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Lees meerUnless you're willing to tolerate the chance of data corruption IBM on Saturday slipped out news of a nasty bug in its VIOS, its Virtual I/O Server that offers virtualisation services on Power Systems under AIX.…
Lees meerStartup orbits security VM around vSphere and VSAN unstructured data Analysis Startup DataGravity laid off staff in February last year and subsequently pivoted away from building and selling its Discovery Series array line to building a shipping vi…
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Lees meerPatient is suspected to have died while system was down The IT system responsible for dispatching ambulances across London has been hit by three outages in the last year, it has emerged.…
Lees meerSoCing it to the ARM-powered nodes The European Commission's multi-phase, super-dupe-compute project Mont-Blanc is pouring more euro gravy into developing an army of ARM SoC compute nodes.…
Lees meerWe know you've been in an accident. It says so in our *beeeeep* BT has opened a free nuisance call screening service, which it estimates could junk 15 million cold calls - such as PPI and accident claims - to a voicemail box.…
Lees meerFrom aardvark to Bicholim, the encylopedia of things that never were Sixteen years ago, Larry Sanger had the idea for a wiki-based encyclopaedia anyone could edit: the "wiki-pedia". On January 15, 2001, he and Jimmy Wales launched the site. Today, i…
Lees meerSilicon to carbon change could boost Nantero's business A market-research report suggests carbon nanotube storage developer Nantero could be on the verge of a breakout after years of disappointment and struggle.…
Lees meer2017 forecast to see cloud kit clock $11bn every 90 days Abacus-shuffling outfit IDC has updated its Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker with sales data for Q3 2016 and predictions for spend in 2017.…
Lees meerNew VMs will use over-provisioned RAM reserved by other apps The Register's virtualisation desk is back from holidays, just in time to report changes to desktop Hyper-V before they go completely stale.…
Lees meerSounds odd but it could work - disk controller heads are stateless Storage Architect There’s an almost religious divide between those who see containers as entirely stateless objects and others taking a more pragmatic approach that says state and c…
Lees meerStorNext bringing in the scale-out, tiered storage bread Quantum has surprised itself with preliminary quarterly revenue numbers well ahead of plan.…
Lees meerIf Exagrid pulls it off, it'll be a first Exagrid, whch produces deduping disk backup target arrays, announced record revenue for the fourth 2016 quarter; its 12th,consecutive cash-positive quarter.…
Lees meerPockets of growth in Europe fail to prevent overall decline EMEA geography purpose-built backup appliance sales shrank 9 per cent annually in the third 2016 quarter, through there were pockets of growth.…
Lees meerBig Blue coats DS8880 boxen with cognitive paint IBM has announced all-flash versions of three DS8880 monolithic arrays revealed last year, with increased flash capacities and a coat of cognitive marketing paint.…
Lees meerBig Blue pretty sure it can sell more Watson boxes if this works IBM says it will partner with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a study of whether blockchain technology could be used to securely transfer medical information.…
Lees meerNice market you have there, Bluetooth. Shame if anything should happen to it ... At CES last week, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced a certification program for devices supporting the TimeSync feature.…
Lees meerDocument police with 'god-like' access denied therapy – claim Two former Microsoft employees have sued the Windows giant seeking compensation for the mental trauma of screening child sex abuse photos, murder videos, and other extreme content flowing…
Lees meerScaling up, out, and across, but workout flops at files HPE has given its SV3200 software a workout to strengthen its muscles with a raft of enhancements, but draws the line at using ARM for file access.…
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