CIO upfront: Where are you in your cloud maturity journey?
Adopting the cloud can be done safely and effectively, but it is a continual learning experience, writes Lee Atchison of New Relic
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AMD ships delayed ARM server chips to a cautious market
AMD wants to counter concerns that system administrators may have about placing ARM servers in data centers with its new chips code-named Seattle, which are now shipping in volume after a long delay.
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Mission critical ICT in the era of digital and diverse platforms
Deane Johns of the NZ Association of Credit Unions and Steve Thompson of Unisys talk about how emerging technologies can be applied to this new environment.
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In pictures: The (mostly) cool history of the IBM mainframe
In its 50-year history the IBM mainframe has been hailed and vilified. It has been born, reborn (many times) and pronounced dead. And yet the Big Iron remains a key computing resource for many large companies and will do so for many years. Here we take a look at the mainframe’s long history, from its use with the US space program to its prominence inside large business datacentres. Take a look.
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In pictures: The world's coolest, greenest datacentres
Datacentres are taking advantage of energy saving technologies to run more efficiently in order to be kind to the environment and the bottom line
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Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced datacentres not a perfect solution
A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced datacentres instead of hot-cold datacentres. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their datacenters to take care of disaster needs. If one datacenter suffered from a disaster, the other datacenter would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.