Amazon’s own auto-scaler now available for third-party apps AWS has announced that “Application Auto Scaling can be used to add scaling to any services that you build on AWS”, and Netflix has revealed the new feature started life as a custom job for…
Lees meerWe answer your questions in five minutes Watercooler Hey El Reg, over the past few days I've seen news that Chinese chip biz Hygon is producing server-grade processors virtually identical to AMD Epyc processors. I'm kinda getting deja vu – you, to…
Lees meerResearcher says routes are leaking because ISP giants aren't filtering route info The Internet's fundamental routing infrastructure, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), is so fragile that errors in one to four per cent of ISP route filters can propag…
Lees meer9100 and 9150 arrays slide out of the oven, added to line up IBM today added new models to its FlashSystem line to more than double the family's maximum capacity, push performance higher with Intel Skylake processors, and strengthen its NVMe-over-fa…
Lees meerBut Intel’s HAXM is still ‘Droid’s preferred hypervisor Google’s given its Android Emulator a tickle to add support for AMD processors and Microsoft’s Hyper-V.…
Lees meerSwiss scientists should expect to find a desire for cheese HPE has sold an SGI 8600 supercomputer system to a Lausanne-based research institute for the Blue Brain Project’s modelling of a mouse brain’s thalamus and neocortex.…
Lees meerWhither the Centriq now? Qualcomm's veep of data centre technologies, Dileep Bhandarkar, has left the company, according to reports.…
Lees meerReg cries out into the voicemail void: Is anybody home? Tintri has shut down across EMEA according to claims from company insiders, customers have been left with no discernible support function and some staff told us they were laid off without any p…
Lees meerHot dog! That's a lot of post 4-July week storage You'd be forgiven for feeling a bit like a runner-up at the annual Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest this morning; there was not that much storage tech news to digest last week. However, there's also a…
Lees meerWhy your connection is as slow as the service itself Wi-Fi has been creeping its way on to UK trains over the last few years as the government seeks to deal with the issue of mobile dead-zones by getting the train companies to provide free connectiv…
Lees meerGood old-fashioned hardware-defined networking growing like topsy Down Under The router market is stagnating worldwide, but nobody's told Australian buyers.…
Lees meerCool, but streaming doesn't mean screaming Analysis You can't store files in Amazon's public cloud, access them on-premises, and expect local disk access performance.…
Lees meerFinancial watchdogs threaten more regulation to focus minds on business services, comms Banks were today told to assume there will be problems with systems and to work on their backup plans following a series of failures caused by increasing relianc…
Lees meerWizards of Oz nudge tech past proof-of-concept Australian researchers have managed to store information on light-emitting nanocrystals, and they reckon a cubic-centimetre chunk of the stuff could hold a petabyte of data.…
Lees meerSlow virtual server provisioning incident mistakenly given Red Alert status IBM’s cloud is having a bad day.…
Lees meerBig Cable lobbyists abandoned after grassroots campaign California lawmakers promised to introduce the "strongest net neutrality protections in the nation" on Thursday morning, just weeks after a key piece of the legislation was gutted at the commit…
Lees meer60% faster IOPS Analysis NetApp has beaten IBM's biggest, baddest all-flash storage box in an industry-standard benchmark.…
Lees meerPartial beer for a partial outage? Brit hosting provider UK2.net is no longer on speaking terms with TalkTalk – at least as far as customers of the telco are concerned.…
Lees meerMEPs call for urgent fix The Privacy Shield deal governing transatlantic data flows should be suspended if the US doesn't comply by 1 September, the European Parliament has said.…
Lees meerNew optical standards give cable operators lots of headroom as they fibre up Boffins at CableLabs, the cable TV network operators' pet research house, have turned out two fresh photonic standards: the P2P Coherent Optics Architecture Specification; …
Lees meerOutsourcing to fluffy white stuff carries 'reputation' risks – report An EU financial regulator has warned that banks moving to the cloud are at risk of vendor lock-in as well as transferring IT jobs to "subcontractors from high-risk areas".…
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