The Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is ideal for data archiving and long-term backup of information that will be accessed at least once per quarter (Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive is a better fit for data that is seldom accessed). Amazon S3 Glacier stores your data across three Availability Zones (AZs), each physically separated from…
Month: April 2021
Liverpool ‘lead the race to sign PSV star’
Liverpool are reportedly leading AC Milan and Juventus in the race to sign PSV striker Donyell Malen this summer. The Dutch forward is being targeted by the reigning Premier League champions and could go for as much as £30million this summer should PSV decide to cash in on him. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport,…
Reduce complexity across global operations with Dynamics 365
Even with 195 countries across the globe, today, our world can feel like a small place. We live in a time when you can instantaneously communicate with people who are on the other side of the planet. The digitalization of commerce means that we can quickly buy goods from all over the world. And with…
Toyota reveals the world’s first fuel cell mobile clinic
Toyota and the Japanese Red Cross have revealed the world’s first hydrogen-powered and zero-emission mobile clinic, which has been developed in response to the increasing need for the delivery of medical services and temporary electrical power in disaster-affected areas of Japan.Working on the foundations of a fourth-generation Toyota Coaster minibus, engineers exchanged the original 4.0-litre…
AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience
AWS gives you the components that you need to build systems that are highly reliable: multiple Regions (each with multiple Availability Zones), Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, monitoring, and alarms), Auto Scaling, Load Balancing, several forms of cross-region replication, and lots more. When you put them together in line with the guidance provided in the Well-Architected Framework,…
Liverpool ‘finalising transfer for Ibrahima Konate’ with deal in ‘advanced stage’
Liverpool are in the process of completing a transfer for Ibrahima Konate, according to reports. The Reds are keen to bolster their defence ahead of the new season and are said to be at an advanced stage in negotiations with RB Leipzig. Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool were very keen on signing the centre-back in the January…
Doubling down on accessibility: Microsoft’s next steps to expand accessibility in technology, the workforce and workplace
Photo by Jordan Nicholson is courtesy of Disability:IN and licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0. More than 1 billion people around the world live with a disability, and at some point, most of us likely will face some type of temporary, situational or permanent disability. The practical impacts are huge. Employment and education rates are lower…
Meet two of the first Volkswagen ID.4 EV owners: a solar-powered grandmother and a baseball superfan
Alice Dibben, her daughter, Helen Dibben, and Alice’s 2-year-old pup, Lucky, pose in front of Alice’s new glacier white ID.4. Alice Dibben has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to technology. A former cryptanalyst at the National Security Agency, she mastered early modern computing systems to help collect and decipher complex codes.…
New Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances – Graviton2 Power for Memory-Intensive Workloads
We launched the first Graviton-powered EC2 instances in late 2018 and announced the follow-on Graviton2 processor just a year later. The dual SIMD units, support for int8 and fp16 instructions, and other architectural improvements between generations combine to make the Graviton2 a highly cost-effective workhorse processor. Today, you can choose between General Purpose (M6g and…
Liverpool finalising deal to sign £34m RB Leipzig star Ibrahima Konate
Liverpool are on the brink of completing a deal to sign RB Leipzig defender Ibrahima Konate. The Reds’ move for the centre-back is said to be at an ‘advanced stage’, according to the Athletic, with Liverpool ready to pay the £34million release clause in the Frenchman’s contract. That means Liverpool would not need to initiate…