The Reg chats to Dame Margaret Hodge MP about box slinger's tax affairs Interview Amazon's latest PR efforts to paint itself as a responsible corporate citizen in the UK have been branded "complete bollocks" by Dame Margaret Hodge MP, a long-term c…
Lees meerOperator refusing to apply automatic discounts next year UK consumer charity Citizens Advice has accused telco giant Hutchison's UK network Three of "ripping off loyal customers" to the tune of £32.4m per year, by refusing to apply automatic discoun…
Lees meerBiz bods head to Open Core Summit to ponder how to, you know, get paid Analysis On Thursday, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, companies building open-source code gathered to figure out how to survive having Amazon, Google, and Microsoft…
Lees meerFive hours and counting, this does not look good for UK hoster Brit hosting provider Claranet found itself resetting the "29 days without incident" sign this morning as "connectivity issues" felled customer emails and websites all over again.…
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Lees meerRequired: GSoH, plus ability to make ends meet on up to £180k a year UK.gov is on the lookout for a Government Chief Digital Information Officer (GCDIO) - a permanent secretary role that sets the strategic direction of travel for public sector IT in…
Lees meerGet the answers you need this month – and ready your systems for the 2020s Promo If you are beginning to wonder whether your familiar old data warehouse and analytics solutions can keep pace with the fast-moving modern world, you should check out t…
Lees meerEl Reg decodes Big Red's big announcements from today OpenWorld Oracle on Monday debuted a free, self-fixing Linux distribution for paying Oracle Cloud customers, and a free Cloud service tier that includes a limited version of its paid Autonomous …
Lees meerLineup looks to put a pep in the step of flailing systems group IBM this month officially unveiled the newest addition to the Z-series mainframe lineup in roughly two years.…
Lees meerA handover or handcuffs? Take your pick, eh? Who, Me? Bid farewell to the weekend and a cheery hello to work with a tale of a near-cuffing in our regular Who, Me? column.…
Lees meer... And they’re not happy Colin McDermott was surprised this week to receive an invoice from the UK’s largest domain name registrar, 123-Reg, auto-billing him £11.99 for a domain name he never ordered.…
Lees meerA gentle guide to designing a single source of truth in your organization Backgrounder One of the tech industry’s longest running quests is developing the notion of a single source of truth within organizations. That is, no matter who or where you …
Lees meerComms kit vendor in talks with videoconferencing outfit about possible joint venture Troubled telecoms provider Avaya has hit pause on plans to find a buyer amid reports it may enter into a joint venture with videoconferencing provider RingCentral i…
Lees meerNow there's a surprise! The £1bn modernisation of UK courts is behind schedule due to delays with its digital programme, the National Audit Office said today.…
Lees meerWill it be enough to boost Big Blue's cloud? CF Summit IBM has demonstrated Cloud Foundry running on Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes (K8s) container platform, at an event in the Netherlands.…
Lees meerMulticloud, Spring framework, and how K8s will become a universal API for infrastructure Interview Pivotal's current alpha release of the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) for Kubernetes has a dependency on VMware, but that will be removed in the f…
Lees meerPlus: Baidu's 92% growth closes gap on AWS Despite all the talk among Western tech vendors of an economic slowdown in the Middle Kingdon, spending on cloud infrastructure services in China is comfortably outpacing that of the global average.…
Lees meerUK govt releases contingency doc and everything thing is [fine/a living nightmare] (delete as appropriate) Analysis Cloud providers, social media platforms, and e-commerce companies are going to be hit hard in the event of a no-deal Brexit, accordi…
Lees meerBoard member Salvino to lead CSC-HPE-Enterprise-Services mutant starting Thursday Beleaguered IT outsourcing specialist DXC will open business Thursday minus the only CEO it has, to date, ever known, as Mike Lawrie is stepping down effective immedia…
Lees meerAlso-CEO Safra Catz will take over share his responsibilities with some guy who co-founded the biz On Wednesday, Oracle said co-CEO Mark Hurd will take a leave of absence to deal with undisclosed health issues, an announcement that coincided with th…
Lees meerStorage types pretty excited about getting at arrays over Ethernet via NVMe-oF Western Digital has swallowed Kazan Networks to get a taste of its sweet NVMe over Fabrics Ethernet connectivity kit.…
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