Splashing out on software-defined file and object storage plus ... some extras Privately owned HPC powerhouse DDN is buying software-defined storage business Nexenta and becoming a full-scale enterprise storage supplier.…
Lees meer£500k social network scotched less than two weeks after launch Who, Me? Are you hoping to make it through the week without a major balls-up? El Reg's fingers are crossed for you – but remember, not everyone is that lucky.…
Lees meerFind the expert or product you need in Frankfurt Promo The ISC High Performance conference is back, taking place this year in Frankfurt, Germany, from 16 to 20 June, and bringing together thousands of users and exhibitors with a shared interest in …
Lees meerSeagate's spinners stopping spinning more often, though Cloud backup bods Backblaze this week cracked open another spreadsheet and fed it some log files, spitting out a bunch of fresh drive availability stats that show a mild uptick in Seagate drive…
Lees meerDyspeptic hyperscalers belch: We couldn't eat another bite for now, thanks Switch-making Cisco nemesis Arista Networks has reported a bottom line expansion in calendar Q1 financials, amid demand from hyperscale data centre operators, including Faceb…
Lees meerUsers can’t log in, start firing up the old Excel Software management and automation service ConnectWise has gone for a liedown this morning for many users in the UK in what seems to be an EU-wide issue.…
Lees meerInvestigation reveals shelves creaking under the weight of printed-out missives On Call All hail On Call, the beacon of light at the end of the long week's tunnel. Here, readers share their tech support triumphs and woes, from the infuriating to th…
Lees meerCognitive Services to assist fleshbags with tedious decision-making duties Build Ahead of next week's Build, Microsoft's annual developer shindig, the US tech giant is continuing its efforts to show it knows how to play nicely with others – as it p…
Lees meerTechnical term for today's outage is TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Users' Packets Developing For at least the past hour or two, Microsoft's Azure cloud has been up and down globally due to a DNS configuration mishap.…
Lees meerCalling all the ASIC snitches... A Mellanox shareholder is attempting to scupper Nvidia's efforts to buy the chipmaker for $6.9bn.…
Lees meerColo giant racks up the dollar bills by renting space to big 'n bulky cloud slingers The dark Santantic mills of the internet belched out more cash than they ever have for chunky data centre landlord Equinix in its calendar Q1.…
Lees meerAlex Holmes, deputy director of cyber security at DCMS, joins Liam Maxwell at cloud giant Exclusive Amazon Web Services has hired Alex Holmes, the deputy director of cyber security at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - another senior IT G…
Lees meerWhile customers apparently make savings from consolidated services? Analysis Database giant and cloud-dream believer Oracle on Wednesday invited members of the media to its Redwood City headquarters in California because, as global comms SVP Bob Wi…
Lees meer'Member when Microsoft tried this in 2017? It didn’t go well... Dell World Microsoft and VMware appear to have buried the hatchet, with the virtualization juggernaut's entire software stack now officially supported on Redmond's Azure.…
Lees meerOh no, sorry that was another quarter in a different year - top and bottom lines wobble amid corp procurement slowdown It isn’t a great time to be selling HDDs or flash drives, just ask Western Digital and Seagate. The pair posted less than flatteri…
Lees meerDumpster, dumpster, burning bright / Data back-ups not alright? The great A2 Hosting Windows TITSUP* has entered its second week as the company continues to struggle to recover from a security breach that forced its System Operations team to shut do…
Lees meerThat ought to help MPLS meet with a little, er, accident Cloudy networking startup Aryaka is set to expand its ops after netting $50m in its latest funding round, led by Goldman Sachs – the single largest investment in the company to date.…
Lees meerMore flash squeezed into HyperDrive Density+ boxes Open-source storage enthusiasts at SoftIron are touting a hybrid storage array that combines a bunch of HDDs and SSDs with Arm64-compatible Seattle system-on-chips from AMD and free Ceph software.…
Lees meerRoadmap laid out for 7nm 'Rome' Epyc, Navi GPUs Chip second-fiddle AMD, a day away from its 50th anniversary, delivered better-than-expected Q1 2019 earnings on Tuesday, lifting its share price about four per cent in after-hours trading to $28.66 ap…
Lees meerFor the diner that wants to chow down on ML and analytics data but can't stomach Tesla Volta V100 costs Google has become the first bringer of clouds to sell server instances equipped with Nvidia’s Tesla T4 GPUs in general availability.…
Lees meerSay it with us now: Despiiiiite Brexit Equinix has opened a £90m colocation facility in godforsaken Slough – its ninth in Greater London and 12th in the UK.…
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