The line cards, that is... which ISP has fingered for selective download slowness Vodafone has admitted that a "technical issue" is to blame for some broadband customers being unable to stream video from popular sites for months.…
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Lees meerNew flash wine in old drive bottle Micron has rejigged its 1100 SATA SSD with denser NAND to produce the new 1300 model.…
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Lees meerBlood hath been shed 'ere now. Take that claim down anon, orders ASA BT has been ticked off for running a campaign claiming to have the UK's "most powerful" broadband, almost two years after it was hauled before the ad industry watchdog over the sam…
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Lees meerIt's a time of long goodbyes Western Digital (WD) has started to replace its SATA and SAS SSDs with faster NVMe drives.…
Lees meerJust one tier of cheap deduped accelerated flash Startup VAST Data lifted the lid on its secret storage sauce today, revealing cheap, exabyte-level scale out flash arrays sped by Optane SSDs – which it hopes will persuade users to load up their on-p…
Lees meerUK.gov agency dangles £120k salary to rid itself of legacy tech The UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is on the lookout for a new CTO to pick up the reins of its modernisatiom agenda.…
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Lees meerNAND great. It's going to get worse this quarter DRAM supplier revenues plunged in the final quarter of 2018, as have those of NAND suppliers, with both quantity shipped and prices paid dropping, industry analyst DRAMeXChange said.…
Lees meerInfosec bods spot IBM SoftLayer not wiping down BMC flash memory after use Cloud providers renting out bare-metal servers are going to give folks in the IT industry fresh security headaches, claims infosec outfit Eclypsium.…
Lees meerPick a card, any card: Micron's or SanDisk's ... but it'll cost you £££ MWC Micron and WD's SanDisk both dropped the veil on massive memory cards for your mobile at Barcelona's phone confab this morning: specifically, the little beggars are stuffed…
Lees meerAh yes, that cheque, just make it out to a Mr Stonking C*ck Who, Me? Good Monday morning, dear Reg readers. If you were faced with doing overtime this weekend, rather than going out for beers, this episode of Who, Me? might be right up your street.…
Lees meerProcessor designer says he's right about one thing: The need for end-to-end dev platforms Channeling the late Steve Jobs, Linux kernel king Linus Torvalds this week dismissed cross-platform efforts to support his contention that Arm-compatible proce…
Lees meerContrarian command-in-chief tweets, world scratches head Comment President Donald Trump appears to have undermined an increasingly aggressive push by the US government and telcos to pressure the world to shun Chinese equipment in next-generation 5G…
Lees meerNVMe drives speed VMs, but be warned – it ain't persistent AWS and Google Cloud virtual machine instances – and as of this month, Azure's – have NVMe flash drive performance, but user be warned: drive contents are wiped when the VMs are killed.…
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