Month: November 2024
What CIOs can do differently to prepare their infrastructure for a service outage
IT downtime costs businesses over £300 billion annually. 2024 alone has proven that organizations are deeply vulnerable to IT outages, which resulted in widespread disruptions in sectors including healthcare, aviation and banking. However, these critical services cannot afford a single minute of downtime as this significantly impacts emergency services and…
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Sony’s making a handheld console to compete with Nintendo and Microsoft
Sony is currently making a new handheld gaming console that allows users to play PlayStation 5 games anywhere. According to Bloomberg, the console is being developed to compete against Nintendo and Microsoft in the portable gaming market, and is likely “years away from launch” — if Sony decides to release…
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The role storage plays in the AI data cycle
As the Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry continues to mature, it necessitates the development of robust infrastructure to train models and deliver services – greatly impacting data storage and management. This has significant implications for the amount of data generated and most importantly, how and where to store this insight. The…
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Trailers of the week: Minecraft, Elio, and Alien: Earth
This week, I went to a theater to watch a showing of the black-and-white version of Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves. Old-heads like me may recall it as a bad mid-90s cyberpunk film (written by William Gibson!) about a data courier whose brain is the storage medium, but who had…
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Necessity is the mother of invention: Huawei is pairing its supercharged SSD with a 60-year old piece of technology — seemingly because of US export restrictions
Huawei develops SSD-tape hybrid for warm and cold data storage MED system offers efficient storage with NAND speeds First-gen holds 72TB, uses 10% of the power required by disk drives It’s no secret that Chinese companies are becoming increasingly inventive when it comes to circumventing the challenges caused by the…
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Tech CEOs want to replicate Tim Cook’s Donald Trump playbook
Instead of sending government relations executives or lobbyists, Cook would appeal to Trump directly through phone calls and meals, said people familiar with the interactions. Cook then developed a meeting strategy with Trump where he would bring one data point to home in on a single issue in a meeting,…
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