'Ethos Capital, ISOC, and PIR have failed to provide clear and transparent information' Analysis A quick hypothetical for you: if your organization received a letter from six senior politicians urging you not to move forward with a controversial de…
Lees meerLiterally: As much as 10% of employees at server-hosting biz laid off in 'non-cost-cutting' move DigitalOcean last week axed an undisclosed number of employees.…
Lees meerAWS and Google data warehousing stuff considered, then ignored Online photo print and gift service Photobox is quitting Amazon's Redshift data warehouse to hitch its wagon to competing cloud-native systems from Snowflake.…
Lees meerTraditional IT titans take backseat behind cloud giants Exclusive Hewlett Packard Enterprise has warned that the industry-wide 18-month-plus shortage of certain Intel Xeon server-class processors may continue all the way through 2020.…
Lees meerIt's getting hot in here, so open all your doors On Call Welcome to On Call, The Register's regular foray into the increasingly unreliable memories of those who have to pick up the phone when everything is on fire.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, AMD snags Intel exec as server chip boss Google is hoping to improve the appeal of its mid-tier Cloud platform to enterprises with a new set of support and response options.…
Lees meerConnecticut Supremes affirm trial judge's decision to toss 'pay to play' claim Gartner did not defame network app biz Netscout by placing it in the "challenger" section of its Magic Quadrant instead of the "leaders" section, the Supreme Court of the…
Lees meerBankers ring in 2020 by thwacking employees with the Windows stick Microsoft has signed up UK finance behemoth, Lloyds Banking Group, in a deal that will see the Windows giant manage the group's desktops and mobile devices.…
Lees meerWow, it's all coming up Trump right now, huh? America and China have struck a deal that brings hope for an end to their long-running trade war.…
Lees meerYep, same private equity cats snaffled N2WS and its former parent firm The private equity outfit that snaffled Veeam for $5bn this month has emerged as the owner of N2WS, Veeam's former subsidiary.…
Lees meerBig Blue to build and run private cloud TSB parent, Spain's Banco Sabadell, has signed a €1bn group deal with IBM to build and run its entire banking infrastructure via a private cloud among a raft of other services – the outage hit UK arm has told …
Lees meerWe'll 'empower millions of citizen developers' says Google. Now where have we heard that before? Google has cleared the way for non-developers to build applications that make use of Google cloud services with the acquisition of Seattle-based no-code…
Lees meerWho will control the CC TLD in future? Well, only one company fits the criteria, funnily enough Special report The Colombian government has been accused by its own internet community of fudging a contract so that just one North American company in …
Lees meerMeanwhile: IBM Power processors to appear in a Google Cloud near you, if you ask nicely Data-center operator Equinix has agreed to acquire upstart Packet in what it hopes is a move into the edge compute market.…
Lees meerYou may not have plumbing to the premises, but by god you'll have fibre Good news for much-maligned new-build contractors in the UK - equally maligned UK broadband infrastructure provider OpenReach today says it will drop the threshold for installin…
Lees meerDocker who? Veteran Hadooper already plugging away after 6-month stint at container biz Cloudera has turned to the co-founder and one-time CEO at Hortonworks - the business it merged with in 2018 - to run the show.…
Lees meerDecision on next Friday's paperwork to arrive 11 Feb Amazon (or rather, its Web Services tentacle) is expecting a decision on 11 February from a US Court regarding slamming the brakes on the lucrative JEDI contract awarded to Microsoft.…
Lees meerPurchase funded by debt, includes another ex-ICANNer, will be done through four different companies. All perfectly normal Analysis DNS overlord ICANN has finally released additional details over the proposed sale of the .org internet registry to a …
Lees meerUK.gov decision to use Chinese biz or not due in a week or two, maybe, perhaps... sort of The head of Uk's domestic spy agency, MI5, has declared that he has "no reason to think" that Britain's impending decision to use Huawei in the core of 5G mobi…
Lees meerEvery little helps, right Jeff? The UK's Home Office has tossed £100m worth of taxpayer cash at Amazon Web Services to renew a public cloud hosting agreement with the hyper tax efficient American giant for four years.…
Lees meer$3bn reportedly changing hands after data centre biz auction A disturbance has been detected in the world of data centres amid reports that private equity biz Macquarie is to take a majority stake in Sydney-based AirTruck that will cost circa A$3bn.…
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