Broken pencil + ball of stolen Blu Tack = IT joy Who, Me? Today is Monday the 58th of March 2020. As a service to stop the days blurring into one, take a moment to enjoy a tale of NetWare, Blu Tack and a broken pencil in today's Who, Me? reader con…
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Lees meerNamed AF-SOUTH-1 and near some handy routes to Europe and West Africa AWS has opened its first region in Africa and named it AF-SOUTH-1.…
Lees meerUsers have migration work to do in the next month. Good thing nobody's busy right now, eh? IBM will lift and shift a GPU cluster from London to Frankfurt, thanks to Brexit.…
Lees meerAlready time-shifting inside some bit barns with electricity-source-predict-ometer Google has revealed that it will try to shift work around its cloud to follow the availability of electricity generated by renewable resources.…
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Lees meerWhat? Why? This one’s all about an eleven-month window of client complications VMware has pointed out that even if you don’t want to move to a newer version of vCenter, Adobe may have already effectively made the decision for you.…
Lees meerBorg SD-WANS can now drive Chocolate Factory virty cloud networks and the workloads therein Cisco will extend its SD-WAN service into Google's Cloud.…
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Lees meerThe world's crappest superheroes Huawei has posted its lowest revenue growth in years – the result of a once-in-a-century global pandemic, as well as a campaign by President Trump to sow seeds of fear, uncertainty and doubt about the Chinese biz.…
Lees meerRedmond reckons you've probably got enough on your plate right now Microsoft is pausing automatic upgrades for its Azure Service Fabric "until further notice" as the Windows giant reacts to the current COVID-19 situation.…
Lees meerCisco shows off how you can brick it on a Catalyst 9300 Cisco has published a guide to running Minecraft on its switches.…
Lees meerCloud colossus has gone very niche with video-shifter AWS has announced a very niche piece of on-prem tech and a related new cloud storage tier.…
Lees meerSo why not just buy new servers? That’s where this gets curly One of the few clouds to offer 64-bit Arm-compatible servers is dropping the architecture.…
Lees meerAlthough it did kick a hole in product sales and put a rocket under TXT China Mobile has issued un-audited Q1 results that reveal the impact of the novel coronavirus on the world’s largest mobile carrier, and perhaps on China itself.…
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