Cloud provider offers DR-as-a-service using flash Analysis All-flash arrays are now the storage choice du jour for storing fast access primary data but have not been used for storing secondary data, such as unstructured data, ordinary files and jus…
Lees meer24-rack unit replaced with 15 'blades', performance gained, millions saved – so they say A 24-rack NetApp system has been replaced with a single Pure Storage FlashBlade product at a customer site.…
Lees meerCode locker lost about six hours of data for 707 users GitLab.com, the wannabe GitHub alternative that yesterday went down hard and reported data loss, has confirmed that some data is gone but that its services are now operational again.…
Lees meerSpinning rust for desktops-as-a-service is soooooo 2016 Amazon Web Services has found another way to make its “Workspaces” desktop-as-a-service offering more attractive: as of today the cloudy Windows instances run on solid state disks instead of ye…
Lees meerBig Apple goes to court on claims it– BUFFERING (0%) New York's Attorney General is suing cable giant Charter on claims of false advertising of its internet speeds.…
Lees meerShrunken A700 all-flash array wins top-3 benchmark result NetApp has launched two new all-flash FAS arrays, won a top 3 SPC-1 storage benchmark result, and announced a new flash capacity guarantee programme.…
Lees meerBlogger/influencer/sometime Reg commentator joins OpenIO OpenIO, an object storage startup, has recruited Enrico Signoretti as its head of product strategy.…
Lees meerWord to your motherboard Comment Supermicro will have more Skylake CPU server motherboard products out faster than competitors because its engineering smarts better equip it for Skylake fastening complexities.…
Lees meerTell us what you think of All-Flash Arrays and the people who sell them Study All-Flash Arrays were one of the hottest themes on the pages of The Reg during 2016, so we want to dig deep into your knowledge and experience with these systems to get t…
Lees meerWord to your motherboard Comment Supermicro will have more Skylake CPU server motherboard products out faster than competitors because its engineering smarts better equip it for Skylake fastening complexities.…
Lees meerTell us what you think of All-Flash Arrays and the people who sell them Study All-Flash Arrays were one of the hottest themes on the pages of The Reg during 2016, so we want to dig deep into your knowledge and experience with these systems to get t…
Lees meerProject AirGig looks to solve bandwidth conundrum in the sticks AT&T says it is set to begin public trials of a project to backhaul high-speed mobile internet over power lines.…
Lees meerGoing for a song: Hedge fund pulled the strings to snap up busted biz for $14.5m A Soros hedge fund vehicle made the winning bid at Violin Memory's January 23 auction.…
Lees meerCloud-managed Wi-Fi access for 'DNA' (acronym, not ludicrous business metaphor) Datto is getting in a right mesh. The backup service vendor is buying Open Mesh to improve its managed service provider offering.…
Lees meerAccenture blamed for system swamp The NHS reply-all email fail last year involved 500 million emails being sent across the health service's network in just 75 minutes.…
Lees meerWhere could the tech end up? Sysadmin Blog HPE recently purchased SimpliVity for $650m. Some folks, like me, think this was a heck of a bargain for HPE. Others – most notably SimpliVity's competitors – think SimpliVity wasn't worth all that much an…
Lees meerExaGrid CEO Bill Andrews on backup's major players Interview After our relatively crude attempt to segment the backup market, ExaGrid CEO Bill Andrews got in touch wanting to talk about their way of divvying up the market. What he described seemed a…
Lees meerSwitching suppliers could save people of UK £327m a year Millions of Brits would rather pay through the nose for services via their existing broadband provider than switch suppliers and risk a prolonged period without access to the web, a poll has f…
Lees meerMore VMware, more containers, more switches Big Switch Networks has peeled back the veil over its Big Cloud Fabric 4.0, revealing broader VMware support, multi-container networking, and scale-up to 128 leaf switches.…
Lees meerAs cloud era sweeps in, Redmond faces up to fresh competition Analysis Amazon's cloud service AWS has replaced Oracle and VMware as Microsoft's chief rivals, the Windows giant's CEO Satya Nadella has said.…
Lees meerCompetitors are raising prices. Who knows, it could work TalkTalk has spotted an opportunity to win back customers following its mega data breach in October 2015 with a flash sale broadband promotion.…
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