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Lees meerHMRC spent £53.2m maintaining creaky tech estate – report An ageing IT estate is responsible for the bulk of the UK tax collector's costs in adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Ac…
Lees meerFinancial figures released minutes ahead of schedule after 'hacker' swipes and shares infographic Intel beat Wall Street’s expectations in its latest financial earnings on Thursday amid a rough year in which the semiconductor giant reached out to ri…
Lees meerRed Hat and off-prem see growth while revenue, profit down overall IBM on Thursday reported $20.4bn in revenue for its Q4 2020 earnings results, a decline of six per cent, and $73.6bn for the full year, down 4.6 per cent year-on-year.…
Lees meerFork that noise, says cloud giant amid licensing drama Amazon Web Services has responded to Elastic adopting more-restrictive software licenses by simply forking the latter's Elasticsearch and Kibana products with an open-source license.…
Lees meerDeplatformed again, huh? Maybe take the hint A US federal district judge has turned down Parler's request for a preliminary injunction to force Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host the social network, which is dominated by hate-and-misinformation-spewi…
Lees meerNet neutrality, internet-for-students advocate awaits Senate confirmation President Joe Biden has made Democrat FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel acting chairwoman of America's communications regulator.…
Lees meerTune in this month and learn about the promise of SuperPOD with DDN Webcast We all have problems, so wouldn’t it be great if we could all apply a supercomputer to cracking them?…
Lees meerAnd the possible impact of erased DNA and fingerprint data on live police investigations? Nope, doesn't know that either UK leader Boris Johnson has admitted he does not know how many live legal cases "will be frustrated" by the loss of 400,000+ rec…
Lees meerLook to the future or your past will drag you down, says Huawei Sponsored The world is creating more data than ever, and on an unimaginable scale. Data could reach an incredible 180ZB (one zettabyte = one million petabytes) by 2025, according to Ga…
Lees meerA last gasp for the era of alternate facts Analysis Ajit Pai has left his position as head of the FCC – America's communications regulator – marking the end of an extraordinary four years where telecoms policy was dragged into the era of alternate …
Lees meerKnow-your-client demand may just be ignored by incoming Biden admin On Tuesday, during his last full day as US President, Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to curtail cyber attacks by directing the government to come up with rules requi…
Lees meerWe must put long-underused spectrum to its best use, says outgoing chairman The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected a petition seeking to block Ligado Networks from deploying its LightSquared nationwide 5G network.…
Lees meerStorage cost saver combines IBM tape, Atempo software and OVH data centres OVHcloud has introduced tape-storage-as-a-service, based on IBM technology, in response to European data sovereignty and localisation requirements.…
Lees meerO2 regained lost ground, while EE continued to assert its dominance The second half of 2020 brought improved 5G availability in the UK with London seeing some of the biggest gains, according to research by RootMetrics.…
Lees meerScrutiny system worked OK until firm was forced off western chip tech US sanctions on Huawei got the Chinese firm kicked out of Britain, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has told Parliament – adding that he didn't feel un…
Lees meerAzure wins on Ultra Disk storage but it's expensive, says Cockroach Labs Distributed SQL database biz Cockroach Labs has analysed public cloud performance and concluded that Google Cloud Platform wins on throughput, although AWS is ahead on CPU perf…
Lees meerNo longer a corpo behemoth holdout Citrix has confirmed plans to buy Wrike, a project management and team-based collaboration tool, for $2.25bn.…
Lees meerBT-owned infrastructure firm workers in dispute over pay and terms It’s hard to pull solidarity out of the bag when everyone’s having a tough January but that’s what the General Secretary for the Communication Workers Union has asked the wider org t…
Lees meerNice work if you can get it BT has been awarded a £20m contract extension, without competition, on a project that has already ballooned in value by 138 per cent.…
Lees meerJust 16% of cloud spending in Q3 went to local tech services shops, says analyst European cloud giants are finding themselves teetering on the brink of relevancy in their own backyards as they fail to ward off encroachment by US rivals, or so data f…
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