Come back, Word 97, all is forgiven Microsoft says it is figuring out why its cloud-based unproductivity suite Office 365 is down yet again for unlucky subscribers. The knackered platform knocked over Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDr…
Lees meerNew class of very large enterprise workloads plays to its strengths Sponsored DDN has supplied storage systems for over two decades and counts more than 10,000 customers across a range of industries. Despite this, the California company is likely t…
Lees meerThe IT services wish list is about what you'd expect from an 18-month-old Barely 18 months old, newly formed Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council has offered £18m to private sector IT and consultancy firms, asking if they can take on, well, a…
Lees meerIf you fear you'll drown in AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, maybe this is a wave you'd like to catch Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider DigitalOcean dipped its toes into the Platform-as-a-Service waters on Tuesday with the launch of App Platform.…
Lees meerBecause who would want to be a standalone print or copier biz in 2020? Japanese print and copier specialist Ricoh has snaffled UK storage infrastructure and security managed service provider MTI Technology for a figure understood to be in the region…
Lees meerTotally not-safe-for-production 64-bit Arm hypervisor port released for evaluation, sell the SmartNIC idea, etc VMware on Monday released the first public spin of its ESXi bare-metal hypervisor for selected 64-bit Arm systems.…
Lees meer'These once scrappy, underdog startups have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons' A long-awaited congressional report into Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google has been published – and it concludes …
Lees meerAnalyst predict five good years as homeworking and refresh cycles meld The COVID-19 pandemic has proven fruitful for the consumer Wi-Fi sector, according to analyst house ABI Research, with shipments this year set to increase and long-term growth fo…
Lees meerMicrosoft isn't the only company to fiddle with its iconography Google has fired a rebrandogun loaded with fresh icons at its G Suite platform. Prepare to relinquish the suite life and put nose to the grindstone in Google's "Workspace".…
Lees meerUp to 5,600 megatransfers per second at just 1.1V, company claims South Korean memory giant SK Hynix has released the world's first commercially available DDR5 DRAM sticks, pipping rivals Samsung and Micron.…
Lees meerNo pressure West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) is on the hunt for a new £3m ERP system amid an IT services revamp.…
Lees meerDot-UK overlord descends into farce The operator of the .uk registry has descended into a farce after refusing to accept a complaint from one of its members – and claiming its CEO didn’t mean what he is recorded on camera saying.…
Lees meerCentripetal Networks uses lawsuit against Switchzilla. It's super effective Cisco has been hit with a massive $1.9bn patent-infringement bill for copying cybersecurity tech from Centripetal Networks and pushing the company out of lucrative governmen…
Lees meerThose most likely being image sensors and NAND flash storage for phones Sony and Kioxia have reportedly requested waivers from the US government that would allow them to supply Huawei with components.…
Lees meerYou will be upgraded, whether you want to be or not The UK's favourite* telecoms outfit, TalkTalk, has continued its impressive track record of delighting customers with a forced upgrade of legacy OneTel.com users to the shiny new TalkTalk Mail.…
Lees meerYou can't make this stuff up An IBM manager unfairly sacked a third-line IT support engineer despite having a pool of just two people to make redundancies from, a UK employment tribunal has ruled.…
Lees meerWe're taking steps to prevent this from happening again, says Redmond Microsoft has blamed a software bug for the service disruption on Monday and Tuesday that affected customers using Azure Active Directory-dependent applications.…
Lees meerPlaying tug o' war with a 1970s IBM mainframe On Call Is it October? Already? It feels like we still haven't moved on from March. Put such discomfiture to one side in favour of a Friday treat – a tale of brute force and ignorance from those that ar…
Lees meerProperly FOSS version of XenServer promises at least five years of support for next release, maybe more XCP-ng, the crowdfunded effort to deliver an open-source version of XenServer, has matured to the point at which it will offer the world a versio…
Lees meerThis is what you wanted, right? The UK will take a multibillion-pound blow to productivity and economic prosperity should the 5G rollout be held up further, a new report from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) claims.…
Lees meerBrit firm Bamboo scores cash that can convert to equity. Yup, the government could become a server vendor! The UK's Coronavirus Future Fund has made a biggish bet on Arm server vendor Bamboo.…
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