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Panasas tells world+dog: We’ve broken free from chains of proprietary kit

NetworksNovember 14, 2018

HPC supplier Panasas has introduced a faster file system and non-proprietary hardware design in its biggest product refresh for a decade or more....

FPGAs? Sure, them too. Liqid pours chips over composable computing systems

NetworksNovember 13, 2018

Liqid has added FPGAs to the list of compute resources its customers can use to compose workload-specific computing systems. An FPGA (field-programmable gate...

What’s big, blue, and short on Intel? The supercomputer world’s podium: USA tops Top500 with IBM Power9

NetworksNovember 12, 2018

IBM can now officially boast it has built the world's two most powerful publicly known supercomputers. The Big Blue-powered 144 PFLOPS Summit and...

The Register translates VMware’s VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader

NetworksNovember 6, 2018

Today marks the opening of VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 event in Barcelona, Spain. The Dell-owned virtualization giant has a bunch of announcements to...

Tax me if you can: VMware UK tosses shrunken offering to HMRC

NetworksNovember 2, 2018

Trendy social media firms and ad slingers often come under attack for hiring beanies to minimise their tax contribution, something they see as...

It’s wall-to-wall Huawei: Chinese behemoth hogs five of six top spots in SPC-1 array benchmark

NetworksNovember 1, 2018

Chinese array and IT systems supplier Huawei has set a new SPC-1 performance record, snagging it five out of the top six results....

Cray’s pre-exascale Shasta supercomputer gets energy research boffins hot under collar

NetworksOctober 31, 2018

Cray has announced Shasta – a near-composable planned supercomputer supporting multiple CPUs, GPUs and interconnects, including its new high-speed Slingshot Ethernet-compatible fabric that...

Slow your roll: VMware urges admins to apply workarounds to DoS-inducing 3D render vuln

NetworksOctober 11, 2018

VMware has warned users about an "important" denial-of-service vuln in ESXi, Workstation and Fusion that hinges on a problem with 3D rendering. The...

HPC botherer DDN breaks file system benchmark record

NetworksOctober 11, 2018

Enterprise HPC storage vendor DDN has run the SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark 25 per cent faster than an E8 NVMe storage system using...

Still holding out on Windows 10? Microsoft tempts upgrade with virtual desktop to Azure

NetworksSeptember 24, 2018

Ignite With Windows Virtual Desktop, Microsoft is offering corporate Window 7 users yet another migration path to Windows 10; this time via Azure....

Click your heels, um, mouse thrice and you’ve quickly got Ubuntu on Hyper-V in Win 10 Pro

NetworksSeptember 19, 2018

Windows 10 users have yet another way to run Linux, thanks to tighter integration between Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor. While...