Inception fans can have fun with VMs-inside-VMs inside a cloud, all on Windows Server 2016 Microsoft’s added a new instance type to Azure and the ability to run nested virtualization.…
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Lees meerAll to do with lowering latency, not Brexit. Got that? Google today cut the ribbon on a bunch of cloud services for UK customers that will be served up by racks rented from a data centre provider in Blighty's capital.…
Lees meerCoolant leak crashed VNX array at web host's Paris data centre An external water-cooling leak crashed a Dell EMC VNX array at an OVH data centre in Paris and put more than 50,000 websites out of action for 24 hours.…
Lees meer'We're watching you,' warns regulator Regulator Ofcom has created a dedicated Openreach Monitoring Unit, in a move reminiscent of the naughty kid at school being forced to sit next to the teacher.…
Lees meerIt's an open-source public cloud gateway in diguise Object storage slinger Scality has announced an open-source public cloud gateway and controller called Zenko.…
Lees meerHolds up versus IBM, Oracle in benchmarks... whether it's worth the cost is another thing Weka.io claims its file storage device can scale out to billions of documents. Rather than rely on object storage to cope with this kind of data, you just need…
Lees meerWho'll get all the hotties? Who'll mope in the corner thinking about EPYC? As expected when Intel processors power virtually all x86-class servers, the vendors all hopped on the Skylake Xeon SP party bus.…
Lees meerOf double negatives, TSVs, TROs, BiCS and JVs Western Digital Corp has won a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing its flash joint-venture partner Toshiba from impeding the shipment of engineering wafers and samples to WD in Milpitas, CA, as …
Lees meerCitizen data can only be stored within the country Apple has announced plans to set up its first data centre as part of a $1bn investment in the Chinese province of Guizhou.…
Lees meer'Intel Xeon Scalable Processor' hailed as 'cornerstone for new platform' with servers customised for different roles Microsoft may have said ARM servers provide the most value for its cloud services back in March, but today it's given Intel's new Xe…
Lees meerInside Chipzilla's new security measures Deep dive Intel has taken its Skylake cores, attached some extra cache and vector processing stuff, throw in various other bits and pieces, and packaged them up as Xeon CPUs codenamed Purley.…
Lees meerDisks shipped with the wrong write cache settings and found their way into UCS boxen Cisco's dropped Seagate in the pooh for a mess that's seen some UCS servers released into the wild in configurations susceptible to data loss.…
Lees meer30% smaller data is QAT's meow Kaminario is getting better data compression by using Intel’s C6268 chipset in its K2 all-flash array's gen 6 storage controllers.…
Lees meerBlasts out 7 new PowerEdge products with better stuff inside Dell is announcing a set of 14G servers, using new Intel processor chips, and replacing the equivalent 13G server line products.…
Lees meerProcessor black hole waiting for Intel announcement Five new Cisco UCS servers have come to light, courtesy of Storage Review, which has since withdrawn its story. Tsk tsk. Early signs are that Cisco appears to be cutting its blade server product li…
Lees meerSoftware maker buys virty firm Data management platform DataGravity has been bought by HyTrust which has also pulled in a $36 million funding round.…
Lees meerFull transition to take four years Openreach has finally started removing BT's logo from its 22,000 vans, "unveiling its new branding" four months after the former state monopoly agreed to a legal separation of its broadband division.…
Lees meerPublic sector big hitter to persuade G-cloud bods to inhale its product Former director of Common Technology Services at the Government Digital Service, Iain Patterson, has rocked up at UK Cloud as chief digital officer. Notably, he's one of the few…
Lees meerIf you need new servers or hypervisor licences, there's a new model to consider ANALYSIS Microsoft's formal announcement of Azure Stack changes the cloud market forever, by giving us three distinct types of cloud.…
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