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Reports say EMC XtremIO firmware 3.0 upgrade wipes out flash data
EMC is under fire over reports that upgrading to the as-yet-unreleased version 3.0 of its XtremIO subsystem deletes all data from the flash array, and that users need to back up everything first. The rumor came from Andrew Dauncey on The Odd Angry Shot blog. XtremIO firmware v3.0 is supposed to add speed performance and ...
Comcast: “We haven’t banned Tor, in fact we use it too”
Comcast yesterday denied allegations it’s threatening to cut off customers who use the anonymous Tor web browser. Jason Livingood, VP of internet & communications engineering at Comcast, penned a blog post which insisted, “Comcast is not asking customers to stop using Tor, or any other browser for that matter.” The post explains that Comcast doesn’t have ...
Gartner: Flash array startups ranked ahead of EMC, HP and IBM
Gartner Inc. has ranked three upstarts ahead of the likes of EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company and IBM in its latest solid-state appliance critical capabilities report: namely, Kaminario, Pure Storage and SolidFire Inc. Gartner’s latest assessment differs from its most recent Magic Quadrant for solid-state arrays, which looks at an organization’s vision and its ability to ...
Google’s offering a cool $100,000 for startups to use its cloud
Google Inc. is seeking to temp entrepreunerial startups with a cool $100,000 in credit so long as they power their apps using its cloud platform rather than their rivals. The new program is called Google Cloud Platform for Startups, and was announced last Friday at its Google for Entrepreneurs Partner Summit. “This offer supports our ...
The ‘Cosmos’ browser wants to surf the web via SMS messages
A new project has emerged that’s hoping to deliver Internet access to the developing world via text messages (SMSs) alone. The idea probably sounds a little absurd to those of us in the developed world who’re more concerned with streaming movies on our iPhones. But while mobile phones are common pretty much everywhere these days, ...
The exClone Project: Now even you can become immortal
“There is no such thing as death. People die only if we forget.” Immortality has long been a dream of humankind; even since before Juan Ponce de Leon sought the legendary “Fountain of Youth,” the ancients pondered everlasting life. These days, some optimists sign up to have their bodies cryogenically frozen after ‘death’ in the hope ...
HP gobbles up Eucalyptus to strengthen cloud biz
In a shock announcement this morning Hewlett-Packard Company has revealed it’s buying up Eucalyptus, the open-source hybrid cloud software maker that’s been such a hit with customers of Amazon Web Services. HP has acquired Eucalyptus ostensibly to bolster its Helion Cloud offerings, but what that means for Eucalyptus software remains to be seen. Terms of ...
EMC denies it’s planning to sell off VMware
EMC Corp. has reportedly denied that it plans to offload its stake in VMware Inc., just hours after rumors of an impending sale re-emerged via the New York Post. Whispers of this news have been bubbling just under the surface for several weeks now, ever since activist investor Elliot Management picked up a sizeable stake ...
Seagate lights up the data center with new Cloud Systems and Solutions
Seagate Technology PLC has just created a new “Cloud Systems and Solutions group” that it says will lead to a raft of new storage arrays, enterprise disk drives and more importantly, storage rigs for cloud operators. The company is justifying the move with the old “explosion of unstructured data line”, and says the group is ...
Clear skies ahead: Half of Europe’s enterprises dismiss the cloud
What with all the hype surrounding the cloud, it would be a shock to discover that the majority of businesses still tend to shy away from it. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening in Europe, according to a new survey from analysts IDC which shows most European IT departments aren’t yet ready to embrace a cloudy future. ...