Yeah, expect your bills to go up The government has finally published plans for how everyone in the UK will have a legal right to 10Mbps speeds by 2020 after rejecting a voluntary offer by BT.…
Lees meerOpen networking finally comes to Switchzilla as IOS XR, IOS XE, Nexus OS added to disaggregation strategy Cisco has taken a long, hard look at the biggest bullet in its kit, and bitten down: the company has announced it will separate its router and …
Lees meer'DANOS' code hoped to run 100,000 routers will go open source in H2 2018 AT&T has let its in-house-developed network operating system escape into the open source world via the Linux Foundation, with a code release due in the second half of this year…
Lees meerServers were over capacity, Kerslake review finds Vodafone has come in for criticism for the "catastrophic failure" of its National Mutual Aid Telephony system (NMAT) in today's review of the deadly suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena last year.…
Lees meerWon't someone please think of the children? Without the distraction of pissing around online, you'd think kids might stand a better chance of doing their homework. But it seems some parents blame their darlings' performance at school on crap broadba…
Lees meerFour-piece suite coming for IT wallets A flurry of array related activity came out of Infinidat today. Well, it is a Tuesday so why the hell not.…
Lees meerDeath notice offers refunds, if you agree not to sue Exclusive SAP has begun the process of shutting down its cloud-based SAP Anywhere suite for small businesses.…
Lees meerBye bye, says American Pai. Throw my server in the levy Federal Communications Commission boss Ajit Pai wants to cut some overseas companies out of the market for lucrative US government broadband contracts if they are deemed a threat to the Land of…
Lees meerLonged-for firmware update borks some home networks. Be careful what you wish for Three weeks after a firmware update to BT’s home mesh networking solution, customers are still complaining that they have to constantly reboot their devices, with some…
Lees meerTwo former Violinists are back on the scene, as is SymbolicIO under new name Roundup In a week where we realised that spinning rust has plenty of life left despite the arrival of 100TB SSDs, here are all the minor developments that the Vulture stor…
Lees meerFor a while at least... spinning rust is going to stick around Analysis Flash chip bits cost eight times more than spinning rust and SSDs aren't going to get cheap enough to kill off disk entirely.…
Lees meerTop Gartner tips: Have a solid idea of what data you hold, be trustworthy Data-hungry organisations have been advised to get a better grip on the data they control and work on building trust.…
Lees meerHouse OKs crippling email privacy, Senate stalled by Paul For months now, US Congress has mulled new laws to strengthen Feds' powers to access American citizens' private messages and files stored on computers overseas.…
Lees meerRegulator secured refund/exit deals for 16,000 unhappy customers this week The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's push-back against internet service providers making over overly-optimistic download speed claims on the national broadban…
Lees meerGood thing we have all those chip fabs and assembly plants stateside US President Donald Trump's planned tariffs on goods imported into America from China could hit the tech industry – and ergo, you the customer – particularly hard.…
Lees meerBig Blue's five-year effort to weed out elders detailed after deep-dive investigation IBM for the past five years has been pushing older employees out of the company and replacing them with younger staffers in the US or moving the jobs overseas, it …
Lees meerLike a bat out of parallel... Startup type WekaIO has walked all over IBM's Spectrum Scale parallel file system with a doubled SPEC SFS2014 benchmark score for its Matrix software running on Supermicro servers.…
Lees meerCare for some extra bandwidth? Just turn the knob One thing that's always been promised in telco-land, but rarely delivered, is genuine automation between carrier networks. At the end of last week, Verizon and Colt claimed to crack it with an inter-…
Lees meerPlus news from F5, Palo Alto and Dell EMC in your networking news capsule ROUNDUP This week's networking news roundup isn't only “what happened at the Open Compute Project summit?” – there's also news from F5, Palo Alto Networks, and Dell EMC.…
Lees meerProactive fault-finding? Yup. Security alliance? Yup. CX checks? Yup. And an eloquent little licence change, too VMware’s given its end-user computing portfolio a few tweaks, the most interesting of which might just be a licencing change.…
Lees meerFast and slow high-cap disk lines coming In 2020 Seagate will introduce its first multi-actuator disk drives using Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) tech with 20TB capacities.…
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