President and COO leaves gaping exec responsibility hole Object storage supplier Scality has lost its president and COO, Erwan Menard.…
Lees meerLet's bring them down from the hill and see what we have El Reg's storage sheepdog has been out on the hill and gathered a flocklet of storage news.…
Lees meer'ARTEMIS' spots bad deliberately rotten routes and sets things to rights The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is one of the Internet's basic pieces of plumbing technologies, but it's also so old it was designed before the security needs of a multi-bill…
Lees meerThis is how Azure just hit 30Gbps of throughput – and how clouds are being built now Microsoft’s switched on new network interface cards packing field-programmable gate arrays and announced that doing so has let it hit 30Gbps of throughput for serve…
Lees meerNewly re-merged open router project goes live The OpenWRT and LEDE open router projects have merged and promised a major release in the coming months.…
Lees meerClass-actions start piling up after El Reg blows lid on CPU security cockup Just days after The Register revealed a serious security hole in its CPU designs, Intel is the target of three different class-action lawsuits in America.…
Lees meerTaking a look at the firm's New Year's hardware spring-cleaning Analysis Nutanix wants be seen as a sexy software business and not a hardware appliance biz stuck with crap commodity hardware margins. So it is changing its business mode to position …
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Lees meerSysadmins notice performance drop amid security fix rollout. Not everyone hit. YMMV etc Amazon AWS customers have complained of noticeable slowdowns on their cloud server instances – following the deployment of a security patch to counter the Intel …
Lees meerNo ETA yet for West Europe machines Microsoft Azure customers are reporting problems with their virtual machines, which are struggling to come back online after being updated with the Meltdown processor patch.…
Lees meerAll-time high for industry The temperature is rising in the hot aisle for data centre businesses – $20bn was spent on mergers and acquisitions last year.…
Lees meerFull platter access parallelism performance-doubling... we ask around Analysis As we've previously written about here, Seagate has the technology to split a disk drives read-write heads into two independent sets, an upper and lower half, which incr…
Lees meerFancy go-faster filer tech destined for Azure Avere Systems and its go-faster filer frontend FXT tech is to be gobbled by Microsoft.…
Lees meerThree letters: O E M Analysis When IDC published its third 2017 quarter converged and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) numbers, Dell was in the lead.…
Lees meerHennessy quits after just four months Cohesity's chief financial officer Seamus Hennessy has resigned after less than four months in post, judging from his LinkedIn profile.…
Lees meerUsers can't pay bills or report phones lost in NYE revelry Mobile network EE has had a poor start to 2018 – their customer service data centre has been down since yesterday.…
Lees meerSniff... sniff. They can't be far. These animals just ate 1.96 EB! Comment Tech market researcher IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker has found that worldwide converged systems market revenue increased 10.8 per cent year over year t…
Lees meerLast 2017 roundup: Death Star file protection crap, Samsung DRAM miracles and more Here's a final collection of storage news before Christmas 2017. Imagine you are having Christmas dinner and you get a bunch of crackers. Pull them and, instead of fo…
Lees meerWhat's with the sudden boom in latency serial killers? Analysis Storage startup WekaIO has joined a growing crowd of techies making large performance gains and latency lowering file system tech moves.…
Lees meerNVMe speed meets IoT edge need – analyst Analysis Enterprise flash drive use will surge over the next four years due to price falls, capacity rises, NVMe speed and Internet of Things (IoT) edginess, analysts have agreed.…
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