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

Cloud providers should be looking to support larger leaps into cloud that ensure organisations can respond to growing complexity, industry players have suggested. Felicity March, security and resiliency practice leader at Kyndryl UK and Ireland (UK&I), tells Computer Weekly that the IT industry has reached “an inflection point” on data’s importance with ramifications for hybrid cloud.… Continue reading Stakes raised for hybrid cloud as complexity challenges continue

PCIe connectivity has gained an increased profile in enterprise data storage in recent years, in particular with the emergence and takeover of mainstream flash storage by NVMe-based hardware. For decades, data storage connectivity centred on SCSI-based protocols (eg, SAS and SATA). And when NVMe flash came along, with I/O potentially boosted by orders of magnitude… Continue reading Look out for PCIe gen 5 drives in 2022

As noted in the first article in this series, IT disaster recovery (DR) strategies and procedures help organisations protect their investments in IT systems and infrastructures. The essential mission for DR is to return IT operations to an acceptable level of performance as quickly as possible following a disruptive event. So, upon completion of a… Continue reading Setting strategy and developing plans

European businesses may have been pre-warned about China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), but levels of preparedness – and perhaps even willingness – remain far less clear as we enter 2022. PIPL in its most recent guise was released in August 2021, coming into effect on 1 November. At that point, China’s Standing Committee… Continue reading European businesses plot their next steps into China