Under Octata's covers: Resource management, scheduling, containers

OpenStack's Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier explain the best bits of the new release Interview  Last week, OpenStack took the covers off its Ocata release. Today, The Register spoke to OpenStack foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce and COO M…

vSphere user? You need to care about VMware's telco plans for a bit

The stuff Virtzilla is doing to build NFV for telcos will trickle down into its other products VMware has launched the second version of its Network Function Virtualization suite as it hopes to convince telcos to go down the same software-defined ro…

Brexit nobbles Salesforce's otherwise-super growth story

CEO Benioff shoots for $10bn revenue, even though 2017 will start slowly Salesforce.com has posted record quarterly and annual results.…

vSphere user? You need to care about VMware's telco plans for a bit

The stuff Virtzilla is doing to build NFV for telcos will trickle down into its other products VMware has launched the second version of its Network Function Virtualization suite as it hopes to convince telcos to go down the same software-defined ro…

The headphone jack ain’t dead yet

ACM ziet een mogelijk concurrentieprobleem in Nederland door opkomst quadplay

De ACM heeft de eventuele negatieve gevolgen voor de concurrentie door de bundeling van telecomdiensten en content geanalyseerd. De ACM zegt dat er nog geen concurrentieverstoring is, maar verwacht wel dat de komst van quadplay de concurrentieverhou…

Nvidia brengt GTX 1080 Ti volgende week uit en maakt GTX 1080 goedkoper

Nvidia heeft tijdens een eigen evenement op de Game Developer Conference de GeForce GTX 1080 Ti aangekondigd. De videokaart is net als de Titan X gebaseerd op de GP102-gpu, maar heeft hogere kloksnelheden en 1GB minder vram. De adviesprijs van de GT…

Polls? How very 2016. Now Google Street View AI scanner can predict how people will vote

It's time we taught computers what we think of BMW drivers What does a car say about its owner? Uni researchers have managed to accurately estimate income, education, race and voting patterns for US neighborhoods by looking at cars on Google Street …

Uber: Please don't give our London drivers English tests. You can work out the reason why

Thousands won't be able to make us cash, upstart moans Uber's lawyers in the UK have argued against rules requiring minicab drivers to pass an English literacy test – because many of its cheap cyber chauffeurs would fail.…

The ‘Nokia’ 3310 isn’t a Nokia

Polk Audio, Denon, Marantz, and Boston Acoustics are now all brands from the same company

Nearly one year after launch, Apple Pay finds limited traction in China

 After a slow start, Apple Pay is now dominating its home country, the United States, but the same can’t be said of China where it is up against a different set of challenges. Data from Boston Retail Partners shows that Apple Pay is now accepted by …

YouTube begint eigen abonnementsdienst voor streamen van live tv

YouTube heeft bekendgemaakt dat het in de komende maanden begint met een eigen abonnementsdienst voor het streamen van live tv. Deze dienst, genaamd YouTube TV, biedt naast live-uitzendingen van Amerikaanse zenders ook de reguliere online content va…

Tricksy bugs in Zscaler admin portal let you ruin a coworker's day

Cloudy with a chance of XSS Cloud management software peddler Zscaler has plugged cross-site scripting holes in the admin portal it provides to customers.…

Boeing seeks patent for mobile device case with built-in fire extinguisher

Invented before the Galaxy Note 7 went down in flames, the case detects heat and then sprays fire-suppressing gas Boeing has sought a patent for a “Fire detection and suppression pack for battery-powered personal computing devices.”…

Upstart Datrium has a soft blanket to wrap up your data if security is giving it the shivers

End-to-end encryption touted Datrium Blanket Encryption combines always-on deduplication, compression and encryption so that data is secure – or so it claims – whether that data is at a host, in flight across a network, or at rest in persistent stor…

Upstart Datrium has a soft blanket to wrap up your data if security is giving it the shivers

End-to-end encryption touted Datrium Blanket Encryption combines always-on deduplication, compression and encryption so that data is secure – or so it claims – whether that data is at a host, in flight across a network, or at rest in persistent stor…

Snap is reportedly working on a drone

Oracle boils Exadata Cloud into an on-premises package

Apparently the world is ready for hybrid-cloud-database-as-a-service, on subscription Oracle's added a new piece of hardware to its “Oracle Cloud at Customer” offering, in the form of the new Exadata Cloud Machine that runs Oracle databases on-premi…

Oracle boils Exadata Cloud into an on-premises package

Apparently the world is ready for hybrid-cloud-database-as-a-service, on subscription Oracle's added a new piece of hardware to its “Oracle Cloud at Customer” offering, in the form of the new Exadata Cloud Machine that runs Oracle databases on-premi…

The new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is Nvidia’s fastest graphics card ever