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Lees meerJust give it to me straight AWS re:Invent At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services tipped its hand to reveal its battle plan for invading new markets.…
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Lees meerThere's HPE, Dell and two rampant Chinese server dragons chasing them Gartner's number-crunchers say the server market declined in the third quarter, with only Cisco and the Others supplier category showing revenue growth.…
Lees meerNew wine in old bottles; NVMe fabrics can use Fibre Channel instead of replacing it +Comment A walk through the vast and spacious exhibition arena at HPE Discover in London can bring you to Cavium's stand. There Roberto Angelo Polacsek, a senior ac…
Lees meerLinux shop vows PaaS play A "significant" number of Hewlett Packard Enterprise staff are accompanying OpenStack code going to SUSE Linux.…
Lees meerSoftware's selling well, but the SDN-will-totally-kill-Cisco argument looks thin Bare metal switches are mostly still in lab deployments, it seems: according to analyst IHS Markit, sales of branded bare metal switches hit US$23m.…
Lees meerHard disk industry caught between long-term decline and occasional spurts of enthusiasm Storage analyst outfit Trendfocus says that the hard disk industry has just posted its best growth in seven years, but that it comes with its own problems.…
Lees meer'Cortana, I'd like a software defined network script'. Sure. First let me sort this 404 Microsoft's J.C. Hornbeck has valiantly tried to announce VMM SDN Express for Microsoft System Center VMM: a bundle of automation scripts covering SDN stack depl…
Lees meerSets out 3PAR lures to stop hot data going to AWS, Azure HPE is pushing its 3PAR Flash Now initiative to customers to buy 3PAR StoreServ all-flash storage array technology starting at $0.03 per usable Gigabyte per month. It claims this is a fraction…
Lees meerKaminario claims you need scale-up and scale-out for full fabric access benefits Interview NVMe adoption by array and storage software vendors is shaping up to be one of the single biggest transitions in the storage industry as the long-lived Fibre…
Lees meerStay tuned for the final results HPC Blog There was some time for fun at the recently concluded SC16 Student Cluster Competition. Fortunately for us, right next to where the competition was held stood the SUSE booth, which was equipped with a great…
Lees meerSpectrum of products extended upwards to TFinity Fancy that – flash-loving HPE is getting into big tape boxes. It's extending its high-end tape portfolio by reselling SpectraLogic tape libraries.…
Lees meerSoftware-flinger improves security, integration with v6.4 If you're in the object storage game, you'd better ensure your kit has Amazon S3 functionality and security. Storage software flogger Scality is no fool and says it has improved both with its…
Lees meerIt makes me cross Analysis A Xitore white paper compares coming XPoint DIMMs and Xitore's own flash DIMMs, and claims each XPoint DIMM needs a companion DRAM cache DIMM, obviously halving XPoint DIMM density.…
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