Have you ever been told that you're SaaSy? What sector of tech is forecast to grow fatter than the Slovakian economy or Elon Musk’s ego in 2018? The cloud. Global spending on the fluffy white stuff is predicted by mystics at Gartner to reach $175.8b…
Lees meerAberdeen and Peterborough to follow in Vodafone scheme Lucky Milton Keynes. The UK's modernist fantasy town is finally set to reap the fruits of Vodafone's partnership with wholesaler CityFibre, announced last November.…
Lees meerThou shalt not use sync speeds instead of throughput speeds, decrees Brit watchdog Vodafone was today slapped by the Advertising Standards Authority for quoting router sync speeds instead of throughput speeds in its advertising following a complaint…
Lees meerMonopoly or competition? Guess which one is winning A group of 17 consumer and civil rights groups have launched a new coalition aimed at countering efforts by Big Cable to siphon off funds for rural broadband into their already deep pockets.…
Lees meerSyncing company dumps storage plans, infuriates customers Streaming provider Plex has dumped its cloud storage offering, prompting users to dump its subscriber service.…
Lees meerOur 5G is bigger and better than theirs, promise Ericsson, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T It may not exist yet but the mobile phone industry is determined to let everyone knows that when it does, their 5G is going to be the best.…
Lees meerChief exec warns on US-China tariff tiff Cisco chief exec Chuck Robbins has warned that a US-China trade war over tariffs could lead to price rises for Switchzilla’s networking kit.…
Lees meer10 million IOPS, half a petabyte, one U – hella fast Analysis Supermicro's latest Samsung ruler-based thin storage server can cough up 10 million IOPS, has a 20GB/sec throughput and 576TB capacity, which is all very well, but its Intel ruler one ca…
Lees meerNvidia waxes lyrical about 5G and GeForce Now leveling the playing field for gamers It's a fact of life for gamers: If you want to be able to compete, you need the best hardware to give you an edge.…
Lees meerMore American cities will get super-fast mobile internet AT&T has promised real-world rollouts of 5G super-fast mobile internet in five more US cities before the end of the year, taking the total to 12, with another seven due next year.…
Lees meerMisses no one: PCs, NAS, workstations, enterprise, surveillance Seagate has spread its 14TB, 7,200rpm helium-filled disk drive tech across the PC, NAS, enterprise capacity and surveillance market sectors.…
Lees meerLil pupper yaps at big doge A Microsoft VP has optimistically opined that Amazon's expansion will help Microsoft nibble a little harder at the ankles of the world’s top public cloud firm.…
Lees meerListen up, SAN-shine: IDC numbers – read 'em and weep Server SANs aren't eating into the external SAN market, at least as far as analyst IDC's storage tracker numbers are concerned.…
Lees meerAlso: New gear out, plus ENISA overlooks squirrels Freed from the attentions of Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductor has been looking around for its own acquisitions, and this week announced it had slurped OmniPHY.…
Lees meerNothing important, just NATIONAL SECURITY stuff An "under-planned and underfunded" IT upgrade delayed national security vetting and is costing about £17m a year in inefficiencies, according to the UK government's spending watchdog.…
Lees meerRedundant PSUs and power buses are all well and good, but they need cables Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, where El Reg readers share their IT catastrophes. And it doesn't get much more catastrophic than this week's story from "Bob".…
Lees meerSenate disclosure forms rife with errors from 'hi-tech' outfit Captricity, a company that touts AI software capable of reading text better than people, has been blamed for a bumper crop of data entry errors that misrepresent what many US Senate cand…
Lees meerManufacturers, and ultimately US citizens, will pay the price US President Donald Trump is threatening to tack import duties on $267bn of imported Chinese tech gear and other goods – on top of the $200bn already planned.…
Lees meerIt may be a phone service but it's over 'the internet,' so yeah, f**k me, right? The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that a phone service over the internet is no longer a phone service but an "information service" – freeing it from re…
Lees meerAnd ODM stands for Original Dollar Makers in latest server digits It's money for DRAM time at Round Rock server HQ, which we hope is buying the beers this afternoon. Dell dominated the server space and raked in the most revenues in 2018’s second qua…
Lees meerIt wasn't all Brocade! insists CEO as revenues jump 13% Data centres and storage sales sent Broadcom's third-quarter earnings sailing past estimates, thanks in part to the buy of Brocade.…
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