Meet Network Cloud – Brit telco's latest infrastructure play BT will be using software-defined networking (SDN) tools from Juniper Networks to breathe new life into its ageing infrastructure and prepare it for the deluge of data expected when 5G goe…
Lees meerPlus a punched card reader and some extra manuals Big congratulations to Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn, who have raised enough cash to get their rescued IBM 360s back from Nuremberg.…
Lees meerHey – watch where you're pointing that code! Who, Me? A fresh week means a fresh story to add to The Register's regular hall of shame where hapless techies tell tales of in-the-field slip-ups: welcome to Who, Me?…
Lees meerUnlucky netizens struggle to connect to web giant suffering from 'network congestion' Google is right now recovering from a multi-hour outage that knocked several of its internet services offline for unlucky netizens on Sunday.…
Lees meerServer hoster apologizes after washing away cloud-based systems Nicolas Beauvais, the CTO of a two-person AI startup called Raisup, raised a ruckus on Twitter on Friday to revive his company and it worked.…
Lees meerPlus market's slow to swallow gear, especially storage. Hmmf. At least Huawei 'ban' won't hurt too much Storage and semiconductor maker Marvell Technology Group played down the impact of the effective ban on selling chips to Huawei as it filed losse…
Lees meerCase being heard in US, but disties in Middle East, Europe warn delays will go on till at least August Exclusive A courtroom showdown over a patent infringement allegation that Fujifilm brought against Sony is crippling supply of LTO-8 tape media s…
Lees meerSorry, wrong Eton – the power distribution specialist says rent out battery capacity to the grid Power distribution specialist Eaton has kicked off a pilot project in Ireland that uses data centre UPS systems to help power the grid in periods of pea…
Lees meerHyperscalers now leasing 81 per cent of new colo space in FLAP markets Cloud slingers are leasing larger chunks of third-party colocation facilities as they can’t build their own data centres fast enough in locations they need, and nowhere is this t…
Lees meerTop tip for when no one knows which rack you need to look at On-Call As the week draws to a close and we bite our collective knuckles at all the things that went a bit wrong, take solace in another tale about those brave souls charged with fixing s…
Lees meerThose stellar financial results last week. Yes ignore them Lenovo is eliminating 500 staff worldwide, including some in its US headquarters at Research Triangle Park in Morrisville, North Carolina.…
Lees meerBecause those 80,000 codices are getting a bit oldy-moldy now The Holy See has upgraded the data centre used to preserve the extensive collection of historic documents held in the Vatican Apostolic Library.…
Lees meerTITSUP* at Wynyard, Doxford bit barns leave finance clients with some free time – sources The dust is settling at DXC Technology following an outage at its Wynyard colocation site in England yesterday that hosts services for a bunch of FTSE 50 finan…
Lees meerThis will be the PCIe 5.0, this will be the PCIe 5.0 PCI-SIG, the industry consortium that oversees the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express specification, rolled out PCIe 5.0 on Wednesday, promising speedier data transfers between connected co…
Lees meerThey think it's a level playing field. How sweet Huawei is trying to have a key part of American lawfare against the Chinese company thrown out by a US court – on the grounds it breaks the United States constitution.…
Lees meerNow you can VPN from a cheap router – but only to a premium Azure Gateway Microsoft has announced the general availability of OpenVPN support in Azure point-to-site VPN gateways, used to enable client PCs and devices to connect to an Azure network v…
Lees meerNo magic here, just lots of chunky GPUs Nvidia revealed EGX earlier this week, its distributed platform for machine learning applications, based on Kubernetes. Now Taiwanese server vendor Tyan has furnished one of the first examples of the kind of h…
Lees meerDeep-sleep state sips less juice, but active state slurps more Intel has added two more PCIe lanes to speed up its Optane memory disk drive caching device and tweaked power handling for a lower deep-sleep power draw.…
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Lees meerBut if you're old/experienced then payday deadline is 8 July DXC Technology has opened a voluntary redundancy programme for staff across its operations in the UK and Ireland - though graduates, apprentices and quota-carrying sales folk need not appl…
Lees meerShipping biz so very sorry for 'inadvertently misrouting' technical docs from Japan to China through US In addition to mistrusting foreign technology companies because of the risk of IP packet diversion, nation-states may also have to shy away from …
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