Billions spent on networks not fit for purpose, cabling may be to blame +Comment nbn™, the company building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has announced that it will remediate parts of its hybrid fibre-coax and pause ne…
Lees meerBut will it make a difference? Analysis BT has long been accused of jealously guarding its infrastructure. But forcing it to open up its network to competitors and break its market dominance has been an aim of Ofcom for some time.…
Lees meerWho is Microsoft's mystery partner? We think it's a hyperconverged player VMware has responded to Microsoft's plan to run its stack in Azure, by saying customers who choose that option will have to forego support.…
Lees meerOak Ridge Top 500-leading system's innards Analysis IBM offered HPC fans at SC17 a gawk at the server tray for the upcoming Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee.…
Lees meer'Hancock pinched all my ideas' jokes former digi minister Comment For all digital minister Matt Hancock's rhetoric about 'full-fibre' investment, Blighty's digital infrastructure still remains unchanged.…
Lees meerIf I hear 'up to' one more time... Broadband providers will only be able to advertise "average" download speeds if at least 50 per cent of customers are able to receive them at peak times, under new rules announced today by the advertising regulator…
Lees meerAfter 6 years of work, 35 people in StorOne say storage industry's wrong Analysis Israeli storage startup StorONE says it has re-invented the storage stack to set hardware free.…
Lees meerGet your filthy, fallible hands out of filthy, fallible Github Scripting is now the first choice for clued-up administrators who want to get things done quickly and in an automated fashion. However, scripting does bring its own set of issues.…
Lees meerAWS explains itself to project Board, keeps its revelations off the record Fresh from the news that Amazon Web Services intends to replace its hypervisor, the Xen Project will tell the world it has a fine future in embedded applications.…
Lees meerVerification, credibility and accuracy Sponsored Big data holds great promise: structured and unstructured data harvested, processes and analysed in near-real-time by organisations sifting for new opportunities or seeking to refine existing activit…
Lees meerJust in time for Thanksgiving when no one will notice Ajit Pai, head of America's communications watchdog the FCC, has unveiled his "plan to repeal the Obama Administration's heavy-handed regulation of the Internet," referred to by critics as an ant…
Lees meerNot so, er, Nimble in the area Comment Did HPE shoot itself in the foot with US 3PAR push? Its fourth quarter results showed storage revenues grew slightly but with sales in the US of the tech limping in a quarter with sales organisation changes.…
Lees meerUsing bcache to speed Linux 4.14? Stop if you want your data to live A filesystem-eating bug has been found in Linux 4.14.…
Lees meerDeveloping... Hewlett Packard Enterprise boss Meg Whitman is stepping down, and will be replaced on February 1 by company president Antonio Neri.…
Lees meerPai will lay out plan this week, vote in December Analysis Ajit Pai, chairman of America's broadband watchdog, today confirmed what we all knew was coming for months now: a move to tear up the Obama-era's rules on network neutrality in the US.…
Lees meerMatt Hancock blissfully unaware that deal is on brink of collapse Digital minister Matt Hancock has denied that talks with BT to improve poor internet speeds in 1.4 million rural areas have fallen through.…
Lees meerDL385 blasts SPEC benchmark HPE has upgraded its Opteron-using DL385p server with AMD Epyc processors and used it to notch up a pair of record SPEC benchmarks.…
Lees meerMachine-learning engine stapled to 3PAR arrays HPE is updating its acquired Nimble Storage InfoSight array management system with a machine learning-driven recommendation engine, and adding InfoSight to 3PAR arrays.…
Lees meerBurkina Faso the most expensive, UK in top third cheapest Tired of continual price hikes on your broadband deal? Then why not move to Iran? According to a study released today, it has the cheapest broadband in the world (if you're willing to ignore …
Lees meerYeah? Us neither. Here's another 'anchored benchmark' of a storage round-up We start this week's collection of storage news with the marketing buzzwords of the month award, which goes to startup Panoply for outstanding excellence.…
Lees meerStorage-class memory Nirvana 1.0 could be a 2019 event, says our man Analysis Storage-class memory (SCM), in the shape of Optane, is already here and, with Samsung's Z-SSD, set to become available for use by servers. What does this mean and when wi…
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