Dell EMC, Nutanix rule the roost Why go for plain old converged systems when you can hyper the hell out of your infrastructure? That seems to be the question that more and more customers are asking.…
Lees meerArray maker survived a whole year after IPO Tintri has laid off 80 per cent of its staff, including its top sales bod, leaving just 40 to 50 staff behind, however it still expects to run out of cash on June 30.…
Lees meerCheaper than Amazon's Elastic File System, but that's hardly a stretch Google has opened a beta programme offering managed file storage for apps running in its cloud platform.…
Lees meerAnd now all four big clouds have a rugged FedExNet data upload option IBM and Google have each announced a competitor for Amazon Web Services’s “Snowball”.…
Lees meerAnd more are being debated – all in the name of standardising language The world’s just been given two new definitions of Edge Computing, in the service of making it easier to talk about the topic. But another debate is already considering more defi…
Lees meerPlus: Brit lawmakers debate 'three streams and you're out' rule for terrorist material A Labour MP is pushing the UK government to introduce strict time limits for tech giants to take down illegal content as part of draft counter-terror legislation.…
Lees meerThat's the fifth head honcho in six months for tape survivor Sickly scale-out storage biz Quantum has hired Jamie Lerner as CEO and president, replacing interim head and new CFO Michael Dodson, who in May replaced Patrick Dennis, who replaced Adalio…
Lees meerAnyone with URL could see lists of case study projects Rubrik's internal security controls must have taken an early summer holiday because a Trello page that listed customer case studies and their status has been open for the great unwashed to acces…
Lees meerSilicon Valley hubris project crashes down to Earth Facebook has canned its plans to bring high-speed internet via a solar-powered drone beaming lasers to the ground, according to an announcement on Tuesday.…
Lees meerVMware expands SaaS portfolio with non-confusing third container offering on AWS VMware’s announced a new container play called “VMware Kubernetes Engine” (VKE) that will be offered as SaaS on AWS and soon on Azure too.…
Lees meerRunning Amazon Linux 2, which just scored long-term support Amazon Web Services has added a Linux option to its “WorkSpaces” desktop-as-a-service and pitched the offering as a fine way to develop apps for its own EC2 infrastructure-as-a-service.…
Lees meerICANN faces fraud charges in African domain dispute The long-running saga over ownership of the .Africa internet extension will go to a jury trial… in California.…
Lees meerIT Support Professional Certificate coming to some schools later this year Google is bringing its IT Support Professional Certificate program to more than two dozen US community colleges this fall in an effort to prime the sysadmin supply pump.…
Lees meerWe already do bigger, faster arrays – now we're scaling up DDN is upping array capacities and access speeds with one eye on its traditional HPC customer base and the other on businesses that are testing or deploying deep learning architectures.…
Lees meer'Largest single deal' for storage upstart, says analyst Nutanix has scored a $45m contract, via an unnamed channel middleman, to supply hyperconverged kit to US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)*.…
Lees meerSource shack says it's chasing reliability and Kubernetes tech From the department of "yeah, right" comes news that GitLab is shifting its platform from Azure to Google in order to take advantage of the ad giant's Kubernetes technology.…
Lees meerAnd Backup Exec and Business Critical Services headcount to fall Exclusive Veritas's support services unit, overseen by executive veep Lenny Alugas's Customer Success organization, will reduce its headcount and redeploy workers, company insiders ha…
Lees meerSo much more than a network map, so much more still to do CAIDA, the University California, San Diego-based internet infrastructure research operation, has taken a look at what the next few years might hold foe the information superhighway – and is …
Lees meerUMC accused of being an agent for Chinese DRAM startup Micron is alleging UMC of Taiwan blatantly stole its intellectual property for delivery to a Chinese DRAM foundry startup, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.…
Lees meerThird-party services can crash 73% of online properties Internet infrastructure may be fairly resilient thanks to its distributed nature, but the web we've built on top of it appears to be rather fragile.…
Lees meerIBM's Power9, Nvidia 122.3 HPL petaflops monster overwhelms competitors At the apex of the newly revised list of the Top500 fastest publicly known supercomputers is IBM’s aptly named Summit.…
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