Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019 (Wed, 16 Oct 2019)
App-quiesced saves fail, workaround is to shrug it off A compatibility issue between VMware's ESXi hypervisor and Windows Server 2019 will leave some customers unable to safely snapshot their virtual machines.…
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Try to contain yourselves: Google Cloud lights Spark for Kubernetes (Tue, 10 Sep 2019)
Dataproc service will run Apache Spark on K8s, now in alpha Google Cloud Platform will soon emit the alpha release of its Dataproc service, specifically for Apache Spark jobs, running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.…
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Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021 (Tue, 27 Aug 2019)
CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry VMworld  Ahead of day-two of VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to further overhaul the virtualization giant's reputation in the open-source world.…
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Canada's OpenText buys SMB backerupper Carbonite for $1.42bn (Tue, 12 Nov 2019)
Backup a minute, folks After weeks of acquisition rumours, Canadian enterprise software pusher OpenText bit the bullet yesterday and swallowed cloud backup and storage service vendor Carbonite for a cool $1.42bn.…
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Tune in this month: El Reg's Chris Mellor talks storage, cloud and much more with Qumulo – and you're all invited (Mon, 11 Nov 2019)
Gather round for this must-watch vid podcast Webcast  The Register's storage editor Chris Mellor will interview Qumulo veep Molly Presley in a webcast set to be streamed on 19 November.…
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When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences (Fri, 08 Nov 2019)
If there's anything that gets my backup ... On Call  Friday is here! A chance to slope off early, enjoy a few brews and look back on a week of hard work. Unless, of course, you are one of the unfortunate souls destined to be forever at the beck and call of users. Bask in the fact that it's not you as you peruse this latest instalment of On Call.…
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