The hidden problems of criticality bloat One of the key principles of designing any high availability system is to make sure only vital apps or functions use it and everything else doesn't – sometimes referred to as KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).…
Lees meer€120m for the bin... Opinion A group of European governing institutions has approved a programme to invest €120m (£105m, $134.7m) in public Wi-Fi hotspots in over 6,000 municipalities in all European Union member states by 2020.…
Lees meerCloudy backup, now with data de-dupe, Windows System State restore and free egress Microsoft keeps getting closer and closer to being a decent backup vendor.…
Lees meerAdmits costs set to rise and that it faces entrenched deep-pocketed competition Virtualized storage upstart Tintri has filed for its initial public offering.…
Lees meer'Tier-one' customer cools off Hewlett Packard Enterprise's joint venture with Foxconn to build lower cost servers to order for the world's biggest service providers is under threat because of its over reliance on one bulky customer, reported to be M…
Lees meerPotentially by a panicking contractor, if reports are to be believed Analysis An IT bod from a data centre consultancy has been fingered as the person responsible for killing wannabe budget airline British Airways' Boadicea House data centre – and …
Lees meerHitches ride with Ariane after SpaceX drops the ball American comms specialist ViaSat is set to put the world's most powerful communications satellite into orbit on Thursday afternoon atop an Ariane rocket.…
Lees meerSaucy Japanese chip-fryer tries to swallow its JV stake Loss-ridden Toshiba has pulled an unexpected move which it hopes will allow it to auction off its flash memory unit for a big pile of cash within the month. It says it has reabsorbed assets fro…
Lees meerMore like Giffgaffe... but good news if you're going to Spain Giffgaff customers may want to think twice before holidaying in tax havens such as the Channel Islands as new roaming charges will hike calls to back to Blighty to £1 per minute – up from…
Lees meerContainers just wanna be hypervisors Just occasionally, you get it right. Six years ago, I called containers "every sysadmin's dream," and look at them now. Even the Linux Foundation's annual bash has been renamed from "LinuxCon + CloudOpen + Embedd…
Lees meer'Approximately US$100m' to change hands for assets hoped to generate $200m a year Avaya and Extreme Networks have confirmed that the former will sell its networking business to the latter, for “approximately US$100m”.…
Lees meerAdds Kubernetes and etcd as services in Tectonic CoreOS Fest CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi spent his morning on Wednesday biting the hands that fed attendees at his company's conference, CoreOS Fest 2017.…
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Lees meerHow much effort does it take? Do alarms still keep you awake at night? Study Monitoring the IT infrastructure is essential, but often comes across as a boring necessity, rather than an exciting area that can move the business forwards. We want to k…
Lees meerBlockchain for data integrity and regulatory compliance In a well-timed release Acronis has announced its Backup 12.5 product with automated ransomware protection and data integrity checking via blockchain.…
Lees meerThe Office cloud deconstructed If you were to start a business today, would you bother buying desktop software for productivity and collaboration? Probably not, you'd employ some software option delivered as a service. For enterprises with a history…
Lees meerTeams unveiled for student cluster wettbewrb HPC Blog We’re only a few weeks away from the 6th annual ISC Student Cluster Competition, and student cluster aficionados worldwide are gearing up to watch the battle. ISC Cluster Competition Taipan Pak …
Lees meerLiberté, égalité, connectivité The European Parliament, Council and Commission have all decided that the in-El Reg's-view-inexplicable WiFi4EU project is a fine idea worthy of €120m to ensure “every European village and every city with free wireless…
Lees meerNew GPU’riffic box vies for dominance HPC Blog At trade shows, I’m always attracted by the sight of huge heat sinks bunched together on a system board. Big and powerful hardware is a weakness of mine. The sight of them pulls me to the booth like a …
Lees meerGuess who's joined the bandwagon... Comment Apple may not be the invincible force it once was in mobile, but it is still unrivalled in its ability to scatter stardust over new technologies – just ask the companies which struggled to push Wi-Fi Call…
Lees meerVultures continue circling not-quite-corpse Western Digital may form a consortium to buy up Toshiba’s hotly disputed NAND flash memory unit, according to reports.…
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