Not quite sure how the new mechanism works? Mull it over here HPC Blog How does 10x faster server performance sound to you? Not in five or six years, but in late 2017? Ground breaking things are afoot in the server world. IBM’s new OpenCAPI mechani…
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Lees meer45 per cent of load balancers threw 502 errors for an hour last Thursday Google has revealed that it broke its own cloud again, this time because of two failures: a software error and alerts that proved too hard to interpret.…
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Lees meerFreeNAS's 2003-looking grown-up sibling examined Review Data storage is difficult, and ZFS-based storage doubly so. There's a lot of money to be made if you can do storage right, so it's uncommon to see a storage company with an open-source model d…
Lees meerDeal or no deal Comment A UK consultant claims he had such a poor experience with Maxta's hyper-converged infrastructure software that he asked for his firm's money back. But the vendor has told a very different story.…
Lees meerPrimary Data converges files and blocks for VSAN +Comment Primary Data is providing file services for VSAN and its block-based storage.…
Lees meerThe UI – seriously, the UI – is the bit VMware thinks is most significant this time around VMware has finally shoved vSphere 6.5 out the door, more than a year after it was deemed good enough to run VMworld Europe 2016, eight months after its formal…
Lees meerStarring on a Dell-powered box near you soon, if you feel like buying one, of course Caringo has updated its Swarm object storage software and will flog the code on appliances based on Dell PowerEdge servers.…
Lees meerDell-EMC's virtual virtuoso cuddles containers, plus more news VMworld Europe Containers are docking at this week's VMworld Europe Barcelona shindig – with VMware supporting containers in its compute, storage and management product set (vSphere, VS…
Lees meerSnapdragon X50 will push 5G bps through 800 MHz of mm-wave spectrum Qualcomm's stuck its flag into the desert island labelled “5G”, hoping to turn it into a lush paradise.…
Lees meerSync 'n' share survives if you cough up. The rest of you, download before November 16 LogMeIn is mostly-closing “Cubby”, it's little-known Dropbox clone.…
Lees meerArgues that users don't control where data resides, so Redmond should pretend its within reach of US law The United States Department of Justice has asked the nation's Second Circuit Court of Appeals to re-open its three-year-old case attempt to hav…
Lees meerBing searches get speed boost from Catapult integration Microsoft hooks up reprogrammable chips directly to its data centers' internal networks to ramp up the performance of its web applications.…
Lees meerSwaps all-flash array, analytics for channel access Lenovo, which has huge ambitions in the storage market, has sealed a partnership deal with Nimble and will be selling Nimble's all-flash array and using its predictive analytics.…
Lees meer'Be relevant, beat the compeetition. Believe. Have fun. Go to the boozer' The classic management domino affect has reached Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s UK team with new broom Marc Waters naming his sales lieutenants.…
Lees meerResistance is futile against this on-coming go-to-market blitzkrieg Pushy Pure Storage is expanding its FlashStack collaboration with Cisco.…
Lees meerBaaS, AaaS and DRaaS joined by STaaS and CaaS HDS has updated its converged and hyper-converged product offerings and added storage, compute and analytic things available as a service. Put another way – BaaS, AaaS and DRaaS are joined by STaaS and C…
Lees meerBuggy code pulled plug on wrong certificates, basically GlobalSign has performed a postmortem examination on how, as one of the world's root certificate authorities, it managed to break a chunk of the web.…
Lees meerOK, so someone's angling for a discount Google has gently increased pressure on Intel – its main source for data-center processors – by saying it is "looking forward" to using chips from IBM and other semiconductor rivals.…
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