Costs stories
Public cloud hasn’t delivered, but a time warp back to three-tier isn’t the answer
This month
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data protection
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Australian organisations that jumped head-first into public cloud are quickly finding costs are spiralling out of control and concerns for data protection and sovereignty are greater than ever.
Data centres face escalating costs, says Turner & Townsend
Thu, 20th Oct 2022
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construction
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data centre market
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analyst report
According to Turner and Townsend, data centre construction is facing inflation, delays in deliveries and competition for skilled labour from manufacturing.
How a major electronics retailer ended the bot menace on its portal
Tue, 6th Sep 2022
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attack
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online shopping
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retail
For a firm operating 300 retail stores that attract ten million shoppers a year to its website, this level of bot traffic is unsustainable. It’s risking not only lost sales and rising costs but also damage to a brand image built with huge effort over many years.
Businesses re-evaluating IT suppliers due to increased energy prices
Fri, 6th May 2022
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data centre maintenance / management
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power / energy
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energy
"For data centres, providers will have to think laterally about how to offer competitively priced services to help underpin the demand for data storage."