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Dell EMC speeds up backups and restores in its storage appliances

With its new software, Dell EMC Data Domain on-premises restores are up to 2.5 times faster than prior versions.

Feb 7, 2019 2 mins

Backup and Recovery Cloud Storage Dell EMC

Light-based computers to be 5,000 times faster

New light absorption techniques in semiconductors get clock rates 5,000 times faster than current PCs. It’s one more step towards an all-light computing environment.

Feb 7, 2019 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center

What’s the best way to move data to a backup site?

There are several ways of moving data to backup storage sites where it will be safe in a disaster, but none is perfect. Here are the upsides and downsides of each.

Feb 7, 2019 5 mins

Backup and Recovery Data Center Disaster Recovery

Intel promotes Swan to CEO, bumps off Itanium, and eyes Mellanox

Intel announced the promotion of CFO Bob Swan to CEO, ending a seven-month search, set a deadline for the life of its Itanium processor, and reportedly wants to buy Mellanox.

Feb 4, 2019 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Technology Industry

Disaster recovery as a service: Options grow to fit needs

If enterprises have defined their disaster-recovery needs and validated vendor capabilities, DRaaS can make it easier to weather service outages.

Jan 31, 2019 9 mins

Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery

SGI tech lives on in the form of a French AI-focused supercomputer

Old SGI technology lives on in Jean Zay, an HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer designed for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.

Jan 30, 2019 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center HPE

Cisco serves up flexible data-center options

Cisco spreads its data-center ACI to AWS and Azure clouds, takes Hyperflex to the edge

Jan 29, 2019 5 mins

Cisco Systems Cloud Computing Data Center

HPE predicts storage-class memory will replace NAND flash

Storage-class memory (SCM) overcomes the limitations of NAND flash, which makes the takeover inevitable.

Jan 25, 2019 3 mins

Data Center Enterprise Storage

How to monitor activity on your Linux server

The watch, top, and ac commands provide some effective ways to oversee what is happening on your Linux servers.

Jan 23, 2019 5 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Operating Systems

Time to stock up on memory; prices to fall 20% this quarter

Slow demand, plus overproduction equals a buyer’s market.

Jan 23, 2019 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Servers