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Broadcom has confirmed that its acquisition of virtualisation giant VMware is now on track to close on 30 October 2023 after the proposed merger secured regulatory approval from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
The CMA published a statement on 21 August 2023 confirming...
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IOPS at 66.9 million and latency of 6.2µs on an eight-node software-defined hyper-converged cluster compared with 0.77 million IOPS and latency of 3.35ms on the same configuration but in Ceph. That’s the claim of Simplyblock, which has been launched by a German startup of the same...
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There is little surprise that Gartner’s latest research on emerging technology shows that generative AI is reaching a peak in hype.
“The popularity of many new AI techniques will have a profound impact on business and society,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, distinguished vice-president analyst at Gartner. “The...
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What is power factor correction (PFC)?
Power factor correction (PFC) is the set of mechanisms built into a power supply circuit to raise the power factor (PF). PFC is commonly incorporated into computer power supplies to increase their PF. A circuit's PF is the ratio...
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Nutanix has launched GPT-in-a-Box, a bundled service that adds artificial intelligence (AI) software stack elements – such as foundation models and AI frameworks – to scale-out hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).
GPT-in-a-Box also offers consulting so that customers can specify the right infrastructure configuration, in terms of hardware –...
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The US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) is to conduce a review of cloud cyber security, focusing on what government bodies, industry and cloud service providers need to do better to strengthen identity management and authentication in the cloud.
The probe comes in the wake of...
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CyberPower, supplier of the PowerPanel datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) software and Dataprobe, supplier of the iBoot power distribution unit (PDU), have issued patches for a series of dangerous vulnerabilities that, had they been discovered by threat actors, could have caused global disruption on an almost unprecedented...
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Huawei is known for its networking and telecoms business, with products that range from handsets to routers to 5G network infrastructure.
But the firm is also known for the embargoes, bans and sanctions by Western states that seek to rein in Chinese influence.
In data storage,...
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In this podcast, we look at file synchronisation software, with Jimmy Tan, CEO of Peer Software.
We talk about how it works and the differing methodologies that can be used, such as peer-to-peer and hub-spoke topologies.
Tan also talks about key use cases for file synchronisation,...
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Some have predicted the imminent demise of spinning disk hard drives (HDDs), but Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development in storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe, argues they have many more years life left in them.
Core to his argument is that with the volume...
