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Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads

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Oracle’s recently announced Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) aims to improve performance for database workloads and reduce costs. The architecture in Exascale, which is Oracle’s multi-tenant architecture that intelligently allocates pools of compute optimised for its databases, is built on the same appliances – X8M, X9M and X10M – Oracle uses on its Exadata Database…

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Apple releases iOS 17.6.1 with Advanced Data Protection bug fix

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A week after releasing iOS 17.6 to all users, Apple is making available iOS 17.6.1 to iPhone and iPad owners. This update brings bug fixes and security improvements, including one that prevented Advanced Data Protection from being turned on and off.According to Apple, an issue in iCloud prevented a small number of users from successfully…

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Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs

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Western Digital’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD’s upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards…

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Cyber criminal kingpin ‘J.P. Morgan’ appears in US court

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One of the world’s most notorious Russian-speaking cyber criminals, who went by the handle “J.P. Morgan”, among others, has appeared in court in the United States following his extradition from Poland. Belarussian national Maksim Silnikau, also styled as Maksym Silnikov, aged 38, was arrested in July 2023 in Estepona, Spain, during a coordinated operation by…

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Kioxia Demonstrates RAID Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives

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At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by…

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Podcast: Storage functionality in Kubernetes 1.31

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In this podcast, we look at storage features expected in Kubernetes 1.31 with Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases. Pronin talks about storage functionality expected in this week’s 1.31 release, but also what he sees as some of the gaps in terms of storage…

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Intel’s next desktop CPU will reportedly be Nova Lake, leaving Panther Lake to mobile

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There have been plenty of rumors surrounding the upcoming Intel Panther Lake processor launch, including that it’s set to arrive in 2025. But now new rumors are painting a different story — one that confirms prior whisperings of Panther Lake being mobile-only and that a new series, the Nova Lake, will be Arrow Lake’s true…

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I’m a longtime Apple Watch user, and I just discovered the worst thing about it

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I’ve been using the Apple Watch for years for one main purpose: health tracking. I wear the Apple Watch around the clock, except for when it’s charging, so it can capture health data during my day-to-day life and when I work out.I’ve intensified my training in the past couple of years as I got back…

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New version of Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card spotted with slower VRAM – here’s why that might just be a good thing

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Nvidia’s previously rumored new spin on the RTX 4070 – with slightly slower video memory – is apparently real, as a graphics card maker appears to have such a variant in the works.This is Galax which has a new RTX 4070 OC 2X version incoming, or at least that’s what leaked materials obtained by VideoCardz…

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