Say hello to your AI-powered robo-chatbot-barista Storage Blockhead How on Earth did this nonsense about a basic income come about, with its inability to understand governments' thinking on paying benefits?…
Lees meerNumber one: Make designing special-purpose hardware as easy as writing software The International Symposium on Computing Architecture has revealed the five architectural challenges it thinks computer science needs to solve to meet the demands of the…
Lees meerWhy Veeam's new backup agent for Linux, of course! Veeam has given the world a Linux Backup Agent.…
Lees meerIt'll be virtual, natch, but so is the rest of your bit barn – in a bad way Israeli outfit Stratoscale has updated its Symphony suite so it can effectively become an on-premises Amazon Web Services (AWS) region.…
Lees meerWe don't like to brag or anything, mumbles IT giant Analysis NEC has the biggest, baddest scale-out deduping backup-to-disk array on the planet and we virtually never hear about it. NEC is not a top-six purpose-built backup supplier, according to I…
Lees meerGrowth priority causes delayed cash flow break-even gratification Cloud storage gateway and enterprise file services startup Nasuni has had a funding round to grow its business further expansion in Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, meaning expa…
Lees meerAlleges patent infringements by ... hang on, they work together? Having had its patent infringement lawsuits against Veeam seen off by the US courts, Symantec has now filed an IP infringement lawsuit against cloud-based security outfit ZScaler.…
Lees meerWe can't give you what you need right now... Broadband-pusher 186k – as well as ISPs it supplies including Fast.co.uk and Firenet – is advising customers to seek other providers as it is unable to "continue to supply" its current service, in a notic…
Lees meerRestructuring could be over by end of Feb next year Violin Memory has cut its CEO’s base salary from from $750,000 to $150,000 a year – although it's just for three months.…
Lees meerTech efficiency threatens to clobber old timers Analysis Squeezed between the giant pressures of hyper-convergence, the public cloud, object storage and software-defined/cheap commodity hardware, the old guard storage suppliers face shrinkage into …
Lees meerCloud concern ITIL-ises the big end of town, so created a service to get them moving Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it's getting in to the managed services business.…
Lees meerSources tell of 10-hour data wiping disaster recovery plan after unique collapse The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has confirmed its more than two-day outage which has still downed customer-facing sites and systems was caused by the failure of ne…
Lees meerSoundtrack choices: Beta The Devil You Know, or How Soon Is Now? VMware's quietly started asking for beta testers for its Cloud Foundation running on its own cloud, vCloud Air.…
Lees meerAPI magic, that's what, with a little help from Comtrade Comtrade Software has introduced management packs for Nutanix that allow owners of the hyperconverged kit to manage it with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).…
Lees meerSnuffing OpenStack cloud means it's all hybrid cloud and network function virtualisation from now on at Switchzilla Cisco will turn off its Intercloud Services (CIS) public cloud next year, The Register understands.…
Lees meerEngineers? That's crazy talk! Former UK state monopoly BT - whose broadband division Openreach has been repeatedly been criticised for its poor customer service - is to hire 500 call centre staff in a bid to tackle complaints.…
Lees meerNantero’s NRAM crowd's tech has already been licensed Nantero’s 16-year march to carbon nanotube memory products just got another slug of cash to help it on its way, over $21m, to be specific.…
Lees meerEcosystem's maturation will provide D5 springboard next year Interview The most high profile NVMe-using array is Dell EMC's all-flash, 10 million IOPS D5, the much anticipated product of its billion-dollar acquisition of DSSD.…
Lees meerVirtzilla embraces Docker with open source vSphere extensions VMware has released its long-touted vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC), the company's way of making vSphere a fine place to run containers.…
Lees meerCold-water time for fancy pants players Analysis The enterprise storage market is in a period of data growth according to IDC-forcasted zettabyte heaven, right? Er, no, because it's it entered a recessionary period, with negative growth. Says IDC.…
Lees meerBill Moore is no more team as Emerging Technologies loses another top exec The Register's storage desk has learned that DSSD President Bill Moore has left Dell EMC.…
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