These are not the vendors you're looking for, republicans suggest in demand for probe A pair of US congressmen are calling for an investigation into the Pentagon's $10bn single-vendor IT contract dubbed JEDI – aka the Joint Enterprise Defense Infras…
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Lees meerSeagate ships more units, WD more capacity – it's a wash IDC has sent its analytical read-write heads skipping across the surface of the disk storage market and found Seagate shipped more drives than Western Digital in the third quarter.…
Lees meerDays since last TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Users' Pulls) reset to zero Programmers, your snow day is well and truly over: GitHub's website has finally cleared its 24-hour outage, and reckons everything is operating normally again.…
Lees meerDoes he mean some farm boy with just womp rat experience can destroy the whole thing? OpenWorld Oracle reckons it has “fundamentally” rebuilt its cloud architecture to boost security, promising full separation of customer software and cloud control…
Lees meerWell, application revenues did rise a whopping six per cent, after all OpenWorld Oracle has kicked off the first day of its annual OpenWorld gabfest with a hard sell on applications – the chunk of the business that is, according to the latest figur…
Lees meerFinancial messaging to get a bit more, er, agile Microsoft and money-message flinger SWIFT have announced a proof of concept aimed at demonstrating that Azure could be a good fit for the financial network's infrastructure.…
Lees meerCan Chinese cloudy crowd check rise of AWS? Alibaba Cloud has launched in the UK, the Chinese cloud purveyor has declared, as it prepares to take on dominant player AWS and the other also-rans.…
Lees meerDirty Den escapes with a slapped wrist Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? The Register's weekly column featuring readers' tales of the things they'd rather forget having done.…
Lees meerYour weekly dose of networking Coming off a long string of losses, Ericsson probably hoped to turn in some good news, but at its latest financial results, the company announced the sacking of 50 people in response to a corruption scandal.…
Lees meerPlus: 7nm LLP, QLC, stacked RDIMMS and brainy drives Among a blizzard of news from Samsung's Tech Data, El Reg has spotted smaller processor nodes, FPGAs added to SSDs, stacked and cubed memory, quad-level cell flash and object-storing SSDs on the w…
Lees meerAll working now says biz. No, no, no, no, say customers, it is NOT! An unspecified and “unexpected load” on its infrastructure broke the Smart Living Home app for a day, an apologetic Yale Security UK confirmed to customers yesterday - however the s…
Lees meerChipzilla has to go it alone or turn to a partner Micron has announced its intent to buy out Intel's interest in Intel Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT), the pair's flash and 3D XPoint foundry joint venture.…
Lees meerFormer Primary Data boss talks to El Reg about Hammerspace +Comment Newcomer on the storage software-as-a-service scene Hammerspace announced the general availability of its eponymous SaaS application this week. This software has been engineered us…
Lees meerBoth parties accuse each other of IP theft CNEX Labs co-founder and CTO Yiren Ronnie Huang have accused Huawei and its subsidiary Futurewei of engaging in industrial espionage to steal CNEX's SSD intellectual property.…
Lees meerTechie called in after computer always starts the day with a go-slow On-Call Welcome once more to On Call, The Register’s regular foray into the freaky world of tech support.…
Lees meerAlso: AWS talks how to avoid TLS state machine slips Network box maker F5 says it has shipped load balancers that are vulnerable to the libssh authentication-bypass bug – meaning anyone who can reach the devices over the network or internet can pote…
Lees meerWhat do you get for 50 per cent more layers? Not a lot Western Digital has a 96-layer NAND chip for smartphones and has spoken of higher embedded storage capacity while seemingly delivering exactly the same capacity as before.…
Lees meerOh, and the £1.1bn Airwave extension hasn't yet been triggered The fine minds behind Britain's bungled Emergency Services Network comms system have admitted that its projected £200m savings might not kick in until 2020.…
Lees meer(It's good news, really) Good news, Cisco admins: there are no bugs rated “critical” in this week's batch of security patches – but there are seven that copped a “high” rating, and four of those are remotely exploitable.…
Lees meerThey don't *seem* so different if you check digits (though your real world results may vary) Micron's consumer SSD brand Crucial has pushed out an NVMe minicard flash drive that looks almost identical to Intel's 600p.…
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