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Lees meerLook out for that orange alert After watching customer after customer screw up their AWS S3 security and accidentally make highly sensitive files publicly accessible on the internet, Amazon has responded.…
Lees meerAll your data protection are belong to us +Comment Comtrade's HYCU product snuggled up to Nutanix as its most friendly data protection platform. The latest release sidles even closer with a great big Nutanix bearhug.…
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Lees meerQualcomm punts on NVMe-over-fabrics server SAN startup Under acquisitive siege by Broadcom, Qualcom has invested millions in NVMe-over-fabrics array startup Excelero.…
Lees meerDeployed with Skylake-powered instances unleashed today, coming soon to more instances AWS has revealed its created a new version of the Xen hypervisor to make a new type of EC2 instance go faster.…
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