storage.… Continue reading TV provider MediaHub boots SAN and NAS for Scality object storage

Colocation provider Kao Data is making good on its pledge to draw on its recent £130m funding round to expand its datacentre footprint, with the company confirming that building work on its second location in Slough, Berkshire, is now under way. The firm said the Slough site will be home to a carrier-neutral facility that… Continue reading Kao Data to expand datacentre footprint by opening 16MW facility in Slough

Amazon Web Services (AWS) chalked up the biggest year-on-year revenue gain in its history during the fourth quarter of 2021, with the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to fuel demand for its public cloud offerings. The final quarter of 2021 saw Amazon.com’s cloud arm continue to buck the law of big numbers with its revenue growth figures,… Continue reading Cloud giant’s revenue rises as parent company’s profit falls during Q4

The Supreme Court in Paris has referred a secret state hacking operation which has led to the arrests of thousands of organised criminals worldwide to France’s highest constitutional authority. France’s highest court found on 1 February that the French-led operation to infiltrate the encrypted phone network EncroChat in 2020 raised new and serious questions that… Continue reading French Supreme Court raises constitutional questions over EncroChat hacking secrecy

Data on 144,000 students from all over the world who had engaged with education programmes run by The British Council was left dangerously exposed by a third-party partner to the public internet in a completely unsecured Microsoft Azure Blob repository, it has emerged. A non-departmental public body sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office,… Continue reading British Council data exposed by third-party cyber failure

Parking space booking app JustPark has embarked on a move away from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the Google public cloud, as part of a push to make its systems easier for its techies to manage.   The company, founded in 2006, allows drivers to pre-book parking spaces in 45,000 locations across the UK via… Continue reading JustPark moves from AWS to take up space in the Google public cloud

Cyber sector kingpin Check Point is to expand its CloudGuard cloud security platform after announcing it is to acquire Spectral, an Israel-based startup of “developer-first” security tools, for an undisclosed sum. Less than two years after its inception, Spectral – which focuses on code safety and trust and code scanning – has grown into a… Continue reading Check Point buys Spectral to safeguard cloud development

Nebulon’s “cloud-defined storage” – which can build a cloud-defined storage cluster with local I/O using commodity hardware – is now a purchase option using servers from Dell, HPE, Lenovo or SuperMicro and can transform a VMware or Kubernetes cluster into a private infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS) cloud. “Right now, we present our offer as a solution… Continue reading Nebulon SmartInfrastructure brings cloud-defined storage to datacentre

Carbon emissions data will become a key selection consideration for IT buyers when sourcing hyperscale cloud services in the next three years, predicts Gartner. The IT market watcher claims the amount of carbon emitted by cloud service providers will become an increasingly important factor for IT purchases by 2025, as environmental and sustainability concerns continue… Continue reading Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner

Hybrid cloud storage: The devils are in the details