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Lees meerIT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona HPE is laying out its enterprise stall with enhancements to its GreenLake hybrid cloud portfolio, while converging its Aruba and Juniper networking …
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Lees meerWebinar Promo As more organizations look beyond legacy virtualization platforms, the partnership between StorPool Storage and Oracle Virtualization (KVM) offers a modern, high-performance foundation for private cloud environments.…
Lees meerWebinar Promo As more organizations look beyond legacy virtualization platforms, the partnership between StorPool Storage and Oracle Virtualization (KVM) offers a modern, high-performance foundation for private cloud environments.…
Lees meerLaptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claimed it had rifled through the tech titan's interna…
Lees meerThe Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts Updated Routine Cloudflare maintenance went awry this morning, knocking over the company's dashboard and API and sending sites around the world into error screens.…
Lees meerUmpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release – just as we predicted – and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end dist…
Lees meerProject retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process The latest release of FreeBSD contains a lot of crucial under-the-hood changes – and drops 32-bit support on both x86 and POWER, although ARM-v7 survives.…
Lees meerPlan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance The UK government has kicked off plans to ramp up police use of facial recognition, undeterred by a mounting civil liberties backlash and fresh …
Lees meerThe Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts Routine Cloudflare maintenance went awry this morning, knocking over the company's dashboard and API and sending sites around the world into error screens.…
Lees meerUnion fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout Capita has sought Microsoft's help after the launch of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) left users facing a malfunctioning website designed to process important fina…
Lees meerMedical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column that tries to improve the health of the tech support ecosystem by sharing readers' sickening sto…
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