Remains of lab experiment, including ReRAM, will be scattered into future products HPE lab boffins have finally, after years of work, built a proof-of-concept prototype of their fairytale memory-focused computer, The Machine. The achievement is bitt…
Lees meerBit barn lights are blinking in Singapore and Australia, for members only The lights are on at French cloud concern OVH's new bit barns in Australia and Singapore, but for now only current customers are allowed to board the bare metal.…
Lees meerAWS has realised that desktop-as-a-service fleets need management too Amazon Web Services has all-but-enlisted desktop virtualisation specialist Liquidware Labs to help manage its cloudy desktops-a-a-service.…
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Lees meerOn-premises IT suppliers conniving in its own destruction +Comment On-premises IT storage suppliers are actively working to water down the importance of on-site hardware by building on-ramps to the public cloud.…
Lees meerNVMe drives need NVMe fabrics - two sides of the same NVMe coin NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics to give shared arrays the data access latency killing benefits of NVMe. Unlike Nimble architect Dimitris Krekoukias, storage startup E8 believes putting NV…
Lees meerCloud launched, but support, services, channel etc coming real soon, promise Alibaba's Aliyun cloud may have switched on in Australia, but hardly anyone is home: the company has hired only a modest support team and is yet to hire the consultants, ev…
Lees meerSAP veep on 2U, 24-drive, NVMe storage boxes Analysis SAP VP Renu Raman thinks 2U, 24-drive, NVMe storage boxes could provoke a storage VMware moment.…
Lees meerHFS A-Series given pink slip, told to walk the plank We’re hearing HDS is retiring or downgrading its 11-month-old HFS A-Series all-flash array.…
Lees meerIntrepid clusterers tackle a new(ish) benchmark HPC Blog Student teams at SC16 were faced with a new(ish) benchmark during their 48-hour marathon run for the Student Cluster Competition Cup (there is no actual cup). The teams have always run the HP…
Lees meerStop: drop your shop Quidco, the cashback site, has gone TITSUP amid a push to encourage British consumers to engage in the US-imported Black Friday sales fest.…
Lees meerEl Reg chats to Nimble man about coming wave of NVMe adoption Analysis A sea change is gathering pace in storage, powered by NVMe drive-level and fabric-level connectivity, the two declaring war on data access latency, and combining to bring data c…
Lees meerCloud = 42 Reg Reader Study If you were to re-design your data centre today from a clean sheet, would it look anything like it does at the moment?…
Lees meerBefore you get excited, there is a snag... MBBF2016 Engineers at EE recently managed to get speeds of 2.1Gbps out of a trial LTE deployment, according to Tom Bennett, the British telco’s director of network services and devices.…
Lees meerIt looks a lot like Redmond has new servers with faster disks on tap Microsoft's levelling up its A-series Azure virtual machines, the vanilla instances in its cloud, and has a new way of letting you know whats under the hood of a cloudy computer.…
Lees meerBut while the all-flash kit sales are up, hybrid arrays are down Analysis A considered look at Nimble Storage's latest quarterly results show that its all-flash array (AFA) sales are rising but hybrid product sales are falling, suggesting some cann…
Lees meerBrainier students? Maybe. New hardware, almost certainly HPC Blog SMERSH! That was the sound of the Student Cluster Competition LINPACK record being shattered – in a huge way. How huge? Really huge. As in more than doubled.…
Lees meerChina Mobile's doing it, though. You arguing with 497m customers? MBBF2016 Mobile carriers should only adopt 5G "if we're able to create new markets", Craig Ehrlich of the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) has warned the mobile network industry, addin…
Lees meer40 per cent less tedium and weepy backstories than the Olympics HPC Blog So who are the kids competing in the SC16 Student Cluster Competition this year? What are their hopes, their dreams – what makes them tick? Why did they travel all the way to …
Lees meerVMware-friendly facility Rackspace has chosen Germany as home for its first data centre in mainland Europe.…
Lees meerIt's a server design rule shakeup. Here's what we know so far Analysis HPE is undertaking the single most determined and ambitious architectural redesign of a server’s architecture in recent history in the shape of The Machine.…
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