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by Chris Mellor on (#1XAN1)
You mean I had to pay twice or thrice to store stuff before? FalconStor has announced something that seems … well, odd; a “Pay Once†pricing model.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1XAK9)
Tactic designed to empower the 'less dominant' members of the PaaS team Images Communication has now become so difficult at meetings of the UK Government Digital Service's (GDS) Platform-as-a-Service team, they've been forced to implement hand signals to prevent the "less dominant or newer members of the group" from being shouted down.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1XAFQ)
Cloud Security Alliance releases 'hefty' report ... and it's pretty handy An in-depth security guidance report aimed at Internet of Things developers has been released by the Cloud Security Alliance.…
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by John Leyden on (#1XAFS)
Apple vs. US round 2 looming The FBI wants to crack into another deceased terrorist’s locked iPhone.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XAE6)
Getting rid of overlapping job functions The newly acquired EMC has been hit by layoffs in the former EMC headquarters' Hopkinton facility.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1XAAV)
Joins Solution Partner Program +Comment Secondary storage silo converger Cohesity is joining Cisco’s Solution Partner Program to flog its software on Cisco hardware.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1XA96)
Repeat after me: We have absolute commitment to customers. YES we do Fujitsu might well be talking to interested parties, including Lenovo, about offloading its withering PC business but has asked staff to maintain the party line on its “absolute commitment†to customers.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1XA97)
Marissa Mayer or Katie Hopkins? Eenie meenie... Donald Trump is Reg readers’ top candidate for firing to Mars according to a record poll result.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1XA99)
CDA internet shield under the spotlight Special report The CEO of the notorious online classified site Backpage, Carl Ferrer, has been arrested in Texas on allegations of sex trafficking, after a joint investigation by California and Texas.…
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Tech industry needs more Wan Longs, apparently Channels Forum The great and the good of the channel were chastised and chided at Channels Forum this week, as Financial Times management columnist Lucy Kellaway called on them to lay off the bullshit and waffle for the sake of humanity.…
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Hull operator invited to respond Ofcom has today said it has "reasonable grounds" for believing operator KCOM failed to maintain emergency services access in Hull.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1XA2V)
Chip and display business segments claimed to have covered the burning bottom Samsung Electronics has told investors to expect a modest increase in its operating profits between July and September this year, despite the costly recall of its new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1XA1T)
Pong is less, well pongy, since we dabbed on l'eau de Apple Cisco’s head of Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia has joked that selling enterprise networking is about as exciting as raw effluence, or at least it was until Apple sprinkled, er, magic dust on its tech plumbing.…
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by John Leyden on (#1X9ZD)
Troy Hunt talks down the state-sponsored hack threat Interview Despite the hype about state-sponsored hackers, most breaches are actually the result of either criminal activity or "kids messing around", according to breach expert Troy Hunt.…
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No delete until 'end of Sept'... Not the 2016 Sept, then BT customers are unable to delete BT Yahoo email services - despite an exodus of users seeking to leave the security-challenged webmail biz.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X9WQ)
Fired CEO gets his sackers sacked in boardroom rout Sacked WANdisco CEO Dave Richards is back in post just seven working days after being ousted; the chairman of the board has now resigned along with another director, and also Erik Miller, the recently-appointed CFO.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1X9SC)
Still, where's there mystery there's margin and PC vendors need that desperately There isn’t much mystery in PCs these days - and not much margin either - but that could all be about to change if HP Inc’s prophecy on the bewildering range of payment options for device services proves right.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#1X9PY)
DIY is hard Sysadmin Blog Computers physically last a lot longer than vendors would like. The idea of the three-year refresh cycle is considered sacred amongst a certain crowd, but when pressed most will admit that refreshes of that nature are exceptionally rare. While we can keep equipment running for a decade or beyond, there are hidden issues in doing so of which we should all be aware.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1X9NN)
Down down dooby-down Algorithms have been blamed for a flash crash that wiped nearly 10 per cent off the value of sterling on Friday morning.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#1X9NP)
Why Pinky? What are we doing tomorrow? Something for the Weekend, Sir? Yikes, all I have to do is go away for a couple of weeks and all hell breaks loose. But at least it’s the right kind of hell: that is, the veritable technological hell that I’ve been predicting in these columns for years.…
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But what about the delayed auction for more 4G capacity? Communications regulator Ofcom has opened a consultation on the first tranche of its 5G spectrum auction.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X9HA)
Panasas and WD/HGST go balls out for parallel file access and object storage integration Panasas and Western Digital are combining high-speed data access and low-cost, bulk data storage for life sciences researchers through a partnership and integration exercise centred on iRODS.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1X9E4)
Go boutique, or get out of the way Comment This year’s “Google phones†– now rebranded as Pixel – are just the latest step in Google seizing control of Android – and the biggest so far. If this process is like cooking the proverbial frog, then Google just turned up the heat so quickly, the OEMs cannot help but notice.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X9D1)
Relative of classic CPU gets the dirty job of Two-Phase Digital Power Factor Correction Mostly-forgotten silicon-maker Zilog is alive and has just released a new product that shares a little DNA with the Z80 CPU that powered many of the earliest mass-market microcomputers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X9BD)
Can we suggest the label 'idiot' for this uppity user? And share a classic Trek vid? On-Call Thank the Valar it's Friday, because that means it is time to share another of your peers' tales of stupid things happening at work in our weekly On-Call feature.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X98Q)
Containers? VMs? Bare metal? Huge scale? Small scale? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And yes OpenStack Newton debuts, claims to run anything at almost any scale Containers? VMs? Bare metal? Huge scale? Small scale? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes The fourteenth release of OpenStack, “Newtonâ€, is upon us.…
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by Team Register on (#1X97H)
Raiders bagged and tagged London Police have continued to bag and tag criminals who installed malware in ATMs across the city, with the extradition of a Romanian man to the UK last week.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X93S)
That's Fauquier County, Viriginia, chosen as its first US bit barn and HQ French cloud concern OVH has planted its flag in the United States, choosing Fauquier County, Virginia, as its headquarters and the site of its first data centre in the nation.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1X8ZF)
Cocky devs don't try to hide malware, export credit card numbers as cleartext A smash and grab malware gang has updated its FastPoS point of sales hack app to plunder credit cards more efficiently ahead of the festive season.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X8W5)
Smartphone app will send reminders to E-Ink labels on your favourite medicines E-Ink, best known as a maker of e-reader screens, has teamed up with healthcare tech services outfit HTC Healthcare and pharmaceutical packaging specialist Palladio Group to design dynamic labels for medicines.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X8RT)
Open code with Russian services preferred, unless good excuses can be found Russia's State Duma is currently considering a bill that would force government agencies to acquire only open source software, for reasons of national security, economic development and cost.…
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by Team Register on (#1X8MM)
Scam ads abound Google is warning users to stay away from infamous unauthorised content distribution site The Pirate Bay, as it says the torrent attic is bad for PC health.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1X8J6)
We dig into the ongoing legal row over IANA Analysis Last week, there was a lot of excitement surrounding the transition of the internet's critical functions from the US government to non-profit ICANN.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1X8DB)
Launch site shuts down as mega-storm looks set to hit it head on Hurricane Matthew, the category four storm that has already claimed more than 100 lives in the Caribbean, is bearing down on the coast of Florida – and NASA's Kennedy Space Center looks likely to take an absolute hammering.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1X88F)
Delivery drivers file their own suit over job classification Amazon is the latest company to be sued by workers who say they are unfairly being excluded from employee benefits.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X863)
European Space agency's re-usable rocket plan takes a small step forward Video The European Space Agency (ESA) used the launch of new satellites for India and Australia to test technologies it plans to use in the successor to the Ariane 5 rocket.…
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by Iain Thomson and John Leyden on (#1X864)
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see Spotify has apologized to its subscribers after it served up malicious adverts that attempted to infect listeners' computers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X81Q)
Listen to PM Malcolm Turnbull, Australia - if you want your electricity to be like his NBN In spite of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) putting South Australia's blackout down to fallen 275 kV transmission towers, the prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has doubled down on the stupid notion that renewables made the blackout.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1X81R)
Connected accounts can't get messages – no big deal, right? A tweak to Microsoft's Outlook.com cloud service has blocked a good number of people from accessing their messages.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1X80D)
'Adoption is the new measure of success' – who knew? Dreamforce In contrast to most technology conference presentations, the Salesforce developer keynote at Dreamforce '16 on Thursday was delivered in the round – the audience encircled the stage rather than being banished beyond the proscenium arch.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1X7XQ)
Vintage Apple II? Yeah, we can do a couple of bucks US trade watchdog the FTC has terminated second-hand electronics reseller Laptop & Desktop Repair in Sparks, Nevada – after the biz shafted people out of millions of dollars.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1X7SH)
$49 headphones. $79 sensor. $199 controller ... Bankrolling Trump trolls costs a lot, yo Excited gamers are going to have to dig even deeper if they want to use the new Oculus Rift virtual reality system.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1X7R1)
Chocolate Factory hit with class-action suit over hiring and firing of older Googlers Google has been hit with a class-action lawsuit accusing the ad giant of discriminating against older employees.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1X73N)
Step 1: Set up a PO box in Dubai, Step 2: Send empty boxes, Step 3: Reclaim VAT A businessman from Essex, UK, has been jailed for six years for claiming back sales tax on computer memory sold overseas in a deception also known at carousel fraud.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X73P)
Warning from AWS and Unisys folk IPExpo “Picking a secure cloud partner is not as trivial as it may seem. Don't assume that because the cloud is secure, your business within the cloud is secure,†Unisys’ chief trust officer Tom Patterson said today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X71J)
Plus: Raft of product updates including HyperFlex support Commvault’s data protection and management software has been enhanced and is going to support HyperFlex, Cisco’s hyper-converged infrastructure appliance built with OEM’d Springpath software.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X6WD)
Says man peddling DC cooling tech - but he has a point IPExpo The Internet of Things will put more demand upon mid-range and co-lo data centres, according to the marketing manager of data centre kit firm Minkels.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X6T6)
Tom Patterson talks the white and fluffy stuff IPExpo Everyone’s starting to believe in public cloud but security remains an uphill battle, Unisys’ chief trust officer Tom Patterson told The Register this morning.…
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by John Leyden on (#1X6MC)
Promises end-to-end crypto Internet service provide GMX claims to have overcome the notorious usability problems of PGP with the launch of a new email service that offers end-to-end encryption.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X6J3)
Infindat, unsurprisingly, says its shoe fits and you should wear it Case study If the shoe fits then wear it; it’s the motto you'd expect a footwear retailer to do business by. Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW), a 400-outlet US shoe chain, applied that advice when its main storage array, a VMAX we are told, failed to deliver data fast enough and began costing too much. It bought an InfiniBox instead and the array problems went away.…
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