Double up or quit, double stake or split – the storage roundup If we've played our cards right, you'll be up to date on the storage goings-on of the week. Otherwise you'll be lost in the shuffle. Here's a hand full of aces, kings and queens – and do…
Lees meerChipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts HPC storage supplier DDN has bought Intel's Lustre file system business, including its dev teams and support contracts.…
Lees meerBig Red wants ‘very viable server/cloud platform for Arm’ so adds MySQL, Docker, Java efforts under way too Oracle’s announced that the version of its GNU/Linux for Arm processors is now generally available and signalled its intentions to help “buil…
Lees meerHad the board just had enough of Krzanich? Comment The sudden and shocking resignation of Intel CEO Brian Krzanick this week over a long-ago affair with a subordinate – banned under company rules – has led to much mirth among Register readers.…
Lees meerMicrosoft data center goes sideways with cooling issue Amid forecasts of heat and fears of water shortage in Ireland on Monday, Microsoft was about to confront a drought of a different kind: an Azure service outage.…
Lees meerLetter to Bezos: 'We refuse to contribute to tools that violate human rights' Amazon workers have reportedly called on their bosses to stop selling facial recognition kit to cops and spies, and slammed its links to data analytics biz Palantir.…
Lees meerWhich is just what you’d do if you planned to compete with Microsoft, perhaps? Earlier this week we reported that Amazon Web Services appears to be planning the launch of a new end-user computing service that we speculated could be a competitor for …
Lees meerSponsors of US state's proposed law fume as key committee chair guts legislation The lobbying might of Big Cable was on show again this week when a critical net neutrality bill in the California legislature was gutted to remove its most important fe…
Lees meerBroken web links flummox big iron clients of Big Blue Earlier this month, IBM's attempt to redesign its website broke links to product documentation – and all hell broke loose.…
Lees meerPrototyping wrapped up with delivery around 2021 Field trials of Fujitsu's prototype exascale post-K supercomputer CPU have begun.…
Lees meer8TB drive can give 2U diskless servers 576TB capacity Samsung's 8TB next-generation small form factor (NGSFF) NF1 flash card is to be standardised by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association in October.…
Lees meerTop chip boss broke rules by having 'consensual relationship' with coworker, probe finds Intel chief exec Brian Krzanich has quit after his “consensual relationship” with an employee came to light.…
Lees meerWon't say who but we'll point with an elbow. *Cough* Intel *Cough* Micron rode strong demand for DRAM and flash to record revenues and profits for its third fiscal 2018 quarter (PDF), but XPoint chip sales to Intel collapsed.…
Lees meerRange extension encroaches on Dell's Isilon territory Scale-out clustered filer Qumulo has introduced a nearline archive product, the K-144T.…
Lees meerVMworld content catalogues are live and we’ve trawled ‘em VMware’s published the content catalogues for its VMworld gabfests in Las Vegas (August) and Barcelona (November) and as usual has leaked a few insights into what it’s working on.…
Lees meerThe June collection has some lovely fabric patches Get your ticket to the Cisco catwalk, sysadmins, and watch Switchzilla strut 24 FXOS and NX-OS software security advisories.…
Lees meerEight platters serving up 1.5TB each for data-belching surveillance cameras Video surveillance is an insatiable monster, constantly needing more digital storage – and Western Digital is now feeding it 12TB drives.…
Lees meerEthics! Principles! But no talk of scrapping federal contract either Microsoft's continued frantic efforts to distance itself from a clumsily worded blog post continued today with the publishing of an email from CEO Satya Nadella.…
Lees meerStorage goes immutable as Redmond plays catch-up Microsoft emitted a preview of immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs yesterday in an effort to win the hearts and minds of industries weighed down by regulation.…
Lees meerFaster interface aims to replace 6Gbit/s dead end in servers Toshiba has sent in a SAS SSD hit team to assault SATA SSDs and their slower interface in the shape of its RM5 vSAS drive.…
Lees meerIncumbent telco fined £77k for sending 5 million of the things Brit telco BT has been ordered to pay £77,000 for sending almost 5 million nuisance emails – equivalent to about 1.5p a mail.…
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