We've come a long way from mechanical drives My proper storage friends have a term: “spinning rust”. It’s used to refer to traditional hard disks, which store data by magnetising cells on ferromagnetic layers on rotating discs (“platters”). “Ferro” …
Lees meerKumoscale software presents fabric access NVMe flash drives virtually Surprise, surprise – flash chip and SSD manufacturer Toshiba has announced NVMe fabric-access flash array software. What's its game?…
Lees meerArray types, riders and runners It may be a surprise to some, but a tech consultancy has said that the existing all-flash array market is in no danger of losing market share to NMVe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) types – saying they're not competing in the s…
Lees meerAzure gets more support and Linux still gets Redmond love Microsoft has released more information about the new version of Windows Server, including a time-frame for release and a warning on prices.…
Lees meerTechnical gubbins still mostly under wraps Seagate has unveiled a 14TB helium-filled disk drive in the Exos line.…
Lees meerStorage mezze to start your week Roundup In this week's roundup of bite-sized storage snacks: Infinidat has added a second data protection partnership, NVMe-oF startup Pavilion Data has lost one of its two co-founders, a peer-to-peer storage startu…
Lees meerAnd disaster recovery too, by painting a target on AWS VMware has pondered baking backup and disaster recovery into its VSAN software-defined storage tool.…
Lees meerUbiqube's CTO Hervé Guesdon talks to El Reg Interview In February, network automation company Ubiqube released another network management framework into the open source world. The Register spoke to CTO Hervé Guesdon to understand the company's hope…
Lees meerThe ten-year odyssey from concept to product continues Last week, we noted the re-emergence of a sleeper technology, Information-Centric Networking (ICN). we've now learned that Cisco's been hard at work on it: Switchzilla has unveiled a trial imple…
Lees meerSamsung, Toshiba sulking in 30TB tiddler territory Nimbus Data has introduced its 100TB ExaDrive DC series SSD, the highest-capacity flash drive available.…
Lees meerThat's an Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform btw Xilinx is developing a monstrous FPGA that can be dynamically changed at the hardware level.…
Lees meer64-layer TLC 3D-NAND tech is caching on Toshiba is making a play for expanded data centre flash drive sales with a trio of 64-layer 3D NAND products.…
Lees meerIntel tosses in code because data centre hypervisors are too bloated for embedded use The Linux Foundation has announced a new hypervizor for use in embedded and internet of things scenarios.…
Lees meerBiz left with fewer reps after limit on sales, marketing spend Rimini Street, the third-party support thorn in Oracle's side, has reported increased revenue and operating profit in 2017 – but complained unspecified covenants have prevented it from i…
Lees meerSlurps HyperFile chum for file, cloud storage gateway chops Object storage supplier Cloudian is buying Italian firm Infinity Storage to add file access and cloud storage gateway functionality to its services.…
Lees meerOh, and billionaire owner Li Ka-shing retires Mobile operator Three UK reported a fall in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA)* of 2 per cent to £437m for its full-year results – largely due to an IT and network up…
Lees meerParallel access filesystem for disks gets new life Case study IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) started out as a parallel access filesystem for disk-based arrays – so some may have expected it to fall over and die in the face of lightning fast access NVMe …
Lees meerMeet our new roundup of networking news, this week feat. Cisco, Juniper and more This week's network-news-in-five minutes has Palo Alto Networks acquiring a startup, a slew of Cisco switches, Juniper's fabric fetish, network monitoring and more.…
Lees meer$142 billion in kit shipped last year, half from Dell, Cisco and HPE Analyst firm Canalys has claimed 2017 saw record shipments of data centre infrastructure.…
Lees meerFace it, you're not going to adopt ChromeOS without integrating stuff you already run Google’s beefed up Chrome Enterprise, its US$50-a-year management service for Chrome OS devices.…
Lees meerTop exec talks to El Reg on shifting 130,000 staff Interview Collaboration rather than cost is the reason Airbus has given Microsoft’s old-world Office app bundle the heave ho and is migrating 130,000 staff – the entire workforce – to Google’s G Su…
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