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Lees meerNow IT bricks it: A 'series of extremely unlikely events' Exclusive We are two weeks into the outage issues at King's College London, and a communiqué from IT has warned staff that those issues won't be completely resolved for at least a fortnight …
Lees meerOTCQX replaces delisting NYSE as its share trading body In an astoundingly fast piece of work Violin Memory shares were listed and trading on the OTCQX market a day after the New York Stock Exchange said it was halting trading in Violin’s shares.…
Lees meerWe hear the ban is biting as buyers tire of waiting The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has “instituted a formal enforcement proceeding” relating to the ban on Arista importing certain networking kit.…
Lees meerBecause it isn't necessarily storage IO at all Analysis The best IO is... no IO. Windows Server 2016 has code to supercharge data storage IO speed by not treating it as IO anymore.…
Lees meerChipzilla’s M.2 format SSD for data centre server reading use Intel has released a tiny, single-sided and heavily read-optimised SDD for server use in data centres.…
Lees meerComplaints abound as new limits placed on ISPs handling data The FCC has formally approved its new rules for internet service providers on the handling of customer data, and it seems few people on either side are particularly happy.…
Lees meerFoundation chiefs betting on tech firms' appetites to prove interoperability Openstack Summit Don't expect future implementations of OpenStack without vendors first having cleared a new battery of emerging conformity tests.…
Lees meerStorage stalwart flashes past lumbering Seagate +Comment WD's disk and SanDisk-boosted flash sales boomed as overall revenues in its first fiscal 2017 quarter rose to $4.7bn, up 40.6 per cent on the year-ago $3.4bn. But it reported a net $366m loss…
Lees meerFantastic price, but connectivity more roulette than reliability REVIEW Members of the IT community rave about networking kit vendor Ubiquiti. You'll find praises sung both on Spiceworks and amongst vExperts for their UniFi devices. Unfortunately, …
Lees meerInsides out examination for open-source fluffers OpenStack Summit Dynatrace is taking on open-source cloud tools with a performance suite it claims is “enterprise grade.”…
Lees meerARM vs. x86 can wait as first decent Xeon alternatives in ages pressure Chipzilla AMD has deployed a team of folks to charm enterprise server users ahead of the debut of its Zen designed-from-scratch x86 processor microarchitecture and the message t…
Lees meerDaisy-chaining for scale-up SATA SSDs Well, this is unfashionable: UK-based Integral Memory and Korean Flash storage provider Novachips have co-produced a SVR-PRO SATA III SSD suited for scale-up use.…
Lees meerAdds analytics + biz process automation as losses narrow Commvault has software-defined storage and business process automation in its future, as it announces a $600,000 net loss on revenues of $156.3m in its latest quarter. The firm is hoping this …
Lees meerFloat prospect of federated alternative to AWS Openstack Summit OpenStackers have sought to alleviate concerns that applications on rival clouds are locked in and not portable.…
Lees meerUps Enterprise's capacity, speeds up data streams Seagate's sixth generation Enterprise Performance disk drive ups its capacity by 50 per cent to 900GB and increases data transfer speed past 300MB/sec.…
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