Early June looks like being hypervisor happy time The Xen Project's wheeled out the first release candidate of Xen 4.9 and reckons it will be ready to launch in the first week of June 2017.…
Lees meerBackup biz notches up another 4,000-new-customer quarter Has Veeam's record-breaking growth halted? Er, in a word, no.…
Lees meerPwC report into what went wrong and why has been received. And hidden, for now The Australian Taxation Office says its planned Easter outage to replace its infamously wobbly HPE storage area network went well.…
Lees meerBetween killing an OpenStack research team and killing IDF, we see a pattern here Intel's decided to stop offering its own version of the Lustre file system – the code beloved of high-performance computing types because it's handy for managing exaby…
Lees meerSo far, the highest bid is $27bn, it is claimed Three new characters are starring in Toshiba's saga to sell off its memory business: they are Foxconn, Apple, and a fund backed by Japan's government.…
Lees meerJust don't mention the memory business malarky Demonstrating the strength of Toshiba's NAND chips and SSD business, Dell's PowerEdge 13G servers will use Toshiba HK4 SSDs to make them faster and add encryption options.…
Lees meerGrowth slows as subs replace boxes and renewals fluctuate Renewal period volatility is giving Barracuda a headache as the cloud-focussed protection and security outfit follows its customers away from box sales towards annual subscriptions. Growth ha…
Lees meerResearch org releases VM to let you simulate it, plus other interplanetary networks The Mitre Corporation has given network administrators something to chew on, in the form of a simulator that lets them build networks in space.…
Lees meerAlso, er, yeah, Chipzilla pullied the plug on that big project Intel has walked out of a major OpenStack collaboration with Rackspace – but both companies and the OpenStack Foundation insist everything's fine. There's nothing to worry about. We're a…
Lees meerResearchers find vulns in popular tutorials that have spread far and wide Developers' enthusiasm for sharing code saves their colleagues' time, but also means they share security bugs they haven't noticed. And that means a smart attacker could follo…
Lees meer'Nearly half of users' rolled back due to 'general instability', so it's been taken behind the shed ... Well this is embarrassing: FreeNAS has downgraded its latest release to “technology preview” status.…
Lees meerEx-NASA manager oversaw tech that grew into today's web, OSes Obit Robert Taylor, who oversaw the creation of the internet's precursor ARPANET, the computer mouse and the first GUI-based personal computer, has died after a long illness. He was 85.…
Lees meerProcessors are like sausages, uh, you don't need to know how they're made, apparently For the past 20 years, Intel has held its annual Intel Developer Forum in Silicon Valley, typically within San Francisco. This is supposed to be a technical confer…
Lees meerEmbrace it! *shakes fist* Microsoft has started offering substantial Windows Server licence discounts as an incentive to embrace its cloud.…
Lees meerReg readers look forward to a hybrid reality Research To some, cloud computing is synonymous with so-called ‘public cloud’ services such as AWS and Azure, but this isn’t the view of Reg readers. When 668 of you provided feedback during a recent sur…
Lees meerGetting down and dirty at the HCI coal face with Scale Computing Profile Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready reckons its hyperconverged HC3 software is better than anyone else's because it's integrated into the hypervisor's core and not just another VM.…
Lees meerSysadmins furious at unscheduled snow-day, worry about Easter availability Netregistry and TPP Wholesale have lost six DNS servers between them, causing plenty of angst and anger on Australia's corner of the Internet.…
Lees meerUgly confrontation coming up this year The lobbying group for Big Internet – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter et al – has warned the chair of US comms watchdog the FCC that it will fight him on efforts to get rid of net neutrality rules.…
Lees meerAPNIC considers punitive policy for errant governments Governments that cut off internet access to their citizens could find themselves refused new IP addresses under a proposal put forward by one of the five global IP allocation organizations.…
Lees meerTsk tsk, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, tsk tsk Just over half of broadband and mobile customers who moaned to their provider were satisfied with how their complaints were handled, according to a report by Ofcom.…
Lees meerSome 12 million calls made in the first week of March BT's free spam filter, launched earlier this year to crack down on nuisance calls, has identified accident claims as the worst offender for nuisance calls with 12 million made in the first week o…
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