Colliding parallel file access products Analysis The entertainment and media market has not been typically seen as a part of the high-performance computing (HPC) market, with the associated massively parallel file access and data set management. In…
Lees meerExposes Amazon customers' inadequate BC/DR plans too Analysis Amazon’s S3 outage is a gift to Azure and Google, on-premises IT, hybrid cloud supporters and multi-cloud gateways. But it has also exposed inadequate business continuance and disaster r…
Lees meerThe stuff Virtzilla is doing to build NFV for telcos will trickle down into its other products VMware has launched the second version of its Network Function Virtualization suite as it hopes to convince telcos to go down the same software-defined ro…
Lees meerEnd-to-end encryption touted Datrium Blanket Encryption combines always-on deduplication, compression and encryption so that data is secure – or so it claims – whether that data is at a host, in flight across a network, or at rest in persistent stor…
Lees meerApparently the world is ready for hybrid-cloud-database-as-a-service, on subscription Oracle's added a new piece of hardware to its “Oracle Cloud at Customer” offering, in the form of the new Exadata Cloud Machine that runs Oracle databases on-premi…
Lees meer'Increased error rates' is the new 'outage', according to Bezos' bit-barn bods Amazon Web Services is scrambling to recover from a cockup at its facility in Virginia, US, that is causing its S3 cloud storage to fail.…
Lees meerBig wins push sales to record high as expenses push losses to record high It was a record-breaking year for finance and HR cloud purveyor Workday for all the right and the wrong reasons: sales reached a new high aided by Oracle’s disruptive buy of N…
Lees meerLook how good I look underneath my Cloud HALO Object storage house Scality is offering a 100 per cent data availability guarantee. How so?…
Lees meerIronKey flash drive patent was at stake A jury has found that flash-flinger Imation must pay $11m damages to ioengine for patent infringement.…
Lees meerAllowing unauthenticated OS re-install sure feels like a bug ... Cisco has reiterated that its Smart Install feature is not a bug and not a vulnerability, and to prove it's not, it's built a tool to help sysadmins block it.…
Lees meerHybrid pipes and services for Amazon-sippers Nimble Storage claims Azure and AWS clouds aren't ideal for enterprise transaction apps but says it can fix that by wrapping them inside Nimble Cloud Volumes for a $0.10/GB/month starting price.…
Lees meerTrio of Atomic edge boxen to sharpen the Things' bite Dell has developed the Edge Gateway 3000 Series of boxes so IoT customers can do some data analysis at the edge of their IoT network, to make real-time local decisions about the operations of IoT…
Lees meerBusiness being split off so stakes can be sold Toshiba confirms its memory business will be separated from the main Toshiba business in preparation for a part or majority stake sale.…
Lees meerBeating data loss Sysadmin Blog Imagine yourself as Donald Trump's sysadmin. Trump's first month as President of the United States of America has been notable for the number of information leaks that have occurred. Trump has called these leaks crim…
Lees meerIs it going to do HCI... who knows? Interview After thinking that stand-alone external storage array vendors might need to get into the hyperconverged market, we received a tip that Nimble Storage was thinking that too. So we asked Nimble's CEO, Su…
Lees meerIntel just doesn't sell this kit yet. Not in the cloud. Not on-premises. Not anywhere Remember when PC or server-makers would breathlessly announce they'd just become the first, the very first, to get their hands on some new silicon and that doing s…
Lees meerHere's a point release to get a bit excited by, plus updates to VMware and Oracle hypervisors Updates to commercial hypervisors are like buses: none for ages and then two come along at once!…
Lees meer3Par account managers have soothing tales of extremely dumb mistakes Users of HPE's 3Par kit say the company's private explanation of the twin outages at the Australian Taxation Office suggest the hardware problems may have been caused by user error…
Lees meerToo enthusiastic? Too enthusiastic Sunday storage sum-up It's been one of those overwhelming-tidal-waves-of-news weeks. Here's an attempt to catch up.…
Lees meerFibre Channel revenues flag as Broadcom acquisition spooks IP network buyers It was a double whammy. Brocade saw hyper-converged infrastructure eat into its SAN networking sales as Broadcom acquisition-caused uncertainty drove IP Networking sales do…
Lees meerCloud CRM with cloud synchronisation turned OFF A version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 with cloud turned off is coming in the second quarter.…
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