If you're anything like us, you dream of reorganising your country's highways. This is a new system they want to tighten up data streams, but still Highways England is shopping for a new £62m National Traffic Information Service to help collect, pro…
Lees meerSurprise! IBM has brought Netezza back from the dead in a move likely to sow further confusion among customers of Big Blue's enterprise data products.…
Lees meerAxed IBMers given chance to write almost-certainly futile letters to defend their jobs after the pink slip arrives IBM’s new round of “resource actions” – Big-Blue-speak for sackings – has reached Australia, The Register has learned, and will result…
Lees meerJudge tells US ISP: OK, seems fair Despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, US ISP Frontier Communications has insisted on giving key staff $38m in bonuses and other incentives – and an American judge has agreed.…
Lees meerYes, especially for consumer-facing workloads. But don’t expect a comfortable ride The cloud is dominated by American companies: AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle all win more revenue than Alibaba, China’s current leader.…
Lees meerBreaking free from the office – without breaking the office Comment By now you’ve got this working-at-home business covered. Even if you find you’re occasionally eating your own weight in biscuits, you’ve bought a lighting kit to look professional …
Lees meerSeven hosts might have been asking a bit much for early footling VMware has shrunk the hardware requirements for its shiny new native Kubernetes on vSphere product, making it rather more affordable.…
Lees meerBut company reckons things are just getting started in China Alibaba has revealed that its cloudy revenue grew 62 percent in the year to March 30th, 2020, for an annual run rate of US$5.6 billion.…
Lees meerWhoa, no Huawei?! UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly agreed to a plan that will entirely cut Huawei equipment from the nation's 5G networks within the next three years.…
Lees meerTech is perhaps five years away from actual deployment, we're told Australian scientists say they have broken data communications speed records by shifting 44.2 terabits per second over 75km of glass fiber from a single optical chip.…
Lees meerZuck has been so good at looking after your data, why not give him more? Born too late to play the role of Star Trek's Commander Data, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg took to the streams last night as the company confirmed a jump in users of its Workp…
Lees meerAutomotive driven down, though As many in the broader IT sector walk around with a fire extinguisher, Nvidia is oiling its fiddle, reporting that revenue hit $3.08bn [PDF] for Q1 2021 ended 26 April, up 39 per cent from last year.…
Lees meerOnly the beast of Redond could meet 'data sovereignty and reliability' needs, says UK government dept The UK's Ministry of Defence has handed Microsoft a £17.75m contract to run hosted services in the Azure Cloud - and rivals won't even get a chance…
Lees meerBiz says it'll be a proper as-a-service outfit by 2022, which means changes to support, supplies, locations HPE has vowed to slash its spending by at least $1bn after it suffered a disastrous financial quarter, primarily blaming its downfall on the …
Lees meerLet users and third parties continue with the tools they know and love Sponsored Communicating with your colleagues used to be simple. Turn to the desk next to you and there was your co-worker. Open Windows Explorer and there were your records and …
Lees meerJapanese mission also carrying rolling remote-control robot atop last of a famous rocket family The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency today (JAXA) said it successfully launched the last of its H-II transfer vehicles and a to the International Space…
Lees meerMore than you could ever want to NOA about Google Cloud Platform Next on Air As the tech industry ponders how to hold virtual events in place of the usual big barn jamborees, Google has come up with its own take on death by G Suite Slides: a nine-w…
Lees meerRecord pre-tax profits, but data center group still struggling as HCI commodifies Lenovo has reported mixed success in its full-year 19/20 results and Q4 numbers.…
Lees meerEven microSD will hit nearly 2Gbps, which will make for might fine rPis The SD Association, which oversees the design of SD cards, has emitted a new version 8.0 spec that promises to accelerate the mini-memory standard to a tick under four gigabits …
Lees meerThis big beast has more than '285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs' Build Microsoft has spun up a custom AI supercomputer in its Azure cloud for OpenAI that ranks within the top five publicly known most powerful supers on Earth, it is claimed.…
Lees meerThat'll endear it to the government, definitely Imperial College London, currently in the headlines for its modelling of the spread of COVID-19 across the UK, has signed a five-year collaboration deal with controversial Chinese tech outfit Huawei.…
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