Can Seagate escape coming HDD crash? Analysis The flash industry is worth more than twice the disk drive industry in terms of product ship revenues. Trends suggest a shrinking disk drive industry will squeeze the three drive manufacturers, leaving …
Lees meerCourt orders, stipulations and legal wrangling continues Western Digital, which has dropped a preliminary injunction request, and Toshiba have agreed that Tosh will give WD at least 14 days' advance notice before closing any sale or transfer of its …
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Lees meerPeculiar goings-on at auDA – we look under the covers and follow the money Analysis The chair of Australia's .au internet registry has resigned just days before a vote of no confidence in his leadership.…
Lees meerBring some Vaseline because you're gonna have a rawhide We've added a fair few thoroughbreds to this week's storage corral. Let's send in a wrangler and see what we've got.…
Lees meerDRaaS-tic times call for DRaaS-tic measures DRaaS supplier Axcient is merging with eFolder, and eFolder will be the combined business’s name.…
Lees meerHow's business on the other side of that $2.4bn void? Western Digital earned the revenues it said it would in its final fiscal 2017 quarter and gave an object lesson to Seagate in how to run a storage drive business.…
Lees meer70% of IT workers risk burnout: Don't let that be you. Pub. Now! It's that time of year again, dear readers: it's Sysadmin Day 2017. Today is that one day a year where employers and coworkers are expected to give a token acknowledgement of the trial…
Lees meerThat's biz file sync and share, but rebranded, natch Box has topped Gartner's magic quadrant as the analyst wizards cast their judgemental eyes over the content collaboration market.…
Lees meerUpdate 1 for v. 6.5 gets 90% of the way to heaven on the client VMware's popped out the first update to vSphere 6.5 and it's unusually interesting for this sort of minor release.…
Lees meerBehind the scenes of a battle to control a ccTLD Analysis A campaign to convince the Slovakian government to halt the sale of the .sk registry has nothing to do with money or politics, it is claimed.…
Lees meerAn HPC product line is for life, not just for Christmas The incredible shrinking Seagate business is selling its ClusterStor HPC array product line to Cray.…
Lees meerPacket snooping, certificate slip, and denial-of-service A slip in certificate handling is one of three bugs in Cisco's Autonomic Networking software.…
Lees meerYes, she's giving up her board seat. What did you think we meant? Meg Whitman has cut her last ties with HP Inc by stepping down as chairwoman of the company's board of directors.…
Lees meerUses FPGAs as drive controllers Fast NVMe over Fabric access to flash arrays needs direct access to the target drives, bypassing the X86 array controller, for the lowest latency. FPGAs are being developed to do this.…
Lees meerEnterprise kit to enable hyperscale and HPC Toshiba SSDs are being used to speed Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers.…
Lees meerNot before a push from Oz small biz techie QNAP has put out a critical NAS firmware fix notice after prolonged pushing by a small business tech IT pro guy in Australia.…
Lees meerCook, Pass, Mockridge The mere mention of Virgin Media's chief exec Tom Mockridge is enough to trigger the profanity filter in the firm's customer forum, El Reg has discovered.…
Lees meerNaughty text still online days after they were told to kill it Currys PC World has been ordered not to "exaggerate the capability" of its Knowhow Cloud backup after an aggrieved buyer found out the hard way that he had to restore each individual fil…
Lees meer'Technology shifts present demand variations for the storage industry' Seagate revenues fell 9.1 per cent in the three months to June 30, aka the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2017 year. It has also changed its CEO, and announced a headcount cut for …
Lees meerTakes small loss as it vows to deliver the goods later this fiscal year Commvault grew revenues by 9 per cent year-on-year in its fiscal first 2018 quarter, ended June 30, 2017.…
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