Tune into SuperMicro, Microsoft and Intel webinar explainer, Dec 6 Promo Listen to the tech pundits and they will tell you that storage is no longer the bottleneck in your system performance. Or to be more precise, storage does not have to be a bot…
Lees meerDistributed NVMe SAN solves slow off-node access latency issues Case study How do get fast parallel data access to 128 compute nodes doing simulation processing off a slow, although massively parallel access data set?…
Lees meerQEMU serves up festive feast of OS images and oddities like Forth scripts Here's something fun for Christmas: the folks behind the free and open-source hosted QEMU hypervisor have whipped up an online advent calendar that offers you a new virtual ma…
Lees meer40Tbps link should see first light in late 2018 Junior telco Vocus has confirmed it will build a submarine cable linking Singapore and Australia, with a stop in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.…
Lees meerOpen convergence guys make mad dash for growth Datrium has gained $55m C-round funding to grow its business to global scale.…
Lees meer3D TLC latecomer catches up +Comment Micron has introduced a 5100 line of data centre flash drives and promises it will be the highest-density SATA SSD on the market.…
Lees meerEven Google will have trouble hanging on to its sandwich Traditional IT infrastructure suppliers had better watch out, as Amazon Web Services (AWS) is coming for their lunch, having already doubled its growth in Blighty over the last year - accordin…
Lees meerFree, free at last and with new software to boot Veritas has announced a major release of NetBackup, v8.0, and says it's ready to help businesses respond to the 2017 EU General Data Protection Regulations.…
Lees meerHC 250? HC 380? What are they actually for? Analysis HP has two hyper-converged systems for two different but overlapping markets – SMB, ROBO, and LOB at the low end, and LOB/data centre at the high end. Both the HC 250 and HC 380 are based on ProL…
Lees meerJapanese superdupercomputer kept fed with data by burst buffer beast This is a we-can-pee-up-the-wall-higher-than-anyone-else story – one which we'd normally give a miss - only the numbers are past 1TB/sec – head-scratchingly high.…
Lees meerTired of desktop apps that respond instantly? Banish them to the browser Acknowledging that the initial version of application streaming service AppStream failed to appeal to customers, Amazon Web Services is ready to try again.…
Lees meerCash gift-wrapped to keep beancounter sweet for next couple of months Violin Memory is cutting staff while rewarding chief financial officer Cory Sindelar with a bonus to persuade him to stay for another two months. Merry Christmas, Silicon Valley s…
Lees meer#PrayForKCL Exclusive More than a month after the catastrophic incident that brought King's College London's entire IT system down, the head of infrastructure services, Russell Frostick, is being replaced.…
Lees meerEOL for hyper-converged, rack-scale, turnkey turkey EMC is end-of-lifing its hyper-converged, rack-scale, scale-out, turnkey VxRack Neutrino product.…
Lees meerCoughing up for spectrum might be worth it for quality of service Internet of Things folk the LoRa Alliance reckons its LoRaWAN may move from unlicensed to licensed spectrum to help guarantee quality of service, according to reports.…
Lees meerHeads in sand time. If service providers don't admit a problem exists, does it? Microsoft snubbed an invitation to join a brigade of tech titans that linked arms to work on minimising network crashes that can cripple cloud service availability.…
Lees meerAdoption starts in 2017 and will be leading flash interface protocol by 2019 +Comment At a high level, Pure believes NVMe is poised to unlock the next generation of performance and density gains, and any modern all-flash array needs to be ready to …
Lees meerMurphy’s Marrakech Express leads to metaphorical storage goal Analysis It’s said that hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body from dental records, or that someone went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.…
Lees meerRedmond blames currency for UK-hosted Azure hike “My own story would not have been possible but for the democratizing force of Microsoft technology reaching me where I was growing up,” CEO Satya Nadella told shareholders this week.…
Lees meerClouds, boffins, businesses all keep hands in pockets. And ARMs are nowhere Abacus-shuffler IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for the year's third quarter makes for ugly reading: the firm says just about all categories of server sales have st…
Lees meerWith a leap second coming up, smearing's quite a good idea Google's turned on a set of public network time protocol (NTP) servers.…
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