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Lees meerTeams messaging software bunged on Office 365 Microsoft has created Teams, an Office 365 chat app that is a direct competitor to Slack in the messaging sphere.…
Lees meerFeaturing private cloud file sync and share Mobile phone users can access Nexsan's Unity storage array, and Nexsan has added web access apps for laptops and desktops.…
Lees meerEverything's getting cloudier in partnership with Microsoft Adobe MAX Adobe has announced a series of updates to its Creative Cloud offering at its MAX event under way in San Diego.…
Lees meerA dose of digital Botox for hybrid cloud ideas NetApp has added a few more capabilities and buffed up some products to make sure customers using its hybrid on-premises-public cloud facilities have a smoother ride. There's nothing dramatic here but r…
Lees meerTake a chill in Google's cloud care home Cloudian is integrating its HyperStore object storage with Google's Coldline archive in the cloud.…
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Lees meerSupply shortage to end around March, we're warned A biting shortage of NAND flash has upended the storage chip supply chain, forcing vendors to quote customers elongated lead times – in some extreme cases by more than four months.…
Lees meerAllegedly Cisco has designed a storage server that it claims is 56 per cent cheaper over three years than paying out for Amazon's S3 service. The networking giant also reckons it's the first fully modular server architecture in the industry.…
Lees meerAutomaker says backup power saved the day, but monthly financial reports delayed Ford is working to recover after a fire at its US corporate headquarters briefly shut down data center operations and prevented it from gathering sales data.…
Lees meerSod the locals, we've got a corporate social responsibility PR budget to blow Amazon has taken on a stalled wind farm project in Ohio to power its data centres because, as we all know, intermittent and flaky power supplies dependent entirely on the …
Lees meerTintri tossing out out chatbot-ready TOS automation, cloud, container support Tintri has updated its Tintri OS and is adding a vRealize Orchestrator plug-in, container and cloud support, serving notice it is to extend predictive analytics to include…
Lees meer'Customers shouldn’t have to be the ones discovering these bugs!' says vExpert VMware says its NSX network virtualisation product is growing fast … perhaps too fast, because it's again been found to have a nasty bug.…
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