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Converged server suppliers? Crack on, says senior soul Sakac +Comment You might have thought it did not compute, Dell having its own in-house server operation for its acquired EMC kit to use while EMC’s VCE operation uses Cisco server-powered Vblocks in its converged systems. But no, having a dual server supply is fine.…

State threat actors are a reality for today's scribes Journalists investigating the downing of the MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine in 2014 have been hacked by Russia, according to security intelligence outfit ThreatConnect.…

Oi, digi-utopians. Start putting your house in order, says CW event speaker Two things are fixed on everyone's minds when it comes to the Internet of Things: security and law. How does industry overcome the threats posed by these two hurdles?…

All those unchangeable PINs, up for easy swiping Cybercriminals are hawking their claimed ability to exploit newly introduced biometric-based ATM authentication technologies.…

Cultural differences, eh? AI chatbots can act like social experiments, offering a glimpse into human culture – for the good or the bad.…

The inside story of Google's plan to pwn the TV biz Special report We’re living in a “Golden Age of TV”, and the United States makes the most envied popular TV drama in the world. Breaking Bad, The Sopranos and The Wire raised the bar for everyone in TV drama.…

Quite likely keeping both the cops and public in check The introduction of body-worn cameras (BWCs) has lead to a 93 per cent drop in complaints made against the police, according to new research.…

Google 'n' pals hope to herald machine-human 'golden age' RotM Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft have joined forces to create an AI partnership intended to pacify public fears about the human-replacing technology.…

Reselling slumps, TfL contract woes and possible Co-op 'litigation' looms Capita’s share price went into freefall this morning after its first ever profit warning, with troubles at the tech reselling and recruitment services units blamed, as well as costly delays to its Transport for London contract.…

We're making your NAS secure by hiding it from you Microsoft has overnight pushed out the latest of its ongoing preview builds for Windows 10, with this one carrying a warning that it could break your network file share connections.…

Mobile email receives the Office 364.5 treatment Microsoft Exchange mobile users on Android and iOS users have been unable to access emails on their phones due to a planned shift away from its Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol.…

Best locker-room strategy: Avoid emulating AWS directly Analysis SAP. Crack! IBM. Snap! Salesforce. Bang! Workday, I can see you - come over here...…

Tool tries to simplify shifting data to and from mobes At last, you can stop thinking about networking.…

Funding, contacts, brainboxes... a step-by-step guide Part One You read The Register about people getting ahead with the most ridiculous startup ideas and ask: "Why that can't be you?" How is the game played? Well, let's design a storage startup from scratch and find out.…

To: Whomever, From: Whomever, Attached: Whatever File delivery site Sendspace has said it isn't worried about a huge email spoofing issue with its free service – because legitimate businesses don't use it.…

Tiny physical size SSDs being hugged by hyper-scalers Blog So the latest Samsung M.2 format drives have now hit the market. In something similar to a DIMM format, you get up to 2TB of capacity and read/write speeds of 3.5Gbit/s and 2.1Gbit/s respectively. I’ve mentioned these devices in a few recent presentations as I think the potential for such small devices could be enormous. But why have we seen no enterprise storage arrays based on M.2?…

FOSS's hidden marathon to big-ticket respectability “Yeah, but is open source a safe choice?” Surprisingly, I’ve been asked that frequently of late. Larger organisations in particular are giving me the old squinty eye. The folks in these conference rooms and tentacular email threads are often looking to replace decades old stacks of IT and get their “digital transformation” on, so perhaps they can be forgiven asking such a dated question.…

The K8 1.4 release feels your pain Analysis Container orchestration software Kubernetes reached version 1.4 this week, an act of "user empathy" as described by Google developer advocate Kelsey Hightower, because ease of use has been something of an afterthought.…

'Consumers are ready to roll the dice with their privacy every time they buy a gadget' If you think ordinary people are going to look out for and apply firmware fixes to patch vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things, you're crazy.…

Oi, where's my retro games console? Retro Computers, the biz behind the Sinclair-compatible ZX Spectrum Vega+ handheld console, is rebutting claims by critics that the gizmo will not be ready in time for its target launch date.…

Why wait for North Korea to nuke Seoul? Sammy's gear will take care of the job at this rate Samsung's bad month gets worse as the South Korean electronics giant warns that some of its washing machines may halt and catch fire.…

VXer wordsmiths demo novel stealth tricks Two malware instances have converted numbers to words in a novel attempt to cloak the IP addresses of command and control servers.…

Pika-achoo! An American hospital is behind one of 72 complaints lodged with a US watchdog over Pokémon Go – the game in which people with nothing better to do with their lives try to track down virtual animals using smartphones.…

Tired of standing in queues? Auto-maker says it's solved serious societal problem POLL Nissan has revealed a thing called the “ProPILOT Chair” that it says exemplifies “the benefits of its intelligent mobility technology” because it “ automatically queues on behalf of its occupant, sparing them the hassle of standing in line.”…

White hat efforts show up Govt's proposed laws to criminalise research Australian researchers have laid waste to the Federal Government's plan to criminalise the decryption of anonymised state data sets, just a day after it was announced, by 'easily' cracking government-held medical data.…

Thank you, IEEE, for approving the 802.11bz standard and faster ethernet on old wires The IEEE has approved the specification covering 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps Ethernet, 802.11bz.…

Order some pizza and put in for overtime, netadmins, this could be a long night Cisco's issued 18 patch notices.…

Malcolm Turnbull, you will never be a network engineer Someone check in on former senator Stephen Conroy, would they, and make sure he hasn't laughed himself to death?…

Passenger reported it lost but when crew tried to find it, the business class seat struck! Pic Those in-flight warnings not to try finding your phone when it disappears into a plane seat?…

More than 20 vulns in SOHOpeless LTE gateway If you've got a D-Link DWR-932 B LTE router, you might want to fire it into the sun – or hope that a firmware upgrade lands soon.…

They're back and the 15-hour SNAFU is mostly over, but this is no way to run a cloud Google's Cloud has experienced a fifteen-hour hiccup, after some subscriptions to its “Cloud Pub/Sub … were deleted unexpectedly approximately from Tuesday.”…

But Optus still gets its $800m payday, even though its network was too expensive to upgrade The Register has learned that the fibre-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp) technology to be used in Australia's national broadband network (NBN) will use VDSL and be capable of 100/40Mbps speeds.…

From super cheap $30 to hefty $130 Roku has updated and expanded its line of streaming media boxes to cover both ends of the market.…

US watchdog still feeling sore after being stripped of powers to punish telcos US trade watchdog the FTC says it will appeal the August decision stripping its ability to fine AT&T.…

Weather, 1: electricity infrastructure hackers, 0. And let's not even start on the 'wind farms broke the world' theory An “unprecedented” storm in South Australia blacked out the entire state yesterday, and the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is warning another low pressure system will cross the state today.…

Attorney-General Brandis says it's important for privacy - but what about researchers who probe privacy, George? Yet again, the Australian government has announced a proposal that could outlaw academic research.…

Firmware fix coming soon to clean up Inc's ink stink HP Inc is trying to spin its way out of the mess it created when it decided it would be a fantastic idea to brick unofficial and refilled printer cartridges.…

Step two: Keep doing that While venture capitalists have been tightening their belts over the past year, there’s still a lot of love and funding for security startups – especially if you’re working in the right areas.…

Sustainable biz, welcome – the rest of you, not so much Google has opened a 14,000 square foot developer space in the heart of San Francisco to encourage the next generation of startups to use its products.…

Motor City bad man on $142,000-a-year salary swung contracts amid cutbacks The head of IT for the city of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted taking bribes from a pair of tech contractors.…

VCE and VSAN very very virtuous for newly joined duo Dell EMC rules the converged systems roost in IDC’s latest storage tracker converged systems revenues in the second 2016 quarter.…

It is all in the numbers Apple may have dampened down expectations when it released the last set of quarterly financial figures, and predicted revenues down again year-on-year for the current quarter, but at least one analyst disagrees.…

ICO delivers £130k fine to Mancunian credit card broker The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a financial firm £130,000 after it sent out over seven million spam texts flogging credit cards.…

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Chinese market is growing fast Gartner gave the 4-socket server market lead to a surprising vendor in its recent worldwide server market report.…

Cambridge Wireless event chews the fat over key questions “Defence is only as strong as the weakest link,” said Tim Phipps of Solarflare at today’s Cambridge Wireless event on security within the Internet of Things.…

2006 called, it wants its technology back US military lunacy department DARPA has begun offering a podcast.…

Server shake-up through 4TB, 2u latency NVDIMM tech Early-stage startup Xitore says it is developing bigger and faster non-volatile flash DIMMs to give servers a performance boost so they could run more VMs and containers and run them faster by sidestepping high latency storage IOS.…

Application Guard aims to defeat malware served up from web sites Microsoft is developing a technology for Windows 10 designed to combat the threat of malware served up from web pages penetrating corporate defences and slurping sensitive data.…

I got BILLS I gotta pay... Customers at Natwest have been struggling to make online payments this afternoon.…