Let the hype wars commence Hot on the heels of Arqiva revealing plans for a 5G trial with Samsung this morning, Ericsson and BT have also announced a partnership to develop 5G projects.…
Lees meerCompute and storage is coming out of the core and into the light Mobile World Congress kicks off next week in Barcelona and, as ever, is two shows in one. Gadget-lovers get to go “squee!” about new handsets and the fun they'll have with them. And in…
Lees meerAnd the Oscar for the best story about why you have recovery tests goes to... Exclusive An external review into last October's catastrophic data loss at King's College London has placed the blame squarely at the feet of the IT technical team, which…
Lees meerGoogle Ventures-backed Storj Labs makes its pitch Startup Storj (pronounced storage oddly enough) has an open source, distributed cloud object storage platform using blockchain technology and end-to-end cryptography across a peer-to-peer network to …
Lees meerPeter Sage was playing the old grey reseller game, claims US tech monster Peter Sage, the imprisoned "serial entrepreneur" and one-time principal of the company Space Energy, is said to have defrauded Hewlett Packard Enterprise out of tens of thousa…
Lees meerWell... not Microsoft, Cisco or HPE, according to a consultant A consultancy reports that Nutanix, Simplivity and VMware lead the SDS/HCI market, while Microsoft, Cisco and HPE lag behind.…
Lees meer1TB chip incoming Toshiba has introduced its first 64-layer 3D NAND device that doubles the capacity of its 256Gb product to 512Gb using a TLC (3bits/cell) design.…
Lees meerChipzilla gets in on Last Level Cache design A new cache is needed between memory and the tri-level processor cache structure in servers in order to avoid CPU core wait states.…
Lees meerUK peering peers say nope Members of LINX, the London Internet Exchange – the UK's largest net “peering” point - have rejected proposals that would reshape the company’s constitution and could block members from being consulted about government tapp…
Lees meerNo scaling limit? Do go on Storage Architect I've been messing about with databases for a long time. I say "messing about" because I've never been a DBA, but as a systems programmer and storage administrator, I've been on the periphery of the appli…
Lees meerHow levels, layers, stacks and DIMMS are boosting speeds Analysis Up until very recently the main thrust of data access and storage technology development was to make the media faster, hence the move from disk to flash, and flash technology develop…
Lees meerHard on the heels of a second-quarter result in which software subscriptions provided one of the few bright spots, Cisco's revealed a slew of new software-based systems.…
Lees meerCan build clouds, can't schedule email announcing stablization release The OpenStack Foundation has announced Ocata, its fifteenth edition. And then tried to un-announce it again.…
Lees meer*aaS-es are, however, fattening faster than any other segment of the market For all the hype about cloud it's a bit of a revenue wimp: the abacus-shufflers of IDC have just told the world that it will account for about five per cent of the world's t…
Lees meerBackup data streams and now snapshots flash between firms After announcing an initial backup integration between Pure's all-flash array and Cohesity's converged secondary storage a year ago, the two have now gone further with snapshot-level integrat…
Lees meerThere's an app that maps public toilets – how could it not be core infrastructure? The chief executive of the Civil Service, John Manzoni, says the UK needs to begin to consider the "collection and storage of data as part of [our] core national infr…
Lees meerPlus emergency response vehicles for ESN backup EE has revealed plans to launch balloon and drone "air masts" to connect remote parts of the UK in the wake of disasters such as major flooding, in its yet-to-be-patented technology unveiled today.…
Lees meerBlah The price and precise performance of Intel's Optane storage-class memory still remain officially obscure, but the company has confirmed the PC version of the product will run only on 7th-generation Core i7, i5 and i3 CPUS nestled into certain m…
Lees meerShrinking before hyperconverged/converged Analysis Current thinking among vendors with hyper-converged and converged infrastructure offerings is that physical SANs are in decline and their market is shrinking. Chad Sakac, Converged Platforms Divisi…
Lees meerHCIA startup denied the full makeover for now Analysis HPE has closed its SimpliVity acquisition and publicised software porting and migration plans but hasn't said anything about SimpliVity hardware moving to a ProLiant server base.…
Lees meerRushed proposal opens rift in internet giants' club Exclusive London Internet Exchange (LINX) – Europe's largest provider of internet interconnect services – faces a growing backlash among members over changes to its rules that would gag directors …
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