X-IO maths man claims it can minimise mill hash work with buckets of blooms Analysis A new and deduping X-IO ISE 900 all-flash array has puzzling puny processors yet kicks out good performance when deduping.…
Lees meerEdgy move: Acting to preserve on-premises IT Analysis Dell is going full tilt into the Internet of Things market, setting up a new division and promising to invest $1bn in IoT R&D over three years to build the business.…
Lees meerMemory... lights the access speed of RAM. (Or does it?) Debate An argument about how to solve the same technical problem has sprung up between two rival startups with plenty of reason to say the other's tech is not up to scratch. But they raise som…
Lees meerHow can the other players up their game on and off-premises? Analysis Run the Azure Stack on-premises and you can move data and apps to the Azure public cloud with ease. It's the same software environment. Run the Oracle Cloud at Customer on-premis…
Lees meerSW-defined storage maker gets extra cash to start 2017 Has software-defined storage supplier Nexenta's growth stalled? Far from it, its CEO and chairman insisted. It's booming and additional significant funding is coming, apparently.…
Lees meerAWS config blunder spills secrets all over the internet Yet another organization has been caught exposing sensitive data to the public internet: this time it is Accenture – consultants to the great and the good – with a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket l…
Lees meerI see you shiver with antici... pation Samsung has confirmed its 4bit/cell flash is incoming – that's a QLC (quad-level cell) NAND chip.…
Lees meerRansomBlock tech stops unauthorised access and changes to data The RDX is a neat niche removable disk storage product that can now tell ransomware to get lost.…
Lees meerMimecast promises fast mail search and (of course) GDPR-friendly tools Email archiver Mimecast has promised a subscription drug to cut through GDPR pain.…
Lees meerKubernetes grunt-powered community storage software Multi-app enterprise storage startup CloudByte has announced v0.4 of OpenEBS, hyperconverged block storage for stateful applications on the Kubernetes platform.…
Lees meerWhich means higher capacity, according to L2 Drive Stealthy storage startup L2 Drive's technology could enable higher-capacity disk drives.…
Lees meerFivemiletown in Ulster chugs along at a stately 1.2Mbps Superfast internet speeds are within reach of nearly 94 per cent of the country, according to figures compiled by Thinkbroadband.…
Lees meerBought in 2013, disposed of in 2017 due to misalignment with 'long-term focus' Four years after acquiring Composite Software and rebranding it as Cisco Data Virtualization, Switchzilla will sell the unit to Tibco.…
Lees meerHey, but aren't you forgetting *cough* Azure? *cough* Amazon boasts that it is the "preferred" cloud provider for General Electric, but, in this multi-cloud world, that's not quite the case.…
Lees meerStartup lugs $103m war chest on mission to switch up the industry Analysis Newcomer Vexata has dropped out of stealth with a $103mn funding war chest and aims to blow the fusty old storage array business to smithereens with its 7 million IOPS Activ…
Lees meerIt's not you, it's m- ... No, wait, it's totally you Ofcom has proposed forcing providers to disclose more accurate speed information at the point of sale and hand consumers the power to walk away if speeds fall below a guaranteed level, in a crackd…
Lees meer3 IT giants - just 1 on-prem/hybrid stack partner opening... Analysis An IT trio of giants will soon dominate the market - and there appears to be one on-premises/hybrid stack partner opening, Nutanix told us.…
Lees meerBarraCuda Pro and IronWolves get a capacity jump Seagate has fired out three 12TB drives, punting one at the desktop, two at the NAS market, and clobbering WDC on capacity in both areas.…
Lees meerAims to have Apache Spark running in time it takes to make cuppa First apps on Windows, then Linuxes in Hyper-V and on Azure, now big data via Spark. In another effort to win over the open source crowd, Microsoft has made the speedy big data engine …
Lees meerMaturity, complexity and efficiency Picture the scene. You’ve run your legacy infrastructure into the ground. You bought it six or seven years ago with a view to depreciating the hardware over four years, or perhaps even three, so it’s done its time…
Lees meerBig T lags in capacity stakes but could catch up soon Analysis Toshiba lags behind WDC and Seagate in high-capacity 3.5-inch drives, having just reached 10TB. The other two are waving from 12TB and WDC has recently hit 14TB. How can Tosh catch up?…
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