Further beefs up to take on the might of Cisco Extreme Networks is to acquire Brocade Communications Systems' data centre, switching, routing, and analytics business for $55m (£44m) - part of a bid to beef up its portfolio and take on Switchzilla – …
Lees meerCode alone won't win the day Open source wasn’t supposed to matter in the cloud. After the Free Software Foundation’s failed attempt to rein in network-delivered software services, some wrung their hands and waited for the open source apocalypse. In…
Lees meerWe're not saying Larry Ellison has a point, but... Analysis Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy doesn't often tweet, but when he does it's usually to applaud the popularity of AWS's database migration service.…
Lees meerPops out second Gen 6 FC switch a year after its first Fibre Channel switcher Brocade has introduced its second 32Gbps (Gen 6) switch called the G610.…
Lees meerSee that? That's cheaper exit bandwidth, that is Cloudy British hosting biz UKFast has dropped its prices for cloudy Openstack hosting, it says, taking a pop at AWS as it does so.…
Lees meerTech dragon cleared after admitting to sanction violations The US Department of Commerce has scrapped trade restrictions that left Chinese tech monster ZTE unable to import components from America.…
Lees meerSeductive twofer licence deal if you switch Nutanix wants SimpliVity customers upset by HPE's purchase to move across to them instead.…
Lees meerWhat you see and what you might actually get could differ Analysis Intel has now had its brace of Optane P4800X SSD and M.2 2280 motherboard card releases and we’ve learned there is no straightforward performance comparison with equivalent flash pr…
Lees meerMobile base stations to be treated as computers in their own right The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has decided its Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) effort needed a bigger brief, so it's renamed it as Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC).…
Lees meerThree to do, pronto, unless you like guest-host escape mirth VMware's reported three bugs that probably deserve your urgent attention.…
Lees meerChange IP, get Tor, and find a good VPN So, the House of Representatives has voted away internet privacy (in concert with the Senate), and the legislation will be heading to the White House for Trump's imprimatur. He's expected to sign quickly, so a…
Lees meerNot exactly getting with the program Despite being the third-largest internet provider in the UK, Virgin Media is not exactly looking toward the future.…
Lees meerYou mean they still have some customers left? Long-suffering customers of troubled hosting provider 186k are unable to access the firm's hosting and email services in what appears to be a major outage.…
Lees meerServer, storage and networking wrap Orchestrating, deploying and managing thousands of servers, storage shelves and switches can provide a persistent PITA*. Server white box supremo Supermicro has a Rack Scale Design (RSD) fix for service providers,…
Lees meerAdding better public cloud facilities to users' hybrid world Avere, the filer and public cloud storage accelerator supplier, has scored a $27m E-round of funding, with Google proper providing some of the funds.…
Lees meerGood news for those posted to Benbecula or Mount Pleasant? British military personnel will no longer face swingeing cancellation fees on broadband packages if they are posted abroad.…
Lees meerRight-click to vMotion VMs between on-prem and AWS VMware's revealed some demos of its planned hybrid cloud service running inside Amazon Web Services.…
Lees meerSimpler cluster config Amazon Web Services' 2016 acquisition of NICE Systems is bearing fruit, with AWS lifting the lid on the next iteration of a high performance computing service called EnginFrame.…
Lees meerDon't criticise CEO Morrow for keeping the build moving Stop me if you've heard this one: nbn™, builder and operator of Australia's national broadband network (NBN), is being accused of polishing its rollout figures by fast-tracking areas that are e…
Lees meerQuarterly results show a boomtown rat raking in dollars DRAM and flash fabber Micron had a damn good second fiscal 2017 quarter, raking in increased revenues and a $0.9bn profit on the back of strengthened DRAM and NAND prices.…
Lees meerPumps out SimpliVity 380 in little, medium and big all-flash versions HPE is looking to grab a much bigger share of the hyperconverged systems market now it has SimpliVity in its mitts and the SimpliVity 380 is the first product makeover resulting f…
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