HGST drives fared best, but vendor was snaffled by Western Digital Backup specialist Backblaze, which has published hard drive failure statistics quarterly since 2013, says its second-quarter 2020 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) is the lowest ever rec…
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Lees meerNo time frame for when operations will return to normal One of the UK's larger data centres has suffered a major service outage affecting customers across the hosting, cloud, and telecommunications sectors.…
Lees meer'The world is hybrid,' the enterprise tech goliath keeps saying HPE has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Cabinet Office in what the firm itself described as a "significant departure from the Cloud First policy" initially adopted by…
Lees meerConnected car vision has been in first gear for years, cloudy scale could jump-start plans Toyota has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services in ways that will see many of its models upload performance data into the Amazonian cloud to ex…
Lees meerTwo-faced ISP gets $250,000 tickle, will be watched by independent monitor CenturyLink has been caught trying to steal rivals’ customers despite signing a court document promising it would do no such thing.…
Lees meerCommerce Department doubles down on China chip sanctions The US Commerce Department on Monday took further steps to deny Huawei access to American chip-making technology – with the announcement of more restrictions on the China-based telecom goliath…
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Lees meerUp to 15 SMT8 CPU cores per chip, Power ISA 3.1 support, and other bits and bytes Hot Chips Big Blue hopes to roll out its first commercial 7nm data-center-grade processors – the IBM Power10 series – by the end of 2021.…
Lees meerPresident says ‘other’ Chinese companies could feel the ban-hammer US president Donald Trump has suggested the United States may ban Chinese tech giant Alibaba.…
Lees meerDoD said to get extension to avoid crackdown on Chinese comms kit The crackdown on telecoms gear from Huawei and other Chinese companies in federal networks will not apply to US Department of Defense, at least for a few more weeks.…
Lees meerFirst Safe Harbor gone, now its replacement... Schrems the breaks! The long-running kerfuffle over the so-called Privacy Shield EU-US data protection agreement took another lurch this week after politicos announced plans to ponder an "enhancement" t…
Lees meerWhy does it always rain on me? Hewlett Packard Enterprise's UK operations were already feeling the squeeze before the COVID-19 pandemic made enterprises tighten spending on traditional infrastructure, according to the latest financial accounts.…
Lees meerAnd with a wave of his hand, the printer was fixed On Call Friday is here and while we cannot promise a break in the weather, we can bring forth another recollection from those brave souls staffing the helpdesk courtesy of The Register's On Call ma…
Lees meerBig Red: Everything's fine A bunch of Oracle developers supporting its Commerce systems are being let go as Big Red seeks to downsize the struggling platform.…
Lees meerLenovo says online sales soared in Q1 and has new hyper-plan for its data center unit Lenovo's long-suffering data centre group has posted considerably increased revenue and a modest loss, thanks to increased engagements with hyperscale clients.…
Lees meerAlso hosed out many Datrium staff on day one VMware has made a round of layoffs that appear to be one of its regular consolidations but The Register has learned coincided with some internal re-organisation.…
Lees meerFiles 'Please explain' memo to Washington as revenue jumps 29 percent and profit pops even higher Chinese web giant Tencent has reported strong growth and brushed off the potential impact of the USA’s proposed ban on its WeChat service and cloud ope…
Lees meerBut only to bits that aren’t conflict hot spots India has taken a small step towards restoring meaningful internet access to the disputed states of Jammu and Kashmir, by ordering a trial restoration of 4G services in select areas.…
Lees meerQ4 revenue took a nasty kick in the COVIDs, but profit bounced anyway Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says the company is considering an as-a-service offering for its core networking hardware.…
Lees meerUS consumer nonprofit alleges it was false advertising What's that barging into Zoom's socially distanced virtual family reunion? It's a lawsuit from US nonprofit Consumer Watchdog alleging the videoconferencing giant misled the public over its purp…
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