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Lees meerIf you’re big on data, short on time, here’s an SD Memory Card workshop just for you Sponsored We all know the world is generating ever more data, but much of it is going to be born or put to work well away from the arrays of high-end storage seen …
Lees meerIDC says AsiaPac market growing, rest of world isn't, Dell wins on volume, and IBM on sale price The global market for servers was mostly steady in the second quarter of 2021, according to analyst firm IDC, as the market recovers from 2020's unusual…
Lees meerPromises to offer App Store as an option, but needs its developer account to be reinstated to do that Epic Games has decided to put South Korea's new law requiring Apple and Google to offer third-party payment options in their app stores to the test…
Lees meerGerman-Australian outfit Quantum Brilliance thinks it can deliver product that runs on your desk in five years, for DBAs and boffins alike IBM's Quantum Ambassador for EMEA and Asia-Pacific – a business development role – has jumped to a little-know…
Lees meerPlus: President Biden wants businesses with 100+ staff to get vaccinated or test weekly Microsoft will let its employees in the US continue working from home until further notice as the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread through the country. T…
Lees meerNo need to be so DRaaStic? Sponsored In a world of increased ransomware attacks and intentional or unintentional attacks, businesses need to plan for a high uptime for increased resiliency of their applications.…
Lees meerAnother way to run Kubernetes - though connector to AWS console still in preview, as are plenty of the AWS controllers Amazon Web Services has emitted EKS Anywhere, enabling users to create on-premises Kubernetes clusters with tooling consistent wit…
Lees meerCustomers pulling forward orders to mitigate mounting supply worries The mood music in tech land isn't so much about workspace projects - that's so 2020 - it's more about biz customers again investing in data centre hardware, when they can get hold …
Lees meerFirmware-based system recovers encrypted data in seconds, but manufacturers are proving reluctant A team of researchers claim to have come up with an upgrade that makes SSDs impervious to ransomware attacks – detecting infections and reverting unexp…
Lees meerChuck that on top of £63m firm already has from related projects The UK Home Office has handed Fujitsu a £5m contract to support a border system beset with delays.…
Lees meer4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place The UK is pushing ahead with the next phase of a project to map the UK’s underground utility pipes and cables as part of its National Underground Asset Register (NUAR).…
Lees meerFujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) organisation has signed off on efforts by Fujifilm and Sony to create tapes that conform with the LTO-9 standard – meaning that ne…
Lees meerCEO also said it'll use its fab in Ireland to crank out parts for automakers amid shortages Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger on Tuesday said he would be willing to pour up to €80bn (£68.8bn, $94.7bn) into its semiconductor fabs in Europe to increase capaci…
Lees meerBoasts of a world-record SAP SD benchmark result, 'transparent' in-memory encryption IBM's heavy-metal arm has officially brought Power10, its first 7nm chip, to market with the launch of the E1080 – a server system it claims blows x86 rivals out of…
Lees meerIntel meanwhile lines up as much as $95bn for European fabs The city of Taylor, Texas, has offered Samsung property tax breaks over the course of 30 years if the South Korean chip giant agrees to build a $17bn fabrication plant on its land.…
Lees meerVerne Global site claimed to be 'one of the most efficient' globally A UK investment company created earlier this year to invest in digital infrastructure assets has splurged £231m to acquire a sizeable data centre in Iceland on the site of a former…
Lees meerWhat happened to transferring £1,000-per-day consultant work to the civil service? Flying in the face of a commitment to wean itself off consultants, the NHS Test and Trace programme has awarded Accenture a £4.8m contract extension to keep its much-…
Lees meerTime to drive NetOps beyond the command line Sponsored No-one said enterprise networking is easy, so it’s understandable that the traditional approach to managing switches has followed the maxim, “keep it simple, stupid”.…
Lees meerSMIC's 28nm colossus won't get China closer to self-sufficiency in stuff it buys from Intel and AMD, will help in other ways China's largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has announced it will spend $8.87 b…
Lees meerBump and grind in the server racks Who, Me? Monday is upon us, and with it comes a cautionary tale of how one Register reader's overconfidence led to his undoing, thanks to an unexpected interfacing with a belt buckle, in today's edition of Who, Me…
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