Microsoft puts freshly borged FSLogix to work speeding up Office 365 (Tue, 02 Jul 2019)
It's a virtualized world and everyone's welcome. Even Citrix and VMware Microsoft's newly acquired FSLogix has been tasked with upping the speed of Office 365 ProPlus in virtual environments, including those of rivals Citrix and VMWare.…
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Virty boys Parallels bring machine learning, Windows Server 2019 support to RAS VDI line (Tue, 18 Jun 2019)
AI know what you did last summer Windows-on-Mac flinger Parallels gave its Remote Application Server (RAS) a slapping with the wet fish of AI this morning with the release of version 17, featuring Session Pre-Launch.…
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You'll always need VMs says, surprise, VMware: Run on any cloud you like and get portability (Fri, 14 Jun 2019)
Yep, and two sets of bills VMWare's Rajiv Ramaswami, Cloud Services COO, has told investors that VMs (virtual machines) are here to stay, even as container-based applications grow in popularity. Well, he would, wouldn't he.…
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God DRAM you! Prices to slide more than 40% in 2019 because chip makers can't forecast (Mon, 22 Jul 2019)
Didn't see the slide in the PC market? Smartphones? Missed the hyperscale cloud builders? The laws of botched supply and demand forecasting are coming home to roost for the semiconductor industry in 2019 with DRAM average sales price set to fall 42.1 per cent.…
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You know what's besides the XPoint, Intel? Somebody else's storage-class memory – SK Hynix (Tue, 02 Jul 2019)
Another vendor mounts the crossbars South Korean DRAM and NAND fabber SK Hynix has been developing storage-class memory that will compete with 3D XPoint and which The Register understands is currently under R&D process.…
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An offer China can't refuse: 'Godfather of Taiwan's DRAM industry' to lead new Tsinghua Unigroup memory unit (Mon, 01 Jul 2019)
Another step towards self-reliance amid US trade tiff China-owned semiconductor giant Tsinghua Unigroup, which already manufactures flash memory, is about to try its luck at making DRAM – a much more complicated endeavour.…
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