The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched an updated version of their Compute Module, moving the CM3 to the CM3+ standard. Their blog announced the new upgraded versions (Compute Module 3+…
Raspberry Foundation updates Pi Compute Module with 3+
Marvell has designs on Cavium
Chipmaker Marvell has announced its intention to acquire smaller rival Cavium for $6bn. (Marvell and Cavium to Combine Creating an Infrastructure Solutions Powerhouse.) This deal is dwarfed by the recent…
Broadcom completes drawn-out acquisition of Brocade
Broadcom has finally achieved completion on its acquisition of Brocade. Announced in November 2016, this deal has finally completed. Brocade disposed of various units, such as the vRouter team to…
Azure Data Box is Microsoft’s Snowball and Azure’s sneakernet
Microsoft's Azure platform is gaining a portable hard disk import capability. The shippable disk transfer device will bring them into line with Google's Transfer Appliance and Amazon's AWS Snowball (but…
There’s a problem with IPv6 route lookup speed in Linux
The challenge The great thing about IPv6 is its larger IP address space, but this is also its weakness. That larger IP address space needs routing, potentially creating larger routing…
My challenges with upgrading VMware to 6.5u1
So in theory, a new VMware release is normally a doddle to upgrade to using the methods covered in Keeping VMware ESXi Updated: 6.5 Update 1. It's worked for the…
Installation of SiLK from the ground up on Centos 7
Here we go with more network analysis tool building. Not content with the Wireshark on Centos post that seems quite popular, I've decided to look at some NetFlow tools. I…
Sputtered tape capacity boosts from IBM and Sony
The most cost and energy-efficient way of storing data is still tape. Offline data storage is still a major requirement for many organisations. For the fifth time since 2006, IBM…