The Reg Storage: 'Silent' staff stood by as £100m BBC IT project tanked – DG [Wed Aug 28 2013]

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EMC, you big tease! At last, the specs for million-IOPS VNX2
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Samsung's amazeballs 3D V-NAND SSD not THAT much better than
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Array upstart Violin peeks at PCIe cards, goes all in with $172m IPO
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Ex-Sun Micro CTO reveals Greenbytes 'world-beating' dedupe
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'Silent' staff stood by as £100m BBC IT project tanked – DG
Hang on. They DID speak up...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/23/bbc_dmi_hall/

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