What are they banging on about? Analysis Having acquired Nimble Storage and its hybrid and all-flash arrays, HPE is positioning it as a kind of secondary storage. What does that mean?…
Lees meerPartners with state-backed Japanese funds +Comment WDC is partnering with a state-backed Japanese fund and bidding ¥2 trillion ($17.9bn, £13.8bn) to buy Toshiba’s Memory Business.…
Lees meerWhat's a tensor? Glad you asked... HPC blog Last week, Nvidia held its biggest ever GPU Technology Conference (GTC). The big walk-away is that GPUs are rapidly becoming an expected and standard component of computing, table stakes in many cases, ac…
Lees meerTwo sets of judges rule for citizens and against government The US National Security Agency has been hit by two legal losses that may put the last part of its controversial spying program on US citizens under threat.…
Lees meerActivists say they got cease and desist threat for pointing out astroturfing An activist group says it was threatened by Comcast lawyers after it pointed out the cable giant's efforts to astroturf the FCC with fake comments on net neutrality.…
Lees meerGlobal biz is flying to fast-access frames of flash Analysis Amadeus, the global travel booking business, is testing Micron's SolidScale NVMe flash arrays, thinking they can provide vastly better realtime access to the terabytes of flight informati…
Lees meerAnyone interested? NHS? Bueller? Bueller? National Health Service trusts can consolidate their data in readiness for GDPR by buying an Analytics Private Health Data Vault service, based on Commvault's Clinical Archive product, says its maker.…
Lees meerDefine irony: For-profit school wants unpaid bill forgiven The estate of bankrupt US trade school ITT Technical Institutes is today asking a court to stop Microsoft from erasing its cloud data.…
Lees meerUS lawmakers try to clear up FTC control over data collection The US Representatives who just weeks ago repealed privacy rules for ISPs now want to enact a new set of restrictions.…
Lees meerUpdated IDC SSD forecast sees 44 per cent capacity CAGR 2016-2021 The general solid state drive price premium over disk should decline from 6.6x now to 2.2x in 2021, according to new IDC numbers.…
Lees meerMore details emerge at HPC powwow in Switzerland HPC Blog IBM gave the audience a deeper dive into the OpenCAPI initiative and hardware at the recently concluded HPC Advisory Council annual meeting in Lugano, Switzerland.…
Lees meerBipul Sinha and the Indian ex-pat tech CEO's club Profile How did Bipul Sinha, a man with neither entrepreneurial nor operation executive-level tech business experience, become the CEO of a startup?…
Lees meerDr Panda's recent Swiss presentation free to view HPC Blog Dr DK Panda is a world-recognised expert on parallel programming and networking. He's a Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University and his research group has developed the MVAPICH2 …
Lees meerNokia Bell Labs' Dr Laurent Schmalen explains how networks can find a new gear Interview A technology that first hit the mass market in 1990s-era modems running over voice networks will soon be boosting submarine fibre speeds around the world.…
Lees meerAirport chaos as check-in counters revert to archaic manual processes International airline passengers in Australia and New Zealand have been told that problems processing passports at airports today was caused by a telecoms failure in the United Ki…
Lees meerDoJ isn't naming names but this was probably an attempt to lift IBM's GPFS A Chinese national accused of stealing source code to a clustered file system and other intellectual property from an officially-unnamed American company has entered a guilty…
Lees meerMicrosoft plants a flag before Google, AWS and IBM Microsoft has announced it come 2018 it will offer Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 from data centres in the South African cities Cape Town and Johannesburg.…
Lees meerCloud SQL backups being 'forced' instead of automated for 60 hours or more POLL Google's got a problem with its Cloud SQL service – about seven per cent of instances using the service's first-generation code aren't backing up properly.…
Lees meerAmbitious storage startup halts after setting fire to cash Startup Formation Data Systems has shuttered its operations, we're told. Sources familiar with the matter said it closed down on May 16.…
Lees meerNow run along and play with your new friends Veeam has issued the tenth version of its Availability Suite backup and restore product, saying it offers a wider-ranging data protection environment than ever before.…
Lees meerWell, here are some plates full of bite-sized news anyway For this round-up of storage news we start with Data Gravity and Veeam, move on to a McLaren super car crash, and pass through company news, some customer wins, news snippets and on to people…
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