Oracle's Catz: I chatted to Trump about plan, it 'makes no sense' The US Department of Defense (DoD) still intends to choose just one vendor for its multibillion-dollar cloud contract – amid complaints from Oracle's co-CEO that such a plan "makes no…
Lees meerMicroSD cam flash cards, cheap NAS filers and costly prosumer flash drives It has been a hardware frenzy this week, with a pair of microSD cards for surveillance cams, flash drives for video takers and makers, and good old filers from a NAS baker.…
Lees meerFCC levies fine equivalent to 32 hours of profits, such a penalty T-Mobile US will be a bit lighter in the wallet today thanks to a $40m penalty the carrier has been served by the FCC.…
Lees meerLegislation 'could have been written by AT&T and Comcast' An effort to pass net neutrality legislation at the California state level is in doubt after an official analysis of the proposed bill recommend pulling out two key measures.…
Lees meerMuscling in Arm supers message on road to exascale HPE is donating three Apollo mini-supercomputer clusters to a trio of UK universities to help build Arm supercomputing expertise and promote its Apollo gear.…
Lees meerCan we still have a GDPR moratorium, asks US domain-name body The Whois public database of domain name registration details is dead.…
Lees meerSatellite operators reminded they need permission to relay broadband internet. Looking at you, Swarm… America's comms watchdog has served notice to would-be satellite network providers that it won't abide any more unauthorized launches.…
Lees meerIndian outsourcer HCL and private equity outfit SEP open their wallet HCL Technologies and Sumeru Equity Partners have slurped privately-owned database (DB) supplier Actian for £330m from current owner Garnett Helfrich Capital.…
Lees meerBut former state monopoly still the biggest single investor Fibre-building minnows passed nearly one million FTTP connections last year – more than double the amount BT's Openreach managed, according to a report from an industry body.…
Lees meerServers get composable, denser, drink doses of Intel FPGA and NVMe The server industry exhibited another spasmodic leap forward with a slew of news around composability, denser rack packing, Intel taking on Nvidia using FPGAs, and the onrushing NVME…
Lees meerOne tool to rule them all Microsoft on Thursday moved its 'Project Honolulu' administration tools into general availability, dubbing the system Windows Admin Center.…
Lees meerAnd just a handful of vendors will run the show Public cloud services will be a $302bn-plus global market by 2021 and ten vendors will account for nearly three-quarters of those sales, if the mystics at Gartner have read those tea leaves correctly.…
Lees meerNone of the ISPs wanted the 'remedy' Ofcom has delayed plans to force incumbent telco BT's Openreach to open up its dark fibre network. For now.…
Lees meerWhopping 82% have never changed theirs – survey The vast majority of punters are potentially leaving themselves exposed to miscreants by failing to change the password and security setting on their routers - according to a survey.…
Lees meerRHEL 7.5 caught up on compression and Windows Server 2019 revealed storage migrations from older editions May 5th is World Naked Gardening Day* and Wednesday April 10th might just have been “Add better storage features to enterprises OSes day” becau…
Lees meerCloudflare fixes its DNS, Mellanox at NAB, Palo Alto shopping and more packets of presentation layer Cloudflare generated some buzz of the wrong kind when it turned out the company's much-hyped privacy-focussed DNS resolver at 1.1.1.1 caused hassles…
Lees meerApril patch bunch offers lucky thirteen fixes, mostly for Junos OS Juniper Networks' bug-hunters have bagged a big haul and shown them off with this month's patch collection.…
Lees meerOngoing problems at Oz internet registry come to a head Australia's .au internet registry members have called for the scalps of its CEO and three Board members as part of an ongoing dispute over how the organization is being run.…
Lees meerPotential deal said to be at an 'advanced stage' Google looks set to expand its horizon according to reports that claim the ad giant is in talks to buy Nokia's airplane broadband biz.…
Lees meerBleeding edges in the cloud Analysis Following last week's announcement that Microsoft's Azure planned to reinvent MAID disk arrays, The Reg took a deep breath and dove into Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s presentation.…
Lees meerInternet registries and registrars provide terrible timeline The internet's domain name system is going to miss a May 25 deadline to become complaint with new European privacy legislation by, um, a year or so.…
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