Category: Amazon - Eternity Lab Technology

Feb 11 2025

Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

February 11, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading / AI, All, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Dell, HP, Meta / Leave a Comment

Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…

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Jan 30 2025

Where IT comes from: Behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s European R&D centre

January 30, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading / AI, All, Amazon, disaster recovery, Git / Leave a Comment

You’re a $2.8bn storage supplier with flash arrays at the core of your business. How do you do research and development (R&D), test new products, test customer workload issues, and test array products over years-long timescales for issues that only arise as software, network and application changes concatenate and interact? Meanwhile, you are a global…

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Jan 25 2025

It sure looks like Apple is getting ready to release a HomePod with a display

January 25, 2025 / 2 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, Apple, Apple TV, HomePod, Intel, iPad, Tech / Leave a Comment

Another rumor suggests Apple’s long-rumored HomePod with a display is launching in 2025. This time, a paywalled report by DigiTimes (via MacRumors) says Tianma Microelectronics will supply the gadget’s 7-inch LCD panel. Taiwan’s Radiant will reportedly handle backlight module production, and BYD will assemble the device.Rumors about this HomePod with a screen have been floating…

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Jan 2 2025

CCS cloud hosting deal with AWS under scrutiny as contract value soars by 89% after 15 months

January 2, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer / Leave a Comment

The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…

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Jan 2 2025

AWS offers Hackney Council ‘minimum 22%’ discount on cloud services through OGVA 2.0

January 2, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer / Leave a Comment

Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…

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Dec 28 2024

AWS on using GenAI to speed up legacy VMware and Microsoft datacentre migrations

December 21, 2024 / 8 minutes of reading / Adobe, AI, All, Amazon, AWS, chatbot, cloud-native, Computer, software engineering / Leave a Comment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set out how its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and software are saving customers money and helping them migrate their legacy Windows and VMware workloads off-premise much quicker. AWS CEO Matt Garman used the opening keynote at the public cloud giant’s Re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas,…

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Dec 2 2024

Storage technology explained: Flash vs HDD

December 2, 2024 / 8 minutes of reading / AI, All, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Tech, Technology, Toshiba / Leave a Comment

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – quad-level cell (QLC) flash storage into array markets and use cases that were once considered nearline. Alongside this, we saw the…

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Nov 29 2024

AWS widening scope of MFA programme after early success

November 29, 2024 / 3 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, AWS / Leave a Comment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to widen the scope of a mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) programme it introduced earlier this year, after seeing strong uptake among customers and a slump in password-related phishing attacks. The cloud giant made MFA compulsory for management account root users in the AWS Management Console beginning in May 2024, starting…

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Nov 26 2024

Nationwide Building Society backs HPE GreenLake for hybrid cloud push

November 26, 2024 / 2 minutes of reading / All, Amazon, Computer, DevOps, digital transformation, HP, hybrid cloud / Leave a Comment

Nationwide Building Society is drawing on HPE’s private cloud capabilities to help deliver on the next phase of its multi-year hybrid cloud strategy. The company, which has more than 17 million customers in the UK and employs 18,000 people, is in midst of a hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation project, geared towards improving the online experience…

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