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Lees meerSuppliers, time to consider that SaaS and/or public cloud angle Research outfit 451 has run a survey that should get the pulses of on-premises IT suppliers beating faster.…
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Lees meerDevs toil away unifying product suites ahead of May rebrand launch Exclusive Citrix will try to reinvent itself with integrated cloudy products – and ditch some of its long-standing brands in favor of a naming scheme without the Xen badge it has nu…
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Lees meerCEO Patrick Dennis has his work cut out Comment There's a new president and CEO at Quantum, with the board hoping for a dose of Patrick Dennis magic to fire up the company and return it to growth and profits.…
Lees meerTechie records 7-8% toll on read IOPS The widely used ZFS file system software is slowed down in both read IOPS and throughput by fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown bugs.…
Lees meerSoftware-centric business model to reach disruptive industry price point Kaminario has announced it will leave the hardware business, and said Tech Data will build the certified appliance hardware needed to run its software.…
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Lees meerMultiplexing-over-UDP idea has hit the standards track, but is mostly ignored Google's contribution to Internet standards, the fast-than-TCP thanks to multiplexing QUIC protocol, has yet to extend much beyond the Chocolate Factory, according to a Ge…
Lees meerGood news – assuming software-defined storage is still viable after Meltdown/Spectre Microsoft’s released a new Windows Server Insider Preview Build – number 17074, to be precise – and the most notable new bits are in the Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)…
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