Cost is often the key factor when it comes to moving IT to the cloud. In practice, working out the cost of moving a workload or business process to the cloud is complex. And, just as with on-premise hardware, there is more to the total cost of ownership of cloud systems than the “ticket […]

That Ozzy Osbourne appeared with Black Sabbath at the closing ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games was something of a surprise. That he belted out his band’s most famous hit with great gusto, ending of with the cry of “Birmingham forever!” was something even more so. But it was a most appropriate way […]

Analysis and prediction are core to today’s IT as organisations embark on digital transformation, with use cases that range from speech recognition and pattern analysis in science, to use in fraud detection and security, to AIOps in IT and storage. As artificial intelligence and predictive methods – machine learning, deep learning, neural processing, and […]

CIOs and IT directors working on any project that involves data in any way are always more likely to succeed when the organisation has a clear view of the data it holds. Increasingly, organisations are using data classification to track information based on its sensitivity and confidentiality, as well as its importance to the […]

Apple has released a series of patches to address two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting its macOS Monterey desktop operating system (OS), its iOS and iPadOS OSes, and its Safari web browser. The two vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2022-32893 and CVE-2022-32894. Both are out-of-bounds write issues that affect the Safari WebKit web browser extension, and the […]

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has donated the first batch of 70 computers out of a total of 600 that it has set aside for The Turing Trust, the IT recycling and education charity founded by the family of Alan Turing. In the 10 years since it was formed, the trust has provided access to […]

NVMe-over-TCP 5x cheaper than equivalent NVMe-over-Ethernet (ROCE) solutions – that’s the promise of Lightbits LightOS, which enables customers to build flash-based SAN storage clusters on commodity hardware and using Intel network cards. Lightbits demoed the system to show performance equivalent to NVMe-over-Fibre Channel or ROCE/Ethernet – both much more costly solutions –  in which LightOS […]

The Royal Mint has signed a deal to use remanufactured laptops from Circular Computing to support its sustainability strategy. The Royal Mint is famous for making coins, but over recent years has evolved to offer precious metals investment, luxury collectables and jewellery. Carbon-neutral remanufactured laptops will help to decarbonise the Royal Mint’s IT estate, […]

What is an operation (computing)? An operation, in computing, is an action that is carried out to accomplish a given task. There are five basic types of computer operations: inputting, processing, outputting, storing and controlling. Computer operations are executed by the five primary functional units that make up a computer system. The units correspond directly […]

The government has put out a call for evidence, looking for views and advice on how to tackle discrimination in medical devices and technology, as part of an independent review on medical tech. The call for evidence, which is open until 6 October 2022, aims to gather insights from experts and organisations on the […]