An entire data centre the size of a sugar cube? Sweet! Scientists in the US, working alongside Microsoft, have managed to encode "hello" into a readable strand of synthetic DNA, using a fully automated data storage system.…
Lees meerViews from the morning after the night before Special Report 5G is like an all-night drunken brainstorm in which the world's brainiest telecoms boffins went wild, and really let rip. The morning after is a real headache.…
Lees meerBut he did get a $50 cheque, a piece of acrylic and a fuzzy glow that lasted for years On Call Reading On Call, El Reg's weekly instalment of readers' tale of support triumphs large and small, is the best way to start your Friday.…
Lees meerPeak US govt bureaucracy locks investigators out of files covering '180' vulnerabilities Least you think working for Uncle Sam in Washington DC is glamorous or in any way enviable, behold this stunning achievement in bureaucratic cock-up, or perhaps…
Lees meerEvaldas Rimasauskas will pay back $50m, faces years in clink for phony hardware bill scam A Lithuanian citizen extradited the US has admitted bilking $122m from Facebook and Google by sending the tech giant's staff bogus invoices for computer gear.…
Lees meerA rising tide lifts all boats – Samsung, SK Hynix saw increases too US chip slinger Micron has said that the end of memory oversupply issues is in sight, and demand for DRAM silicon will begin growing again later this year, especially in the cloud a…
Lees meerNever mind, we've got a fistful of spectrum and 5G's a-coming... Hutchison's Three UK network lost 44,000 active customers last year, but saw its revenue increase slightly to £2.439bn from £2.425bn.…
Lees meerCMO talks post-merger relationships, open-source spats Interview Cloudera said it plans to become the darling of Wall Street in 18 months, in part by breaking into the $1bn turnover club. This promise comes a week after the company reported widenin…
Lees meerReg talks to Microsoft as it finally pulls covers from new virty toy, reveals Win 10, apps and, er, 7? Windows Virtual Desktop has finally arrived, in preview form that is, and three months after the public preview was supposed to have begun.…
Lees meer410GB/s per package. We repeat, 410GB/s per package Samsung has unveiled a new generation of high-bandwidth DRAM chips called Flashbolt.…
Lees meerCome for the on-demand servers, stay for the sweet documentation On a rainy Wednesday morning in San Francisco, Google pitched its Cloud Platform (GCP) to power games, and brought friends along to sing its praises at the annual Games Developer's Con…
Lees meer'We can replace it but we have no idea what the config is on the device' An IT department is pulling its hair out this month after realizing a coworker who died last year was the only person who could log into a crucial network switch.…
Lees meerIn-house or in the cloud? Right Mix Advisor will tell you HPE has pulled the sheets off a service designed to advise punters on the bits of their IT infrastructure to keep in-house, and the workloads to offload to public cloud data centres.…
Lees meerMerger so fresh, gabfest freebies had old logo Logowatch Now that star-crossed Hadoop-flinging lovers Cloudera and Hortonworks have ended their years-long competition-cum-courtship with a merger, what better way to seal the deal than visiting the S…
Lees meerCloud Foundation makes debut on Dell EMC VxRail systems VMware's Cloud Foundation hybrid cloud stack has hit version 3.7 and is available from April as a component of a pre-built private cloud appliance running on Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infr…
Lees meerGo off-cluster if you wanna, plus 'batteries-included' Kubernetes containers Cloudera, fresh from the uneven merger with former Hadoop distro competitor Hortonworks, used its first major public event to thrust a new data platform hard at the enterpr…
Lees meerOffsite specialists offer to take the strain Promo End-users often judge the efficiency of your IT by their first contact with your service desk. Do you have the resources to keep them happy and provide the fast and reliable support they need?…
Lees meerYou'll have £140m to play with – and be paid 0.1% of that Do you like drinking from poisoned chalices? Enjoy being paid below average for your skills? Britain's court service has just the job for you and, boy, it's a doozy.…
Lees meerGood news for all – whoa, not so fast, Visual Studioers Lambda lovers, rejoice! You can now, from this week, write your cloudy functions in pretty much any version of .NET Core you like.…
Lees meerClaims ForsaOS can engorge server memory by up to 24x Formulus Black has proposed a way to make x86 servers run faster, using a data-reduction method.…
Lees meerCisco is touting analytics, automation for that very challenge Promo With an estimated 63 million new devices attaching to enterprise networks per second by 2020, will your infrastructure team be able cope with its growing scale and complexity?…
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