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Azure is Microsoft's billion-dollar baby – maybe

More like a whole lot of software sold to partners
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Fat boxes keep Super Micro from slumping

Behemoths boost server ASPs in March quarter, working on Moonshot killa
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GreenBytes' data smite knight gets Citrix green light

IO Engine approved for cloudy virtual desktops

Opinion

IBM Quarterly Storage HW Revenues

Reg man crunches IBM's storage hardware revenues

Analysis IBM's under-performing storage hardware business can be understood better if we look at the quarterly revenue numbers.
Fritz Pfleumer with his magnetic tape recorder

Appliances are the new data centre onesie

It has been a fun and very profitable couple of decades for upstart IT server and systems software makers.

It's a CLUSTER-OFF: Asian students prep for tense, live HPC smackdown

HPC blog The first annual Asia Student Cluster Challenge (ASCC) culminates this week with a final round of competition that brings 10 university teams to Shanghai for a live cluster-off. The teams traveling to Shanghai made it past 32 other universities vying to compete in the live finale.

News

Fusion-io ioFX cards

Fusion-io buys NexGen

Gets hybrid flash/disk array startup
Mellanox SwitchX-2 ASIC and its switches, not to scale

Mellanox boffins concoct chips for 100Gb/sec InfiniBand

Swings to a loss in Q1 as R&D, sales, and marketing costs rise
The three new Juniper EX9200 modular switches

Juniper pushes up sales and profits in Q1

Data center switches, service provider routers start to pick up
WD UltraSlim drive

World's first 5mm-thin gyrating models paraded on disk catwalk

Western Digital has launched the world's first single-platter 5mm-thick disk drives - including one with a cache of flash memory.
Selecting folders to sync with BitTorrent's new tool
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BitTorrent offers file synch tool for PCs and NAS

BitTorrent has opened the Alpha testing program for its new BitTorrent Sync tool to all.
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AWS says private clouds are vaporware

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Adam Selipsky has told an event in Sydney, Australia, that private clouds aren't really clouds.