The University of Reading’s IT team plans to “pull the plug” on its Nutanix-based infrastructure to test disaster recovery (DR) readiness after a move to the supplier’s NC2 cloud services. That’s according to head of operations Kevin Mortimer, who spoke to Computer Weekly at Nutanix’s .Next 2025 event in the US last week. The University of…
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2024 was a banner year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, Qualcomm’s keynote presentation last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars from makes of many of…
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A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is blocked by uncertainty over pricing amid US president Donald Trump’s recent flurry of on-off, up-down tariffs. PAH saved £500,000 when it migrated from VMware on end-of-life EMC VNX storage arrays to Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) several years…
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Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix is among a number of suppliers that smell blood in the water when it comes to VMware and its customers following the virtualisation giant’s acquisition by Broadcom. At Nutanix’s annual .Next bash in Washington DC last week, migration away from VMware and to – it hopes – its own Acropolis hypervisor (AHV)…
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Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer and market leader Nutanix has added the ability to connect with external storage from Pure Storage from its HCI stack. The move is Nutanix’s second overture towards external storage – the first was to Dell PowerFlex last year – and marks a further rupture with a strict hyper-converged infrastructure model The…
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In this podcast, we talk to Quantum CEO Jamie Lerner about the company’s plans as it orients from a historical legacy in tape storage to flash and disk for artificial intelligence (AI), extreme capacity and very long retention periods, all in the context of a commercially challenging few years. You’d only just need two hands…
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Epic Games has announced a partnership with Qualcomm It will see Easy Anti-Cheat become available for Windows on ARM As well as Fortnite, it means the potential for hundreds of games to be playableEpic Games has announced a new partnership with Qualcomm to support Easy Anti-Cheat for its Arm-based Snapdragon processors. This means Fortnite will…
Intel’s Panther Lake lineup won’t come to consumers until Q1 2026, according to a leaked presentation slideThis comes after the expected full launch in late 2025, but that is only for the Early Enablement ProgramRumors suggest the delay is due to Intel’s 18A production processIntel’s Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200 processors are already here, present…
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In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an important part of its storage portfolio, has been eclipsed as the tech world’s largest ever. But…
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Nvidia has launched the new Game-ready driver 572.60 on its app, which is said to rectify the black screen issues that some users have had since upgrading to the latest hardware.The new Game-ready driver also sees DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation for Naraka: Bladepoint and Monster Hunter Wilds, as well as G-Sync support for 29…
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