XtremIO, servers and HCI all thrown some extra grunt too This year's Dell Technologies World, held this week in Las Vegas, has laid boosted VMAX, XtremIO, and HCI offerings at the feet of the EMC faithful, punted two AI-focused, accelerated servers,…
Lees meerVirtzilla's virtual cloud networking push is on and Switchzilla is in its sights Who do you trust to take you into the promised land of software-defined networking: a hardware company disaggregating its products as fast as it dares, or a software co…
Lees meerYou know those Ts&Cs you used to offer on your website? Yes that one. Customers of 123-Reg hit by the hosting business's recent web deletion woes are being asked to step forward and make a claim against the outfit by a legal tech ambulance chaser st…
Lees meerAims for simpler, cheaper backup with fewer clicks Unitrends said it has targeted SMB admins with a VM Backup Essentials product that competes with Veeam's offerings.…
Lees meerThe cause of all this misery? Storage vendors poach key analysts CIOs may - or may not - be reeling from Gartner's admission that the Data Center Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant will be put on ice after a number of its big hitting analysts upped …
Lees meerAnd don’t forget it’s a cloud you can re-configure on a well-informed whim Thorough research into the nuances of Azure and AWS infrastructure-as-a-service will help you to avoid plenty of pain, according to Elias Khnaser, a research director at Gart…
Lees meernew doc mostly mentions carbon fibre, natural fibre … not so much FTTP The Australian Labor Party (ALP) may be on the way to dropping its policy commitment to a fibre-to-the-premises national broadband network (NBN).…
Lees meerIt won't pass but hey, why pass up a partisan punch-up? Democrats in the US Senate are pushing for a measure that would, if passed, kill off efforts by America's communications watchdog, the FCC, to scrap the nation's net neutrality protections.…
Lees meerMulticloud Platform builds virtual data centres Analysis Cloud startup RStor has dropped out of stealth and received $45m of A-round cash, led by Cisco Ventures, to develop its Multicloud Platform compute service.…
Lees meerBoth stats still pretty piss poor For the first time, the number of folk in the UK accessing speeds of 1Gbps is greater than those poor souls unable to get a meagre 10Mbps, according to an Ofcom report today.…
Lees meerEat it *shakes fist* Ah, the wide and deep and far-fetched wonders of storage – IBM researchers talking about chemically driven phase transformations, Backblaze looking at a Pelican, HPE setting up an Azure Stack and SQream going off to Thailand.…
Lees meerDisks down overall and SSDs slide Western Digital shipped a whole load of spinning bits into enterprise and hyperscale data centres in its third fiscal 2018 quarter, although overall disk units sold dropped 15.5 per cent on the year.…
Lees meerReleases two 32Gbit/s switches to boost AFA networking Cisco is releasing two auto-zoning 48 and 96-port Fibre Channel switches to speed up networking in data centres with all-flash arrays.…
Lees meerWhile keeping things safe Sleuthing has revealed more details about Google's project to allow its locked-down Chrome OS to run Linux applications – and well-informed speculation on its architecture.…
Lees meerIXPs mind their MANRS, plus as much multicloud as you can handle It's roundup time again, with ISOC working to protect the routing infrastructure, and announcements from Big Switch, F5, and Juniper.…
Lees meerDatabase replication SNAFU took down three out of five PostgreSQL servers In a classic example of the genre, GitLab yesterday dented its performance by accidentally triggering a database failover.…
Lees meerProcess node stalled again over manufacturing nightmares – but hey, money's still pouring in Meltdown? What meltdown? Intel's 50th birthday in July should be a hell of a bash as the chipmaker is flush with cash and reckons 2018 might well be a recor…
Lees meerIt's pretty much a cloud provider with a gift shop on the side Amazon.com on Thursday reported $51bn in sales for its Q1 2018, an increase of 43 per cent from $35.7bn in the year-ago quarter.…
Lees meerSatya's on several cloud nines – as in, billions of dollars Microsoft boss Satya Nadella march into the cloud seems to be paying off for the Windows 10 and Office 365 giant: on Thursday, the biz announced its sales for Q3 2018 jumped 16 per cent.…
Lees meerSoftware-defined storage meets single SKU-ery Open-source software house Red Hat has jumped into bed with Supermicro to produce a single system combining its storage software with the server maker's hardware.…
Lees meerSmall operator starts LTE building following spectrum splurge O2 is enlarging its 4G footprint across Blighty to an extra 1,000 sites, after splurging £205m gobbling up all the available LTE spectrum at Ofcom's recent auction.…
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