Kinetica CEO dreams of being the database Apple of the enterprise's eye Kinetica, the in-memory GPU-accelerated database, has pulled in $50m in its first major venture capital financing round.…
Lees meerSeparate compute and storage environments inside Analysis I have come to the conclusion that NetApp's new HCI system is more converged than hyperconverged: in essence the boxes just add compute nodes and networking to SolidFire (storage) nodes.…
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Lees meerTosh talks 4-level cell tech, too Just as we are getting used to 64‑layer 3D NAND chips, along come the warring flash joint-venture couple Toshiba and Western Digital. The pair say their JV has produced a 96‑layer prototype die, with Toshiba also in…
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Lees meerVDI and HCIA software supplier Atlantis Computing is in middle of "delicate ongoing negotiations" seeking funding from investors.…
Lees meerYou can buy it at consumer electronics e-shop. We're not joking Intel has hatched a new SSD, a 64-layer one, available in a lovely coincidence at etailer Newegg for $179.99.…
Lees meerUltimate Britishness experience – wet, grey skies and a huge wait just to be disappointed The AWS Summit in London has opened – and queues of several hundred people are already building around the venue as rumours of an IT failure on the ticket desk…
Lees meerPlus BT evaluates startups. Good luck, network kit giants Comment Hard on the heels of Orange's Telecom Track, which will support network infrastructure startups in association with Facebook's Telecom Infra Project (TIP), BT is evaluating startups …
Lees meerVMworld content catalog lists live AWS services, Cross Cloud and OpenStack 4.0 The content catalog for VMworld 2017 has appeared and as usual offers a few hints about announcements at the show and the company's future plans.…
Lees meerAustralian airline QANTAS is partly offline, other carriers may be in trouble too The Amadeus airline booking platform is suffering another outage, so far mostly seen in a follow-on TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance) hitting Austr…
Lees meerIBM and Cisco gear? So you're saying two wrongs can make a right? IBM has found a new route for its channel into enterprise data-intensive workloads, courtesy of its Cisco VersaStack deal.…
Lees meerIs this the beginning of the endgame? WDC and KKR have submitted a fresh bid for beleaguered Toshiba's memory business, in competition with the preferred INCJ/Bain/SK Hynix bid.…
Lees meerLike Salesforce, but for sharing widgets Internet traffic wrangler Cloudflare is opening up its massive global network to third-party developers.…
Lees meerYou're undervalued, says survey. But you knew this... Average annual salaries for maintenance jobs advertised online fell by 7.5 per cent this year - but the firm behind the analysis has warned that we shouldn’t forget about the humans who look afte…
Lees meerUS prosecutors asks top court to mull overseas data slurping The US Department of Justice has formally asked the Supreme Court to hear its appeal in Microsoft's Ireland warrant legal row.…
Lees meerNever again, he tells El Reg Analysis Here's a resurrected startup that isn't a startup anymore and wants nothing to do with VCs, ever – Coraid.…
Lees meerSharing is caring, SAN-shine Interview An NVME over fabrics controller-less array is not a SAN because it can’t share data. That was the essence of Datrium CTO Hugo Patterson’s view.…
Lees meerTakes hyper-converged infrastructure appliance lead – analyst Dell EMC overtook Nutanix to become the leading hyper-converged infrastructure appliance shipper in 2017’s first quarter.…
Lees meerProducts, hookups, support, click relief and more Here's a storage news item garage sale. Come on in and check out our array of goodies; there's something for everyone.…
Lees meerIDC's tracker finds FlexPods flourishing, Vblocks/VxBlocks faltering Analyst firm IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker shows overall converged systems revenue for 2017's first quarter increased year over year but only because of bonke…
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