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Lees meer‘This workload will self-destruct in 30 seconds’ - now with variable pricing Microsoft’s Azure cloud has started to offer Spot VMs, the pay-what-you’re-willing-to cloudy servers that hyperscalers use to sell off their unused capacity.…
Lees meerNow out of preview and optimised for 8 more domains The concept behind Kendra, the enterprise search service that Amazon Web Services made generally available today, is pretty simple.…
Lees meerXeon, Shmeon: Netflix loves ‘em and AWS has more instance types using it coming soon Amazon Web Services has flicked the switch for a new instance type powered by the second generation of its custom ARM CPUs – the Graviton2.…
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Lees meerAims to head off supply chain issues from dependence on Asian plants Analysis The US is reportedly in talks with Intel and TSMC to develop new chip factories on home soil due to supply chain concerns as well as the geopolitical threat posed by Chin…
Lees meerHundreds to be forced out of the door into COVID-19-ravaged jobs market IBM has slammed shut the window of opportunity for Global Technology Services (GTS) staff to put themselves forward for voluntary redundancy, meaning a requisite number will now…
Lees meerWhere's the DHCP box? It's behind y... oh heck Who, Me? It's a new week and that means a fresh tale of close calls and proper falls from those who should know better in another of The Register's regular Who, Me? columns.…
Lees meerEven Exchange’s marketing bod reckons tests of feature could be a career-defining moment Microsoft may just have made Reply All storms a thing of the past, by adding a suitable blocker to Exchange in Office 365 environments.…
Lees meerJohn Cena!* Online resources only for free and end users due to the 'unprecedented period' Video conferencing darling of the hour, Zoom, has tightened up support rules in order to "better serve" users.…
Lees meerSecarma may be next for Inflexion buyout Cloud hosting biz UKFast's founders, Laurence and Gail Jones, have "exited the business" as a private equity firm ups its stake – all as UKFast itself starts eyeing up Jones-owned infosec biz Secarma.…
Lees meerMultinationals' UK arms pair up to take on Voda and former state-owned telco Telcos Telefónica and Liberty Global today confirmed plans to join their O2 UK and Virgin Media subsidiaries into one combined entity in a deal analysts branded a "blockbus…
Lees meerEnterprise demand set to soften, offset tier-two cloud, telco sales Global server shipments reached an industry record-breaking 3.3 million units in the first quarter of 2020, marking a 30 per cent year-on-year growth, Omdia analysts estimated this …
Lees meerAustralia bit barn outfit NEXTDC adds classic film reference to usual mix of resilience, connectivity and security Australian serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery has revealed that he told the architects of a data centre he funded to make it resemble …
Lees meerMicrosoft, Cisco, Google etc gang up to form Open RAN Policy Coalition Some of America’s super-corps have remembered how the US became the dominant global technology force it is, and have vowed to use innovation over threats to counter Chinese domin…
Lees meerIt's a long, long buildup to CEO's soliloquy, it's a long way to go Knowledge 2020 With the long flights, late nights and early starts, IT conferences might seem endless. But with the shift to the online format becoming standard, for now at least, …
Lees meerCisco's switch-slinging nemesis warns of business slipping back to 2018 levels Lead times for some of Arista's most popular network kit has doubled due to disruption to the supply chain caused by the novel coronavirus, and won't improve any time soo…
Lees meerSolidarity with their US counterparts in COVID-19 cost cutting measures Hyperconverger Nutanix has asked staff in EMEA and elsewhere "outside of the US" to take two weeks of unpaid leave as it continues to contain costs during the COVID-29 pandemic.…
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