What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
InfoWorld

Google adds tiered storage to NoSQL Bigtable to reduce complexity, costs

Tiered storage will help enterprises reduce their storage expenditure as they continue to adopt AI use cases for various ...

Azure outage: What is Microsoft Azure? Global outage hits world’s second-largest cloud platform ahead of quarterly earnings

Microsoft's cloud and productivity services, including Azure and Microsoft 365, experienced a significant disruption ...

ScyllaDB Cloud BYOA Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

With the BYOA model, customers pay ScyllaDB subscription fees while infrastructure variable expenses are paid directly to Google Cloud through the existing accounts. When ScyllaDB Cloud BYOA is ...
Computer Weekly

Valkey 9.0 ‘unlocks’ atomic slot migration & straddles real-time workloads

Valkey 9.0 continues the project’s mission to provide a fully open, community-driven in-memory data store that evolves with modern application needs. When compared with version 8.1, users of Valkey ...

An AWS outage took down nearly the entire Internet. What caused it?

More than 1,000 services were impacted by the outage, including popular platforms like WhatsApp, Snapchat and Reddit, which ...
Computer Weekly

AWS confirms it is working to 'fully restore' services after major outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) users have experienced an outage today after the public cloud giant's North Virginia datacentre ...