Image: Neom Saudi Arabia-based data center developer DataVolt is investing $5 billion in a net-zero AI data center campus to support Neom, the futuristic city at the northern tip of the Red Sea. Neom is part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 project, the Kingdom’s broad initiative to diversify its economy and reduce reliance on revenue from fossil fuels. In 2022, Neom announced its first data center project known as ZeroPoint DC. The latest data center will be built in Oxagon, Neom’s industrial...

Organizations must address misconceptions surrounding the shared responsibility model, data backup, and compliance. Best practices for reducing cloud risk include establishing controls, developing and testing a failover plan, encrypting data, and conducting thorough risk assessments. Cloud computing is now being used in every type of industry by organizations large and small. Related: How Cloud Computing Has Intensified Cybersecurity Challenges In the earliest days of cloud computing,...

News The 2023 TEKsystems Digital Transformation report reveals some sobering trends on how the current economic uncertainty is having an impact. IT service management vendor TEKsystems released its 2023 State of Digital Transformation report on Feb. 28, revealing how economic uncertainty is having an impact on decision-making. Among the key findings in the report is that there are four key strategies that help separate digital transformation leaders from laggards. Related: Digital...

Inflation is increasing the cost of living and doing business around the world. The latest item to increase in price appears to be an Oracle Java SE subscription. Java is among the most popular programming languages in the world and is available in a number of ways. The most recent release of the language — Java 19 — came out in September 2022. Java 19 boasts new features designed to improve performance. Developers and organizations can choose to use the open source version of Java known as...