Survey shows a storage tidal wave coming our way Comment A new phase of disruption is hitting the performance data storage array market, giving new, old, startup and struggling all-flash array vendors a shot at making it big by using NVMe flash dri…
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Lees meerJust make sure your team evolves with the technology Here’s a key benefit of that shiny new hyperconverged box you just bought: it’s supposed to speak the cloud’s language.…
Lees meerHybrid cloud for those who dithered, like Big Red OpenWorld Throughout this year's Oracle OpenWorld conference, the company's message has been fairly simple – the database firm is moving to cloud but can offer buyers either on-prem kit, full public…
Lees meerBarreleye server offers Power8 alternative to Intel boxes Freshly acquired hosting slinger Rackspace has built a custom-developed server based on IBM’s Power chips and the Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications.…
Lees meerUnleashes Xiphias gladius – Swordfish to you and me The SNIA has unveiled its v1.0 Swordfish storage management specification to standardise management of storage products and services in cloud-era data centres.…
Lees meerFlashy NVMe pair up to 1TB – for now.... Samsung has introduced 960 EVO and 960 PRO M.2-format consumer SSDs with an NVMe interface and a promised 2TB capacity.…
Lees meerSeagate's Kinetic drives get a new twist on ye olde JBOD Frog object storage startup OpenIO is banging on with supporting Seagate’s Kinetic disk drives, and has certified its software on the drives in a Kinetic Plugfest.…
Lees meerNow only local spy agencies can slurp your data. Hurrah! Microsoft has started to serve up Azure services from a new cloud region in Germany – operated under the supervision of a data trustee – to pitch for European punters with concerns about secur…
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Lees meerKaminario is adding cloudy analytics to all flash array Unlike real clouds which hide things, Kaminario is adding a Clarity analytics cloud to its K2 all-flash arrays.…
Lees meerEr, and you might wish to READ them too Migrating to an outsourced IT service including cloud is a great opportunity to outsource responsibility for IT and employees while simultaneously increasing efficiency and decreasing cost. At least, that’s th…
Lees meerWanting it is one thing, justifying it is another We have been getting some good responses in our latest poll on all-flash storage.…
Lees meerOh and Larry's cut-price claim ignores that most people buy cloud as reserved instances Oracle's gone in hard on cloud this week, promising a stellar, cheap cloud that has already erased Amazon Web Services' lead.…
Lees meerImagine a whitelist-checker running in the safety of the hypervisor kernel and monitoring VMs in real time VMware has shown off a working prototype of “Project Goldilocks”, its long-hinted-at plan to develop a new approach to security.…
Lees meerYour disaster recovery may be delayed by Microsoft's disaster recovery – and odd timekeeping Azure's Australia East region, located in Sydney, experienced nearly eight hours of degraded performance thanks to what Microsoft is calling “an ongoing Net…
Lees meerHaha, of course he didn't – he trash-talked AWS databases for an hour OpenWorld Oracle’s founder and CTO Larry Ellison took to the stage for his second OpenWorld keynote today, and spent the bulk of his presentation pointing out flaws in his chief …
Lees meerRevenues rise as cloud lineup brings big bucks Adobe is crediting the success of its cloud and digital media groups in reporting record quarterly revenues.…
Lees meerPesky no name ODMs beat down the big brands The latest server sales figures for Europe, Middle East and Africa show the continued march of no name server makers as enterprises and big data centres increasingly buy hardware directly from ODMs fron th…
Lees meerIt's free. Now find something it can actually be useful for The government-backed Digital Catapult wheeze has launched an “Internet of Things network” across London to titivate the lives of the eight million poor souls trapped within the M25.…
Lees meerSecond outage at huge data centre in three months A power outage at "Europe’s largest purpose-built data centre”, Global Switch 2 – which knocked one customer offline for two days – has been blamed on a high voltage fault.…
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