Sales bounce by a quarter for Q1... oh the vanity Just when you’d thought Salesforce had quit its habit of posting quarterly losses, the biz swung back into the red during its first quarter of 2017/18 - on the back of bumper growth.…
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Lees meerSales suffering – should it quit the market? Comment Cisco has missed out on a blade to rack server shift, sales growth has turned negative, it doesn't sell to cloud providers and it has a small market share. Should it invest to grow or get out of …
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Lees meerData centre CPU boasts more cores, IO, memory bandwidth than Intel's AMD has renamed its Zen-based Naples processor as the EPYC brand, pitching it as a data centre server CPU, and hopes to make inroads into both the dual-socket and single-socket ser…
Lees meerThe SS300 comes in 2bits/cell and 3bits/cell variants HGST has released the Ultrastar SS300, an enterprise server SSD that's 1.6 times faster than its predecessor.…
Lees meerSolidScale software supplier gets closer relationship with up-the-stack moving MIcron We understand Micron has invested in Excelero, the software supplier for its SolidScale all-flash NVME array.…
Lees meerOptane persistent memory support from Cascade Lake Xeon SPs in 2018 Intel says its coming Xeon SPs (scalable processors) will run in-memory SAP HANA workloads 1.59 times faster than a Xeon E7 v4 system*, and has demonstrated Optane DIMMs.…
Lees meerI need to take a cold shower Global travel systems business Amadeus is testing 100TB SSDs.…
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Lees meerBy reinventing ILM, HSM and file data management Analysis Komprise is a data management startup saying it will save enterprises money by identifying and analysing file/unstructured data sprawl then shift it to cheap on-premises or in-cloud storage.…
Lees meerYou're not helping by allowing server sprawl and ignoring backup, though You're probably cocking up the cloud, but clouds themselves are part of the reason why.…
Lees meerMicrosoft's weird DaaS licensing melts away when it has a sniff of Azure usage VMware's got the green light to deliver virtual Windows desktops and packaged apps from Microsoft's Azure cloud.…
Lees meerGene research a test market for cloudy graph engine With AWS, Google, and IBM's Watson already camped in the high-performance cloud business, it's hardly surprising that Cray would tread carefully as a late entrant into the supercomputer-as-a-servic…
Lees meerDell EMC has four AFAs now... +Comment XtremIO all-flash array revenues have fallen from their 2015 peak as all-flash Unity and VMAX revenues have raced past it.…
Lees meerFamiliarity – and dual-cloud strategies – breeds growth Competition for enterprise IT spend is intensifying with Microsoft and Google applying pressure to AWS.…
Lees meerJapan encouraging Tosh and WDC to come to agreement +Comment The latest twist in the Toshiba Memory Business auction sale is that Toshiba has not barred access to the foundry or its online facilities from partner WDC employees.…
Lees meerAWS is cooking virty servers with 16TB but thinks we'll also need clusters packing 34TB Amazon Web Services is working on new instance types that will offer either eight or 16 terabytes of random access memory.…
Lees meerBig Blue gets cloud cred. Nutanix gets a chance to talk core apps Nutanix and IBM will announce on Tuesday a new relationship that will see Nutanix build hyperconverged systems out of IBM Power servers – its first non-Intel-powered boxes.…
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