Still firmly in Dell Technologies' clutches Pivotal has set its initial public offering share price at $15, with hopes of raising $555m and an anticipated $14-$16 price band. The shares are expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange from today…
Lees meerAt least 100 out, R&D hit hardest – sources Troubled private-equity-owned Veritas started making layoffs in the UK yesterday as its parent continues to implement cost-cutting measures.…
Lees meerCloud tech tweaks end anti-censorship workaround Google has made technical changes to its cloud infrastructure that have caused collateral damage to an anti-censorship technique called domain fronting.…
Lees meer.UK registry not entirely sure what the fuss is about The operator of the .uk domain-name registry has outlined the changes it plans to make to its Whois domain registration system to bring it in line with incoming European privacy legislation.…
Lees meerConsultation next month following plan to shift all punters to VoIP BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network, with the intention of shifting all customers over to IP telephony services by 2025.…
Lees meerCTO Scott Gnau on open source, partnerships and simplifying Hadoop Hortonworks – once known simply as a Hadoop-flinger – is these days pushing itself as a modern data architecture company.…
Lees meerAnd Huawei's given carriers a 14G network (it does 2G to 5G and we did the sums) Roundup Cisco leads the networking roundup this week, with news that there's one fewer way to avoid its WebEx brand: as part of a product reorganisation, what was Cisc…
Lees meerNow for the last time, will you all please shift to IPv6?! You may have heard this one before, but we have now really run out of publicly available IPv4 address blocks.…
Lees meerHC530 takes on Seagate's Exos X14, Tosh's MG07ACA Western Digital has caught up with rival Toshiba to introduce its own non-shingled 14TB disk drive.…
Lees meer'Uber for dogwalkers' app apparently a thing... The era of software-defined storage market is truly upon us. Forget city-sized enterprises looking to squeeze costs out of their data centre estate, Nexenta has scored big with Wag!, a US-based dog wal…
Lees meerOh dear, Intel... look who's getting cosy with Cray Cray is adding an AMD processor option to its CS500 line of clustered supercomputers.…
Lees meerAnd they're not the only software-defined object storage biz ready to cash in Analysis Software-defined object storage biz Scality has scored an extra $60m in funding to help along development of its cloudy storage tools.…
Lees meerAnd *checks watch* of course it'll be really useful for GDPR Data management biz Hortonworks has lifted the covers off a service that aims to make it easier for enterprises to identify, secure and connect data stored both on-premises and in the clou…
Lees meerManaging Things, with intent Cisco has pitched its intent-based networking capabilities as a way to get control over the Internet of Things.…
Lees meerOh, yeah, and storage sales sucked. There's that, too Revenues for IBM have risen for its second successive financial quarter – after over five years of declining sales – however, profits are down and Wall Street hammered Big Blue's stock price in a…
Lees meerYeah that oughta do the trick The US government has waded into the omni-shambles that is the internet infrastructure industry's failed effort to comply with European privacy laws.…
Lees meerDublin case closed but very big legal question remains The US Supreme Court has dodged a critical legal question about the reach of America's courts in the internet era, deciding to drop a test case between Microsoft and the Department of Justice.…
Lees meer59% of our systems are obsolete, agency boss tells congressional hearing US tax returns for 2017 must be filed by midnight tonight – but the nation's Internal Revenue Service is making that difficult.…
Lees meerPerformance and security boost with space left over Mainframes never die, though their architecture has been eclipsed for years.…
Lees meerWants to hang on to sales dominance Alongside its update of vSphere, VMware has smoothed off a few of the rough edges from its HCI heavy, vSAN.…
Lees meerOne for vSphere veterans, one for hybrid hipsters, plus a security surprise VMware has given vAdmins a new version of vSphere, numbered 6.7. As predicted and detected by The Register's virtualization desk, it's not a huge release. But it is both a s…
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