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Have you heard the news? Intel CEO Bob Swan will be stepping down from his role, effective February 15, 2021. So you may be wondering, who is replacing him? Current VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will be taking on the...

Having worked on phone systems years ago, I can fondly remember emergency services and call routing challenges. Even with the most basic setup involving T1/PRI lines, it could be a challenge. When something serious...

ipSpace.net is going on an extended coffee break. What does that mean? Will ipSpace.net come back after a short break? Will it come back at all? Ivan Pepelnjak from ipSpace.net says that it might be back to...

Intel announced its discontinuation of Optane Consumer SSDs on January 15, 2021. But is this a huge deal? Jim Handy of The SSD Guy blog doesn’t think so. Why? Because the original reason for making Optane SSDs was to...

You’re probably familiar with SD-WAN by now. It’s become a standard technology widely deployed across several locations to augment connectivity. Also, SD-WAN provides you with the capabilities you need to get into...

Learning new information and skills is essential to mastering a topic, but which is the best way to learn? Daniel Dib notes that many people can recall more of what they have learned if they teach it to someone else,...

What do you think is the fundamental feature of storage? Is it performance, data integrity, or something completely different? Chin-Fah Heoh from Storage Gaga blog notes that during his medical downtime, none of the new...

If you’ve ever done troubleshooting work in IT, you know the dreaded statement about escalation. It’s a punt from someone who thinks you’re either an idiot or they need someone else to yell at to make you work...

Russia’s SolarWinds attack: hack, or espionage? Bruce Schneier from Schneier on Security states that this attack was not ‘just’ a hack – something that happens more regularly than any of us like to admit....

2020 has been an ‘interesting’ year for the tech industry (just as it has for everyone else!). Since we are reaching the end of the year, it is time for tech predictions for 2021 – what products, services, and...

Seagate has announced a breakthrough that has taken years to successfully complete; two custom RISC-V processor cores, one of which is for high performance, and the other for area. Originally designed to simplify chip...

Times may have changed, but does High Performance Computing (HPC) really have a place in the enterprise now? To look deeper at this idea, people need a better understanding of what HPC really is. So, what is it? HPC is...

Have you ever wanted to try out a Mac environment, but they were too expensive? Now, you can rent one. It works out pretty expensive if you rent it long term, but for a quick look around for a week or two, it makes...

Did Google get a great deal when buying Actifio? The company had a pretty terrible 2020 (didn’t we all!), refinancing itself before instituting a 100,000:1 reverse stock split.  Christmas came early for the company,...

Does scale-up architecture fall short when compared to scale-out? It’s a question debated the world over. Scale-up is the addition of further HDDs or SSDs, while scale-out adds extra compute resources, either as...

You’ve no doubt heard about the big hack of 2020 by now. A nation state-sponsored team used carefully crafted backdoors in a monitoring solution to invade government entities and many unknown commercial users. How did...

It’s Christmas time, and if you need a project to keep you busy while everyone is racing to the end of the year, you can’t go wrong with something simple and useful. If you want to play around with containers and...