VMware plans to give vSphere power to automatically patch everything running in a VM (Thu, 02 Apr 2020)
But first, you get a taste of it with host lifecycle management, and more waiting for K8s integration VMware plans to give its flagship vSphere product the power to patch all the software inside a virtual machine.…
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VMware seeks new Australian MD as Alister Dias departs for Asian role (Thu, 02 Apr 2020)
Scores new gig promoting software-defined data centres VMware is hunting for a new vice-president and managing director for Australia and New Zealand.…
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Dell, VMware withdraw fiscal 2021 guidance amid humming global supply chain and remote work boom (Fri, 27 Mar 2020)
You can't seriously be asking why. Do you live under a rock? The reason is coronavirus Updated  Dell today slipped out a regulatory filing in which it withdrew the financial guidance it offered in late February.…
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HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation (Wed, 25 Mar 2020)
Get your patch in place to avoid future data loss HPE has told customers that four kinds of solid-state drives (SSDs) in its servers and storage systems may experience failure and data loss at 40,000 hours, or 4.5 years, of operation.…
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Western Digital hands chief exec seat to boss of Cisco's networking and security biz (Fri, 06 Mar 2020)
David Goeckeler finally gets keys to his own kingdom, says he's stoked to ride 'massive wave of new opportunity' Storage giant Western Digital has hired David Goeckeler, boss of Cisco's $34bn networking and security biz, as its new chief exec.…
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What a mesh: Snowflake punts edge tech tie-up at SecOps teams (Tue, 03 Mar 2020)
Cloud data warehouse slinger claims it can help comb through event logs Cloud-native data warehouse vendor Snowflake and Edge Delta have spun up a new SecOps architecture they claim will broaden the application of analytics in a security information and event management (SIEM) product.…
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