Users can do more as management goes automatic Interview Tintri's Alexa speechbot is no piece of eye-candy gimmickry. CTO and founder Dr Kieran Harty says it will enable users to do more with less hassle as system management gets automated. We quiz…
Lees meerTerms of settlement not disclosed SHOCKER Oracle has reached a settlement with a former finance manager who alleged she had been fired for refusing to follow what she believed to be unlawful accounting practices that bumped up the firm's cloud numbe…
Lees meerTaking over *your* data centre? Study How many stories have you read about all-flash arrays taking over your data centre or computer room? You've probably heard this line even more than you’ve read about how everything is moving to the cloud, how I…
Lees meerPinterest-owned web scrapbook 'hit system limit for hosted database', probably in AWS Web scrapbook Instapaper has suffered a 30-plus hour outage and is warning of a week-long restore time.…
Lees meerAgain. So now Google's re-building dangerously centralized routing rigs Google's explained why new cloudy virtual machines in its cloud engine couldn't connect to the world for a couple of hours in January: a canary didn't fall off its perch, so the…
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Lees meerFormer VMAX product head finds refuge Fidelma Russo has been appointed CTO at data management firm Iron Mountain, Storage Newsletter reports.…
Lees meerSlowing market sparks ideas... but only in analysts' minds +Comment A poor year for Cray was rescued by its fourth 2017 quarter’s results.…
Lees meerFour paws bad! Time to break the emotional attachment Microsoft, Amazon, Google, others all telling us to move server loads to the cloud. Most of us with on-premise servers haven't designed things in a cloud friendly way and - call us old sentimenta…
Lees meerInspur and Diablo smash those datasets Analysis Chinese server vendor Inspur has cut Spark workload runtimes in half by bulking out DRAM with Diablo Technologies' Memory1 technology.…
Lees meerIf $1,000 a month is cheap, sure Patent trolls are a growing problem, and Microsoft thinks that it has the solution – an affordable-ish protection scheme for Azure customers.…
Lees meerNeed a 2/47 NAS disk? Mmm, maybe the MN series is just right Toshiba has a new desktop and low-end NAS disk drive, the MN series.…
Lees meerNew hyperconverged pair Cisco has announced two all-flash HyperFlex systems with an up to sixfold performance improvement.…
Lees meerThree-week hearing expected, and yes, it is about the NSA's mass surveillance activities The future of the relationship between the European Union and President Trump's United States is being decided in a Dublin court hearing which is expected to co…
Lees meerFrom Isilon to Scality to OpenIO and ARM-powered nano-nodes Case study Paris-based Dailymotion is the world's second largest video sharing website after YouTube and its three-stage storage history has transitioned from a reliable scale-out filer, t…
Lees meerFaster access to more data with gen-6 refresh Kaminario has more than doubled array capacity and speed with the sixth generation of its K2 all-flash array, mainly by using higher capacity SSDs and faster controller processors. It's also improved com…
Lees meerBarclays Bank and KBC presented with fraudulent contracts Four men have been found guilty of conning Barclays Bank and Belgian banking group KBC out of £160m in a superfast broadband scam.…
Lees meerBlueMix welcomes database migrations to the Hotel California with cut from $2 to $0 IBM has revealed that the standard tier BlueMix Lift service is now free. Which sounds great save for one small problem: the service was just about free already.…
Lees meerVendors clocked C2xxx flaw when returns spiked Exclusive The flaw in Intel's Atom C2000 family of chips has been vexing Intel's hardware customers for at least a year and a half, according to a source at one affected supplier, but it wasn't immedia…
Lees meerWhat do we want? No more nuisance on-prem hardware. When do we want it? Soonish SAP HANA managed services biz Centiq is launching its cloud-readiness service to help users of the in-memory RDBMS figure out if they should move to the public cloud.…
Lees meerNeat SSD for disk substitution adds both disk and flash capacity Whacking up high-end capacity by 71 per cent takes scale-out filer startup Qumulo into 3PB per rack territory, in its bid to win enterprise business.…
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