Australia's Murchison radio telescope tells Reg how big astronomy destroys big data Australia's precursor to the Square Kilometre Array has gone from sitting on the slipway to shedding champagne-bottle shards and sliding gracefully into action.…
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Lees meerSitting in a tree, K I S S I N G DDN has signed a deal for Inspur to sell tested and configured systems to worldwide HPC customers, using DDN storage alongside Inspur servers, networking, software and services.…
Lees meer£3m granted for 'emerging architectures' supercomputing mashup A fellowship of four UK universities, along with HPC veteran Cray and the Met Office have been handed £3m to build a 10,000+ ARM core supercomputer.…
Lees meerHyper-converges hyper-converger, thereby converging market Analysis SimpliVity, the second-placed hyper-converged infrastructure appliance startup, has been bought by HPE for $650m, setting the stage for mainstream vendor dominance of the hyper-con…
Lees meerNavigator and Pathfinder beget Aviator Flash drive life extender NVMdurance has enlarged its market by developing techniques for extending the life of 3D flash drives.…
Lees meerTick 'em off, impress the boardroom Comment Object storage is a relatively new market segment that has continued to grow steadily and is starting to find more reasons for adoption.…
Lees meerKey to unlocking mega smartphone market Analysis LTE-Broadcast is poised for mass adoption at last, claims the Alliance which was set up last April to promote it. The Alliance aims to make a splash at next month’s Mobile World Congress, to boost op…
Lees meerSmall island's big telco talks to El Reg Interview Jersey Telecom recently rolled out a LoRa network covering the entire island. The telco’s wholesale director, Tom Noel, spoke to The Register to elaborate a little on what it hopes to achieve.…
Lees meerSmaller firms make up over 20% of business Promo In the face of industry upheaval, Cisco retains its status as the go-to enterprise networking choice for big businesses.…
Lees meerInstead we're getting version '11.next', two new generations of SPARC and SPARC infrastructure-as-a-service In late 2016 The Register received credible-but-ultimately-unverifiable reports that Oracle was scaling back Solaris development, perhaps wit…
Lees meerAEConnect cable expands university research networking Researchers are getting another 100 Gbps of dedicated connectivity between America and Europe, courtesy of a link on the AEConnect cable activated by Indiana University.…
Lees meerNet boffins float RFC to fix the protocol before things turn nasty A trio of 'net experts argues that a key IPv6 protocol needs fixing to get rid of a fragmentation attack vector against routers in large-scale core networks.…
Lees meerHyperconverged unicorn loses its horn As predicted by The Register last September, HPE has announced it will acquire hyperconverged contender SimpliVity for US$650m in cash.…
Lees meerIf you work in any HPC field, don't miss the Frankfurt conference Promo Catch up with the latest developments in high-performance computing at the five-day 2017 ISC conference and exhibition in Frankfurt June 18-22. The theme is high-performance co…
Lees meerAs if backup competition happens to someone else It's news but kind of expected; Veeam has seen almost 30 per cent year-on-year growth in its final 2016 quarter, and full-year revenues of $607.4m. Veeam on.…
Lees meerHoping to replicate Big Blue deal with additional partners WANdisco's OEM selling deal with IBM has brought home the Big Blue bacon with total bookings up 72 per cent year-on-year to $15.5m.…
Lees meerFollows startup's agreement with Huawei Alluxio, the multi-silo Big Data access accelerating startup which did a deal with Huawei last year, has signed a similar one with Dell EMC for its ECS product.…
Lees meerLondon base in global expansion Oracle will open a cloud region in the UK that's based in London and plans to have three data centres serving the region by mid-2017.…
Lees meerBulky, low-capacity spinner built for SMBs It's back to the future for the latest Seagate large form factor disk with a low capacity.…
Lees meerMakes its Brentrance in the South and West regions Microsoft's slow rollout of the full suite of Azure tools in the UK has taken another step forwards today, with Automation arriving in both of its UK regions.…
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