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Lees meerElon Musk's AI effort lobs into Azure, which now has Functions, bots and very grunty instances A little over eight years ago, then-Microsoft-CEO Steve Ballmer came to Australia, told developers that Microsoft loved them and predicted that within a d…
Lees meerIt could be both if Teradici's new plan works Teradici's launched a new range of zero clients powered by silicon it did not design, a departure from its usual practice the company hopes will spread its PCoIP protocol far and wide.…
Lees meerHPC Lustre and Ceph cold stores get hot speed SpectraLogic is cementing its BlackPearl gateway deeper into the Lustre and Ceph user communities with two new integrations.…
Lees meerNot the spaceflight programme, the storage hardware Hybrid scale-out NAS startup Qumulo has banged out a software release twinned with support of HPE Apollo servers.…
Lees meerTelco to boost options for getting online in smart cities US telecom giant Verizon says it will buy the Big Apple startup LQD WiFi with the goal of improving network access in crowded cities.…
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Lees meerOn-premises S3-accessed object store WD has announced an ActiveScale P100 system for storing object data, scaling from 720TB to 19PB (raw), and forming an entry-level archive product tier well below the 672TB to 35PB Active Archive system.…
Lees meerFarewell old hat T3000 and say hello to bright and shiny T4000 All-flash and hybrid array vendor Tegile has updated its product range, with the T3000 series of all-flash, hybrid and high density arrays becoming the faster and more capavcious T4000 s…
Lees meerTrust us. It's not like we had a fortnight-long... um. Trust us Exclusive Despite losing a lot of user data from shared folders in October's mega-outage, King's College London is asking staff not to save work independently of the university's IT fa…
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Lees meerNoSQL business moving towards revenue generation? NoSQL-business DataStax has today announced its acquisition of the similarly-named DataScale, as well as plans to launch its own managed cloud offering next year.…
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