El Reg drills into banned technology with Freedom-of-Info request The US Department of Defense's "do not buy" list of foreign software and equipment turns out to be about as long as the list of bug-free Windows releases or privacy-focused Facebook a…
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Lees meerEx-Oracle man gets top job as another experienced woman exec quits web ads titan Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene has quit the online ads giant, and will be replaced by ex-Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.…
Lees meerEE: We're sorry, Ofcom. Virgin: Why, that's... unjustified and disproportionate! The UK's comms watchdog claims to have slapped a £13.3m penalty on EE and Virgin Media for fleecing customers who wanted to exit their broadband or mobile phone contrac…
Lees meerChinese fabber YMTC has cunning tech catch-up plan China's Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) aims to leapfrog 96-layer NAND and move straight to the production of 128-layer flash in 2020, according to a report.…
Lees meerSays company that sells switching services Millions of Britons unwilling to be parted from their urban broadband and not-too-shabby mobile phone reception are shunning rural living, according to a survey.…
Lees meerOngoing Bitcoin woes left the channel holding all the cards, and that's not a good thing Nvidia has turned in growth in revenue and profit, but has been punished for missing its guidance in the third quarter of its fiscal 2019, all amid a continuing…
Lees meerFCC signs off on broadband-in-space plans, plus connections to Europe's GPS America's broadband and telly regulator, the FCC, today approved a vast expansion in satellite networks around Earth.…
Lees meerJust don't mention those three Big Blue letters, OK? Red Hat used this week's OpenStack Summit to announce the impending arrival of its OpenStack Platform 14. We had a chat with Red Hat's Nick Barcet about cadence, Kubernetes, and most definitely no…
Lees meerOf course they've crammed some AI in there too HPE Aruba today released a line of wireless routers supporting next year's 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 standard – and then immediately sullied them by applying the AI marketing buzzword.…
Lees meerIt's all about hyperconverged – no we're not breaking out those numbers With one eye on uncertain currency movements and the developing US/ China trade war, NetApp reported a solid set of Q2 numbers, albeit figures that highlighted a slowdown in its…
Lees meerNo need to learn Mandarin, we collaborate in English OpenStack Summit The OpenStack Foundation took to the stage in Berlin this week to talk infrastructure because, heck, everyone loves infrastructure, right? Especially open infrastructure.…
Lees meerCourt of Appeal rules it's wrong to assume regulator should pony up for cases it loses The Court of Appeal has ruled that legal costs from BT Openreach's dark fibre bunfight against UK telcos will be reconsidered by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.…
Lees meerFederation snubs Larry Ellison's bid to break up $10bn winner-takes-all contract Oracle's bid to halt the Pentagon's JEDI $10bn winner-takes-all cloud IT contract has been turned down.…
Lees meerOk, we have Amazon. Anyone else? Analysis If regulators ever do get around to reining in the ecommerce steamroller that is Amazon, this week's announcement of his new headquarters may be the spark.…
Lees meerThis is a Shinning example of an enterprise IT pun Rubrik has expanded its database, unstructured data, and in-cloud protection.…
Lees meerAll-flash, Arista top-of-rack switching and... single tier HPE has finally coughed some details on those all-flash server configs it said it would provide for its Azure Stack rack last week.…
Lees meerGreat hulk of a system not working after 'emergency works'... Biz broadband comms provider – in name at least today – Gamma is suffering from web wobbles this morning, reportedly across the UK, as customers can't access its Horizon service.…
Lees meerLandmark lit up in orange, New Yorkers underwhelmed New York's finest building* has turned orange to welcome Amazon to town.…
Lees meerRPC over TLS: you know it makes sense An Internet Engineering Task Force group has turned its attention to how Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) travel over the internet, and decided a bit of (easy) encryption is in order.…
Lees meerHPC pusher bats eyelids at OEM flingers after biggest product refresh in a while HPC supplier Panasas has introduced a faster file system and non-proprietary hardware design in its biggest product refresh for a decade or more.…
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