South America, Europe and Asia get pipes, DCs for Finland, Honkers and Hollywood Google has made more investments in submarine cables, sinking money into three due to come online in 2019.…
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Lees meerAzure Stack users invited under ‘IP Advantage’ umbrella Microsoft’s extended its “Azure IP Advantage” litigation protection shield to on-premises technology, by applying it to the Azure Stack hybrid-cloud-in-a-box systems.…
Lees meerA long time ago, in a company far, far away … Lenovo has patched an ancient vulnerability in switches that it acquired along with IBM's hardware businesses and which Big Blue itself acquired when it slurped parts of Nortel.…
Lees meerWatch out Intel, there's a new mini-ruler in town Analysis Super Micro has a supernaturally dense thin server with up to half a petabyte of flash using unannounced Samsung SSDs.…
Lees meerDebate rages on software, HCI slowdown though Analysis Several SAN suppliers have said their systems don't need patching against the Spectre and Meltdown bugs. We asked Dell and Pure Storage about the impact of fixes and whether their SANs and Dell…
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Lees meerCustomers couldn't see sync 'n' share files Business user file sync and sharer Box "sank" for some users late last week, who took to forums and social media complaining they could not see any of their files.…
Lees meerA view on quad-level cell flash error correction Analysis Error-checking code use is so much easier with 3D NAND than previous planar NAND that capacity-lifting quad-level cell technology becomes more feasible.…
Lees meerRouter vendors sling firnware to protect users from packet floods Wi-Fi router vendors have started issuing patches to defend their products against Google Chromecast devices.…
Lees meerKeeping geostationary sats chatting is simple. Low-Earth sats need more brains The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will next week discuss changes to satellite constellation regulation and fees, an effort needed to keep space useful for …
Lees meerYup: LKML.org and all its records of the planet's most-used OS were on one disk Spare a thought for Jasper Spaans, who hosts the Linux Kernel Mailing List archive from a single PC that lives in his home. And since things always happen this way the h…
Lees meerGovt CIOs failing to scrutinize techies' spending – watchdog American government agencies are spending billions of tax dollars on IT projects without getting the proper approval or oversight.…
Lees meerFake tech support mails used to phish for photo album logins A fourth man has admitted stealing Hollywood stars' private nude photos that eventually leaked online in what became known as Celebgate.…
Lees meerMake like a virtual machine, and migrate out of here, small percentage of staff told Virtualization kingpin VMware is this month laying off staff again.…
Lees meerIt's been a week, hasn't it, storage bods... After multiple, multiple quarters of doing a reverse IBM and growing revenues quarter after quarter after quarter, Veeam has been beaming about having grown revenues some more.…
Lees meerAre you getting that syncing feeling? DropBox has reportedly filed for an IPO, giving it fresh capital to fund a significant expansion.…
Lees meerGeneral assumption is yes. But five suppliers say no Analysis Is the performance sapping spectre of the X86 Spectre/Meltdown bug fixes hanging over SAN storage arrays? The general assumption is "yes" but five suppliers say not.…
Lees meerWe seem to be far less religious these days – what happened? 2018 has barely begun, and it already feels like we'll be nibbling techwar milquetoast all year long. If 2018 ends up being at all like 2017, that is.…
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