Let's do a quick reality check Reg reader survey The march of automation is unavoidable. This is as true in IT as it is in any other profession. From a jobs perspective, some people will win and some will lose. Either way, things will often get sha…
Lees meerSpectrum goes all NASty, FlashSystem base box getting NVMe fabric access IBM is adding filer software to its storage offerings, NVMe fabric access to its base all-flash array, and other features across its storage portfolio in a bumper Big Blue stor…
Lees meerIt's another whopper: Fabulous capacity or blast radius nightmare Samsung has finally got its 31TB SSD into manufacturing, catching up with Toshiba's similarly well-endowed SAS flash package.…
Lees meer'We didn't strictly need a marketing chief or a president/ COO' More details have emerged of C-suite axe swinging at Scality with chief marketing officer Paul Turner getting the chop - still he lasted longer than his predecessor.…
Lees meer'60 is not a high number,' says press handler. O rly? Exclusive Hard pressed outsourcing titan Capita wrestled with almost sxity separate outages at its data centres in the space of just half a year, The Register can exclusively reveal.…
Lees meerWarm wine and sarnies to be served up at 'local' Solutions Days instead Veritas has canned its annual Veritas Vision marketing extravaganza in preference of smaller, regional get togethers for channel and end-user customers.…
Lees meerThere may be some vulnerable cores in switches, but getting to them is hard In the seven weeks since The Register broke the news of the Meltdown/Spectre speculative execution vulnerabilities, nearly every corner of the industry has scrambled to patc…
Lees meerShaping up for transformation Over the last few months people have stopped saying “digitalization” or “digital transformation” and abbreviating it “DX.” The industry is full of abbreviations and ephemeral jargon, and the most irritating part of this…
Lees meerIce to meet you, storage fans. This was your week In this week's roundup we hitch a brief ride on a sledge to the South Pole, and watch the movements in frozen flash, hot HCI, supercooled software and more.…
Lees meerWe're supposed to sift through this without a tool? Comment Ah, the good old days of server benchmarks, when CPU variations were few and clock rates ruled the roost. Now we have four different Xeon SP CPU families, one with two model lines, and eac…
Lees meerDigi Sec decrees: Thou shalt put a mast on your spire to boost connectivity The governent is looking towards the heavens in its bid to redeem rural broadband speeds, having exhausted all other options.…
Lees meerAnd then along came a good old flesh and blood human! Chalk up another one for good old humans: Google's admitted that an automation failure was the root cause of a 93-minute outage of its Compute Engine in the us-central1 and europe-west3 zones of …
Lees meerBorg attack repelled, Microsoft and cloud are now Prime Directive (and cash source) Customer certification delays resulting from its ongoing patent lawsuit brought by Cisco have delayed some of its revenue, but upstart Arista Networks still turned i…
Lees meerWrites to residents to announce on-site inspection nbn™, the company building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has advised households connected to its hybrid fibre-coax network to expect a visit between March 7th 2018 and …
Lees meerLook guys, everyone's doing it Mobile customers face a mid-contract price rise, with all four operators confirming they will hike fees by 4 per cent, 1 per cent above inflation.…
Lees meerSwitch antitrust case rumbles on A US court has agreed to dismiss most of Cisco's IP defences in its long-running antitrust dispute with rival Arista Networks; the latter had previously described them as "breathtakingly broad, unprecedented and insa…
Lees meerWhere enterprise servers go, hyperconverged systems follow Analysis If hyperconverged systems are basically enhanced servers then HCI vendors with no server hardware or channel partnerships for their software are doomed.…
Lees meerProject Honolulu gets a second Tech Preview Microsoft has offered Windows admins a second look at Project Honolulu, its web-based System Center successor.…
Lees meerPassport scans, drivers licenses, etc, exposed online Another day, another unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 storage bucket spilling secrets onto the public internet.…
Lees meerBuy price not revealed Oracle is to gobble security outfit Zenedge for likely less than CTO Larry Ellison spends on tanning lotion each year an unspecified sum.…
Lees meerWant high speeds? Go to Latvia The UK is performing so poorly in fibre penetration that it isn't even included in a European study.…
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