Start the New Year with a spot of feng shui On Call Welcome to the first Friday, and the first On Call of the new year – we hope your celebrations haven't left you too worse for wear.…
Lees meerInspur, FusionStack and TTA undercut, outperform Chinese behemoth An SPC-1 benchmark (PDF) run by Huawei shows it unable to answer lower-cost competition from three other Far East suppliers.…
Lees meerOur sales are up (though they'd have to be, right?) Bankrupted and rescued array shipper Tintri's new parent, DDN, has said the unit will soon be announcing new enterprise storage products and features including "project Mystic" – a feature teased b…
Lees meerCompany 'will never present a threat', claims letter to staff Increasingly in the crosshairs of government paranoia and beset by its place in the US-China trade war, Huawei's rotating chairman Guo Ping has come out swinging in a letter to staff.…
Lees meerRoll up, roll up for an end-of-holiday storage roundup Three (and a half) storage newsbytes rounded off 2018 with Acronis donating malware detection to a free Google service, Panzura talking about hybrid cloud file indexing services, and CTERA using…
Lees meerTITSUP network card fingered for dropped calls (that's a Total Inability To Send Usable Packets) Wyoming is the latest US state to formally probe CenturyLink's network outage, which black-holed 911 calls over Christmas.…
Lees meerTripartite monopoly cuts bit output production growth as China-US trade war threatens The three DRAM suppliers are scaling back production growth as memory demand falters with no sign of recovery.…
Lees meerARPANET handler helped lay foundations of the internet Obit One of the internet's founding fathers, ARPANET packet-switching pioneer Larry Roberts, has died aged 81.…
Lees meerHappy New Year from the Who, Me? Vultures Who, Me? Happy New Year! Because you'll all be feeling delicate, El Reg thought we’d ease your pain with some of our other readers' more technical errors – distraction is the best cure for embarrassment, we…
Lees meerThe best of readers' tech trouble one-liners On Call Over the months, On Call and Who, Me? – El Reg's weekly columns of tech support cock-ups – stack up quite a few submissions that are too short to whip into a single piece.…
Lees meerCompiling lists of dodgy browsing is all fun and games until the audit team comes along Who, Me? As your Vultures are off fighting over the remains of the Christmas dinner, we've lined up a feast of a different nature: a bonus instalment of Who, Me…
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Lees meerA beautiful sight, we're happy tonight... Walking in a storage wonderland Roundup 2018 wasn't too shabby for storage as the three-pronged attack of IoT edge, AI and multi-cloud defeated notions of the public cloud eating on-premises storage. Revenu…
Lees meerO2 presses on with Chinese supplier Mobile network operators have reportedly said that tearing up their contracts with Huawei would set Britain's 5G back "by nine months to a year" – so they're ploughing on despite pressure.…
Lees meerInspur, Huawei and Lenovo together shipped more in 2018 Inspur, Huawei and Lenovo collectively shipped more servers this year than either Dell or HPE, according to research outfit DRAMeXchange.…
Lees meerLet them eat cache Dell EMC wants us to understand that it's going to provide PowerMax with its idea of storage-class memory (SCM), and that means more than a fast cache.…
Lees meerOfcom proposes shakeup of spectrum bidding process Some technologies lurking under the 5G umbrella promise to reshape the entire communications sector, creating new uses and businesses we can't imagine today. Ofcom showed it was hip to a few of thes…
Lees meerMoral of the story: It's never going to be 'fine' On Call Welcome back to On Call, where you get to take a breather and enjoy tales of tech support adversity from your peers.…
Lees meerArt software maker snaps up virtualization tool for people who hate Qemu, Oracle VirtualBox that much When Corel CEO Patrick Nichols asked for Parallels for Christmas, we hope he meant the whole company rather than a copy of the desktop virtualizati…
Lees meerDell tech (EMC and VMware) utterly dominate with Nutanix following HPE, Cisco and NetApp are grabbing at the tail end of a fast-growing converged/hyper-converged market that is utterly dominated by Dell's EMC and VMware businesses and HCI specialist…
Lees meerAlmost a third spent on outsourcing digital, legal skills The UK Information Commissioner's Office has spent almost £2.5m on its probe into the use of data analytics for political purposes – but has just two staff from its tech division working on t…
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