Tech visionary pushed parallel IO processing to the end Obit Datacore co-founder and chairman Ziya Aral has passed away, aged just 64.…
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Lees meerYes it is. You at the back, stop sniggering! Ronald Rubens, Europe North veep at telecommunications biz Avaya, is busy doing some serious damage limitation, after the US Avaya parent company filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this week.…
Lees meerLarry Ellison did promise Oracle's cloud would be faster and cheaper Oracle has changed the way it charges users to run its software in Amazon Web Services, effectively doubling the cost along the way.…
Lees meerAlphabet subsidiary decided hardware emulator that's plagued Zen had to go Google's revealed how it hardened the open source KVM hypervisor to run in its cloud and removing the QEMU hardware emulation tool looks to be a big part of its efforts.…
Lees meerHPE's all-but quoting Rick Astley as Cisco finds another way to nobble Arista imports HP Enterprise has gone the full Rick Astley with Arista, telling its sales team and partners customers it will never give it up, let it down, run around or desert …
Lees meerSoftNAS spans on-prem and Azure with virtual NAS, and there's news to come in April Microsoft's cooking up something to do with virtual storage appliances spanning on-premises storage and Azure and will reveal all in April.…
Lees meerHardware dump will help pay costs from failed energy venture Toshiba says it will sell off its memory semiconductor business as it looks to recuperate from the write-off of losses to its nuclear power business.…
Lees meerTech workers not able to keep up with new systems, we're told New York state officials say they are having to hire outside consultants to work on their systems because the state's own IT personnel lack the skills to manage newer technology.…
Lees meerYou don't want a taskbar? Fine, we'll take it out. OK, we'll put it back again Microsoft is said to be developing a cross-platform shell to bring the desktop Windows antiques to non-PC devices of different shapes and sizes.…
Lees meerGet me the f**k off this mailing list, hundreds scream Hundreds of NetApp customers were peeved to find they had accidentally been added to the CC field of an email, resulting in a spamaggeddon of messages.…
Lees meerHow hard can it be? Sysadmin Blog I have set myself a mission to create a cloud this year. Not a lab test version of something or other, but a real and usable cloud that I can sell to my clients. It's not built yet, but I intend to document my jour…
Lees meerIt's been a mess ever since BlueMix took over, says user An extended outage with IBM's Bluemix SoftLayer portal has customers fuming, and they say there is no way for them to tell Big Blue about it.…
Lees meerWho won? Well, we're waiting – and waiting and waiting and ... Violin Memory's assets were scheduled to be put up for auction on Monday in New York. So far, no successful bids have been announced, although a buyer could be revealed by the end of the…
Lees meerFive years in the wilds and away from storage is enough for any man Industry grey beard Nick Thurlow has returned to NetApp to run the UK business half a decade after he quit.…
Lees meerSpinners boosted by SSD sales +Comment Western Digital Corp, still digesting SanDisk, is selling more disk drives than arch-rival Seagate and appears to be doing a booming flash business as well, for now.…
Lees meerIf the next quarter goes their way, that is Get the champagne ready; Quantum might be facing its first annual revenue increase in 10 years – if the next quarter goes to plan.…
Lees meerSlashing away at Big Data access latency like Zorro Can Pure Storage keep up its booming growth as FlashBlade, its Big Data flash box, becomes generally availabile?…
Lees meerBarracuda's BJ on cloud... and Reg man on that sweet, sweet data protection honey Analysis A conversation with Barracuda CEO BJ Jenkins revealed a company whose customers are heading steadily towards the cloud – where the full stack approaches of D…
Lees meerOne sales head left and no country manager in Blighty, industry sources say Infinidat has slimmed its UK office from 17 heads to just four since January 2016, and has not won a new customer in that time, we're told.…
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