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Lees meerThink rural broadband, come rain, hail or shine Terahertz transmissions, literally the last frontier of radio communications, come a step closer this week with a group of Japanese researchers demonstrating a 100 Gbps system at an IEEE conference.…
Lees meerGains capacity for 3,340 cabinets crammed with kit in fabulous Slough Equinix has revealed that it quietly acquired a data centre operated by US outfit IO.…
Lees meerChipzilla and Switchzilla won't confirm connection but the writing is on the wall Intel's Atom C2000 processor family has a fault that effectively bricks devices, costing the company a significant amount of money to correct. But the semiconductor gi…
Lees meerSecond generation 64-layer flash chip goes to 512Gbit WD is firing up an early production run of its 512Gbit 64-layer 3D NAND chip at its Yokkaichi, Japan, foundry, with its partner Toshiba. The silicon uses a triple-level cell (TLC) flash design, w…
Lees meerTwo solid state exec moves as Kaminario CTO quits to join startup Two exec moves have flashed up in the solid state world. Micron CEO Mark Durcan told analysts he was going to stop being CEO and Kaminario’s CTO has quit.…
Lees meerA Trump-repatriated cash pile could give the borg acquisition hunger pangs Analysis While HPE and Dell are concentrating on being better on-premises data centre suppliers in a hybrid cloud world, IBM on becoming a cognitive computing software suppl…
Lees meerCease this silliness with haste Sysadmin Blog The 25 and 50Gb switching standards have finally been ratified. Switches from various manufacturers have been available for some time, but now there's a better than average chance they'll interoperate w…
Lees meerPredictions of the present past from today's future, or something Comment The data center market is hot, especially now that we are getting a raft of funky new stuff, from promising non-Intel chips and system architectures to power and cooling opti…
Lees meerOnline services down as crack HPE team misses deadline for new SAN install HPE's crack repair squad has laboured for four days to repair kit at Australia's Taxation Office, with no guarantee that the Office's online services will be back online come…
Lees meerReplacement units will be on their way – just don't call it a recall Cisco has issued a warning that an electronic component used in versions of its routing, optical networking, security and switch products prior to November 16, 2016 is unreliable –…
Lees meerBleeding – speaking – edge of sysadmin interface development Listen up. Storage array vendor Tintri has a video demonstrating that speech-recognizing Amazon Echo's Alexa can be used to trigger array system management ops. Is this a profound industry…
Lees meerBoard takeover still on the cards In another wonderful example of the US capitalist system's ability to enable businesses to eat each other for short-term shareholder reward, an activist investor is looking to take over Quantum's board and restore s…
Lees meerIt's all the fault of the GBP, says US titan... doesn't mention Mr Farage Adobe, the developer of overpriced software for creative types, is just about to get a whole lot more expensive in the UK with steep rises set to be introduced from next month…
Lees meerNew memory, quad-level cell flash, and increased layering Micron is working on two next-generation XPoint products, a new memory, and extending 3D flash beyond 64 layers.…
Lees meerThe highest levels of service Another month, another problem with comedy outfit 123-Reg whose long-suffering customers are this time suffering from an email outage.…
Lees meerSpending fluctuates on how 'companies respond to our decisions' Communications regulator Ofcom splashed an extra 11 per cent on legal costs in 2015/16 compared with the previous year, spending £4.9m of taxpayers' cash seeing off threats from operato…
Lees meerPublic to finally get to see regulator orders before vote The new chair of the US Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, has come good on a promise to modernize the regulator by getting rid of its most infuriating habit: secret orders.…
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