I said, honey, it's a perfect place to stash data from the N-S-A If you're looking for somewhere to run your computing instances outside the Land of the FreeTM, then Amazon Web Services has an option for the Americas with its first Canada cloud comp…
Lees meerNot everything in the all-flash garden sparkles As part of a recent survey we asked Register readers to give us some thoughts on a hot area in the storage world but with a slightly provocative edge, namely: “What frustrates you the most about how st…
Lees meerFat helium spinners and fast and fat flash stores Western Digital Corp wowed analysts with exec spiel and five – or was it six? – product announcements. We have helium gas-filled drives, a 3D TLC NAND microSD card, two SSDs and a promised furiously …
Lees meerYet interweb access is still crap for two thirds, says Which? Broadband is more essential than owning a mobile phone, running a car or having savings, according to a survey by consumer watchdog organisation Which?…
Lees meerAstride both sides of data centre startup line Sysadmin Blog I have met the enemy, and he is me. I stand astride a line. On one side I am an "IT decision-maker", on the other an "evangelist" for some startups I truly believe in. This year, I have l…
Lees meerDon't put your VMs in a spook-controlled cloud A couple of German boffins have taken a good look at AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), and don't like what they see.…
Lees meerGood news for embedded virtualisers, Debian users and anyone who likes stability A new version of the Xen Project's hypervisor has emerged blinking into the light.…
Lees meerCheap US power costs a quarter of Japanese electricity Case study Yahoo! Japan has teamed up with DDN Storage and IBM Japan to help it avoid the country's relatively high electricity costs – and run a disaster-recovery backup site on another contin…
Lees meerPlans for version 3.0 canned as Distributed Management Task Force says the job's done Work has ended on the Open Virtualisation Format (OVF), the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF's) packaging format for virtual machines.…
Lees meerCentriq 2400 now sampling, due to beat Chipzilla by a year Qualcomm says it has started shipping to customers samples of the Centriq 2400, its 10nm 64-bit ARMv8-A general-purpose server-grade system-on-chip.…
Lees meerAnd maybe over-analysed too HPC Blog It's time to close the books on another highly successful SC Student Cluster Competition. This year was special in a number of ways. First, it was the event's 10th anniversary. At 14 teams, it was also the large…
Lees meerNetwork lifter-and-shifter automates cloud migrations The vendor formerly know as CloudVelocity, since contracted to CloudVelox, has emitted code to lift and shift networks from your bit barn to Amazon Web Services (AWS).…
Lees meerOfficial line is they want to be CEOs elsewhere. Or is the culture change chafing? Two of EMC's most senior product line executives have resigned, deciding that Michael Dell's Dell Technologies and the David Goulden-run Dell EMC business unit is not…
Lees meerGoodbye drudgery - now you can script up your networking business workflows There's a few shiny boxes in the announcement, but Broadcom-bound Brocade hopes punters will find its automation software and DevOps story even more sparkly than its new kit…
Lees meerYuge attacks. The best attacks. Terabit-scale attacks from internet things Big Switch Networks is taking aim at the kinds of IoT-based attacks that have rocked the Internet this year.…
Lees meerAvago refuses to beam 64-bit CPU aboard, sources claim Broadcom is shutting down efforts to develop its own server-class 64-bit ARM system-on-chip, multiple sources within the semiconductor industry have told The Register.…
Lees meerViking raider's longboat filled with erasure codes Analysis Memoscale is a 6-person Norwegian startup, based in Trondheim, that has developed its own erasure coding (EC) technology. It says it's more efficient than classic erasure coding because it…
Lees meerEquinix takes over bit-barns as telco shifts focus to wireless and fiber Verizon has finalized a deal to hand over control of 29 data centers in the US and Latin America to Equinix, in a deal that will net the telco $3.6bn.…
Lees meerLet's hope it protects your information better than it protects its own jobs Veritas has axed 30 percent of its sales staff in the US and Europe, The Register has learned.…
Lees meerSays virtual NVMe-based SAN beats shared NVMe drive aaray Interview Storage startup Excelero is supportive of NVMe drives and of NVMe over fabrics-style networking. It has a unique way of using NVMe drives to create a virtual SAN accessed by RDMA. …
Lees meerLocation, location, location Promo Future-proofing your data centre is no longer down to a choice of the right servers and storage, it’s now all about connectivity, location and the neighbours.…
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