Driving Better Cybersecurity for Industrial Networks and Critical Infrastructure

What’s in a name? In NVMe-OF’s case, quite a lot. What’s that, you say, apart from being a front-runner for technology’s worst acronym awards? Data centre transformation, is that better? No, of course it isn’t and with good reason. Infrastructure vendors have been telling us how important it is to refresh our data centre infrastructures for some time, as otherwise you won’t be able to reap the rewards of, you know the sort of thing, massively scalable analytics workloads, application consolidation, more dynamic infrastructure, greater business value and so on. Trouble is, for a wealth of reasons, few enterprises have the luxury of rip-and-replace transformation. And while processing and storage have moved forward at the speed of Moore’s Law, the pesky network has continued to slow everything else down. So, here’s the good news. The NVMe-OF protocol has emerged from the direct attached storage world as a way of connecting solid-state storage to processing at, well, the speed of light (OF stands for Over Fabric), essentially removing the bottleneck of data transfers.

Data centres are a critical component of the 21st century digital economy, and as their energy footprint grows, they will play a larger role in Europe's power system. In this webinar, executives from Eaton and Statkraft will discuss the outlook for data centres and the low-carbon energy transition, and the potential for data centres themselves to help integrate renewables on the grid. Experts from BloombergNEF will share the results of a recent study focusing on the future of data centres in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Netherlands and Germany.

Compared to their predecessors, 5G networks will support services that provide high bandwidth, very high user density, and extremely low latency.  These disparate (and sometimes conflicting) characteristics can be met with network architectures that utilize the latest in containerized software technologies running on distributed, off-the-shelf IT infrastructure. To remain competitive, service providers need to be able to deploy these systems, and the services they provide to end users, rapidly and cost-effectively.

They may be cliché by now, but the volume, variety, and velocity of data are real and continue to accelerate. Data sources are on the increase, too, and processing streaming data in real-time is becoming essential. How can you modernize your data pipeline infrastructure to meet these requirements, with room to grow as they intensify? Change Data Capture (CDC) technology, once a niche approach to keeping data warehouses updated, can now be leveraged to meet these data integration challenges, but there are many ways to CDC – not all created equal.