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Lees meerDear job hunters, you're out of luck. Redmond's 365 Business is designed for PHBs Microsoft has lobbed its Microsoft 365 Business package for small and mid-sized companies into general availability.…
Lees meerBig Blue hybrid cloud organ stands up to be counted IBM has updated Cloud Private to help customers get containerised and move into hybrid private/public cloud computing.…
Lees meerDuh. It's better than sweating the heck out of copper and aluminium for another decade Openreach reckons its 580 communications providers "have welcomed the ambition" to increase the UK's woeful fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage. However, some f…
Lees meerIrish High Court rejects another appeal against €850m bit barn The Irish High Court has rejected a further appeal in the long-running battle against Apple's plans to build a data centre in the country.…
Lees meerBut still outclassed in capacity by SanDisk's tiny whopper Micron has announced incoming snoopcam flash cards with up to 256GB capacity, trumpeting that edge storage is the future of video surveillance.…
Lees meerWHAT? NAH, YOU'RE BREAKING UP Nearly one-third of mobile users suffer poor or no indoor reception at home, according to a survey by price comparison site uSwitch.…
Lees meerAutomate all the things Another day, another cloud security mishap. Some company exposes recordings of your kids to the Internet and then comes under Senatorial scrutiny. A security firm managing security clearance information turns out to be insecu…
Lees meer'CrystalNet' reveals router bugs beat sysadmin fat-fingers six-to-one for outages Microsoft has let the world in on one of its key Azure management tools: a simulator designed to help prevent nearly 70 per cent of the bugs that cause network downtim…
Lees meer'Light touch' must be enforced with a heavy hand, says telco Verizon is leaning on America's broadband watchdog to stomp out any hope of state governments rolling out their own rules on net neutrality, privacy protections, and other internet regulat…
Lees meerNetizens locked out of cloud-hosted files for bogus terms-of-service violations An indeterminate but supposedly small number of Google Docs users on Tuesday found that their essays, reports, school assignments, tracts, and manifestos had run afoul o…
Lees meerBut code and admin roles more complicated as a result Object storage life is getting more complicated as public cloud dispersion meets GPDR data locality restrictions. Combining the two adds product and administration complexity.…
Lees meerPart of new 'digital' rebrand amid thousands of job cuts BT's struggling Global Services division has inked a deal with AWS to flog its cloudy services in a bid to reinvent itself as a "digital" business.…
Lees meerWant to pay for 50GB of Redmond-powered ad-free email? We decode your options Microsoft has shut down new registrations for the Outlook Premium service, directing customers instead to an Office 365 subscription.…
Lees meer'JUPITER' is made for video, should see first light in 2020, boast 60 Tbps capacity A consortium including Facebook, Amazon and SoftBank has signed up to build a new submarine cable linking Asia and the United States of America.…
Lees meerWhile Softbank's Sprint goes limp on T-Mobile US merger America's comms regulator has signed off on the $34bn merger deal that will see ISP CenturyLink take over internet backbone Level 3.…
Lees meerSurveillance hardware purpose-built for deep learning, analytics Seagate has bolted "AI" to its SkyHawk disk drive brand, saying it's better suited for next-generation deep learning and video analytics.…
Lees meerIt's a storage cocktail and it tastes... well, have a sip Have we got a bit of storage news for you. Our expert mixologist has poured all the bits and pieces into his cocktail shaker, added some ice, and poured the resulting storage fluid into a tum…
Lees meerAnswer: Yes, but it's hard to prove Special report Schools across the United States are sounding the alarm on what looks suspiciously like an effort by the federal telecoms regulator to undermine efforts to build new broadband networks.…
Lees meerThe 900P might run Star Citizen smoother – emphasis on 'might' As spotted a couple of days ago, Intel has announced a smaller Optane drive – the 900P.…
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