Best buds working together on a bunch of enhancements Dell EMC is refreshing its hyperconverged and hybrid cloud offerings to use the latest VMware and Dell server technologies…
Lees meerGobbles consumer file-hosting startup for undisclosed amount Western Digital Corporation has bought Upthere, a consumer data storage startup with its own public cloud.…
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Lees meerCloud operator 'reviewing' outage as Surf Life Saving Australia says it still doesn't have a proper portal Fujitsu's Australian limb is saying nothing of substance about the outage that last week saw users advised of likely data loss.…
Lees meerBureaucracy embraces removing communications for millions of people The Indian government has responded to fierce criticism of its increasing use of internet shutdowns by codifying rules for when the extreme measure is allowed.…
Lees meerCarriers say they're holding up – more flooding is likely With Houston in the midst of severe flooding from Hurricane Harvey, telcos say they are so far maintaining service and will help with emergency efforts by waiving service costs.…
Lees meerBeing a better multi-cloud wrangler is VMware's Azure Stack defence VMWORLD 2017 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger last week introduced the company's second quarter results b saying the company has embarked on a “multi-year journey from a compute virtualiza…
Lees meerPart two of our look into storage world's transition from 2D Analysis Part one of my attempt to understand the transition from 2D to 3D NAND started out by trying to understand how 2D NAND is made, so that its development towards 3D NAND can be und…
Lees meerProject maintainer Paolo Bonzini details open source hypervisor's future directions The Kernel-based Virtual Machine is making waves. Better known as “KVM”, the open source hypervisor runs Google's cloud , is widely used by OpenStack users while Nut…
Lees meerAnother big BGP blunder Last Friday, someone in Google fat-thumbed a border gateway protocol (GGP) advertisement and sent Japanese Internet traffic into a black hole.…
Lees meerPeter Dinklage takes Switchzilla's coin Tech firms hiring famous folks to push their products are depressingly common – who can forget Lady Gaga promoting cables for Monster at CES? Now Cisco is going to hook onto the popularity of Game of Thrones t…
Lees meerStaff say they’re in the (Big) Red after sales teams push customers into the fluffy stuff Boardroom high-fives at Oracle over bumper cloud sales haven’t spread across the entire business, with staff lower down the food chain telling The Register tha…
Lees meerScott Dietzen chairman now, Charles Giancarlo takes reins As Pure Storage boasted strong second-quarter sales yesterday, the company also revealed that CEO Scott Dietzen would be stepping down to become chairman of the board.…
Lees meerPart 1: Start with the flat 2D planar stuff Backgrounder The world of flash is moving to 3D NAND, chips with 36, 48, 72 or 64 layers of flash cells, and 96-layer chips being prototyped. How has it developed from 2D NAND?…
Lees meerAlso hints at crypto and update tech to make it handy for updating Linux on IoT devices SUSE has decided to let the world it has no plans to step away from the btrfs filesystem and plans to make it even better.…
Lees meerLet’s go surfing the waves of AFA automation and orchestration Research Done properly, All-Flash Arrays are a lot more than just extra-fast storage: Reg readers told us in a recent survey that they can also be that rare thing, a transformational te…
Lees meerShirts will be lost! Interview Some commentators think saying SSDs will kill off disk drives is wrong. Here is an exchange El Reg had with a storage media industry insider who wished to remain anonymous…
Lees meerPlaying the disaggregation game Analysis Dell EMC is supplying network switches to a proof-of-concept research project at BT Labs in Adastral Park, Suffolk.…
Lees meerSee, it's not just Grant Shapps who gets it mixed up Four in five Britons has experienced broadband molasses in the past year and most of us are also "bamboozled" by the terms that telcos use to peddle their wares at us, according to a survey.…
Lees meerSomeone sling this at scientists, please, instead of just mining magic internet money The Register doesn't really cover motherboards, but when one comes along with 19 PCIe slots – yup, nineteen, ten plus nine – so it can run 19 GPUs, it's hard not t…
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