Victor Frankenstein would be impressed Networking software specialist Big Switch has launched a Network Operating System (NOS), cobbled together from freely available open source components.…
Lees meer'He was definitely invoiced' On Call Have you got that Friday feeling? Well if not, there's only one way to get it: reading this week's instalment of On Call, where readers share tech support triumphs and frustrations.…
Lees meerEllison insists Oracle Cloud is less expensive, more secure than AWS – which is why so many people are flocking to it Oracle on Thursday reported revenues of $9.6bn for fiscal Q3 2019 – which is about what analysts anticipated and prompted the stock…
Lees meerIs a single tweet enough when millions of people's communications are affected? Facebook has said a "server configuration change" was to blame for an 14-hour outage of its services, which took down the Facebook social media service, its Messenger an…
Lees meerPlans to squeeze out enterprise data cloud in next two quarters Cloudera and former open-source database rival Hortonworks may have merged in a defensive manoeuvre but CEO Tom Reilly seems to have spied a bigger existential threat – AWS.…
Lees meerThe technology's not ready – but they won't wait If anyone knows the state of play in 5G, it's Regius Professor Rahim Tafazolli, director and founder at the Institute of Communication Systems and 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey, and…
Lees meerPint-sized drive in quart bottle Toshiba has pushed out its 2.5-inch XD5, a physically smaller gumstick format with a waspy 7mm thickness slotted into a larger case so that it can slip into standard drive bays.…
Lees meerFour months to arrive at 31,415,926,535,897 digits Emma Haruka Iwao, a developer advocate at Google Cloud, has celebrated Pi Day (3/14) by setting a new Guinness World Record for calculations of the beautiful mathematical constant, reaching a number…
Lees meerHammond splashes the cash – guess Brexit's sorted then? The University of Edinburgh is getting a new supercomputer for academic and commercial research, and now we know it'll cost around 79 million quid.…
Lees meerHammond splashes the cash – guess Brexit's sorted then? The University of Edinburgh is getting a new supercomputer for academic and commercial research, and now we know it'll cost around 79 million quid.…
Lees meerAlso upgrades VxBlock options Dell EMC has assembled Ready Stack designs for punters who want to build validated converged infrastructure stacks – customers can use any combo of server, storage and networking as long as it's Dell EMC gear, natch.…
Lees meerScream if you wanna go FASTER. SAFE, mate US chipmaker Marvell Technology has created 400Gbps silicon for Ethernet switches, destined for data centres that live at the edge of the network.…
Lees meer100kW of emergency power in a small footprint – nothing to do with Samsung battery fail Schneider Electric has squeezed out a line of compact three-phase UPS systems designed for small data centres and edge computing locations.…
Lees meerAmit Zavery to join former Big Red man Thomas Kurian at Google – reports Google has poached another of Oracle’s top cloud execs with company veteran Amit Zavery joining his former boss Thomas Kurian at the ad-search behemoth - the latest blow to the…
Lees meerYep, over half a bill for second most-popular web server US application delivery specialist F5 Networks has bought Nginx, the company responsible for commercialising the eponymous open-source software toolkit beloved by web administrators.…
Lees meerTough talk as calls for evidence of China naughtiness grow Uncle Sam has reportedly threatened Germany with a reduction in intelligence sharing if it allows Huawei equipment to be installed on its 5G networks.…
Lees meerRunning fancy new NVMe fabric over boring old Ethernet TCP Israeli startup Lightbits Labs has launched storage software to run NVMe over TCP with optional hardware acceleration.…
Lees meerThat's a lot of racks to stack The 20 largest cloud and internet providers splurged almost $120bn in capital expenditure last year with most of the funds going towards furnishing racks in their vast data centres.…
Lees meerThis is not a fork, insists rent-a-server biz, but time will tell In an effort to keep code for the Elasticsearch project untainted by proprietary bits, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday released a downstream distribution called Open Distro for El…
Lees meerTalk about thinking outside the Box... File silos just like poorly secure AWS S3 buckets Box enterprise customers may be sharing sensitive corporate data on the open internet by misusing their online storage.…
Lees meerServers-for-hire shop takes nap for repairs Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has been under the weather today, failing to respond to developers for several hours and counting.…
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