FY 2016 was okay, but Q4 was ugly, which may explain the SimpliVity fire sale and Nutanix's revenue warning Converged systems are supposed to be the hot spot of the otherwise-troubled server and storage markets. Yet sales just dipped for 2016's fina…
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Lees meerKit and code for those days when you need to hot-swap or memory Huawei's tightened its relationship with SUSE for extremely high reliability computing, while also denting Microsoft's and Red Hat's prospects.…
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Lees meerSoftware-defined-networks from photons up to Layer 3 In January 2016, Juniper Networks swallowed BTI Systems with the aim of bringing software defined network approaches to the optical sphere. One of the fruits of that acquisition has now landed, wi…
Lees meerBoosted capacity of existing fibre by 2.5x. Coming soon: 32 Tbps per fibre Nokia has lit up a trans-Atlantic fibre for Facebook, in a field trial that showed off 200 Gbps and 250 Gbps wavelengths on a 5,500 km link.…
Lees meerAlso ties up with NetApp, Veritas, Red Hat, gets hot about hybrid everything IBM's decided to play the “our cloud storage is even cheaper than your cloud storage” game, but by a different set of rules.…
Lees meerTotal Inability To Skype Ur Parents Microsoft cloud services have dived offline, taking down Outlook, Hotmail, OneDrive, Skype, and Xbox Live.…
Lees meerVSAN may get a gig on UK's Astute-class boats. And is definitely getting a filesystem VMware says it's been asked to consider how nuclear submarines might use its virtual SAN.…
Lees meerXenApp Essentials pricing revealed Citrix has revealed a little more about XenApp Essentials, its replacement for the Azure Remoteapp application publishing service that Microsoft killed off last year.…
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom's biggest property group - Wanda Dalian - buddies up with Big Blue IBM”s found a new way to get its cloud into China – a new deal with the Wanda Internet Technology Group.…
Lees meerChipzilla want us thinking about queue depth and latency, not just raw IOPS Intel has finally revealed an Optane product and told us how fast it will go.…
Lees meerSuper fast but you'll need line-of-sight In five years or so, Wi-Fi access points could carry data at rates 100 times faster than today using infrared light rather than other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.…
Lees meerHires Flavio Santoni into presidential role Block storage startup Datera is partnering with Accelerite, and has hired Flavio Santoni as a senior exec in a president's role.…
Lees meerThe giddy storage news whirl whirls on and on and on The cloud and Big Data and Hadoop feature strongly in this week’s round-up of storage news, along with channel news. And, just for a moment, we thought we’d found a new disk drive manufacturer. Bu…
Lees meerState aid considered to keep tech smarts and jobs in Japan The Japanese government is considering providing state-backed aid to Toshiba’s memory business, amounting to near partial nationalisation, to prevent it falling into Chinese or South Korean …
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Lees meerSilicon Valley's smartest still battling to fix outage The Google Drive app for Windows has crashed and burned – after the tech genius hub pushed out an unfinished and faulty software update.…
Lees meerMelts ISE software from hardware, reveals new product tech Analysis Back in January X-IO was back from a restructuring and refinancing and talking about product refreshes after a downturn in 2016.…
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