'Our motivation for such a task wasn't exactly high' On-Call Why look at the calendar – it's Friday! Which can mean only one thing, namely the return of On-Call, your weekly instalment of tech support drama from El Reg's dear readers.…
Lees meerChips not ready until 2H 2019, Epyc headache looms Despite record-breaking earnings, Intel's shares took a modest dip on Thursday when the semiconductor behemoth reveal its financial results for the second quarter of this year.…
Lees meerGet it, like Barnes and No– oh, just gimme that beer. It's been 5 o'clock somewhere for hours Amazon, a cloud computing monster with a gift shop tacked on the side, watched its sales surpass $52bn during its latest quarter.…
Lees meerWe'd be more confident in the tech if others were touting this Lightbits Labs and Solarflare are promoting the idea of NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) using TCP-over-bog-standard Ethernet, instead of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) via data centre-c…
Lees meerBig jump in write speed As the world and their dogs' data centres continue to accelerate their take-up of SSDs, WD/HGST has fired a dual-port SAS SSD at them.…
Lees meerMIT Lincoln metalheads broke big iron so you don't have to… oh, you still have to, don't you? HPC admin? Feeling slighted that all the good Spectre/Meltdown mitigation benchmarks ignore big iron? Fear not, a bunch of MIT boffins are on your side.…
Lees meerYou too can have your very own network-as-a-service What's missing from Virtual Private Clouds? According to Big Switch Networks, it's an on-premises implementation.…
Lees meerSuccess hinges on the answers, says analyst Analysis Semiconductor analyst David Kanter has identified six areas of ignorance about Intel's Optane DIMMs where clarity will dictate whether they become popular or not.…
Lees meerNo rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised' HPE’s mini supercomputer launched into space last year has survived the harsh conditions of zero gravity and radiation for almost a year.…
Lees meerTwo-factor authentication keys, cloud defenses, G Suite protections, and more It's day two of Google's Cloud Next 2018 conference in San Francisco – and the Chocolate Factory has been unveiling its defenses to thwart hackers and malware.…
Lees meerRedmond smiles: We want to support customers in journey to cloud Microsoft threw a commercial preview bone to cloud-phobes* this week in the form of on-premises versions of its Server and Office applications.…
Lees meerAnd it's clutching a roadmap that charts first shipments before end of 2018 The next round of bonkers-fast upgrades to data center networks is going to be 400Gbps Ethernet – and Juniper Networks has joined the party with a suitable roadmap.…
Lees meerAWS'n'Azure cheerleader with $65m US military cloud contract snapped up Hitachi Vantara is gobbling up Rean Cloud – a public cloud systems integrator, managed service provider, and AWS pusher that comes with a $65m five-year US military contract in …
Lees meerCloud Services Platform debuts, mixing containers, monitoring, AI and management Amid ongoing renovations at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, Google Cloud Next '18 opened on Tuesday, the scent of new carpeting and paint still lingering in …
Lees meerWe node we can stuff just one more SoC in here Ready to unzip this densely packed storage news suitcase? We've got a bulging information-fest with all that's worth knowing from the past week, ranging from SSDs through disks to public and private clo…
Lees meerNet income for Q2 slashed by $5bn Android antitrust fine Dusting off a $5bn European monopoly abuse fine over Google's Android business, parent company Alphabet delivered better than expected Q2 2018 earnings – lifting its shares in after-hours trad…
Lees meerFull-fibre diet for all by the year 2033, vows Ministry of Fun The Ministry of Fun* is wheeling out a new national telecoms strategy (PDF) that aims to slather the UK in healthy full-fat broadband fibre by 2033.…
Lees meerSome chips have more bits than others, though Tosh and WD's flash foundry joint venture has begun to pump out 96-layer 3D NAND chips and the two partners are using them to produce quad-level cell (QLC) products. TLC Tosh has a 1TB SSD with 3 bits/ce…
Lees meerHe's set to headline networking kit firm's CIO golf-a-thon Fearless scarperer-in-chief David Cameron is all set to dispense nuggets of Brexit wisdom to Cisco's October CIO conference – making us wonder how much he's earning for the stunt.…
Lees meerTried to blame it on a bug, but logs don't lie Who, me? Welcome to another glimpse inside the dark-curtained (in)box that is "Who, me?" – El Reg's confessional column in which readers seek penance for sins of the past.…
Lees meerMost of their core apps were already in the cloud anyway Financial software flinger Intuit is binning its biggest data centre and plonking its corporate backends onto AWS – in another win for the public cloud's biggest player.…
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