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Lees meerFighting the Xeon SP tide IBM is bashing out a set of go-faster POWER9 servers in the face of mounting competition from Xeon SP systems.…
Lees meer5G auction to go ahead in April Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction is to go ahead in April after mobile operator Three lost its final legal challenge to force the regulator to change the bidding rules.…
Lees meerChipmaker names 18 carriers who'll get real with 5G real soon now, promise Qualcomm has fleshed out the details of what's going to land in the hands of the 18 carriers who last week signed on for “standards-compliant” 5G trials.…
Lees meerNobody wants slow SaaS or cross-cloud comms, but Citrix wants you to cough up to stop it Citrix has bought traffic optimisation company Cedexis for an undisclosed sum.…
Lees meerGrouchy Grupe gets a year and a day behind bars A former IT administrator at the Canadian Pacific Railway has been jailed for 366 days after being found guilty of disrupting his former employer's network.…
Lees meerVictory for web biz after law troll claimed CDN ripped off designs An US court has trashed a patent at the center of Cloudflare's legal war with patent troll Blackbird Technologies – and thrown out the latter's case against the web biz.…
Lees meerNeed faster storage? Box slinger claims updated software boosts SMB kit performance Lenovo has refreshed its line of storage-area-network boxes for small and medium businesses with improved software.…
Lees meerClaims stealthy tech will cut costs and power consumption Silicon design startup Tachyum, founded by ex-Skyera top brass after they sold out to Western Digital, has bagged funding to continue developing cloudy chips.…
Lees meerYes, I need an 8K livestream in every room Alternative network provider Hyperoptic today tested speeds of 10Gbps at the former Olympic village in east London.…
Lees meerComposable infrastructure kit doubles down on Cisco servers Dell EMC has smushed its three-product VxBlock range into a single, more scalable composable infrastructure – the VxBlock 1000.…
Lees meerScaleFlux and NGD aim to wrangle data at drive-level Part 2 Bringing compute to data aims to knock stored data access latency on its head by not moving masses of data across networks to host servers. Bringing compute to disk drives is facing an uph…
Lees meerFlowering fleet will still leave trail Azure and AWS Oracle's announced plans to build a dozen new cloud data centres.…
Lees meerSleepless in Seattle after shakeup Amazon has confirmed a round of job cuts are taking place at its headquarters in Seattle, USA.…
Lees meerThe numbers, not the spin, from nbn™'s half-year presentation and corporate plan nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network, is the subject of endless controversy.…
Lees meerSigh with relief, fellow geeks, if you're using them on your home or business network You will never be able to own an official .home, .mail or .corp domain name or email address on the public internet.…
Lees meerFirm in mega cloud tech push Oracle has announced plans to roll out its self-described autonomous technology to all of its Platform-as-a-Service products.…
Lees meerMore kit to boost connectivity in rural UK Vodafone has unveiled an eight-metre high "telescopic" 4G mast, intended to boost speeds in rural areas to 200Mpbs, following a trial in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.…
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