Cash-only Thursday as soap seller's tills go TITSUP* Soapnotes Lush, high street peddler of lotions and potions for the pampered, lost the ability to perform card transactions yesterday due to a bath bomb dropped in the server room.…
Lees meerPlus: PC, notebook hard drive ships set to be eclipsed by flash SSD market stats for calendar Q3 from DRAMeXchange, IDC and TrendForce and Wells Fargo have highlighted three things: Samsung remains the global undisputed sales heavyweight; the PC ind…
Lees meerChristmas soon, probably best you don't look anyway UK customers of HSBC hoping to check their balances before heading to the pub for a Friday beverage or eight found themselves out of luck today.…
Lees meer*Terrible IT Threatens Services, Users, Pound MPs have stuck a probe in banking IT crises after an "astonishing" number of failures, saying "measly apologies and hollow words" aren't good enough.…
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Lees meerFlashing seriously Analysis It has been revealed that open source Ceph storage systems can move a little faster than you might expect. For those who need, er, references, it seems a four-node Ceph cluster can serve 2.277 million random read IOPS us…
Lees meerFibreNation might exist but the expected sack of cash is yet to be announcned TalkTalk's 3 million-home fibre splurge now has a name – FibreNation – but can no longer say it has £1.5bn at its disposal for the venture.…
Lees meerNet income seems to be the hardest words for storage biz Pure Storage has reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street estimates and caused it to upgrade full-year guidance – but one thing still evades the all-flash array maker, and that is prof…
Lees meerWomen harassed, driven out while worse performing men keep jobs, lawsuit claims A former Oracle application sales rep is suing the database giant, alleging gender and age discrimination, sexual harassment, and violations of US labor laws after being…
Lees meerCash splashed for clever Cache Microsoft has joined the throngs of excited Black Friday shoppers to snap up desktop virtualization specialist FSLogix.…
Lees meerTech issues and rivalries can slow this down Analysis 5G has the potential to make cable and DSL as antiquated and pointless as using a horse and a cart to drive to the supermarket. And it's already here.…
Lees meerEmergency services need Tetra devices for at least three more years thanks to 4G delays Motorola Solutions and Sepura are to build a centrally managed procurement framework for the UK's radio network, Airwave.…
Lees meerDisk to disk to tape? Nah, it should be flash to flash to cloud +Comment Pure Storage is going to make hybrid public-private cloud data services available to customers, allowing them to, among other things, restore snapshots to either on-prem kit o…
Lees meerOz broadband network-builder quarterly revenue bests half-billion mark The outfit building Australia's National Broadband Network has outlined how it plans to achieve the per-user revenue mix that underpins its eventual profitability.…
Lees meerRedmond battles TITSUP multi-factor auth logins (yes, that's Total Inability To Support Users' Passcodes) Microsoft appears to be recovering from a particularly bad case of the Mondays that left many of its cloud service users unable to use multi-fa…
Lees meerMajority of sketchy free apps can be traced to China, study finds Many popular VPN apps are sketchy Chinese operations with dubious privacy policies, according to research.…
Lees meerDisgruntled investor says shareholders are being 'misled' on finances Hortonworks is facing a sueball over its uneven merger with competitor Cloudera, as a proposed class action takes aim at the company's claims to shareholders.…
Lees meerI've heard so much about the team, she burbles. Yes, us too TSB has named Debbie Crosbie as the chief exec to clear up its tech mess and persuade customers they can still trust the meltdown bank.…
Lees meerMicrosoft's cloudy service finds Mondays just as hard as the rest of us Happy Monday, everyone! Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is struggling, meaning that some users with the functionality enabled are now super secure. And, er, locked out.…
Lees meerDisk to disk to tape? Nah, it should be flash to flash to cloud +Comment Pure Storage has at last made hybrid cloud data services available to users, who can now run FlashArray OS in the Amazon cloud and rehydrate S3 stored snapshots to execute in …
Lees meerEmbellished CV almost spells disaster Who, Me? Roll up, roll up, for another instalment of Who, Me?, the weekly column in which El Reg tries to cure the very worst cases of Monday blues with fist-biting tales from readers of tech jobs gone wrong.…
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