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But world SSD shipments up 46%, 128-layer 3D incoming The utter irrelevance of Seagate as an SSD shipper is shown by TrendFocus's estimated total SSD unit ship numbers for 2016's third quarter, with just 0.1 per cent of the 38.25 million units shipped, 46 per cent up on a year ago.…

Memory-intensive apps drive adoption of storage-class memory Data is getting closer to compute – Supermicro's X10DRU-i+ dual-socket server is available with 1TB or 2TB of application memory for analytics, database, and caching apps by being equipped with Diablo's Memory1 flash DIMM modules, and up to a 4x memory increase from DRAM-only servers.…

UK is great to do biz in! But not as good as Ireland, obvs Facebook is to hire 500 staff in London, European head Nicola Mendelsohn has said today.…

Increases proportion of spend from around 0.5% of GDP to, er, 0.6% UK Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to fling £2bn extra at Blighty's woeful research and development spend – a figure that still brings us well below the amount industry has previously called for.…

Identity and Access Management for today Broadcast At 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT today we'll be digging into the matter of Identity and Access Management with a live broadcast on the subject. Our host Jon Collins will be quizzing Tony Lock from Freeform Dynamics and Nadav Benbarak, from Okta, to understand just how far things have come and, most importantly, what to do about them.…

Solution? We need to build a Wall Comment Chinese officials have cited the Facebook “Fake News panic” as a justification for further clampdowns on internet speech and anonymity.…

Tell us your DevOps, Agile, CD and Container stories There are just ten days till the call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2017 closes, and we'd hate to miss out on your take on DevOps, Containerization, Continuous Delivery and Agile in the real world.…

Bid to mitigate damage in face of declining anti-virus sales Symantec has bought identity theft protection firm LifeLock for $2.3bn.…

Mystery draw and shutdown no more Apple is offering iPhone 6s customers free replacement batteries after it emerged phones had been mysteriously shutting down.…

Picks Germany over Blighty in deal with Vodafone The cloudy arm of China's Amazon-equivalent Alibaba is opening its first data centre in Europe – part of the outfit's bid for global cloud domination.…

"Drain the swamp," urges education tsar A leading education advisor to Ministers has criticised the aggressive proliferation of software in schools as a "gimmick", and called for Ministers to "drain the swamp".…

But we've saved a whole wedge of cash Barnet council's controversial £322m 10-year outsourcing deal is plagued by a number "performance issues" particularly within IT - but has also yielded "significant savings" since 2013, according to a report.…

Perches itself between Jack the Ripper territory and the City Puppet has roped in former Cisco exec Marianne Calder to head up its European operation, as it prepares to scale up its enterprise push and expand its work with partners.…

Vague net neut vows... trade tariffs – what's keeping telcos up at night? Comment As in every sector of US life, the telecoms industry is trying to work out what the shock election of maverick candidate Donald Trump to the presidency will mean for its operators and suppliers.…

Not the 30% overall cap Three wanted Communications giant BT/EE will not be able to bid for more 4G spectrum in the forthcoming auction, according to proposals by communications regulator Ofcom.…

If 'the process' is still 'the process', you're doing it wrong There's a stink growing out there in agile land: a debate over how to scale up agile in large organisations. Should we put frameworks like SAFe or the most awesomely named DAD in place to scale it? How about LeSS?…

'Back up the whole data centre just by connecting to vCenter!' but it's no Virtzilla-killer Microsoft has a new offer for VMware users: agentless backup for vSphere VMs – to an on-premises target or Azure - made possible through a vCenter API.…

'Please dont tell my wife about this' says one, as arcs thrill Kiwi crowds Kiwicon Not every demo at security cons goes off without a hitch: Badass hackers Ryan and Jeremy electrocuted themselves when building what could have been the first device capable of wirelessly exploiting door-opening push buttons.…

Clarkson & Pals' Grand Tour will stream into 200 nations before Christmas Amazon.com looks like it is about to wade deeper into competition with Netflix, by making at least one of its new self-produced programs available for viewing around the world.…

Linus Torvalds both is and isn't worried about progress towards next release Linux overlord Linus Torvalds is both worried and chilled about the progress of Linux 4.9. Or maybe he isn't: his weekly message about the latest release candidate has a bet each way.…

Snapdragon processors, modems first on the bounty list Qualcomm's been bitten by the bounty bug, signing on with HackerOne to offer up to US$15,000 for vulnerabilities in modems and processors.…

So says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. Do you have a better term? POLL When VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger dropped in to Sydney a couple of weeks ago, he had a new phrase to share: “self-starting IT”.…

PLUS: A reader spots a Timex Sinclair 1000 in the wild Every time the BSOD flood seems to taper off, yet another bunch arrive in the Vulture South inbox, and for some reason the latest crop seems to have a retail theme.…

President Trump wants such great rockets. Yuuge rockets. The best for Moon shots Poor NASA: it's got a president who doesn't like its climate research and wants it to pay more attention to putting humans on the Moon and Mars – but its launch vehicle for that kind of mission is costing too much.…

Everything you need to land a bigwig, with surprisingly little effort Kiwicon Michele Orru has released an automated phishing toolkit to help penetration testers better exploit businesses.…

802.11af finds a friend D-Link and Redmond have put the paddles on 802.11af, charged the machine, and hit the button.…

Backdoor slipped into phones sold outside China doesn't even hide itself successfully Got a cheap-and-cheerful Android phone from BLU, Infinix, Doogee, Leagoo, IKU, Beeline or Xolo? It might be harbouring some badware in the firmware.…

'Opportunity' offers brilliant case study in how not to do ambush marketing When misfortune befalls a market leader, smaller companies often exhort Register hacks to report on the wonderful alternative they offer readers seeking safe harbour from the latest SNAFU.…

Fact-checking orgs can expect a call from The Zuck Squad Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to have decided that the wisdom of the crowd has its limits.…

All your cameras are belong to Mirai Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security, on Friday documented his experience setting up a $55 JideTech security camera behind a Raspberry Pi router configured to isolate the camera from his home network.…

NASA 90% certain of lift-off on Saturday NASA meteorologists have given a 90 per cent chance of good weather for the launch of the revolutionary Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series (GOES‑R) on Saturday.…

Details confidential, but don't expect to see Brogan BamBrogan on the board The extraordinary lawsuit/soap opera surrounding tube-travelling Hyperloop One has been brought to a close.…

Database was breached for handset update scam The CEO of UK carrier Three Mobile has confirmed that a customer database was compromised by hackers and more than 130,000 customers have had their account data exposed.…

Meet the new 10-year-old command line, better than the even older command line Taking timeworn advice for authors to "murder your darlings," Microsoft has done away with the Windows Command Prompt.…

Have a small mouth, fat lips, close-set eyes? Oh dear Through machine learning, researchers have repeated the historic criminology experiment of telling criminals apart from law-abiding people using facial recognition.…

One foot is out the door for this Apple customer Analysis For the past few weeks, this tech reporter has been tussling with a complex issue: which new laptop to buy.…

Beltway cloud aims for renewable power milestone Amazon is planning to open five new solar power farms to help run its AWS cloud data centers.…

No sign of GPUs though Intel has flexed its AI muscles and beefed up its services with a bunch of new products and collaborations, in an effort to adapt to the technological upheaval of intelligent software.…

Binary split Humpty SAN Dumpty logically put back together again Analysis Dell EMC is working on fixing the increasing split between primary storage data on flash and capacity data storage on object arrays by logically combining them underneath a 2 TIERS software abstraction layer.…

Servers you right, says shrinker to bulked up big boy HPE is making almost twice as much revenue from shipping servers into the supercomputer market as Dell EMC.…

Crimson headcover kernel gets dedupe and compression The Mad Hatter of Linux is getting Alice in Wonderland style physical space virtualisation with thin provisioning, compression and deduplication courtesy of Permabit.…

Biggest market share crash in Gartner history Samsung is paying the price for the Galaxy Note 7 disaster. The South Korean giant recorded its largest ever fall in global smartphone market share in Q3, Gartner reckons.…

Adds Azure to its replication bridge target list Zerto announced its Enterprise Cloud Edition with general availability of Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 (ZVR), which has Microsoft Azure support.…

All is well, rejoice, rejoice, let's get into the white 'n' fluffy Intel has caved to Google pressure over data centre silicon and has joined hands with Mountain View to fly you into the white and fluffy cloud of everyone else's enterprise future.…

So say Europe's Parliamentarians Opinion Consumers should not have had to actively provide their personal data in return for digital content to be supplied to them to benefit from consumer protection rights relating to the supply of that content, a committee of MEPs has said.…

Firm announces third-quarter revenue growth of 25 per cent Salesforce, the once self-styled antithesis of a software company, reckons it's on track to become a $10bn software company in its next fiscal year.…

We might start making profit in two years, says French firm French Internet of Things startup Sigfox has missed its $200m funding target for its latest round, settling for €150m ($159m) instead – although it has Salesforce, Intel, and others on board as investors.…

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Learn how in Automic Webinar Promo So you have automated your infrastructure processes. The logical next step is to automate how you provision and manage your servers and application releases.…

Part of broader investigation into alleged data theft Three men are due to appear at the Old Bailey charged with various offences linked to an investigation into the mega TalkTalk hack a year ago.…