A ghost-ship story for Christmas Something for the Weekend, Sir? Account suspended. Er, wot? [F5, spin spin] … Account suspended.…
Lees meerJust a little jiggle 12BoC On the first day of Christmas, the bork gods sent to me: a server they said had ceased to be. Welcome to the Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC): a collection of Register reader stories of amusing and frustrating tech sight…
Lees meerThose 35,000 connections that aren’t built? Celebrate the 11.86 million that were, says Minister Australia has declared its national broadband network (NBN) is “built and fully operational”, ending a saga that stretches back to the mid-200s.…
Lees meerPlus: Govt has no targets at all for 5G deployment, claims telco insider The UK's cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has warned that the government risks missing its target to deliver gigabit-capable broadband to 85 per cent of …
Lees meerOK sunshine, but put it on-prem Few things are certain in computing, but the shift to the white and fluffy seems irrepressible. One prediction the European Centre for Midrange Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) seems confident in making, then, is that it nee…
Lees meerYou can’t make this stuff up Google has proclaimed itself the “cleanest cloud in the industry” due to its exclusive use of renewable energy and announced a new cloud region in Saudi Arabia that will be resold by an arm of state-owned oil and gas com…
Lees meerMeanwhile, Facebook seems to have enough technical debt that it’s blown a Euro-privacy deadline Google has revealed the cause of its very unwelcome Gmail outage and on The Register’s reading of the situation it boils down to forgetting to take an ob…
Lees meerImproved cloud-hopping capability started as a mere Fling, make AWS an easier target VMware has added a new and simpler way to move virtual machines between private clouds, or private clouds and the public cloud.…
Lees meerWinTel alliance weakens further Microsoft is reportedly designing its own homegrown server and desktop-grade processors using CPU blueprints licensed from Arm.…
Lees meerSnowflake? We can query that Enterprise data warehouse stalwart Teradata has capped a difficult year with an update to Teradata QueryGrid, which promises to connect customers to a vast array of new data sources – a decidedly underwhelming move, acco…
Lees meerThose bitten by Google Maps price rises in 2018 will welcome alternative – but will the data be good enough? AWS has claimed its upcoming Amazon Location Service for developers building mapping and geographic features into applications is "priced at…
Lees meerA special Dunstone-friendly deal, how about that? TalkTalk has agreed to a £1.1bn takeover from Toscafund, its second-largest existing shareholder after company founder Sir Charles Dunstone and private equity fund Penta Capital.…
Lees meerOne Government Value Agreement working as intended, we see The UK's Home Office has handed AWS a fresh four-year hosting contract worth up to £120m under the One Government Value Agreement, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions renew…
Lees meerReveals on-prem storage offerings and new push to have consultants sell ‘em As Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent gabfest kicked off a couple of weeks back, Alibaba Cloud told the world it had “revamped” its hybrid cloud offering with a couple of new ap…
Lees meerError message leads to cancelled emails, unverified accounts, potential email loss A Google Mail outage yesterday saw the cloud giant's server respond with the message "the email account that you tried to reach does not exist," potentially causing t…
Lees meerPlus: Managed Grafana service for observability re:Invent Amazon Web Services CTO Dr Werner Vogels has opened up on CloudShell, a Linux environment accessed through the browser which gives users a command-line and scripting environment for all AWS …
Lees meerPresident Donald Trump ████ AWS in the ████ by ████ ████ to ████ A heavily redacted version of Amazon Web Services' latest protest against Microsoft getting the lucrative Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing contract has be…
Lees meerSMIC in turmoil as TCMS legend reportedly elevated beyond non-executive role China’s largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has advised investors that its co-CEO has “possibly” resigned.…
Lees meer84-minute brownout and eight-hour VPN vanishment caused by update that left systems unable to access config files Google has explained how it took a big slab of its Euro-cloud offline last week, and as usual the problem was of its own making.…
Lees meerPredicts massive data centre builds to add 50 million petabytes of capacity by 2025 as 60 percent of workloads run in clouds A key Chinese policy think tank has delivered its full vision for how the nation can build a “smart economy” by the year 203…
Lees meerNew Ofcom rules require ISPs to give more personalised measures New Ofcom rules will require ISPs to provide prospective customers with personalised speed estimates specific to their premises, rather than guesses derived from properties with similar…
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