Backblaze attempts to blow some mist away Analysis What do data durability numbers mean? Azure brags 12 and even 16 nines durability, while Amazon S3, Google Cloud Platform and Backblaze tout 11 nines. What does this mean?…
Lees meerFirm's share price dipped following report Networks hardware makers can rest easy: the tech titan that is Amazon Web Services isn't going to be selling switches any time soon, which will likely be music to the ears of current AWS supplier Cisco.…
Lees meerSky, TalkTalk and M24Seven all withered in the heat this week As the big red ball in the sky continued to shine on the UK, internet providers decided to have a bit of a lie-down, with Sky, TalkTalk and leased line specialist M24Seven all taking a tu…
Lees meerUnpaid former staff will get something... eventually Liquidators were today appointed to squeeze Tintri UK for whatever cash they can get out of the fallen business.…
Lees meerStop me if you've heard this one before There are rumblings that Azure is having capacity issues once again, with customers in the UK South region reporting problems getting new VMs provisioned.…
Lees meerNetworks the wind beneath Börje Ekholm's wings Ericsson has dodged a loss for the first time in two years, after 18 months under the strict regime imposed by CEO Börje Ekholm, who took the reins at the vendor at the start of 2017.…
Lees meerAuto-failover for Azure SQL Database when things wobble Microsoft continued its drive to encourage SQL Server customers to move their precious data to its cloudy towers with the announcement that long-term retention and automatic failover had finall…
Lees meerTwenty-five bugs writhing on the netops floor this week Cisco has emitted 25 product security advisories – with four critical bugs flattened in its service provider-oriented Cisco Policy Suite.…
Lees meerChocolate Factory apologizes for trigger-happy AI With no mention of Tuesday's Cloud Platform service troubles, Google on Wednesday heralded the arrival of click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.…
Lees meerDell EMC and HPE help fuel record quarterly revenue High-speed Ethernet biz Mellanox has posted record revenues for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, driven in part by Dell EMC and HPE's seeming insatiable appetite for Ethernet switches.…
Lees meerNew CEO prepares company for new direction Israeli storage startup Reduxio, with its shiny new CEO, is going to sell only via channel middlemen and has waved bye to another exec.…
Lees meerBreakup lays bare Chipzilla's failures Comment Micron's commercial discussions with Intel over 3D XPoint have concluded that the tech partnership will be dissolved once second-gen development is completed next year.…
Lees meerEspecially sysadmins who want to get off the fix-this-PC-now treadmill Google thinks the time has come for widespread adoption of PCs-as-a-service, so has offered up its own experience as an exemplar how to get it done.…
Lees meerAccess points gets WPA3, OFDMA, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee and more Ruckus Wireless has focussed on high-density outdoor environments with its entry into the 802.11ax Wi-Fi market.…
Lees meerBandwidth is better, down where it's wetter, take it from me! Google has announced its first private trans-Atlantic cable, with landings at Virginia Beach in the US and on the French Atlantic coast.…
Lees meerThey’ll run on the Snowball Edge data transfer device, which turns out to have Xeons inside In a major departure from its cloud-only stance, Amazon Web Services has announced it’s now possible to run EC2 instances with on-premises hardware – but onl…
Lees meerPositive outcome from activist investor involvement Just three months after activist investor Elliott Management invaded Commvault’s board-level considerations, the company has announced a radical simplification of its product strategy, shoehorning …
Lees meerConsortium possibly looking to flex Arm muscle, too Analysis The European Union's consortium to develop European microprocessors for future supercomputers has taken a few more steps towards its goal of delivering a locally made exascale chip by 202…
Lees meerChanges to add ‘more of the skills that you actually need to be successful’ Microsoft’s admitted that the certifications it created for Azure admins aren’t very good.…
Lees meerAlternative proposed to sending server names in cleartext Over the weekend, at the IETF Hackathon in Montreal, Canada, software engineers from Apple, Cloudflare, Fastly and Mozilla made some progress toward closing a privacy gap affecting network co…
Lees meerMalaysia plant faces axe in 2019 while biz powers up more flash drive assembly lines Western Digital will close its hard disk drive factory in Petaling Jaya, near the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, blaming lack of demand for the gear.…
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