Power outage and no Plan B – hilarity ensues This Damn War Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. It's a law most IT people would understand and perhaps even fear.…
Lees meerTeases research showing the NBN is creating jobs, especially for self-employed women The outgoing CEO of nbn™, the company building and operating Australia’s national broadband network (NBN), has implored the company’s staff to “keep our costs down”…
Lees meerLet CTO Werner Vogels guide you through the AWS cloud maze, young Jedi The 2018 AWS Summit in San Francisco began on Wednesday with shock and awe, a chest-thumping bass beat accompanying a fusillade of testimonials from business customers that have …
Lees meerAWS bashing and cloud contracts on the menu? Oracle’s co-CEO Safra Catz was reportedly set to enjoy a slap-up meal with US president mop-haired windbag Donald Trump last night, giving the pair a chance to compare Amazon-bashing notes.…
Lees meerRedmond backs down without actually backing down The four-year court battle between the US government and Microsoft over the release of emails held in the software giant's data centre in Ireland has finally come to an end – of sorts.…
Lees meerWith the build mostly done, he reckons it’s the right to time to hand over to a new leader nbn™, the company building and operating Australia’s national broadband network (NBN), has announced that CEO Bill Morrow will step down “by year end 2018”.…
Lees meerThe trade war is on The US government on Tuesday revealed the list of Chinese imports it plans to slap extra tariffs on, under orders from President Trump, amid rising trade tensions between America and China.…
Lees meerForget the old case, DoJ tells Supremes, all hail CLOUD Act The US government has issued Microsoft with a new warrant to get access to emails held on the firm's Irish servers, while asking the Supreme Court to dismiss the existing legal battle.…
Lees meerCo-incidence much that it’ll run in Azure, and Microsoft just scored better security creds down under? Citrix has extended its cloud to Australia, with a new “Asia-Pacific South” region joining its US-based and EMEA efforts as of April 4th, Sydney t…
Lees meerInexorable tape density, super-fast NVMe drives, and more backup than you can handle DDN is chief among this week's round-up of tasty storage nuggets: it has jumped on the GPU bandwagon and fed Nvidia's DGX-1 souped-up server, claiming it's the fast…
Lees meerRedmond claims to be world’s biggest tape user, but wants a faster alternative for AI data Microsoft is working on a new class of disk-based storage appliance for its Azure cloud service, because tape is proving too hard and too slow to use in some …
Lees meerWe'll share query data, but only with these really trustworthy researchers Analysis Cloudflare has revealed a deal with regional internet registry APNIC to provide a possibly more privacy-conscious DNS resolver at a prestige network address, 1.1.1.…
Lees meerCo-location is the interesting part of otherwise vanilla Azure with-extra-security offering Microsoft has flicked the switch on two new data centres for Australian and New Zealand government customers.…
Lees meerGPU shortage equals four-month wait time for buyers Tech companies are suffering setbacks from the shortage of Nvidia’s GPUs, with the GeForce series being hit the hardest.…
Lees meerLatest lift-off will see rocket sinking and a ship playing catch SpaceX successfully launched 10 satellites into space Friday, completing its sixth launch this year.…
Lees meerYoung, hungry and stranded punters pray for resurrection Brit cloud provider Iomart is having an outage-ridden day - but its service-outage-hit customers are arguably having a far worse one.…
Lees meerEven me nan has the interwebz BT monthly landline costs are to be trimmed by £7 from this weekend but only for customers who don't buy fixed-line broadband from any provider – in other words, most people.…
Lees meerAruba's AI moves, Marvell and Nvidia vehicle tech, and yes, the Open Networking Summit Network admins: unpatched MikroTik routers are being scanned by a botnet again.…
Lees meerGPU-boosted system market is, like, literally so hot right now Analysis Machine learning stresses storage because training the models means millions if not billions of files have to be fed to the training system with its GPUs in as quick a time as …
Lees meerIt's agile, innit? The UK Home Office’s Emergency Services Network that is intended to replace the country's national radio infrastructure with a 4G network is running overtime and budget, politicians were told today.…
Lees meerThe goal? Commoditise the data centre NVMe SSD world Analysis Microsoft has lifted the lid on Project Denali, its quest to bring flash drive cost down a peg by extracting costly extra software from SSDs and running it in the host server to gain cos…
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