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Lees meerAustralian Taxation Office reveals more about outages plus plans for Easter upgrade The Australian Taxation Office will install a new Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage area network over Easter.…
Lees meer32 cores on a Xeon E5 V3 with up to 5.6TB of SSD, counted in gigabytes or gibibytes Microsoft's decided Azure needs virtual machines optimised for storage, so has given us all the new L-series to play with.…
Lees meerCity puts together team to bring 1Gbps dark fiber to Bay Area The City of San Francisco has already put in place numerous plans to resist the policies of the Trump Administration – from immigration to healthcare to labor agreements. Now it is moving…
Lees meerNewbury HQ awash with tie up talk Exclusive A corporate tie up between Vodafone UK and Liberty Global is back on the negotiating table, multiple sources have told The Register.…
Lees meerOur server, your software - let's play a SAN symphony together Lenovo has struck a partnership with DataCore and plans to offer a Storage DX8200D appliance using DataCore software.…
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Lees meerWhat do we need? High capacity. When do we need it? Soon Comment There will be far tighter integration between fixed and wireless connectivity in 5G than ever before. Dense virtualized networks will require huge numbers of high-capacity fixed links…
Lees meerGet busy for the Critical one, nail the Important one while you are at it Time to patch your desktop hypervisors, folks: VMware Workstation and Fusion have a pair of problems apiece.…
Lees meerLe nom est Bornibus, Francois Bornibus Lenovo EMEA has dropped its top ops man into the CEO chair following five quarters of shrinking turnover and recent operating losses.…
Lees meerJade kingdom has massive home advantage Analysis An analyst poring over IDC’s fourth 2016 quarter server stats has found that Cisco is slipping, and white-box manufacturers and China-based vendors are overtaking the historically dominant US server …
Lees meerStartups, PaaS and Blockchain So, you’re a developer with a great tech idea. You have a vision for a world-beating product, perhaps even one that defines a new category. But the journey from idea to execution is long, painful, and often expensive. T…
Lees meerWon't use GCP? What about now? And now? And... “We don’t use Google,” the CIO of a fairly major enterprise with a very recognizable brand told me some time ago. He runs the cloud component of his corporate IT on AWS and Microsoft’s Azure.…
Lees meerAnd in 2017 Huawei replaced HPE as a Platinum Member of OpenStack Foundation Tristan Goode recalls that at the first OpenStack conference in China, in 2012, the deputy director of nation's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Software and…
Lees meer'High risk' domains still being pondered by DNS overseer For five years, more than a dozen companies have been waiting to hear whether they will be able to run the internet top-level domains .corp, .home and .mail. And this month they finally got th…
Lees meerDataSphere's claims – make believe or real? Analysis Primary Data has updated its storage silo-converging DataSphere product, and says it’s ready for mainstream enterprise use, not just test and dev. The new release can save millions of dollars, ha…
Lees meer'National security' apparently an issue +Comment Potential buyers of Toshiba’s memory business sale could be restricted by Japanese government national security concerns.…
Lees meerNimble-enriched HPE nears NetApp in all-flash frog jump +Comment It is only one quarter, but IDC’s latest enterprise storage numbers show IBM’s flash array revenues have overtaken those of Pure Storage, putting that IPO’d company in fifth place in …
Lees meerSixty-eight DSSDers getting permanently laid off in May The state of California's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system shows that 68 DSSD staff are being laid off.…
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