AWS grows as Amazon posts net loss
Amazon has reported a net loss of $3.8bn in the first quarter, compared with net income of $8.1bn in…
Attackers enlist cloud providers in large HTTPS DDoS hit
A massive HTTPS distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against an undisclosed organisation has highlighted a new trend among…
Electric vehicle transition comes with uneven costs
By 2050, cars with internal combustion engines should largely be a thing of the past across much of the…
8 great new JavaScript language features in ES12
The JavaScript language specification, also known as ECMAScript or ES, is a living document, modified every year in response to…
shinytest2, Rhino R Shiny framework top news at Appsilon conference
RStudio’s Barret Schloerke this week offered Shiny developers details of an R package offering improved testing for R Shiny applications.…
Jeffrey Wood, deputy director of ICT, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Advances in technology can help to change patient care for the better and Jeffrey Wood, deputy director of ICT…
War, geo-political risk, data storage and compliance
In this podcast, we look at the implications of the war in Ukraine for data storage compliance with Mathieu…
Why public clouds lead with renewables
It’s no surprise that the top tech companies are also the top cloud companies. It’s also no surprise that these…
What is a data lake? Massively scalable storage for big data analytics
In 2011, James Dixon, then CTO of the business intelligence company Pentaho, coined the term data lake. He described the data…
AWS can’t help Amazon avoid first loss since 2015
Amazon’s fast-growing cloud division couldn’t help its parent company avoid posting its first quarterly loss since 2015.Amazon Web Services saw…