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Lees meerBlue, soon, close enough At Oracle, the future is cloud. If a product is not in the cloud, it's toast. It's that simple. The command has come down from on high to Oraclers. Be in the cloud or be finding a new job.…
Lees meerBig Red admits to a lost half-decade in silicon, promises melding with software real soon Oracle's popped out a short explanation for the sketchy SPARC/Solaris roadmap it slipped out in January.…
Lees meerAzure hits the high notes in High Performance Linpack tests, SoftLayer strangles itself The best clouds are genuinely competitive with do-it-yourself high performance computing – and Microsoft's top-tier Azure is the best of the lot.…
Lees meerBatch of HDDs borked and replaced El Reg has received an antipodean note that a number of Western Digital enterprise disk drives are having problems and need to be replaced.…
Lees meerIt's probably a good thing that their address isn't listed Customers of British cloud biz Smart Hosting are furious at the company's radio silence throughout its ongoing outage.…
Lees meerGesundheit! Ahem, can we take your cloaks, storage startups? Analysis Three storage startups have hoved into view: Gluent, Tachyum and VAST Data.…
Lees meerCorporate rising star in charge as targets raised SAP has moved the UK corporate brass in a move that could propel cloud sales, The Reg has learned.…
Lees meerUmbrella takes the edge of enterprise network defence Cisco's decided that the network perimeter is the wrong place for a Web gateway, so it's floating one into the cloud.…
Lees meerWhat bits of the boffins' cloud do we build ourselves? Australia is re-crafting the roadmap that guides its national research infrastructure, a task that covers everything from the network to the nation's high performance computing systems.…
Lees meerWe sheltered our heads until there was a pause for reporting Incoming! Boom, boom and boom again – storage news announcements hit the wires in a relentless barrage. Here's a few we've received showing developments in data protection, cloud storage, …
Lees meer'Not one of you has accepted dishonest involvement,' says judge Four men responsible for scamming Barclays Bank and Belgian banking group KBC out of £160m in a super fast broadband scam have today been sentenced to a collective 44 years in the clink…
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