Scale with the king of hyperscalers... until the silicon runs out, that is The cloud continued to totter this month, and it was Google's turn to run into resource droughts – this time, virtual machine instances with GPUs.…
Lees meerUK and Oz registries recorded mini-booms for new names but also an overall domain dip New domain name registrations spiked in the UK and Australia in April.…
Lees meerStuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber A British supercomputer hacked last week was among a group of big beasts targeted around the world to mine cryptocurrency, it has emerged.…
Lees meerStorage and networking recover from overnight brownout, compute still in trouble after 12 hours The Central India region of Microsoft’s Azure cloud is in trouble.…
Lees meerSpending watchdog says UK health service lacks oversight, can't trace responsibilities The UK government is failing to learn lessons from previous NHS IT disasters, including the £9.8bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) fiasco, the National Audit Of…
Lees meerIs French policy the controversial company's Achilles' heel, though? Huawei's rotating chairman has admitted to the world's media that his organisation has been "impacted" by a year of US sanctions against it – and he's quite unhappy with France, to…
Lees meerWho would have thought the G in G Cloud stood for Gangster? Exclusive The Cabinet Office has confirmed that scammers and or jokers broke into the UK government's Digital Marketplace to promote a round-the-clock "bespoke" fraudulent email service th…
Lees meerGoogle's next, warns chief product officer Software AG is shunting its webMethods.io Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) at Microsoft's Azure cloud environment to snuggle up closer to the beast of Redmond.…
Lees meerPlans new sub cable running from the UK to Spain on just-about the longest route possible Facebook has backed a new submarine cable that it says will circumnavigate Africa and deliver three times more capacity that is currently connected to the cont…
Lees meerTender loving care UK housing association People for Places, which runs a property portfolio worth around £3bn, has awarded Salesforce a software licensing contract for CRM and job scheduling worth £21m.…
Lees meerAnd reckons it can crack 100kw per rack with help from Yorkshire company Iceotope Dielectric fluids conduct heat but don’t conduct electricity, which is why they’re a fine way to cool electronics.…
Lees meerAs IBM becomes only cloud partner permitted to use Virtzilla's special subscription licence scrip VMware has completed the set of major hyperscale clouds running its flagship vSphere natively, after the launch of the Google Cloud VMware Engine.…
Lees meerBig Blue accused of making 'promises to sales reps it never intended to keep' IBM has been dealt a setback in its effort to limit the commissions it pays salespeople following the revival of a commission-capping lawsuit that had been dismissed.…
Lees meerJust not very many – don't go all Bitcoin farming on this Storj Labs, which in March launched decentralized storage network Tardigrade, is releasing an app to allow users of QNAP's network-attached storage devices to generate cryptocurrency revenue …
Lees meerVirgin Media users' download speeds did dip a bit, though The surge of furloughed and remote workers caused by the recent COVID-19 lockdown had only a modest impact on UK broadband speeds, claims a new report (PDF) from Ofcom.…
Lees meerPlus: Python2 slithers away from 21st release of open source cloud infrastructure project The OpenStack Foundation has hit the green button on Ussuri, the 21st release of the open source cloud infrastructure project.…
Lees meerCompany sees good times ahead as pandemic spurs catch-up investment, but also warns of 'market contraction' for servers Cisco has posted results for the quarter ended April 25th that feature lower revenue than the corresponding period in 2019, but s…
Lees meerChinese web giant also flings cash at cloud and videoconferencing to capture 'This working from home thing could really catch on' sentiment Chinese web giant Tencent has reported 26 percent growth for Q1 2020, with the novel coronavirus helping thin…
Lees meerIf you want a flat fabric, Dell wants in and is eyeing off NSX integrations too Dell Technologies has created its own distribution of Linux-based Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project that emerged from Microsoft, and backed it wi…
Lees meerAlso extends exemption on doing business with the pair – a negotiating tactic so incredible it has to keep being renewed US President Donald Trump has extended his executive order banning US companies from using or buying telecoms equipment from Chi…
Lees meerComms regulator Ofcom yet to rubberstamp proposals Broadband plumber Openreach will discontinue sales of copper-based products in more than 100 exchange areas across the UK, starting from June 2021, it said today. The move is part of Openreach's eff…
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