Rivalries intensify in what is now a two-horse race Analysis Both Scality and Cloudian have received fresh funding as they race towards an IPO, acquisition or startup trash can – the three outcomes of the object storage endgame.…
Lees meerAnd loads up the migration canon to aim at VMware Microsoft's revealed a plan to make Ubuntu 18.04 a "first-class" guest under Hyper-V.…
Lees meerHarvard bods warn: if you want to avoid a big outage, use more than one DNS provider The world's top eight DNS providers now control 59 per cent of name resolution for the biggest Websites - and that puts the Web at risk, according to a group of Har…
Lees meerStraight Path veered off promises of 5G coverage Verizon's $3.1bn Straight Path gobble got a little more expensive this week, thanks to a $614m fine dished out by America's broadband watchdog, the Federal Communications Commission.…
Lees meerUS tech hotbed steps up with strictest traffic protections yet The US state of Washington is on the verge of passing a sweeping new set of net neutrality safeguards that would apply to all carriers within its borders.…
Lees meerBut disk shipped 10X more exabytes than flash Customer spending on SSDs finally ruled the storage roost in 2017 but vendors still shipped more than ten times as much disk capacity as flash.…
Lees meerLast time Big Blue tried to bin TLS 1.0 and 1.1 it turned them back on two days later IBM's cloud faces a big test this week: turning something off without botching the job.…
Lees meerService knackered for several hours today We knew Virgin Media was going down the toilet – but not quite this way. For several hours on Tuesday, its business broadband has been offline in the UK, leaving folks unable to reach the internet.…
Lees meerHow to get things moving on platforms, architectures and budgets Webcast On 14 March at 11am we've got a studio full of experts discussing how you can take your infrastructure to the next level, make it more agile, and help the company deliver on i…
Lees meerIncludes Hull-based Connexin and US subsidiary Airspan Ofcom has given all four mobile operators the go-ahead to bid in the forthcoming 4G and 5G auction, as well as Hull-based fixed wireless ISP Connexin and Airspan Spectrum Holdings, a subsidiary …
Lees meerNo one expects the CFIUS! *Bless you* The tale of the Qualcomm and Broadcom merger has taken a turn for the surreal, with The Men In Black (aka the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – CFIUS) taking an interest.…
Lees meerBut the new standard has at last found a home among verticals MWC18 5G is – surprise, surprise – dominating this year's Mobile World Congress as more emphasis is heaped on how non-telco vertical sectors can use the fledgling technology.…
Lees meerWhen too many cloudy ports are barely enough Microsoft has rewritten the operation of its Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) protocol in a bid to improve Azure's load balancing performance.…
Lees meerTrials virty radio with Nokia, Chipzilla Verizon's enthusiasm for 5G and virtualization has spawned a virtual radio access network trial in the USA.…
Lees meerYou put off buying any while figuring out the cloud, but now you're ready to spend Financial Services colossus Morgan Stanley reckons on-premises hardware vendors are about to have their best sales season for a decade.…
Lees meerBoth make it harder to connect you to your connections The Australian government has fingered the next threat in the country's cryptography vs. policing debate: the IPv6 protocol.…
Lees meerIf there's a better event for IT Pros in Australia, Vulture South can't find 'em PROMO Each year VMware's User Groups stage day-long conferences in Sydney and Melbourne and the dates have just been set for this year's gigs: March 20th in the harbou…
Lees meerYou can't escape The Circle If you chose the Apple ecosystem because you don't trust Google – bad news. Apple has confirmed for the first time that it now uses Google servers to store third-party data from iCloud users.…
Lees meerAirbus, OneWeb partner up to bring airborne roaming to the masses MWC18 Folk soon need not look up from their screens when boarding aircraft and wandering the aisles thanks to an alliance formed by OneWeb and Airbus to bring 5G roaming to the skies…
Lees meerTreat us like the OTT providers, beg operators MWC18 5G could, er, bring an end to populism, said Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive during his keynote address at this year’s Mobile World Congress.…
Lees meerIt's your week in storage, kids It's been an eventful week in storage land, with contract wins, possible IPOs, biz unit sales and the inevitable poring over financial results. Let's have a look at the people, the product and the numbers...…
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