You shall not PaaS? An Ask Me Anything reveals common gripes Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), an Azure-hosted VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), plugs an obvious gap in the company's cloud offerings, but comes with its fair share of ann…
Lees meerClaims loosening BT's price cap will cost businesses £230m Vodafone has lobbed a sueball at UK comms regulator Ofcom for relaxing regulation of BT's wholesale fibre leases - a move it claims could cost British businesses £230m.…
Lees meer'Network censorship will only accelerate the loss of HK to competing cities' The Hong Kong ISP Association (HKISPA) reckons any moves by China to shut off the semi-autonomous territory's uncensored internet connection, African dictator-style, "would…
Lees meerBad news for Nimbys and 5G health cranks, good news for 4G The British government has raised the spectre of giant mobile masts looming large over the English countryside in its 5G consultation review paper as a further loosening of planning regulati…
Lees meerOut of options we are running Oracle is having one last shake of the dice by going back to court to try to force the Pentagon to reconsider kicking it out of the running for the $10bn contract to run cloud services for the US Department of Defense.…
Lees meerHybrid IT and Intelligent Services are slightly on the low, too, compared to last year HPE announced its fiscal third quarter results for this year on Tuesday, reporting mixed results with an overall dip in sales and growth in gross margins compared…
Lees meerCEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry VMworld Ahead of day-two of VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to further overhaul the virtualization giant's reputation in the open-source worl…
Lees meerFCC also moves, albeit glacially, on robocalls Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico.…
Lees meer11?!! This cost me 12! Do you want to ruin me?! Just like the market stall owner in the The Life of Brian, it turns out internet service providers want customers to haggle with them to cut better deals.…
Lees meerThat time a PA put the 'ass' into 'asset tag' On Call How's your Friday shaping up? Come join us for another dive into the piranha-infested waters of what we at The Register like to call On Call.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, Salesforce sees profits fall Imaginary computer specialist VMware boosted its security and cloud software lineup today when it confirmed Thursday the purchases of Carbon Black and Pivotal Software in deals totaling around $4.8bn.…
Lees meerLook at the troubles facing legacy vendors. We're not immune either Pure Storage has clipped forecasts for its current fiscal year due to fears over the slowdown in corporate spending that is gripping other infrastructure outfits and a sharp decline…
Lees meerEmail issues dog the company formerly known as 1&1 Ionos, the hosting company formerly known as 1&1, has found itself on Microsoft's naughty list as emails from its servers won't reach Outlook.com accounts.…
Lees meerIt has been foretold! IT prophesier Gartner has performed its ritual reading of market omens to foretell next year's global 5G network infrastructure revenue. The hype wizards reckon that in 2020 the market will hit $4.2bn, an 89 per cent increase f…
Lees meerHoddesdon bit barn outage blamed as customer emails falter, corporate sites go dark Updated Hosting-cum-cloud-slinger Claranet had a very, very bad start to Wednesday as customer sites toppled over and email services stuttered to a halt due to an i…
Lees meerFCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links A handful of bad network packets triggered a massive chain reaction that crippled the entire network of US telco CenturyLink for roughly a day and a half.…
Lees meerBig Blue says it will open OpenPower, power next-gen chips in China, er, anywhere IBM is planning to allow chip designers around the world to freely create OpenPower-compatible processors.…
Lees meerPunters bemoan comms silence with no fix in sight Customers of Brit hosting outfit TSO Host are suffering from a cluster of issues leaving them without email services for a prolonged period or a clear idea when they'll get them back.…
Lees meerHe also developed one of the first ever flight simulators The computer scientist who created the first visual flight simulator, gave us the compsci concept of endianness and whose pioneering work blazed a trail for modern VOIP services has died at t…
Lees meerPlus, Cerebras hypes up AI-focused '400,000-core die the size of an iPad' Hot Chips At the Hot Chips symposium in Silicon Valley on Monday, IBM and Intel each revealed a few more details about some upcoming processors of theirs.…
Lees meerDell-EMC storage failure leaves Canucks fuming for four days Dealing with email is possibly the most tedious daily exercise that the modern digital world has forced on us. But 13 million customers of Canadian ISP Telus have discovered that not havin…
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