‘A new company will emerge from this pandemic’ says CEO Nutanix has decided some of its previous financial targets no longer apply and tipped off investors that its Q3 results won't be far off its previous predictions.…
Lees meerAdd low latency to the list of things on offer to tech billionaires building civilisation-fail bolt-holes in the South Pacific Microsoft has announced an Azure region in New Zealand.…
Lees meerHybrid IT and sales bigwig enfolded by cloudy arm of Amazon Phil Davis, the former global sales chief and president of Hybrid IT at HPE who exited the business suddenly last week, has landed at AWS, where he will head up operations in Asia Pacific a…
Lees meerThe division, which arrived via Sybase, was valued at $400m in 2006 Swedish cloud comms firm Sinch has snapped up SAP Digital Interconnect for around €225 million ($250m).…
Lees meerDrama surrounds trendy lucrative top-level domain Analysis Colombia’s startup-friendly .co has erupted in controversy again following the resignation of the government minister responsible for putting the domain registry out for tender last year.…
Lees meerFor now, you get a preview of the official Azure VMware Solution to play with and a promise of availability in H2 2020 Microsoft has fired up the first previews of its VMware-on-Azure service and hinted at an expanded hybrid offering.…
Lees meerSide effects may include rapid HPC and large AI workloads GPU biz Nvidia on Monday said it plans to buy network software maker Cumulus Networks, just days after closing its $6.9bn deal to acquire Mellanox, another networking-oriented business.…
Lees meerBrrrring brrrring... Yep it's American cable guy Liberty Global It's official: mobile networks operator O2 is negotiating a merger with Virgin Media. Should the deal — details of which are not yet known — complete, it would see the creation of the U…
Lees meer'I'm sad, but I'm breathing more freely' says former exec Tim Bray, a co-author of the original specifications for XML, has ended his time as a VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services in outspoken fashion, quitting in dismay at the trea…
Lees meerHomebaked conspiracy fans are really adding some local flair Comment This is one of those that should fall under the title of unlikely things to awaken Brits' patriotic spirit: a gaggle of anti-5G protestors in the UK's capital.…
Lees meerThunderbird also affected as legacy email authentication enjoys a Monday wobble Nobody likes Mondays, least of all Google's Gmail, the POP3 and IMAP services of which fell over this morning to deprive Monday morning mailers their start-of-week fix.…
Lees meerBeware the dead hand of the product categorisation bot Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in The Register's series of computers behaving badly. Today's instalment is a little different to the usual run of blue, and may reassure those concerned that…
Lees meerThe sequel to Pac-Man was Ms. Pac-Man. And Microsoft’s version of the Google-spawned TCP-killer QUIC is called MsQuic Microsoft’s revealed it’s a user of QUIC – the TCP successor that’s integral to HTTP3 but hasn’t quite excited too many folk beyond…
Lees meerIT giant accused of paying women less than men doing exact same roles A lawsuit filed against Oracle on behalf of six women seeking to be paid as much as their male colleagues has been certified as a class action – a legal milestone that will allow …
Lees meerDigital gold rush spurred by global pandemic: Big 4 bag 62% of market Cloud infrastructure providers are making bank following the mass migration of millions of workers from their offices to their homes, with spending on services leaping by 34.5 per…
Lees meerI always feel like / somebody's watching me Microsoft is adding to its slightly worryingly named Productivity Score preview with additional granularity and categories.…
Lees meerIn praise of helpful friends and handy tools On Call Welcome to another entry in The Register's series of stories extracted from those lucky individuals that find themselves On Call.…
Lees meerLong-awaited storage consolidation to go hyperconverged lite so that workloads can run next to data Dell will next week announce a significant refresh and consolidation of its storage range and at the same time try to reinvent storage arrays as comp…
Lees meerAs the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group launches discussion of Solar System Internet The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has achieved a 100 Mbps ethernet connection from the International Space Station to earth, using laser…
Lees meerQuestions linger over what is going on inside DNS overseer ICANN has halted the proposed $1.1bn sale of the .org registry to an unknown private equity firm, claiming this was “the right thing to do.”…
Lees meerOr as well as they could once the power went out - yet report says reliance on electricity isn't a resilience issue Back in January when Australia was on fire and the rest of the world wasn’t, locals in the burning zones were advised that the best s…
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