Conference a casualty of world's weirdest acquisition If you're one of the roughly 4,000 people planning to get a Miami-worth of frequent flyer points in November, think again: CA has binned CA World.…
Lees meerFarewell, Patch Tuesday – and perhaps, farewell IT admins sucked into the big backend Microsoft hopes to assimilate traditional IT admin roles into its cloud with the launch of its Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) service.…
Lees meerSales growth stalls, forecasts missed, stock price falls Oracle's stock price took a hit on Monday after the enterprise giant saw revenue growth come to a virtual crawl, crucial cloud segments stagnated, and overall performance fell short of forecas…
Lees meerBiz IT giant catches complaint alleging it lays off skilled older workers in favor of youngsters IBM once again finds itself the target of age discrimination complaints from workers who claim they were unfairly laid off just because of their age.…
Lees meerPlus: Sysadmin sets up public shamiing site for IPv4 laggards Microsoft has scrapped plans to go IPv6-only on one of its internal networks over fears its campus visitors would be unable to use their virtual private networks (VPNs).…
Lees meerThunderbolt and lightning, Azure outage frightening Microsoft has published the preliminary findings for what it calls “the South Central US incident”, but what many will call “the day the Azure cloud fell from the sky” and it doesn’t make for happy…
Lees meerWe'll need to make deal by January 2019 Timing is everything: Quantum Corp is renegotiating a refinancing package that could, if not agreed, take the business down. At the same time, it is nearing the end of an accounting probe that has highlighted …
Lees meerCollege should've stuck to departmental nomenclature Who, Me? Welcome once more to the world of Who, Me? – El Reg's weekly trip down memory lane with our dear readers.…
Lees meerTImes get wet and windy – but bit barns keep on ticking Hurricane Florence has now landed on US soil, bringing 100 MPH winds, torrential rain, and claiming at least four lives. Many residents have fled, though some can’t – because they are keeping t…
Lees meerBut being poor is worse Society is slowing souring on the internet, according to the latest research by Pew.…
Lees meerYou'll eat our subs model... and our bottom line will expand. See how this works? Adobe, the maker of reassuringly expensive software for creative types that have limited tech alternatives, has again wrapped up another quarter of double-digit jumps …
Lees meerI was born in 1518... we mean.. machine learning-driven caching speedup Qumulo says improvements in its QF2 software means its products will run faster – 20 per cent faster than Dell EMC Isilon boxes by one measure.…
Lees meerYa, we're in the hybrid cloud, data management game now Near-hyperconverged system startup Datrium has gained $60m in D-round funding.…
Lees meerNear-doubling of video workflow streaming speed Quantum is near-doubling StorNext speed by using Excelero’s NVMESH to provide faster data access than it’s capable of providing on its own.…
Lees meerLow-end SAN/DAS boxen aimed at smaller biz Dell EMC's new PowerVault ME4 Series has been tailored for small and medium businesses – apparently installable in 15 minutes, configurable in 15 more, and usable as either SAN array or direct-attached Powe…
Lees meerGAO report on tribal land may open up rigged system A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has confirmed what others have reported for years: that official data on internet access across the country greatly over estimates availabi…
Lees meerJust wait till 400Gbps Ethernet boxen start shifting... Juniper Networks' chief beancounter has told world+dog that he has a cunning "strategic" plan that explains precisely why both revenues and profits have been slipping downwards at the US networ…
Lees meerFancies slipping automated marketing software biz into its portfolio Adobe, the developer of software clouds for creative types is reportedly locked in talks to buy marketing software-as-a-service slinger Marketo.…
Lees meerSetting up joint-venture to sell into Middle Kingdom NetApp has cut an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) deal with Lenovo, and nabbed itself a new, ready-made global channel.…
Lees meerPublic sector money crew wants a head of networks just in time for Brexit HM Revenue and Customs is hiring a head of networks, for those who fancy a real pre-Brexit IT challenge.…
Lees meerHe's gotta be strong, he's gotta be fast, and he's gotta bring up the website Online accounting outfit Xero, whose website suggests "reliable data" as a reason for using its wares, took some time out today to the distress of its customers.…
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