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DDN buddy-up A-OK for HPC Lenovo NeXtScale System servers will get faster access to files as a result of a collaboration with DDN.…

It's a techno-utopia on the BBC Interview Hypernormalisation, the new film by English documentary-maker Adam Curtis, dives deeper into technology than any of his previous films for the BBC. It goes up on the Beeb's iPlayer on Sunday (at 9pm) and “it’s a bit of a monster”, he admits.…

SoftLayer object storage gets CTERA file services front end IBM is becoming a CTERA reseller to ship enterprise file services integrated with its SoftLayer, Cleversafe-based, object storage, and fully support it.…

It's a network-biz-eat-network-biz world. Burrrp Manchester-based network services provider Metronet has snapped up infrastructure and hosting firm M247 for £47.5m.…

Call for probe into 'social, ethical and legal implications' Analysis The UK government has been urged to establish an AI ethics board to tackle the creeping influence of machine learning on society.…

People are 'working on something cool' - EMC converged man Analysis A symphony of manageable and composable stuff is coming to Dell World next week; that's if EMC Converged Systems president Chad Sakac's hints are to be believed.…

Coin of the gaming realm used for money laundering, malware and more Security researchers have urged gaming companies to crack down on virtual currency auction and sales sites, reckoning criminals are cashing in to launder stolen money.…

Ready to hear our bright cycle safety idea? I cycle in London. It halves my journey time to the office and being nicer than sweating on the tube lets me substitute muscles for my Oyster.…

From Michelangelo to ransomware Last month’s Mr Chow ransomware attacks serve as a timely reminder that security should be at the top of any business IT strategy. Ransomware is on the increase, at least according to the FBI and while it is not all email borne, it is an example of how sophisticated hackers and criminals are getting with technology.…

Stump up £30k for a year of grocery deliveries and some sketchy promises Are you the sort of gullible idiot with millions of pounds or dollars to splurge on a “robot kitchen”? No, us neither. Hey, when you have a vaporware “startup” offering something like this, what's reality got to do with it?…

Gin palace has eight bug-killing shots for you to imbibe Juniper user? Feeling smug because you didn't have to race to download the latest Cisco patch round? Sorry: Juniper has just emitted eight vulnerability patches of its own.…

From the HoloLens to the PlayStation VR, all VR kit is descended from the first iPhone The world didn’t pay much attention to the fifth anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death, back on the 5th of October. Perhaps that’s because we believe we’ve all moved on. But that’s less true than we believe, in both some very obvious and very non-obvious ways.…

'2014 UZ224' has diameter of about 530kms and takes 11,000 years to go around the Sun Deep space real estate speculators, meet your next target: the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center has posted news of 2014 UZ224, a newly-verified minor planet.…

Fuzzing tool used to test Chrome lands on GitHub For a while now, Google's Chrome team has had a fuzzing tool to help them find bugs in the browser before bounty hunters do. Now, Mountain View has decided the same techniques can be applied to open source software in general.…

Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen! VMS Software Inc (VSI), which became the custodian of the venerable OpenVMS in 2014, is getting close to its Holy Grail of running the OS on x86.…

Disclosure is a lesser crime than research; government agencies are exempt; and don't Google your own key The text of the government's proposed bill outlawing data re-identification looks worse than researchers feared.…

US National Republican Senatorial Committee on list of sites slinging data to Russia Hackers have installed skimming scripts on more than 6000 online stores and are adding 85 each day in a wide-scale active operation that may have compromised hundreds of thousands of credit cards.…

120 Tbps non-stop Pacific link plans to see first light in 2018 Mere months after its first trans-Pacific cable venture lit up, Google has announced it's friended Facebook as part of another cable consortium.…

Malware siphoned mag-stripe data from servers American retail chain Vera Bradley has been breached by hackers who stole a yet unknown number of credit cards.…

Businesses can bet on open source – or at least use it as a threat Postgres Vision At the Postgres Vision 16 conference taking place in San Francisco this week, Ed Boyajian, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB, tried to convince attendees to abandon their Hummers for electric cars.…

Network cleanup going well, claim carriers With the East Coast of the US working to get back to its feet in the wake of deadly Hurricane Matthew, network carriers are looking to restore their services back to normal.…

Plus: Login into a stranger's Cisco Meeting account and chat away as them Cisco has issued six software updates to address security vulnerabilities in its networking products, ranging from denial of service conditions to authentication bypasses.…

Of course, it appeals Big Red's judgment and asks for stay Rimini Street has been hit with yet another fine for infringing Oracle's copyright, as well as a permanent injunction barring it from providing any Oracle software to customers.…

Convenience shops want to know when you're driving up Amazon is reportedly looking to launch a series of small convenience stores that will offer onsite pickups of merchandise ordered online, and will scan the license plates of approaching drivers.…

Help us out here readers: why is it useful to hide data on which States import monitors? The Australian Bureau of Statistics' Confidential Commodities List has gain turned up something odd, this time in the form of restrictions on reporting of trade in “Colour video monitors (excl. cathode-ray tube monitors), whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers”.…

Chances are that they're peasants anyway It is a question that has grown in urgency since the prospect of truly autonomous cars became a close reality: what does a computer-driven car do when faced with a crash?…

Faster controllers and boosted flash capacity Fifth-generation all-flash arrays have been announced by Pure Storage, with increased capacity and faster processors.…

That's nearly five Samsung-Apple patent lawsuits The extraordinary cost of the Galaxy Note 7 recall and withdrawal has been revealed in the latest financial figures from Samsung.…

Bets on devs moving to the cloud wholesale Atlassian is trying to tempt enterprise developers to launch their precious source code onto the cloud by hauling its Bitbucket pipelines feature out of beta, and overhauling its pricing.…

A sprinkling of Internet of Things ... and ... it's alive! Startup Igneous Systems has re-discovered and re-imagined the idea of customers renting an externally managed system on their premises, giving it an Internet of Things (IoT) and public cloud make-over.…

Think of it like the difference between PAYG and a contract phone Storage architect Public cloud will not consume all of IT. At least that’s what Michael Dell is claiming.…

HPE leads - at least in Gartner mages' estimation Gartner's gnomic gurus have shone their light on the hyper-converged/integrated system suppliers and devised a new magic quadrant, following on from its August 2015 effort.…

Colourless My Passport for Mac and My Book drives are boring black only WD has refeshed the design style of its portable USB 3.0 My Passport, My Passport for Mac and desktop My Book external disk drives, using colours and texture.…

ERPScan reveals wide open door for miscreants A critical SAP vulnerability stayed unpatched for three years prior to its resolution this week, according to application security specialists.…

Mobile payments going gangbusters, beams Visa Consumers use of a mobile device – either a smartphone, tablet or wearable – to make payments has tripled over the past year, according to a Visa-backed survey.…

Take it, DevOps with it, bring it back – if you want Red Hat has open sourced its code repository for Ansible to run DevOps.…

Just because we're decades away from seeing real robo-killing machines... RotM Robots will destroy humanity unless we write new laws to control them, a Parliamentary committee has been told.…

Spending increases in nation's budget for 2017 driven by corporate tax increase Even without the €13bn tax bill which Ireland was told collect from Apple, the nation's arrangements with Cupertino is driving tax revenue and spending increases in its budget for 2017.…

Yep, it’s time for another reader poll Sometimes the thought of walling yourself off from the outside world and just focusing on the technology can be quite tempting. But like it or not, life in IT is obviously affected by what’s going on in the business, and that, in turn, is driven by what’s going on in the big wide world around us.…

New plans to slurp pupils' nationality won't be passed to Home Office. Honest The government's National Pupil Database has already been used to combat "abuse of immigration control" - despite ministerial assurances that the collection of pupils’ nationality will not be passed to the border officials.…

Containers, security and better hypervisor – but not much for small biz peeps Review Microsoft has released Windows Server 2016, complete with container support and a brand new Nano Server edition.…

Orbital ATK only has 5-minute gap for launch this weekend Tropical storm Nicole has ruined NASA and Orbital ATK’s plans to send off a resupply package to the waiting astronauts on the International Space Station.…

A Roos by any other name SAP is making a number of senior management changes in its UK cloud business in the UK.…

Applies disk-drive style branding to SanDy-driven SSDs WD has produced Blue and Green branded SATA SSDs, based on SanDisk technology, with these brands having been used for WD disk drives previously.…

Containers, standards ... switchblades at dawn?

Device-agnostic diagnostics “Giving away budget never felt so good." Those were the words of an IT manager attending one of our roundtables recently. But why was he so happy about losing control of a chunk of his IT funding?…