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Lees meerJapanese supplier's biz model, like its products, were straight as a spring Two former sales executives at NHK Spring Ltd, Hitoshi Hashimoto and Hiroyuki Tamura, were indicted in America last week for alleged participation in a worldwide conspiracy …
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Lees meerMicrosoft previews its efforts to bring complexity of on-prem IT to the cloud Microsoft has slung out a limited sneak peek at Azure Shared Disks, which enable on-premises applications that run on clustered storage to be migrated cloudwards.…
Lees meerJust what is it you lot actually do anyway? Comment Headlining the recent Oracle OpenWorld Europe gabfest in London, Big Red's CEO Safra Catz says big chages are afoot at the company, though the shadow of its colourful chairman continues to loom la…
Lees meerGood hook if you're already all-in. Oh, and there's an elephant in the room: full Hadoop implementation Analysis After securing a lofty position in enterprise applications and databases, Oracle has fixed its eyes on data science. And though analyst…
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Lees meer'A combination of losing Huawei and slower than anticipated ramp in 5G' A small round of layoffs at Silicon Valley's Xilinx was the result of the US government's ongoing war on Huawei, one of the FPGA designer's top customers.…
Lees meerTechies quit to go it alone, iGiant tries to lure away their staff – then sues – court told Apple's iPhone chip designers mulled creating their own homegrown server processor for the Silicon Valley giant – but were shot down by Steve Jobs after they…
Lees meerBuy to boost cloud, automation and visibility chops Arista has beaten several rival suitors to snap up software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Big Switch after months of negotiations.…
Lees meerThe days of spinning rust in lappies looks numbered and deskops will be next, says analyst Dearly beloved, let us take a moment to remember the spinning rust featured in PCs for the last four decades. This year "no new laptops" will have an HDD insi…
Lees meerThe past twelve months have not been good for GPU giant Nvidia talked up its data center AI sales and strong just-past quarter to keep everyone's eyes distracted from an otherwise lukewarm financial year.…
Lees meerPentagon's $10bn winner-takes-all cloud super-contract in stasis as Starship Bezos opens fire A US federal court today slammed the brakes on the Pentagon's decision to award Microsoft the JEDI cloud mega-contract.…
Lees meerCFO – and daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei – Meng Wanzhou named in fresh criminal indictment Huawei has been charged by the US government with 16 counts ranging from fraud to conspiracy to launder money and steal trade secrets to racketeering conspi…
Lees meerLimited functionality and cloud only, but improvements are on the way A beta of GitHub's command-line interface for managing issues and pull requests is available to download for macOS, Windows and Linux.…
Lees meerOnline security process stalled by offline security screw-up The organization that keeps the internet running behind-the-scenes was forced to delay an important update to the global network – because it was locked out of one of its own safes.…
Lees meerThe aristocrats! The aristocrats! As feared, Cisco saw its sales slip slightly from last quarter as customers held off on buying new network and comms gear.…
Lees meerTechnologieverzögerung? Uh, Kommunikationsbürokratie? Switzerland has stalled the rollout of next-gen 5G mobile networks over health concerns.…
Lees meerI'll show you my customers if you show me yours Oracle has continued its attempt to gain ground on cloud rivals by expanding its data centres and extending last year's love-in with Microsoft.…
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