Well, if anyone knows if he fudged it, it would be him The inventor of two patents that covers Ethernet switching products has been given permission to question the validity of his own invention.…
Lees meerSub cable biz raises hand, 'fesses up to causing BGP hijack drama Monday's prolonged Google cloud and websites outage was triggered by a botched network update by a West Africa telco, it is claimed.…
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Lees meerRival AWS fluffs US govt cloud, pops up in Italy Playing catch-up with AWS and Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud has pulled the EU dust covers off its cloud onboarding appliance.…
Lees meerOptimised Office 365 performance also on cards Cisco has claimed to be "bringing intent-based networking into every domain", the latest being branch offices which need software-defined WAN capabilities and security.…
Lees meerRelief is coming next year, CEO promises Remote Aussies getting their broadband from nbn™'s SkyMuster satellites have been promised a bit of bandwidth relief, with the company deciding to bundle some 'net traffic for free.…
Lees meerBlighty, Germany, Australia also missing from 'Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace' America has aligned with China and Russia to scupper a France-led initiative to improve the internet's security. However, French president Emmanuel Macro…
Lees meerClue's in the headline. And more importantly: Will anyone but Cupertino care? It looks as though Apple's iThings may get 5G connectivity in 2020 – after Intel promised production of its 5G modem will start in the second half of 2019, and ship in the…
Lees meerBGP attack committed 'grand theft internet' People's connections in the US to Google – including its cloud, YouTube, and other websites – were suddenly rerouted through Russia and into China in a textbook Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking atta…
Lees meerArm gets a look-in with first petascale machine, China slips into third IBM can now officially claim to have built the world's two most publicly known powerful supercomputers.…
Lees meerGartner's magical square: NetApp, HPE still winning, Infinidat joins leader's box NetApp has replaced HPE as the leading vendor in Gartner's general purpose drive array magic quadrant as Infinidat makes its first appearance in the top dog square.…
Lees meerFaces off with Intel's Optane, says product bod Western Digital has been using software to turn SSDs into virtual memory so applications are accelerated without having to deploy DRAM or be constrained by memory capacity.…
Lees meerI'm best, you're worst, cries telecoms watchdog man If you ever had any doubt that the triumvirate of FCC Commissioners – the Pai Men – who decide America's federal telecoms policy are always right, it was confirmed Friday.…
Lees meerPhysicians call for increased use of tech for outpatients in England The pressures the NHS in England and Wales is under, with creaking IT systems that aren't fit for purpose but which are facing the increasing tightening of purse-strings, have been…
Lees meerNet metrics collectors ping performance pain points in a multi-cloud world Sending packets from Singapore to Mumbai over AWS? Fetch a coffee, the latency is horrible – according to cloud performance data released yesterday.…
Lees meerOur gentle introduction to mixing on- and off-prem kit Backgrounder Where once it was public, now hybrid cloud is the future – and by hybrid, we mean a mix of public and private. Virtualised, elastic, and on-demand resources hosted by someone else …
Lees meerI liked it so much, I bought the company – and fired 40 per cent, 2,000, of its US staff Broadcom has confirmed to The Register that staff have been axed in its just-acquired CA Technologies business, though declined to reveal numbers.…
Lees meerIBM's latest tape drives make 2EB-plus library feasible Spectra Logic's TFinity ExaScale tape library can store more than 2EB of compressed data, 2,000 petabytes-plus, using IBM's latest TS1160 tape drives and JE cartridges, double what it could sto…
Lees meerBrace for cost, job cutting in the aftermath Network infrastructure giant CommScope has decided to buy some growth, shelling out US$7.4bn (£5.67bn) for broadband and video gear slinger Arris International.…
Lees meerNet neutrality probe finds it's not the end of the world, though Analysis US cellphone networks are all throttling video to some extent, providing lower-quality stream to their customers, and some are purposefully undermining Skype as an alternativ…
Lees meerSoftware-defined, hybrid cloud components, sold as-a-service that's delivered on-prem? WTF? VMware and Lenovo intend to run beta tests of Project Dimension from next month – think of it as VMware's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud that runs on a cu…
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