Work in a data centre? No sign of pink slip doom yet
The data center networking market is keeping pace with sales of servers, according to the latest research from IDC. The company’s box counters say that in the third quarter ended in September that re…
A pipe so fat it can satiate even the biggest boxes
Companies may be excited about doing Google-style analytics on all aspects of their business with Hadoop and other “big data” tools, but big businesses are bracing for bigger phone bills as big data i…
FCoE ahead of 16GBit/s FC, sniffs boss
Blocks and Files A Cisco boss fired a warning shot across Brocade’s bow after the rival networking biz bragged that it had a two-year lead over Cisco in the 16Gb/s Fibre Channel arena.…
Empties flammenwerfer tank over hapless hack, boffins
Here is some Christmas holiday reading. HP’s claim that RRAM, PCM, and MRAM are all memristor technologies is bullshit, the memristor is not a fourth fundamental circuit element, HP didn’t find it, …
i365 goes back to the future
Seagate’s cloud backup biz, i365, has renamed itself EVault, the name it was called when Seagate bought it five years ago.…
CPU and memory makers strut their stuff
The new year in IT always begins around now, when the IEEE puts out the advance program for the International Solid State Circuits Conference, which takes place in San Francisco in February. This time around, it …
Who will flash the cash for this flash cache stash?
Fancy spending splashing some cash to buy some flash? Then go to the Lone Star state, where Texas Memory Systems has put itself up for sale.…
Looking to boost fiscal Q1 sales
Hewlett-Packard has a new CEO in Meg Whitman, but it has the same fiscal year that ends in October and the same mis-match between its own quarters and those of the bulk of the companies in the world who buy its IT wares…
Jesus phone maker gets Anobit’s Holy Land base
Reports are saying Apple has actually done it – Cupertino’s gone and acquired flash controller and SSD startup Anobit for $500m as expected.…
It beat EMC to the hike
We thought EMC was the first major enterprise supplier to raise disk drive prices after the Thailand floods. Not so. HP sent out a letter – pictured here – last month saying it was being forced to increase prices as a result of …