Windows giant mulls gobbling up network kit maker, according to anon insiders Microsoft is considering buying Mellanox, according to a report on Wednesday by an Israeli financial newspaper.…
Lees meerDRAM and NAND output to take a hit as demand slides Chip maker Micron has slammed the brakes on production and expenses entering calendar 2019 in anticipation of falling demand.…
Lees meerUK competition bods threaten action against 'loyalty penalty' The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has issued an urgent call for action against mobile providers that rip off loyal customers with high prices even once handsets are paid off.…
Lees meerPolicing customers is tough, censoring content would be worse, says lawyer Analysis Cloudflare found itself underfire this month for seemingly allowing officially designated foreign terrorists to use its website protection services. Which, under US…
Lees meerUK mobile networks had better open their wallets Ofcom has revealed plans to offer more of the airwaves to mobile networks, increasing capacity by around 22 per cent overall, and by 62 per cent in the more attractive sub-1GHz portion of the spectrum…
Lees meerWe're listening, insists company right before new chief exec takes post BT has belatedly given its shareholders a public pat on the head for not voting down departing chief exec Gavin Patterson's £1.3m bonus.…
Lees meerFor now, it's a business to be in... for everyone but Hitachi IDC numbers show Dell EMC's position at the top of the all-flash array (AFA) market weakened as it grew less than the market as a whole, giving chasing vendors hope – except Hitachi, whic…
Lees meerWell, if you pronounce it 'Vee' and not 'Five'... Anyway, instruction set to be touted under undisclosed license AI biz Wave Computing on Monday told the world it intends to open source the latest MIPS instruction set architecture (ISA) in the hope …
Lees meerHighlight: Ellison goes bananas over AWS Aurora noise Red Hat and Oracle both on Monday reported their latest financial figures. Let's take a look at how they fared.…
Lees meerMoney in form of loans and grants – but will it work or be wasted? Analysis The US government has added another $600m to the pot of money that is supposed to expand broadband internet access to rural areas of America. But it remains far from clear …
Lees meerThird of market to evaporate by 2021. Only nearline, spycam drives to swell In brief Number-crunchers at IDC and Wells Fargo are predicting that global disk drive sales will crash from 424.7 million units in 2016 to an estimated 284.7 million in 20…
Lees meer'Please stop... you're doing something to the radios' Who, me? Welcome all, to the merry world of Who, Me?, our weekly trip down memory lane for techies who want to get something off their chest.…
Lees meerDon't be daft, of course they haven't, we're still in Crazytown USA Analysis One year ago today, the FCC passed a controversial measure that undermined its own rules, passed just two years earlier, over net neutrality.…
Lees meerIt's time has come Promo Technical work on the first spec for Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) began in 2009 with a first version released two years later. A decade on, NVMEe’s time has come.…
Lees meerBut y'know, maybe we will terminate positions post-merger if there's a business case Cloudera founder Mike Olson has asked staffers to turn down recruiters' advances ahead of the firm's merger with Hortonworks – despite acknowledging there could be …
Lees meerSurprise, surprise, the execs want someone SaaSy Mimecast headed up a crew of the usual suspects – which included Proofpoint and Microsoft – in the leaders' square of the latest Gartner magic quadrant that ranks enterprise information archivers.…
Lees meerThe user in this On Call would prefer we didn't tell... On Call How many sleeps 'till Christmas? We don't care, because here at El Reg, we count in On Calls, and we can tell you there are plenty to come, so fret not.…
Lees meerCupertino pats own back for forking over dollars in home country Apple has said it will spend $10bn on data centres in the US over the next five years, and will set up a new $1bn campus in Texas.…
Lees meerDell EMC, HPE and ODMs frolic as cloud rains cash The continued data centre refresh cycle and seemingly insatiable demand from the big cloud slingers to bulk out their infrastructure saw server vendors make hay while the sun shone in Q3.…
Lees meerTest your own workload at their Cloud Center of Excellence Promo Server giant Supermicro recently teamed up with Intel to set up its Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) at its logistics hub and manufacturing facility in the Netherlands.…
Lees meerWe just modem down with that headline (OK maybe not) As the chip supplier to almost half the phone market, Qualcomm should be able to make a decent guess about when 5G will condense from vapourware into something more solid.…
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