Consolidation in the chip industry as the geepie giant eyes new markets GPU giant Nvidia is to cough $6.9bn for chipmaker Mellanox, known for its data centre networking kit and InfiniBand interconnect tech widely used in HPC.…
Lees meerAll fine now, insists telco after Total Inability ToTalkTalk to Server Upsets Pipex peeps* TalkTalk is back in the spotlight over its email services after ageing Pipex mail addresses stopped working abruptly on Saturday.…
Lees meerGPU powerhouse reportedly throws down $7bn for networker Ethernet and InfiniBand networker Mellanox has reportedly received a $7bn acquisition bid from GPU powerhouse Nvidia.…
Lees meerIndustry and free software folk alike condemn proposals EU plans to ban the sale of user-moddable radio frequency devices – like phones and routers – have provoked widespread condemnation from across the political bloc.…
Lees meerLatest storage tracker's out The latest quarterly storage systems tracker from industry analyst IDC revealed that hyperconverged uptake did not dent SAN and filer sales, although overall revenue for the sector saw a decent uptick.…
Lees meerOutage hits websites, apps, international payments French bank BNP Paribas's systems have been down for more than 24 hours in its home nation, with customers complaining they can't transfer money or access the website or app.…
Lees meerBuilding to nowhere Analysis The UK's four big mobile network operators dropped in on Whitehall yesterday to plead their case for taller masts and other policy tweaks. With the public thirsting for better data, but derailing attempts to improve it,…
Lees meerChap does a lot of travel, zero work for penny-pinching customer On Call Gather round, readers, as we have a good root in our On Call mailbag for this week’s tale, fresh from one of your fellow techies.…
Lees meerWham bam, thank you, MRAM Samsung this week claimed it is mass-producing and commercially shipping embedded magnetic RAM (eMRAM) to replace EEPROM, SRAM, and NAND memories in embedded electronics.…
Lees meerMakes a nice change from restructuring and layoffs Veritas has said it will buy privately held analytics biz Aptare for an undisclosed amount.…
Lees meerStorage firms' disk drive developments diverge Seagate's next-generation HAMR disk drive will be a drop-in replacement while Western Digital's MAMR drive will not, The Register can reveal.…
Lees meerGOOD ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE MUSIC VIA SHAZAM IF YOU TURN IT UP TO 11 It's not just the walls that have ears. It's also the hard drives.…
Lees meerHardware maker goes to Texas to overturn banishment of its IT gear from federal networks Huawei is suing Uncle Sam to overturn a ban on its communications hardware in US federal government computer networks.…
Lees meerBeats the other big boys to region, Blobs go Premium, DevOps go on-prem, oh my With Premium Blobs, Azure DevOps Server and a new Africa Azure region, Microsoft has spaffed out cloudy goodness like a Roomba in reverse.…
Lees meerSome police keeping their feet on ground despite pleas from on high Six years after the UK government introduced its "Cloud First" policy, a load of police forces have continued to mostly keep their feet firmly planted on the ground, a survey has re…
Lees meerNetworking, storage collab hitting a data centre near you Hitachi Vantara has taken a leaf out of the Cisco-NetApp FlexPod playbook by twinning Cisco servers and networking with its own storage in a converged infrastructure deal.…
Lees meerIt'll be big one day. But that day is not tomorrow Analysis If the industry had one job at Mobile World Congress last week, it was to tell the world that 5G – the biggest thing since "electricity or the automobile", according to Qualcomm's CEO* – w…
Lees meerMPs ask for specifics, get evasive umming and erring British civil servants and ministers have been slammed for a "Sir Humphrey"* performance when grilled by MPs on differences in attitudes to tech across government and progress moving off legacy sy…
Lees meerLast summer we asked FCC to have heart, but the very next day, it said No Huawei... Huawei is to sue the American government for banning federal agencies from using the Chinese giant's network equipment, according to reports stateside.…
Lees meerMay we suggest your mattress as an alternative? The UK banking sector was hit by IT outages on a daily basis in the last nine months of 2018, with 302 reported TITSUPs according to consumer group Which?.…
Lees meerQ4 revenues up 24% anually, but all-flasher missed guidance Pure Storage's Q4 fiscal '19 revenues of $422m missed its own guidance by around $20m due to a manufacturing balls-up and customers preferring subscription to license deals.…
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