This week among the lucky parents, GridGain, Memblaze and Western Digital. Well done Storage companies big and small are always announcing something or other big and small, whether that's sick new tech, astonishing customer numbers or an incremental…
Lees meerIf you can't get to a POP yourself, this plan's for you Google has formally launched its Partner Interconnect product, priced for customers too small to afford 10 Gbps interconnect links.…
Lees meerManagement faces the ghoulish and grisly truth Storage array supplier Tintri really is circling the drain as it issues preliminary first fiscal 2019 quarter results and issues dire warnings, really dire warnings, about its prospects.…
Lees meerWe smell a cloudy challenge to Citrix and VMware – and maybe Microsoft and Google AWS looks to be up to something in the end-user computing market.…
Lees meerVersion 4.18 rc1 also swats Spectre, cuddles Chromebooks Linux has literally lost its Lustre – the filesystem favoured by HPC types has vanished in the first release candidate of version 4.18 of the Linux kernel.…
Lees meerYikes! And the fix is to delete and rebuild the VM. Google gave some of its cloud customers a rotten weekend by breaking a bunch of virtual machines.…
Lees meerJuniper's new routers emerge, Google QUIC-ens gets load balancing for HTTPS and more Roundup Be nimble, be QUIC: Google's added secured load balancing support to its QUIC protocol.…
Lees meerQuobyte, Pure Storage and Caringo all helping out Quobyte, FlashBlade and Caringo will all flower at JASMIN, the UK's environmental science supercomputer site, it has emerged.…
Lees meerWho needs DAS with RDMA? Analysis NVMe-over Fabrics arrays are performing as fast as servers fitted with the same storage media – Optane or Z-SSD drives for example. Because NVMe-oF uses RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) then the network latency i…
Lees meerHint: health outspends finance outfits two to one, but all vertical IT is heading cloudy. Fast Healthcare providers are the top users of public clouds, says analyst firm IDC.…
Lees meerWants to move into the application business Cisco has opened up its network automation and analytics software, DNA Center, to all-comers.…
Lees meerA bigger splash from big freaking box of a server, with up to 32 CPUs in a rack Huawei has unveiled a more powerful version of its top-end KunLun server at CeBIT, amongst a raft of other big iron-ish hardware and software announcements.…
Lees meerWhat, you didn't do this already? The Bank of England is expecting financial institutions to be a bit less rubbish when IT goes wrong, it said today.…
Lees meerBig Blue's rig with Nvidia grunt looks to be first truly exascale system Comment IBM's 200 petaFLOPS (200,000 trillion calculations per second) Summit supercomputer was unveiled at Oak Ridge National Laboratory last Friday and, scaled up, has prove…
Lees meerCord-cutters swung the court Analysis Across political divides in the United States there's a common appetite for reining in the country's plutocratic corporate overlords. The country that reveres Mom 'n' Pop businesses is wary when giant businesse…
Lees meerSoftware-defined networks are getting serious, at scale Network function virtualization is moderately obscure stuff, seeing as it is mostly intended for the plumbing of carrier networks. But VMware’s new play in the field with what it reckons a prop…
Lees meerDefence outfit Thales gets Azure Stack to drop and give it twenty for military use Microsoft’s Azure Stack cloud-in-a-box has been adapted for in-field use by the world’s militaries.…
Lees meerPew! Pew! The whole world is connected, and the Internet is super-dangerous Eighteen months after acquiring Internet infrastructure outfit Dyn, Oracle has unveiled some of the smarts it bought in the form of an "Internet Intelligence Map".…
Lees meerAdd some Nvidia support, and everyone else is on catch-up Cisco and Lenovo have shoved Intel's Optane caching drives in their hyperconverged systems, and Switchzilla has also added Nvidia GPU support to grant AI/ML apps hyperconverged system access.…
Lees meerEuropean IT shifts its focus Promo Cloud CRM giant Salesforce recently surveyed 1,005 IT leaders in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK to examine how IT is evolving to meet the needs of an ever more connected customer base. The re…
Lees meerThat data-management-for-everything software segment's getting crowded As enterprises increasingly adopt hybrid multi-cloud IT strategies, they tend to find themselves mired in a multi-silo data management nightmare. Rubrik has stepped up to claim i…
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