In server rooms, neat doesn't trump functionality On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, El Reg's weekly column that offers readers the chance to vent about their co-workers' ineptitude.…
Lees meerPlenty of work for the Z14 plumbers Down Under IBM has scored itself a AU$481m ($357m, £277m) mainframe contract with the Australian Department of Human Services. The revelation that half of a larger mega-deal rests solely on mainframes sheds more l…
Lees meerChipzilla has a few flash drives for the data centre as well Intel has launched two QLC (4bits/cell) SSDs – one for consumers and one for data centre use.…
Lees meerMind you, they're doing all right on basic B2B phone lines Virgin Media's operating income slid 17 per cent over the past year despite the Brit telco growing its Q2 2018 revenues to £1.275bn, creating interesting conditions for its newly acquired ch…
Lees meerNAND that... is how you get skin in the flash game Seagate has announced Nytro 1000 and 5020 SSDs based on OEM'd Toshiba/Western Digital flash chips.…
Lees meerNVMe rules the interconnect roost Flash Memory Summit At the Flash Memory Summit this week in Santa Clara, California, Toshiba claimed it's possible to get NVMe-over-Fabrics access speed on bog-standard Ethernet, Attala flashed its shared flash cac…
Lees meerGLB Director keeps those packets humming even when new servers are added to pools If you’ve got a big bare-metal data center, or if you’re just BM-curious, head on over to GitHub, where there’s a new load balancer on offer by, um, GitHub.…
Lees meerOptane DC persistent memory ships to Google, Xeon roadmap, and more revealed At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Summit today in Santa Clara, California, Chipzilla reiterated its commitment to deliver 10nm Xeon processors in 2020, to maintain its mar…
Lees meerData biz trumpets international sales and IBM partnership Hortonworks, once criticised for burning through cash, has reported a fair second 2018 quarter, with revenues up 40 per cent and net losses down 27 per cent.…
Lees meerFrankenfirm sets up 'integrated practice' with AWS to eat its lunch before others do DXC Technology, fed up with the cloud brigade eating into its own IT outsourcing (ITO) business, has set up an "integrated practice" with AWS to get in on the actio…
Lees meerRoom for another ego at the top, Benioff? Salesforce chief operating officer Keith Block is to become co-CEO with Mark Benioff, in a move echoing their former employer Oracle's setup.…
Lees meerRewrites storage server rules with 32 of Chipzilla's rulers Supermicro has crammed 1PB of Intel flash rulers into the slimmest possible 1U rack storage server.…
Lees meerViptela vManage comes to boxen running IOS XE Cisco has made the next move in its integration of 2017 acquisition Viptela, prepping an SD-WAN upgrade it is going to ship to a million routers.…
Lees meerAdoption is inevitable, and yet we all keep putting it off It has been twenty years since the publication of the first draft of the IPv6 standard, in response to the growing realisation that the IPv4 address space would sooner or later be entirely f…
Lees meerAlso: Juniper jumps on its stack Hard on the heels of the Linux kernel's packets-of-death attack dubbed SegmentSmack, a similar vulnerability has been disclosed and fixed in FreeBSD.…
Lees meerFfw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... IBM this week introduced a 16-socket Power9 server monster.…
Lees meerData herding upstart stamps foot on the gas, bags another $100m in funding Four years after picking up a $100m E-round, data wrangling biz Actifio has picked up another $100m in an F-round.…
Lees meerTouts storage boxes, dreams of code-composable infrastructure Western Digital is setting out to go beyond hyper-converged kit, and create a software composable server, storage, and networking infrastructure, starting with new flash and disk boxes.…
Lees meerWhere? Not saying, but it'll be nearly everywhere by 2020. Pinky-promise DOCSIS 3.1 has finally landed in Australia, courtesy of a currently-limited rollout to HFC-connected National Broadband Network (NBN) customers.…
Lees meerBiz files official complaint to auditors over prices, configs Oracle has filed an official complaint with US government over plans to award the Pentagon’s lucrative cloud contract to a single vendor.…
Lees meerFastest software builds – if you go by benchmarks NVMe-over-Fabrics storage array supplier E8 has reclaimed the SPEC SFS 2014 file storage benchmark title from WekaIO.…
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