Come, swim with the sharks Despite predictions of its demise, we've been happily using email in business since it first became widespread more than two decades ago. In many ways it's defined the way we compose, reply or send digital messages. A numb…
Lees meerVMware's event has become the conference of today's refresh cycle, not tomorrow's VMworld 2017 is nearly upon us. The primary event in Las Vegas taking place August 27-31 will be followed by VMware Europe from September 11-14 in Barcelona.…
Lees meerPlan is to put different functions into VMs to improve security, reduce bill of materials The Automotive Grade Linux has revealed it's going shopping for a hypervisor so that in-car computers can handle lots of different jobs.…
Lees meerIETF draft hopes to balance netizens' needs and corporate interests in future standards The Internet Engineering Task Force is being asked to formally adopt its informal philosophy that when it comes to new standards and protocols, end users' needs …
Lees meerVirtualises structured data for copies and cloud migration Analysis Database copy virtualiser Delphix has relaunched itself as a Dynamic Data Platform supplier of personal virtualised data environments, covering on-premises and public cloud environ…
Lees meerStar-crossed lovers secretly kicking each other to death Toshiba and Western Digital Corp negotiating makes for bizarre viewing. Billions of dollars are at stake, goodwill is laughably absent and one of the world's best flash production partnerships…
Lees meerOpt-in at your own risk Some Office 365 customers can't use Office, thanks to a login portal redesign.…
Lees meerThat's gotta sting, huh, HPE? Rubrik is a winner and HPE a loser in Gartner's latest beauty contest for data centre backup and recovery suppliers.…
Lees meer... and shrinking cells. So, how about a double string-stacked 64-layer 3D with cheese? Backgrounder The flash foundry folk took on 3D NAND because it provided an escape hatch from the NAND scaling trap of ever-decreasing cell sizes eventually to n…
Lees meerNow you can shave a few milliseconds from real-time apps and, er, batch processing Microsoft has spun up families of virtual machines packed with GPUs and beefy compute muscle for Azure UK customers.…
Lees meerOnly the smile remained Pretty much the last bits of Brocade have been sold, with the news that Mavenir Systems has slurped the networking company's virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) product range, intellectual property, and development lab.…
Lees meerNo reason given for Fowler's exit, no new exec named and no sign of continuous delivery Oracle has revealed that John Fowler, a Sun veteran who stayed to serve as Oracle's executive veep for systems, has left the company.…
Lees meerAcquisition marks move away from snail mail to broadband The Post Office has today completed its acquisition of ISP Fuel Broadband, adding 60,000 customers to its network.…
Lees meerYes, again. Sony - thank you for the tape you gave to me IBM has claimed its fifth-in-succession world tape density record with a 330TB raw capacity technology using Sony tape media tech.…
Lees meerOptane's great as memory, says Big Blue, but we can't do that yet IBM's made good on its promise to fire up a cloud packing Intel's Optane non-volatile memory “in the second half of 2017.” But Big Blue has fallen short of the “broad services suite” …
Lees meerv5.0 combines end-to-end data protection and big data storage Secondary storage consolidation player Cohesity has fulfilled a long-term promise and added archive-accessing workload support for Big Data analytics.…
Lees meerReplication tech integrated with data truck - yes an actual truck... WANdisco is integrating its Fusion product with Amazon's Snowball product, which moves massive amounts of data to its public cloud.…
Lees meerFirm now tackles smaller crises alongside disaster recovery Databarracks has started offering business continuity as a service (BCaaS) to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK.…
Lees meerIsolation-based security is getting important Sysadmin blog Do you remember Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and so forth? It's marketing terminology that was popular at the turn of the millennium and was as used and abused as "cloud" is today. Underneath all the …
Lees meerStallman says ZFS-on-Linux is impossible ... now Red Hat has dedupe without GNU legals Plans to bake data de-dupe and compression right into Linux, avoiding Red Hat has “the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation”, a data-shrinking…
Lees meerA viable option with a slew of new difficulties Some Toshiba creditors and shareholders are thinking the unthinkable, saying the company should seriously consider declaring itself bankrupt.…
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