Plus: Fujitsu and Veeam hook up, cloudy IBM upgrade, Iguazio on Azure, and more Storage roundup It's a garage sale of storage info this morning, including faster IBM object storage, Rubrik hiring a Google veteran, Nakivo backup supporting Nutanix A…
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Lees meerWhy random plans made in pub shouldn't always be acted upon Three men we can safely call geeks are looking for help to restore an IBM 360 mainframe they rescued from a soon-to-be-demolished factory in Germany.…
Lees meerBut not Bain; Bain is there for the long haul Silicon printer Toshiba Memory Holdings is reportedly planning to buy out major shareholders including Apple, Dell, Kingston and Seagate, as it prepares to try its luck in the public markets.…
Lees meerTemporary General License buys time for Chinese tech giant, customers, suppliers The US government on Monday gave Huawei permission to obtain technology from American organizations so that the Chinese giant can continue to maintain existing deployme…
Lees meerEl Reg tunes into customer conference calls to hear SVP of engineering apologize Three days on, Salesforce.com has yet to fully recover from an outage that began on Friday.…
Lees meerBut what is the significance of lower clock speeds? Benchmarks of engineering samples of AMD's second-generation Zen-based server processor silicon, codenamed Rome, have once again found their way online.…
Lees meerFPGAs bring sweet relief to overworked CPUs Open-source storage enthusiasts at SoftIron have trotted out a low-cost hardware accelerator designed to take over from the CPU on erasure coding duties.…
Lees meerUK head honcho swap follows European shakeup Following a substantive restructure across EMEA, NetApp has hired Chris Greenwood - its now former director of north east Europe, Russia and Turkey - to head up operations in the UK and Ireland.…
Lees meerThe spiritual successor to the Windows GUI Microsoft has made numerous updates to its Azure Portal, partly to accommodate new features announced at its Build developer conference, and partly in an attempt to improve the user interface.…
Lees meerIt was the nerd, with the wallpaper, in the .ini file Who, Me? With the copious behind of the weekend waddling off into the sunset, and only the leaner pickings of the working week to look forward, welcome to our weekly dose of Monday prevarication…
Lees meerPlug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info Salesforce customers have been unable to access the service since 0956 PDT (1656 UTC) on Friday, thanks to a ham-handed database deployment.…
Lees meerDon't worry, it'll shut itself down if someone hits it hard enough French tech services biz Atos has squeezed out its first edgy server box to be deployed outside of the data centre.…
Lees meerSubstantial losses weren't much fun, now we'll wait till deal is done HPE is buying supercomputing veteran Cray Inc for $1.3bn after a multi-year squeeze in the supers sector that culminated in "substantial loss" for the HPC-flinger at the start of …
Lees meerAs most chip suppliers take a hit on sales Having been humiliated by Samsung in 2017, Intel has reclaimed its customary place as the world's largest semiconductor supplier.…
Lees meerHardly practical but the headroom is there Micron's Ballistix Elite brand of DDR4 memory has been overclocked by almost 60 per cent using liquid nitrogen cooling.…
Lees meerBiz will do almost anything for money (as long as it is cloud-related) Dell Technologies' cloudy division Virtustream has expanded its range of professional and managed services with the launch of xStreamCare.…
Lees meerHow to avoid the Icarus effect – and what we mean by that Sponsored webcast Attacks and outages happen, in the cloud as anywhere else. Back in the day, when we used on-premises solutions like Exchange we would surround ourselves with an ecosystem o…
Lees meerDON'T ASK ME STUPID QUESTIONS, JUST GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE On Call It's Friday, and so it must be time to remember the days when standby tech support staff were blessed with nerves of steel in today's On Call.…
Lees meerThe failure to shift to IPv6 is now literally a criminal matter A fella who allegedly conned his way into pocketing 750,000 IPv4 addresses has not only lost them, but now faces a lengthy stretch behind bars in America, if convicted.…
Lees meerBeijing slams Trump's 'abuse of export control measures', vows to take some sort of action China today signaled that it’s in no mood to roll over and play nice in the ongoing trade war with America, promising instead to "fight to the end."…
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