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Kaminario is adding cloudy analytics to all flash array Unlike real clouds which hide things, Kaminario is adding a Clarity analytics cloud to its K2 all-flash arrays.…

Er, and you might wish to READ them too Migrating to an outsourced IT service including cloud is a great opportunity to outsource responsibility for IT and employees while simultaneously increasing efficiency and decreasing cost. At least, that’s the theory. The reality can be a lot more sobering.…

How best to resolve the spectrum gridlock? The European Union announced its 5G Action Plan last week, and president Jean-Claude Juncker set out some ambitious connectivity goals in his State of the Union address. These include promises to enable free Wi-Fi in public spaces in every town and village in the EU states, and to achieve “full deployment” of 5G by 2025 (including railways). As an interim goal, it repeated the goal of having commercial 5G in at least one town or city per EU country by 2020.…

We have a winner, ladies and gents Roundup Our latest programming competition was our most popular yet in terms of the number of entries – 137 in all once we'd de-duplicated them.…

Get a hold of yourself, Elon Musk Artificial intelligence is all the rage in technology and as it progresses at a dizzying pace, the industry is at danger of being overhyped, say researchers.…

Wanting it is one thing, justifying it is another We have been getting some good responses in our latest poll on all-flash storage.…

New system to ensure suppliers are up to scratch on IT security A high-profile project has been launched with the aim of strengthening UK enterprises' IT security.…

It's called 'junk mail' for a reason people: just take the pizza vouchers and ignore the rest Police in the Australian State of Victoria have warned citizens not to trust un-marked USB sticks that appear in their letterboxes.…

Close shave after WordPress mess was cut off at the roots Malware writers have penetrated the website of hair-dye-for-greying-blokes outfit Just For Men, foisting a password-stealing trojan at visitors, Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura says.…

And you thought arguing with a living Wiki-editor was bad Get some bots into a Wikipedia edit-war and they'll keep you entertained for years, it seems – and Portuguese bots are the most tenacious.…

Got one of these gizmos? Patch its firmware ASAP BT is urging folks to patch the firmware in its Wi-Fi Extender following the discovery of multiple security flaws.…

Initially optional, soon mandatory, according to draft visa form People visiting America may soon be forced to reveal their social network profiles to border officials, judging by a new draft visa form.…

Oh and Larry's cut-price claim ignores that most people buy cloud as reserved instances Oracle's gone in hard on cloud this week, promising a stellar, cheap cloud that has already erased Amazon Web Services' lead.…

Tune in at 10:40PM UTC next Friday for a 'controlled crash' The European Space Agency (ESA) has held an hour-long hangout to explain what's likely to happen when its Rosetta spacecraft touches down on Comet 67p.…

It looks a lot like 1996 North Korea's zone file has leaked online, providing another insight into the hermit kingdom's internet.…

Imagine a whitelist-checker running in the safety of the hypervisor kernel and monitoring VMs in real time VMware has shown off a working prototype of “Project Goldilocks”, its long-hinted-at plan to develop a new approach to security.…

Here comes your fully-licenced street-legal retrogasm German retro enthusiast Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers is about to start manufacturing new Commodore 64 cases from the classic home computer company's original injection moulds.…

Expect fireworks late in 2017 The first space station lofted into orbit by China is coming down next year, the country's space agency has confirmed.…

Your disaster recovery may be delayed by Microsoft's disaster recovery – and odd timekeeping Azure's Australia East region, located in Sydney, experienced nearly eight hours of degraded performance thanks to what Microsoft is calling “an ongoing Networking issue.”…

Shame it wasn't used more before Zuck paid $16k to the uni student who found it University student Arun S Kumar has scored US$16,000 (£12,312, A$21,200) for finding and reporting a Facebook vulnerability that led to account hijacking.…

You can even leave out the turning it on again - this bug's not worth its brand, really Citrix has pushed back a little against the dangers posed to its users by the Sweet32 “birthday attack” against old ciphers.…

Oi, Dell! Robbins! Get a room, will you please? Dell EMC CEO Michael Dell and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins have indulged in a very public display of affection for each other, at least so far as the two companies' collaboration in the VCE converged infrastructure company is concerned.…

Haha, of course he didn't – he trash-talked AWS databases for an hour OpenWorld Oracle’s founder and CTO Larry Ellison took to the stage for his second OpenWorld keynote today, and spent the bulk of his presentation pointing out flaws in his chief cloud rival Amazon.…

'Project AirGig' shows the classics never die, but radio hams might feel homicidal AT&T has charged up the paddles, yelled “clear!”, and fired the defibrillator into one of telecommunications' worst ideas: broadband over power lines (BPL).…

Revenues rise as cloud lineup brings big bucks Adobe is crediting the success of its cloud and digital media groups in reporting record quarterly revenues.…

Network tie-up will make Verizon the ultimate frenemy Cable giant Comcast is ready to float its entry into the wireless market with its own service.…

Don't sweat your mixed content, promises web whacker CloudFlare is promising to bring about the encrypted internet by adopting the latest web security protocols and offering a solution to the horror of mixed content.…

Redmond decides to go brute force route in serial piracy case Microsoft is hoping the third time will be the charm in its efforts to shut down a man once again being accused of pirating its products.…

No more programming tears, claims firm Trifacta, the self-service-as-a-service data-wrangling business, has released the fourth version of its data preparation product suite.…

Advanced practitioners display hybrid vigour Cloud computing is so mainstream these days that maybe it should just be called “computing”. That’s what an IDC survey of 6,100 organisations in 31 countries, released today, indicates, with 68 per cent of respondents using public, private or hybrid cloud in their IT mix. This is a 60 per cent jump from 42 per cent of respondents doing cloud in 2015.…

Irate fans air views on firm's forum Smartphone news and reviews site MoDaCo has admitted to a data breach.…

Cloud and microservices new blend Java Enterprise Edition 8 is delayed yet again, Oracle has conceded.…

Stamps out spammers with new barring technology Vodafone blocked 425,000 nuisance and scam calls in a single day, while testing new call-barring technology for its UK mobile network.…

Stop Zuck’s data gulp Facebook is facing legal action in India over its attempt to slurp up user data from WhatsApp users.…

Pesky no name ODMs beat down the big brands The latest server sales figures for Europe, Middle East and Africa show the continued march of no name server makers as enterprises and big data centres increasingly buy hardware directly from ODMs fron the Far East.…

Could be in line for a multi-million pound fine Communications regulator Ofcom has ruled that there are "reasonable grounds" to suspect Sky breached rules to allow consumers to easily switch broadband and landline providers, which could lead to a multi-million pound fine.…

Server union for open source floaters Canonical’s OpenStack spin has landed on IBM’s Power hardware as part of zSystems' Linux stack.…

And who will be reading those proposals? Here’s who... Reg Events There are just a few weeks until the call for papers for Building IoT London closes, and we really want to hear your real world stories of what the things on the internet are doing to your business.…

Nah, not that neuro-bollocks – natural language processing Google have snapped up API.AI, a Silicon Valley startup specialising in building tools for natural language understanding in mobiles, web applications and devices.…

Danish fanbois shun birth of latest Jesus mobe... to queue, or not The traditional hoopla around the latest iPhone upgrade seemed to go off as planned last week with queues of apparently sane people waiting outside Apple stores around the world.…

Pre-IPO HCI startup's promising biz growth foundation Analysis Nutanix has filed an amended S1 IPO form with the SEC and data within it shows a strongly growing business well-set for an IPO if the financial environment is supportive.…

Merry Christmas and a Happy... Oh Staff at Three are poised to receive a very early Christmas present - in the form of a Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment notice to everyone's favourite outsourcer Capita.…

One problem nearly fixed, only several hundred to go The American F-35 Joint Project Office says ejection seat and helmet modifications will stop emergency ejections from breaking petite pilots' necks.…

Gets plastered, ends up in chicken shed instead of chicken shop A Malmo man is facing paying thousands of kronor in damages after attending a friend’s 60th birthday party and ending up crawling naked and bleeding from an elderly woman’s hen house.…

It's free. Now find something it can actually be useful for The government-backed Digital Catapult wheeze has launched an “Internet of Things network” across London to titivate the lives of the eight million poor souls trapped within the M25.…

Civil servants still don't care 'cos its not their cash... except it is Review It’s impossible to read former bollocker-in-chief Margaret Hodge’s account of being chair of the government's spending watchdog without repeatedly banging your head against the wall.…

Swan righted EDS Navy, drove Webvan... Intel has hired veteran tech CFO and sometime troubleshooter Bob Swan to take over from long-time numbers supremo Stacy Smith.…

Can't put a price on porridge Three men have been jailed yesterday over a conspiracy to commit internet shopping fraud scam that involved taking payments for non-existent goods and services.…

Claim to have backdoored supplier to Woolworths' pub chain Exclusive Hackers are claiming to have hacked Australian point-of-sale technology (PoS) company H&L Australia, and have been claiming to potential buyers that they had lifted its customer database. They were already offering it for sale for AU$22,000 ($16,580, £12,723) more than two months ago.…

Robo-cars are go.... well, sort of The White House is announcing nationwide guidelines to regulate self-driving cars in order to encourage the industry and avoid different rules in different states.…