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by Chris Mellor on (#190X3)
A truer picture emerges thanks to Gartner numbers After the news that EMC had topped the all-flash array revenue charts, we learn, courtesy of new Gartner numbers, that HPE also left NetApp for dust.…
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Devices are Apple's thing. Distributed systems are Google's Apple at 40 In four decades, Apple has done more than most companies to seamlessly blend software and hardware, creating beautifully functional products. However, software (and hardware) no longer live exclusively on our devices, and the one thing that continues to frustrate Apple is the cloud.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#190NM)
Corporate types need to rethink Wireless networking is regarded by many as the way to go for corporate networking. No need for expensive structured cabling, no need to re-patch stuff when someone moves desk, and sufficiently secure to make it suitable for corporate use.…
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Would Sir prefer the brogues or the Oxfords for giving me a kick in the... The Jenkins project has issued an advisory to users that a couple of recent versions had been sending usage stats to the mothership, whether admins had hit the opt-out button for the continuous delivery platform or not.…
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Worldwide roll-out of 4G didn't hurt, either Chinese telco Huawei posted bumper sales and profits for its full-year 2015, with revenue up 37 per cent to 395bn Chinese yuan (£42bn) and a net profit increase of 33 per cent to in annual revenue worldwide.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#190BA)
Get your NoSQL ting on, rascals Microsoft has extended access to its NoSQL-based DocumentDB to MongoDB in preview.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1907Z)
Hello, it looks like you're trying to develop a Strategic Vision. Do you need some help with that? Analysis At last, Microsoft’s visionary CEO has found a “vision thing†that doesn’t need a Hegelian philosopher to decode. And it looks like a very old thing.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1904T)
CRM-as-service-acquisition strategy plays out IBM is set to buy its second CRM-as-a-service business this month, announcing the imminent acquisition of Bluewolf, a Salesforce partner, for a reported £200m.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1901P)
Ottawa toy store seeks return of popular plastic mascot The good burghers of Ottawa have been asked to keep an eye out for a four-and-a-half foot tall Playmobil fireman which was abducted from outside a toy store on Wednesday afternoon.…
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No foolin', we're running low on tickets There’s barely a month to go until Continuous Lifecycle London, and if you’re thinking of joining us, act now, as tickets are running out fast.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1900D)
Let's have a look at those buoyancy aids +Comment Overland Storage's – oops, sorry – Sphere 3D's ability to walk on water, otherwise known as floating on red ink, continues unabated with its fourth quarter and full calendar year 2015 results.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#18ZYP)
April Fool! Gmail joke feature pulled after causing mass FUD In an attempt to meet its perceived reputation of rolling out interesting and creative April Fool's day pranks, Google has pulled a feature added to Gmail this year after it quickly backfired.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#18ZWC)
Fifth straight quarterly revenue decline reverses 11 profitable quarters' trend Micron revenues plummeted for the fifth quarter in a row and it made a loss after eleven successive profitable quarters. What's up with the boys from Boise, the USA's memory and NAND powerhouse?…
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by Lester Haines on (#18ZQJ)
New retro-styled nugget coming soon to a pocket near you The Royal Mint has begun pumping out the fetching 12-sided pound coins which will hit the UK's streets in March next year.…
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by Rik Myslewski on (#18ZNZ)
IoT, VR, AI... cars? Let the other guy take the hit first Apple at 40 Forty years ago today, Yasser Arafat was on the front page of The New York Times, the cover of Time magazine was screaming about "The Porno Plague," Johnnie Taylor sang "Girl you ought to be on T.V. on soul train" as his "Disco Lady" topped the US pop charts, and the Apple Computer Company was born.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#18ZKX)
Sit in front of this and rotate Something for the Weekend, Sir? The person sitting next to me has confessed that sometimes he likes to do it sideways. Apparently this way he can make use of the full length without straining his neck.…
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by Dana Blankenhorn on (#18ZHF)
The future is Watch, the future is data, the future is taking on Uncle Sam Apple at 40 Apple is 40 years old. The leader was Steve Jobs, but he's gone and many still don't understand his core idea. The idea was Apple's control over "the user experience". That control is at risk today, and the company's future hangs in the balance as a result under the new leader.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#18ZFE)
The PowerCD's remote did not need a domed, bulbous tip Apple at 40 Forget what you "know" - that Apple concentrated on just Macintosh computers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#18ZC9)
There's a reason the lowest quote for a job isn't always the best quote for a job ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday feature in which fellow Reg readers share memories of jobs that went wrong.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#18ZB7)
It's fast! It's shiny! It's smart! And it's not going on sale until late 2017 Elon Musk has revealed the Tesla Model 3, the company's attempt at making a more affordable family hatchback.…
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by Team Register on (#18ZCB)
The power of 'routed thought' will packetise and harmonise your personal neural network The Register is proud to announce a new venture: we're getting into the self-help business with The Mindful Sysadmin Colouring Book.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#18Z2K)
Encryption absent in pro-grade drones, so sniff the WiFi and replicate the signals Black Hat Asia IBM security guy Nils Rodday says thieves can hijack expensive professional drones used widely across the law enforcement, emergency, and private sectors thanks to absent encryption in on-board chips.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#18YXH)
HTML5 FTW in iDRAC 2.30.30.30 It's a small change but it speaks volumes about what sysadmins want: Dell has added HTML 5 support to its integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) server management tool.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#18YTZ)
Subsidised bulbs sold for US$1.28, cuts peak load by 2,346 MW Shri Piyush Goyal, India's minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy yesterday celebrated the fact that in just 20 months the price of LED lightbulbs has fallen from 310 rupees (US$4.68) to 54.9 rupees ($0.84), an 83 per cent plunge that is partly India's fault.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#18YP1)
Don't be a .LZA-boy – patch and consider where you decompress Cisco's Talos team has found a vulnerability in the Lhasa LZH/LHA decompression tool and library, and it's a nasty one because it means the decompression process gives attackers the chance to put whatever code they want on your machine.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#18YG9)
Lighthouse in space spotted in years of records Neutron stars have been found in our own galaxy for decades, but now scientists have spotted the first in our galactic neighbor Andromeda.…
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by John Leyden on (#18YFC)
Borrowed technologies, code obfuscation, and a lot more in their bag of tricks Cybercriminals on opposite sides of the world in Russia and Brazil have overcome time differences and language barriers to work together.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#18YED)
Poor to get break on broadband prices The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has passed a pair of important new rules designed to extend broadband service in the US and protect user data.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#18YC0)
Free pilot's license for immutable infrastructure nuts Red Hat has cut the $99 price of its Linux developer subscription to zero, for penguins building cloud microservices using containers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#18YAR)
Who exactly decides who sits on the Internet Governance Forum's main body? The United Nations body that reviews how the internet is governed is facing criticism from some of its biggest supporters over its "black box" decision making.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#18YAT)
US law enforcement must be after more cat videos It appears that Reddit has been the recipient of a National Security Letter, after the warrant canary it has published in its annual transparency reports has disappeared.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#18Y7E)
El Reg talks to Simon Hackett about the 'not a PowerWall-killer' home battery South Australian energy storage outfit Redflow has started taking pre-orders for its home battery, dubbed the ZCell, but please don't pitch it against the Tesla PowerWall.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#18Y67)
OpenStack and Kubernetes all the way, says Chipzilla It has been a busy day for Intel; first new processors, then solid state drives, and now it has announced plans to set global standards for data center deployments.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#18Y06)
Challenger emerges for AI's board-game crown A group from China says it wants to build an AI to challenge the Google DeepMind AlphaGo system.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#18XQK)
CRT payout world tour is here, line up for your $25 The state of California has levied fines against five electronics giants for gouging consumers on the cost of TVs and monitors.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#18XQN)
Clicking 'OK' to ordinary and expected phishing prompt enough for complete iPhone compromise Black Hat Asia Enterprises the world over are at risk from a seamless new attack that allows the latest Apple devices to be quietly compromised in what researchers say requires a total overhaul of Cupertino's enterprise provisioning architecture for mobile device management.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#18XK6)
Xamarin casts off commercial roots BUILD 2016 Microsoft will make Xamarin tools and code, which enable compilation of Mac, Android and iOS applications using C#, free and open source, said corporate VP Scott Guthrie at the company's Build conference under way in San Francisco.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#18X6F)
SSD chip fashionistas adopt the layering system Intel has introduced its first 3D NAND SSDs, updating three planar NVMe SSDs with four new models, and claiming to have the industry’s highest density 3D NAND.…
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by Chris Williams on (#18X4G)
New instructions, transactions, virtualization features and more Intel today officially pulls the wraps off its mildly delayed Xeon E5 v4 server processors.…
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Just need to find some more cash to make up that $67bn EMC acquisition Michael Dell has taken an $11m (£7.7m) pay cut ahead of the company's $67bn gobble of EMC, according to a filing to US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#18WKS)
Lots of hype boils down to a remarkably mundane thing Seagate has introduced an 8TB external drive with no need for its own power cord.…
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by Frank Jennings on (#18WG1)
Legal Armageddon? Maybe, maybe not – but we'd better get moving Analysis The Brexit debate continues and, with the Leave and Remain camps neck and neck, it looks likely that the undecided few will carry the result. It seems that we can expect more headline-grabbing soundbites until the vote on June 23. The polarised nature of this debate is throwing up some interesting oddities, so you might be wondering what to believe and how to prepare.…
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Made it to peak, then found frozen, drenched and disoriented A Brighton woman made it to the peak of Ben Nevis wearing shorts and trainers and wielding a selfie stick, but had to be helped off the Britain’s highest mountain by rescuers after it turned out it’s still winter at 4,411 feet.…
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Also releases postcode-checker for folk to confirm coverage crapness Communications regulator Ofcom has named EE the mobile provider with the fastest speeds in four major cities, according to research published today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#18W5X)
Gen9 ProLiants get battery-backed memory/flash DIMMs HPE's ProLiant Gen9 servers now support Persistent Memory, non-volatile memory, enabling customers to expand in-memory app usage and get faster analytics and database processing by avoiding disk and SSD IO.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#18W42)
Gobble down your bubble and peak, unicorns Cloudera's estimated valuation was slashed 38 per cent by major capital player Fidelity Investments, reports have said, as Wall Street grows very cool on unicorn public offerings.…
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by Anonymous survivor on (#18W2F)
Staying human in an automated lifecycle Everyone knows that IT is a byword for burnout. Admins, coders and hardware jocks frequently keep unsociable hours. Putting in 60-hour weeks is something of a norm. Such punishing workloads can and do push people over the edge. Everyone deals with stress in different ways.…
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by John Leyden on (#18W18)
Password Manager, Maximum Security and Premium Security are all at risk A bug in its software meant that Trend Micro accidentally left a remote debugging server running on customer machines.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#18VY7)
Microsoft can stop worrying about smartphone non-strategy Remember the rapacious smartphone growth that turned once-troubled Apple into the world’s most valuable company? That’s over.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#18VV7)
MoD doubles infosec spending as digital threats grow Software powering Britain's nuclear-tipped Trident II missiles is to be updated following fears of a cyber-attack, according to reports.…
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