IT goliath under pressure to settle cloud sales star who claims he was unlawfully axed after turning 60 Analysis A judge's recommendation to reject IBM's bid to dismiss an age discrimination claim raises the likelihood that the case could go to tri…
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Lees meerFast retrieval and 'Bucket lock' security, but not the cheapest for cloud storage Google has opened the freezer on general availability of its Archive class cloud storage, designed for data that is stored for more than a year and accessed less than …
Lees meerMoving to America after being swallowed by Insight Partners, which already chucked $500m at it last year Insight Partners – the same private equity house that pumped half a billion dollars into data protection powerhouse Veeam Software earlier this …
Lees meerICANN, ISOC, PIR and Ethos still refusing to provide details Comment The controversial proposed sale of the .org internet registry to an unknown private equity firm will hit a critical decision point this week, and all the organizations in charge a…
Lees meerAnd the techies are almost universally very happy about it There are still corners of the internet that function like the old days, and US regional internet registry ARIN has just proved it – much to the joy of network engineers.…
Lees meerYearly review promises FTTP for rural bods, price check on network wholesaler Openreach Ofcom today published new proposals that aim to see fibre-to-the-premises broadband become more ubiquitous, particularly for users in rural areas and finally kil…
Lees meer'Unsubstantiated' ad must never be seen again, growls adland watchdog A group of Luddites who think 5G causes everything from cancer to lack to sleep have had an advert promoting their views banned from public display.…
Lees meerWhat started as a joke slowly blends into potential fiber reality CES It started out as a joke, a way to repeat the hype-success of “5G” mobile technology for the cable industry. And yet “10G” – standing for 10 gigabit-a-second broadband fiber spee…
Lees meerWhen curiosity killed the print job. All the print jobs Who, Me? Welcome to another entry on the Who, Me? naughty list, filled with the confessions from techies who were perhaps a little silly, maybe somewhat devious, and yet still escaped with car…
Lees meerThanks to America's antitrust laws A US judge on Friday tripled the damages Quanta Storage owes HP Inc to $439m for unlawfully hiking the price of optical disc drives.…
Lees meerShopping spree means all roads lead to K8s for Virtzilla VMware has completed its acquisition of Pivotal – or re-acquisition, since Pivotal was spun out from VMware in 2012 – and has appointed Ray O'Farrell as leader of its new Modern Applications P…
Lees meerWe pick one technology highlight for each of the Big 3 Analysis Three technology giants continued to dominate cloud computing in 2019, with each bringing in some interesting tools to play with as they sprawled over smaller players.…
Lees meerThe circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master. Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's stagger through the events of two decades ago, some of which are perhaps a little closer to home than we'd thought.…
Lees meerBut my emails! On Call Friday is upon us, bringing with it the promise of an early finish, the pub and a carefree weekend. Unless, of course, you are one of those unfortunates condemned to deal with... users. Welcome to On Call.…
Lees meerConnectivity Cluedo: It was the hi-vis, in the building site, with the digger Some Virgin Media broadband customers remain free from the shackles of connectivity today following some over-enthusiastic digging last Thursday.…
Lees meerEl Reg pulls up a chair next to the fire and chats to box giant's CEO Antonio Neri Interview Migrating your data to the machine that is Amazon Web Services is a little like booking into the Hotel California, the title track from The Eagles late 197…
Lees meerLook before you leap, and by leap, we mean run del *.* Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly dive into the murky waters of the reader confession pool. Read on to see if this week's tale triggers a guilty memory or two from you.…
Lees meerLearn about everything Nutanix and win prizes in the process Promo California-based cloud computing company Nutanix wants to invite you to its winter Cloud Chalet to watch a six-part series of videos on hot topics such as end-user computing, databa…
Lees meerLuckily, it's not the night before Christmas. Actually, it's worse HSBC’s mobile and online banking services went absent without leave in the UK last night and are missing in action again this morning, just as Brits begin panicking about any last mi…
Lees meerTwo less lovely phone booths in the world, and it's going to be fine Who knew payphones could be so controversial? The central London council of Westminster has won a court battle against New World Payphones, preventing it from deploying two billboa…
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