Tight-lipped company's secrecy efforts undone by regulator Nutanix might not be saying when it’s going to IPO but Nasdaq sure is.…
Lees meerMicrosoft's helping you move to per-core pricing and making Azure more attractive too Windows Server 2016 has finally been shoved out the door today, albeit only for evaluation purposes. Which is a very good thing because the software will cost a lo…
Lees meerRFC identifies handy spot for RTT, packet loss metrics A proposal at the Internet Engineering Task Force suggests network admins can use the venerable STUN protocol to help them pick the best path across IP networks.…
Lees meerNext big inflection point will be storage-class memory Albeit late to market, NetApp is developing a hyper-converged infrastructure product, The Register has learned.…
Lees meerNowt wrong with a good old HDD Storage Architect Recently I was asked to review a document that used as a reference a piece of work from Google (PDF) which talked about the need to relax the resiliency levels of hard drives and SSDs.…
Lees meerContainers, containers, containers, containers, says Azure CTO (well, sort of) IGNITE Microsoft announced the release of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 at its Ignite event in Atlanta. The commercially supported edition of the Docker eng…
Lees meerTurns to Intel Altera FPGAs IGNITE Microsoft is using Intel Altera Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) chips to speed up Azure services, according to an announcement at the Ignite event under way in Atlanta.…
Lees meerIntegration with Dynamics CRM and Azure the 'preferred cloud' IGNITE Microsoft and Adobe announced a new cloud partnership at the Ignite event this week in Atlanta.…
Lees meerAllegro vivace to andante to largo to coda Analysis The elusive hunt for renewal and regrowth at Violin Memory has moved into a new phase – with a product launch holding up sales, sales leadership change, and the CEO focusing on finding funding for…
Lees meerBi-modal IO distributions a purer way to see array performance Interview We interviewed Dimitris Krekoukias, Nimble Storage's global technology and strategy architect, on the subject of storage array performance claims – he has some strong opinions…
Lees meerNew on-prem kit coming in December, when we'll learn what the Red Cloud's made of When Larry Ellison promised on-premises cloud kit identical to Oracle's cloud, we wondered just what form those boxes would take. The answer? Pretty much more of the c…
Lees meerIntel software speeds HPC distributed file work DataDirect Networks has upgraded its EXAScaler array to run the latest version of Intel’s Lustre software.…
Lees meerAndre Leibovici's out of time, so it's your turn to step up Virtualisation identity Andre Leibovici has open-sourced his desktop virtualisation (VDI) infrastructure calculator.…
Lees meerIt's time to make Layer 2 scaleable again Interview It's way too easy to get past a firewall, map out an enterprise's network, and start tapping IP addresses looking for vulnerable machines – so why are we using Layer 3 addressing as the basis of t…
Lees meerAlso plugs into Microsoft's Scale-Out File Server Hedvig has updated its software-defined storage to version 2.0 and is flying with a Universal Data Plane concept.…
Lees meerTintri looking for sales ignition from Hyper-V support Hybrid and all-flash array vendor Tintri is expanding Hyper-V support, extending its existing VMware virtual machine-aware facilities.…
Lees meerWouldn't be about cutting energy costs for your 100+ bit barns, then? Microsoft is turning over a new leaf and going green. At least, that's what the firm’s chief environmental strategist has claimed as he sketched plans to make its data centres mor…
Lees meerCollaborates with Australia's Megaport on software-defined links between big bit barns Bit barn baron Digital Realty has decided it needs to be a player in the cloud connection caper. The company's therefore cooked up something called “Service Excha…
Lees meerNot so interested in lengthy subscription contracts Analysis Linux and open-source cloud supremo Red Hat is looking at adapting its licensing to please enterprise customers who want greater flexibility in the way they pay for software and services,…
Lees meer'We stand by our figures' says defiant company mouthpiece You might have noticed that El Reg has suggested Intel and Micron’s non-volatile XPoint memory claims are a tad overblown – for example here and here. Now Charlie Demerjian is giving Intel a …
Lees meerScreenscraper rebranded Google is rebranding its screen-scraping data guzzler Now On Tap, as it buries the entire Now initiative under the onslaught of its multiplatform chatty “Assistant” project.…
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