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VMware reverses decision to kill off standalone ThinApp

Version 5.0 emerges, ready to give 64-bit apps a ride
Simon Sharwood, 06 Nov 06:20

We can't go on like this for much longer, boffins cry to data centre designers

Whole racks on chips needed or scalability will SLAM into the laws of physics
Richard Chirgwin, 06 Nov 05:02

Build a hybrid cloud and save 50% ... eventually

OpenStack Summit Cloudscaling founder reckons OpenStack could save you £$¥s
Phil Muncaster, 06 Nov 01:27

Mind waiting for compute jobs? Boy, does the cloud have a price for you!

LADIS 2013 Big boys to flog low-grade IT at a low, low price - and you know what that means
Jack Clark, 05 Nov 22:36

Tech today: Popular kids, geeks, bitchfests... Welcome back to HIGH SCHOOL, nerds

Sysadmin blog Don't be fooled. Following the herd STILL gets you nowhere
Trevor Pott, 05 Nov 17:27

Microsoft offers 'free' backup for Azure users with the cloud fear

Redmond and EVault ink deal: Enterprise cloud contract gets you a year’s disaster recovery
Chris Mellor, 05 Nov 16:33

Cash-blackhole Twitter will shower itself in gold by 2015, investors told

#Blabbergasm predicts yet more money to be sucked out of proper media. Yay!
Kelly Fiveash, 05 Nov 16:03

Excited students, $2,500, quivering racks and dreams of glory

SCC 2013 Four student teams vie for Commodity Cluster Crown

A use for the Internet of Things: ROBOCOP Neighbourhood Watch

LADIS 2013 No people required here ... bring on the Rise of the Machines
Jack Clark, 05 Nov 11:44

Inside OpenStack: Gifted, troubled project that wants to clobber Amazon

OpenStack Summit Networks may be its achilles heel, but its devs are working on it
Jack Clark, 05 Nov 11:19

The 10 most INHUMAN bosses you'll encounter: A Reg reader's guide

A BOFH's guide to debugging the Anti-Managers from hell
Dominic Connor, 05 Nov 09:58
Die shot of Nvidia's 'Kepler2' GK110 GPU chip

Amazon lashes Nvidia's GRID GPU to its cloud: But can it run Crysis?

It'll certainly cost you top dollar at Jeff's Virtualization Palace
Jack Clark, 05 Nov 08:15
From Here To ETERNUS

From here to ETERNUS and beyond: Fujitsu refreshes array lines

Says it has a million-IOPs MONSTER lurking in basement
Chris Mellor, 05 Nov 08:03

Opinion

Discovery makes its exit: NASA

Storage upstarts, you disappoint me. Are you building SHELFWARE?

Storagebod Looking for the exit when it should be all about the tech
Moments of perspiration

WTF is WRF? Student cluster-wrestlers cram for app SMACKDOWN

SCC 2013 Last minute tips, tricks, and traps for procrastinators

Excited students, $2,500, quivering racks and dreams of glory

SCC 2013 Four student teams vie for Commodity Cluster Crown
VMware's monster VM

Yellow-bellied journo dons black tie, sees flip side of VMWorld

Sysadmin blog Bish bash booth: Wrong event accreditation gives our man a glimpse into the future
Trevor Pott, 04 Nov 15:29

News

FLASH, AH-AAAH! Saviour of the universe Rackspace cloud?

1.2TB SSD army to storm Jeff's Virtualization Palace
Jack Clark, 05 Nov 06:58

Ubuntu nails colours to the CloudFoundry mast with OpenStack PaaS

OpenStack Summit Coup for Pivotal after Canonical tie-up
Phil Muncaster, 05 Nov 05:23

Microsoft buys all electricity from Texas wind farm

110 megawatts heading to Redmond's green bank
Simon Sharwood, 05 Nov 05:03

Western Digital 'fesses up to Mavericks data loss mess

Cause of external drive SNAFU uncertain, apps pulled just in case
Simon Sharwood, 05 Nov 04:02

WTF is ... 802.15.4e?

Very, very, low-power wireless to help Internet of Things nodes chat for a looong time
Richard Chirgwin, 05 Nov 02:30

HP: Our NonStop servers will be rock solid – even when running on x86

But until then, here are some more Itanium boxes
Neil McAllister, 04 Nov 20:54

Google lobs another €450m at cool Finnish data centre

Super-efficient server farm to expand over the next few years

Want a Microsoft cloud subscription? You'll need to be 'committed'

Servers, tools and Azure discount offer (just don't mention the outages)
Gavin Clarke, 04 Nov 16:29

Nuke-whisperers stuff terabytes of flash into heretical 'Catalyst' super

Intel, Cray, and Lawrence Livermore rethink supercomputer design
Jack Clark, 04 Nov 16:04

Yellow-bellied journo dons black tie, sees flip side of VMWorld

Sysadmin blog Bish bash booth: Wrong event accreditation gives our man a glimpse into the future
Trevor Pott, 04 Nov 15:29
2001 HAL poster

IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Google's secretive Omega tech just like LIVING thing

Exclusive 'Biological' signals ripple through massive cluster management monster
Jack Clark, 04 Nov 14:00
Ultrastar He6

HELIUM-FILLED disks lift off: You can't keep these 6TB BEASTS down

Low-friction 3.5-inch hard drives are cooler, lighter and less power hungry
Chris Mellor, 04 Nov 11:44

It's all in the fabric for the data centre network

At the beginniing of the SDN revolution, says Trevor Pott
Trevor Pott, 04 Nov 11:27
Kirk and Spock contemplate castles built in the air

If you're not paying, you're product: If you ARE paying, it's no better

Build your own cloud - 1 Host it yourself, it's the only way to be sure
Scott Gilbertson, 04 Nov 10:00
Simpana 10 Content Store

CommVault contemplates analytics play

Workflow tools to groom data for analysis apps under consideration
Simon Sharwood, 04 Nov 07:30
Bittorrent logo detail

BitTorrent awarded distributed storage patent

Pirate favourite now RAIDing the cloud
Facebook data center - interior, lit up

Want a unified data centre? Don't forget to defrag the admins

And make sure you untick the 'wally' box
Dave Cartwright, 03 Nov 20:38
cable

The unsung heroes of the networking team: Who appreciates you?

Survey time Take five minutes and tell us what's stressing your network
Dale Vile, 02 Nov 11:00

HP wants to help you mount a Moonshot

ARM TechCon Whitman & Co. offer rides on their hyperscale server iron
Rik Myslewski, 02 Nov 00:43