Glimmer of hope for Zuck and co to keep pushing data across The Pond The Irish Supreme Court has made the unprecedented decision to hear Facebook’s appeal in its long-running legal battle with privacy activist Max Schrems – and to do so with urgency…
Lees meerNot our fault insists email slinger as customers twiddle thumbs Email slinger FastMail took some time out to smell the roses this morning, much to the dismay of its paying users.…
Lees meerHow to juggle two smartly incompatible protocols We can be forgiven for not having weaned ourselves onto IPv6 earlier. It's been around in draft form since late 1998, but was only released as a standard in July 2017 (that'll be RFC 8200). That this …
Lees meerFat thumb – or government intervention? Good thing you encrypted everything you say... A bunch of Telegram messages went the long way round on Monday: a BGP leak sent people's Telegram chat communications via systems in Iran.…
Lees meerIt's Groundhog Day for the US broadband industry Analysis A report out today into internet access in the United States has concluded – yet again – that the majority of netizens have a hard choice between competition or broadband speed.…
Lees meerRisk of a flash memory glut rises with fab output increases Analysis NAND oversupply is becoming a distinct possibility – with an increasing memory supply chasing a market that can’t absorb all the bits and bytes at prices that provide profits for …
Lees meerRolling rolling rolling... Stop those contracts rolling.. don't hiiiiide Ofcom has announced plans to require communications providers to tell customers when they are nearing the end of their contract to encourage them to shop around.…
Lees meer5G takes another tentative step to actually being a thing Nokia and T-Mobile have inked a $3.5bn deal to take the US telco into the bright new world of 5G communications.…
Lees meerHere's a disk-bound query: What's inside the box? Startup Yellowbrick Data has built a turnkey, hyperconverged, all-flash box that it has claimed can replace up to seven disk-based data warehouse racks with less than half a rack and speeds disk-boun…
Lees meerClose encounters of the civil service kind UK.gov bods have been stripped of access to services for the emerging non-terrestrial standard XTML, beamed in by little grey vendors A51 Technologies, following an El Reg probe.…
Lees meerThe latest out of WD, Datrium and many, many more Over the past week in storage, Gartner shifted the disaster recovery goalposts, Datrium realised its salespeople were in the wrong places, JetStream pressed eject and was spun out of Western Digital,…
Lees meerYour files are someone else's files, too, thanks to storage bug SoftNAS has plugged a serious vulnerability in its cloud storage management tool that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a victim's server.…
Lees meerOutgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…
Lees meerServer and cloud outfit aims to float by October if tech market evades Brexit jitters Exclusive UKFast, a British web hosting provider and bringer of clouds, is planning to float on the London Stock Exchange with the aim of raising a £350m warchest…
Lees meerBut uh-oh! Is that NetApp creeping up on Pure? How is everyone doing in the all-flash array-flinging stakes? Well, you can call Pure Storage Mr Hugo because it's still the victor. Gartner's box-fillers have once again jammed seven of the makers into…
Lees meerAWS load balancer gets redirects, CableLabs SNAPs to Kubernetes, and more Security just got a little easier for AWS Elastic Load Balancing customers: the platform now supports redirects and fixed responses.…
Lees meerWe must sell more! Western Digital's final fiscal 2018 quarter delivered strong results that were let down by disappointing enterprise SSD sales.…
Lees meerPerfect for the EU's domestic supercomputer... ready by 2020. No really Silicon design startup Tachyum has appointed the original designer of the ARM CPU to its advisory board and chucked its hat in the ring to be the domestic exascale supercomputer…
Lees meerThe sun is sunny and the dark fibre access is virtual Openreach claims it is now more independent of BT than ever before, adding that the UK's fibre rollout is going just fine and all ISPs are now very happy with the BT-owned telecoms infrastructure…
Lees meer$1.2bn revs beat guidance, routers lumpy, software, security strong Juniper Networks' Q3 revenue is 8 per cent lower than last year, but at $1.2bn it came in ahead of the company's previous guidance, and CEO Rami Rahim now expects Juniper to return …
Lees meerBranding, real estate need sorting out Analysis Western Digital is chewing on agglomeration antacids as it continues to digest the 14 acquisitions made by the firm itself and its various business unit family members over the past decade or so.…
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