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Shrunken A700 all-flash array wins top-3 benchmark result NetApp has launched two new all-flash FAS arrays, won a top 3 SPC-1 storage benchmark result, and announced a new flash capacity guarantee programme.…

Blogger/influencer/sometime Reg commentator joins OpenIO OpenIO, an object storage startup, has recruited Enrico Signoretti as its head of product strategy.…

It was a real eye-opener

Word to your motherboard Comment Supermicro will have more Skylake CPU server motherboard products out faster than competitors because its engineering smarts better equip it for Skylake fastening complexities.…

Tell us what you think of All-Flash Arrays and the people who sell them Study All-Flash Arrays were one of the hottest themes on the pages of The Reg during 2016, so we want to dig deep into your knowledge and experience with these systems to get the details.…

Yep, $497m smackeroos... Yes, net Industry execs are paid to put on a brave face when outlining company financials, and AMD’s CEO Lisa Su kept up her end of the bargain last night when the broken business reported a net loss of $497m for 2016.…

2.5 million account details potentially exposed The personal details of 2.5 million gamers have been leaked following a breach of unofficial Xbox 360 and PSP forums.…

Better sleep means better bedroom action for women over 50 Older women getting their full quota of kip are far more likely to be getting a full quota of other types of bedroom action too, research by the North American Menopause Society has shown.…

Cook talks up HomeKit and enterprise Analysis Apple’s main job in earnings conferences is to remind us that there’s more to the world’s most valuable company than the iPhone – while persuading us that the iPhone is doing really jolly well. The iPhone generates almost two-thirds of Apple’s wealth.…

Brendan Barber appointment part of BT's plans to rebuild 'credibility' Openreach has appointed former general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Sir Brendan Barber to its independent board.…

NGO creates 'internet censor' job advertisements in protest Digital Economy Bill Government proposals to force websites serving up adult content to verify users' ages has been criticised as an "unworkable proposal" by Open Rights Group, which today launched a spoof recruitment campaign to raise awareness of the Digital Economy Bill.…

But someone using his email says otherwise Spanish cops investigating an attack on a Catalan police union last May have arrested three suspects, including a hacker alleged to be behind high-profile attacks against spyware-for-cops firms Hacking Team and Gamma International.…

Hospitals advised to use Bing instead Exclusive Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack.…

Sorry, Theresa May. Graphene and 'space' are not Britain's industrial future Rarely has a report on industrial strategy, unveiled by the Prime Minister Theresa May at the Sci-Tech Daresbury centre in the North West on January 23 contained so little about industry.…

Grid bondage puts admins in charge Slack, the four-year-old team chat service that owes its popularity to email's shortcomings and some smart design decisions, has rolled out a version of the service for large organizations.…

PC vendors continue to slide as mobile tightens grasp on market Samsung overtook Apple in Gartner's "total addressable semiconductor" market.…

Haughty minister tries brushing it off as pedantry Defence chiefs have confessed that the 70,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth’s delivery date is getting later and later – with one Tory minister openly mocking an MP who asked a straight question.…

I promise I've been a good boy this year Sysadmin Blog I yell at Microsoft a lot. It's cathartic. Microsoft make several decent pieces of software and quite a few great cloud services, but for every awesome thing they create it seems they ruin something else. Over the past year I've developed a wishlist of changes. Dear Microsoft...…

Founder Charles Dunstone to take helm of biz Chief exec of TalkTalk, Dido Harding, is to step down from the company after seven years in the role.…

Ah, kids today! Nope, nope, this is governments we're talking about Feature The allegations that computer hackers affected the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election have cast a long shadow and might appear to be unprecedented.…

Engineers need to change user interfaces Usenix Enigma Several academics have been using brain scanning methods to see how people handle computer security, and the resounding result is that our brains are biochemically working against us in this realm.…

RIP online Texas hold'em? Don't bet on it just yet Analysis Machines have triumphed again. Libratus, a powerful computer program, has crushed its human opponents at a heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em poker tournament held at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, winning $1,776,250 over 120,000 hands.…

Crims aimed for a Christmas Number One and scored Net scum behind the Cerber ransomware have been pounding enterprises infecting more corporate machines than any other, according to Microsoft.…

If you want to catch as many people as you can, go for the old legal razzle dazzle Usenix Enigma 2017 Research has shown that older people – particularly older women – are more susceptible to phishing scams. You may think our oldies are more suspicious of strangers, but that's sadly not the case.…

Probe went this close in 2004, but the light is better this time around The Cassini probe's commenced its death dive into Saturn's clouds, but is still sending back high-resolution of the gas giant's rings.…

Great way to monitor effects of being in orbit As it prepares for interplanetary missions, NASA is offering a glimpse of its study of the effects of space on twins.…

It's growing, new products are flowing and Microsoft's sending it new punters In 2015 Citrix was in trouble: the company fired 900 employees and warned it would miss guidance on earnings, endured a profit slump and cleaned out its C-suite.…

Then they resell that info to dodgy share traders Staff are taking to the dark web to leak corporate secrets for cash, research reveals.…

Big Red lets C/C++ types talk to its call interface Oracle has taken DPI, the data access layer in its node-oracledb driver, refactored it, and used it to give C/C++ developers an API to its Oracle Call Interface.…

No, seriously. Microsoft-supported scientists think this is a good idea in the data centre Microsoft-supported boffins hopes to eliminate cables in the data centre entirely.…

Project AirGig looks to solve bandwidth conundrum in the sticks AT&T says it is set to begin public trials of a project to backhaul high-speed mobile internet over power lines.…

Upstart said it had outgrown the cloud – now five out of five restore tools have failed Source-code hub Gitlab.com is in meltdown after experiencing data loss as a result of what it has suddenly discovered are ineffectual backups.…

Holiday phablet shortage was our fault, says Tim Cook Apple recorded its best quarterly numbers ever despite an admitted shortage of iPhone 7 Plus phablets.…

Going for a song: Hedge fund pulled the strings to snap up busted biz for $14.5m A Soros hedge fund vehicle made the winning bid at Violin Memory's January 23 auction.…

Simple rules for organisers, courtesy of Citrix Promo Marketers rely on webinars as one of the most important elements in helping savvy technology decision-makers to evaluate their next purchase.…

Splashed big bucks for a fancy display? Let's hope you have a big office too LG's space-age monitors are suffering from an engineering flaw that causes the screen to become unusable when placed too close to a Wi-Fi hotspot.…

Follows briefings heavy on blame, light on Russia US President Donald Trump unexpectedly cancelled the signing of a new executive order on cybersecurity Tuesday, following a day of briefings by the White House on its contents.…

Turnbull's Transformers' left hand no longer speaking to right hand The Australian government's Digital Transformation Agency says one of its signal projects, GovShare, is just fine – but nobody's told the developers that are quietly shovelling dirt onto its coffin.…

Microsoft exploring 'less is more' for its operating system Microsoft's latest Windows Insider build, released on Friday for participants in the software preview program, contains a reference to a new Windows SKU called Cloud.…

Phew! US ISPs finally free to roll out broadband, right? The new head of the US Federal Communications Commission has promised to cut back on red tape and free up Big Cable – which has been suffering under record profits for too long.…

For pity’s sake, stop reusing passwords Usenix Enigma 2017 The life of the security IT professional would be a lot easier if people were capable of remembering enough passwords so that they didn't need to reuse them.…

Cisco research paints a grim picture of corporate defences More than a third of organisations that experienced a breach last year reported substantial customer, opportunity and revenue loss.…

Furious clicktivists wear out keyboards in online virtue-signalling battle Proving that democracy is just fine in the internet era, a petition demanding that Donald Trump should be invited to make a state visit to the UK has passed 100,000 signatures – passing the threshold to be "considered" for a Parliamentary debate.…

This is an entirely sensible view of the near future. Cough “What if you need to update 50 million hairdryers and something goes wrong? How can you roll it back?” Thus spake Maarten Ectors, Canonical’s Internet of Things veep, who painted a picture of an IoT future where your fridge will be taken away from you unless you constantly use it as a smart app store.…

Big Tech gets ready to defend Low Pay. Again Analysis President Trump's immigration reforms are set to open a divide between Silicon Valley bosses and their technology workers – much as Brexit did. Unlike many of Trump's policies, this one will find favour with Congress and strike a chord with American technology and engineering graduates, who have seen wages stagnate as Big Tech exploited the H-1B visa program.…

Cloud-managed Wi-Fi access for 'DNA' (acronym, not ludicrous business metaphor) Datto is getting in a right mesh. The backup service vendor is buying Open Mesh to improve its managed service provider offering.…

Accenture blamed for system swamp The NHS reply-all email fail last year involved 500 million emails being sent across the health service's network in just 75 minutes.…

Securobods file data hostage report A security firm has floated the theory that malware authors are using German firms as a testing ground for their wares prior to wider distribution.…

Adds 5,000 connections, but still has a long way to go before taking on BT Wannabe BT challenger CityFibre is expecting to swing into profit for the full-year 2016, having added more than 5,000 fibre-to-the-premises connections last year.…