The bonbon of backup, cola bottle of containers, foam teeth of flash Storage roundup You're getting plenty of hardware sugar (NVMe) and remote software spice (the public cloud), with lots of tasty goodies in between in this week's storage roundup.…
Lees meerBack up now, but packet loss ongoing Problems at Linode's data centre in Germany have led to connectivity issues with its cloud services over the weekend, and we understand the vendor is currently trying to solve a packet loss problem.…
Lees meerBloke accused of tipping off family to Fusion-io deal A SanDisk employee in America has been charged with insider trading in the company's acquisition of Fusion-io.…
Lees meerGood Q2 news for Cisco, NetApp and a few others. Yep, just them IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker shows a flight to the top vendors, away from HPE, Hitachi and the Others' category, with the hyperconverged sector being the o…
Lees meerNetwork failure forces punters' websites offline The domain name server "OpenSRS" crashed and burned during the dead of night following a network failure, taking down scores of customers' portals with it. Normal service has yet to resume.…
Lees meerAnd is this the beginning of the end for System Center? Ignite What’s new for Azure at Microsoft Ignite? The key point is not so much the list of new features, but the direction the company is taking with its cloud platform, which is to make it per…
Lees meerNot just for Inception fans: this is how you cloudify tricky-to-migrate workloads In late August 2017 THe Reg's virtualization desk learned that Google was working hard to make KVM better at nested virtualization. And now we know why, as the adverti…
Lees meerAttempt to lure more diverse workers backfires spectacularly In its effort to attract a more diverse workforce, Amazon is sending mixed messages.…
Lees meerOn-premises to Google Cloud platform 2-way interchange speedway Scale Computing has replicated its HC3 hyper-converged platform in Google's cloud and provided app and data interchange between the on-premises and public cloud worlds in its very own d…
Lees meerCTO: Engineers spend half their time on this, customers need educating on the ingredient list Cloudera has become the latest company to offer up a set of tools to unify data management, with its SDX framework, which it describes as the platform's "s…
Lees meerLooks like WDC is scuppered apart from legal blocks +Comment Big flash chip buyer Apple and Korean flash fabber SK Hynix have agreed terms and committed to their Bain-led consortium's buy of Toshiba's flash chip interests.…
Lees meerFighting the instinct vs analytics wars Sponsored In business, should you trust your gut, or go by the numbers? Business mythology and Hollywood favour the gut. Both cite stories about maverick geniuses that ignored everyone’s advice and won big.…
Lees meerPreconfigured single SKU box to skewer ROBO sales Skynet's T-1000 is an advanced cyborg assassin prototype with a liquid molecular brain inside a mimetic poly-alloy body. Tintri's T1000 is a storage array for small and medium-sized businesses. Ho hu…
Lees meerFirm won't explain network failure A network failure affecting the Amadeus online booking platform is continuing to delay check-ins for passengers around the world, although the firm won't disclose the cause.…
Lees meerNo, we're not switching focus to Nimble, spokesman says Hewlett Packard Enterprise is to shutter its 3PAR engineering office in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but the firm emphasised the move does not mean it is shifting focus from 3PAR to Nimble storag…
Lees meerBut elsewhere experiences contract delays Broadband pusher CityFibre has posted a sales increase of 36 per cent for its half-year results, but has also reported delays to a number of its public sector contracts.…
Lees meerAzure Stack and Hyper-V support ignition for MS Orlando's Microsoft Ignite conference saw Dell EMC and Veeam worshipping at the cloudy on-premises Azure Stack shrine with protection support offerings and more.…
Lees meer1550 nanometres is the sweetest sweet spot One of the hurdles facing photon-based quantum systems using entangled photons is that it's hard to create them at the 1550 nm wavelengths used in telecommunications systems.…
Lees meerTotal Inability To Support Unusual Projects Exclusive A crippling data center power failure knackered SourceForge's equipment yesterday and earlier today, knocking the site offline.…
Lees meerBridging the chasm Research There are many reasons why someone might not be using an All-Flash Array. It might be that you can’t get the budget, say, or that you think it has been over-hyped. Maybe you are sceptical about whether your application s…
Lees meerMehrotra hints beyond 64-layer tech could land next year Massive revenues from DRAM and flash have made Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra a happy chief. Third-quarter revenues were good but they have just been eclipsed.…
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