NetApp will maintain its big push towards data management for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and took the opportunity to explain that move at its Insight 2024 event in Las Vegas this week. Core to that is data management via a global metadata namespace in its Ontap storage operating system that aims to make corporate data…
Pure Storage has announced new features in its FlashBlade file and object flash storage family, including zero-move tiering, secure multi-tenancy, always-on quality of service, artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot for file and an entry-level array. The feature updates were dubbed “reinventing file storage” by Pure at its Accelerate London event this week. That idea aims to…
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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 3 September 2024 The politics of techno-refusal Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we learn about the politics of techno-refusal and the lessons to be learned from a group of IT workers who spent the early 1980s sabotaging tech infrastructure. Following…
Overspending awaits the unwary when managing heterogeneous IT environments incorporating on-premise software, cloud apps and software as a service (SaaS), even as software asset management (SAM) continues to adapt, evolving beyond mere inventory audits. According to Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, IT service management (ITSM) marketing director at ManageEngine, which develops various IT management offerings, SAM remains a…
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It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…
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HighPoint Technologies has updated their NVMe switch and RAID solutions with PCIe 5.0, and supporting up to eight NVMe drives. The new HighPoint Rocket 1600 (switch add-in card) and 7600 series (RAID adapters) are the successors to the SSD SSD7500 series adapter cards introduced in 2020. Similar to its predecessors, the new Rocket series cards…
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Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware last year follows on from a number of smaller but significant software acquisitions the company has made over the past few years. These all appear to point to the company’s appetite to develop a software business built on acquiring the customers of these businesses. In 2018, Broadcom acquired CA Technologies.…
Demand for high-performance processors for AI training is skyrocketing, and consequently so is the demand for the components that go into these processors. So much so that SK hynix this week is very publicly announcing that the company’s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has already sold out for the rest of 2024, and even most…
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The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has announced this week that the next-generation interconnection consortium has grown to 55 members. And as the group works towards developing the initial version of their ultra-fast Ethernet standard, they have released some of the first technical details on the upcoming standard. Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims…
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 that, in line with its provisional judgement on the…
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