Stephen Pritchard

Much of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth has come from cloud-based tools. But there are very good reasons to host AI workloads on-premise.

We look at storage supplier offerings available in the big three public clouds, their pros and cons, and key use cases.

Biotech firm BioCorteX uses what may be the world’s largest biological knowledge graph to understand how bacteria impact the effectiveness of cancer drugs.

We survey the key cloud storage offers available from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which include Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk and Filestore, with a range of service levels and app-specific options.

We look at AI-powered tools to manage storage and data protection that can help detect infrastructure issues, and help optimise performance and even cloud costs

We survey the key cloud storage options available from AWS, which include S3 object storage and its options, block storage in EBS and a range of file storage choices

Poor identity and access management puts enterprise data at risk, but the path to stronger IAM remains complex.

Anomaly detection and immutable copies can be frontline tools against ransomware – we look at the role storage can play against the latest techniques employed by ransomware gangs.

Google Cloud’s London summit underpinned a focus on artificial intelligence with some significant infrastructure updates.

We survey the key cloud storage options available from Microsoft Azure, which include Files, Blob, Elastic SAN, Managed Disk and NetApp files, for a range of use cases.