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1.5PB, supports 'thousands' of VMs, says firm Pure Storage’s Accelerate event in San Francisco earlier this month previewed a coming high-end FlashArray//m system with more than three times the usable capacity of the current range-topping m70.…

It's all about health now Smartwatch trailblazer Pebble is laying off a quarter of its staff to refocus on the fitness segment of the wearables market.…

Chemical release altered, says security firm Hackers breached a water utility’s control system and changed the levels of chemicals being used to treat tap water.…

Er... wait, are you going to publish that I said that? I better counter by also publishing it... A senior police commissioner has complained that it would be wrong to interpret his comments about preventing online fraud victims from claiming compensation as a proposal for online fraud victims being unable to claim compensation.…

EVO:RAIL? Pah, get thee behind me Last week I attended SFD9 and the last session of the week was with VMware about VSAN 6.2. This is not a review of the product or an analysis about single features; there are plenty of them already. Instead I’ll talk about what a product like VSAN 6.2 means for the entire SDS/HCI market.…

System Integrity Protection pwned Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability that creates a means for hackers to circumvent Apple’s newest protection feature, System Integrity Protection (SIP).…

Quiet in the back! The government has said it will not conduct another national broadband roll-out programme in order to meet its promise that every citizen in Blighty will have access to 10Mps by 2010.…

Capacity shipped rising faster than units shipped falling The LTO (linear tape-open) organization has released a tape shipment report showing capacity shipped grew almost 18 per cent from 2014 to 2015, while unit shipments have been declining since 2008.…

PC repair required multiple sets of rubber gloves ... before the smutty screen saver started On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our series in which readers share memories of nasty jobs they've been asked to do. On-Call usually appears on Friday, but Easter means nobody will be around to read it. So here we are on Thursday.…

MIMO with 128 antennas cranks wireless speeds up very nicely VIDEO In what's being touted as a “5G breakthrough”, University of Bristol researchers have demonstrated that MIMO (multi-in, multi-out) antenna arrangements can be scaled up to more than 100 transmitters.…

Better than a pain in the AaaS, we guess Arkivum, a UK-based data storage startup, is offering its AaaS: Archive-as-a-Service. It's competing successfully with public cloud and large-scale on-premises tape libraries by offering escrow-based guaranteed storage in its cloud.…

Claims better usability and a slew of developer goodies Gnome has emitted its first major upgrade in six months with the release of Gnome 3.20.…

Certificate pinning is a useful thing, says Netcraft. So why do hardly any of you use it? Venerable net-scan outfit Netcraft has issued what cliché would describe as “a stinging rebuke” to sysadmins the world over, for ignoring HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP).…

China-supplied 'towfish' only went to sea in February The ongoing search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH-370, the 777 that disappeared in March 2014, has suffered a very significant reversal with the loss of its main instrument for scanning the seabed.…

Here's a free lesson: don't run un-patched Internet Explorer if you want to stay virus-free Senior threat intelligence man Yonathan Klijnsma says the web site of the EC-Council, the organisation responsible for the Ethical Hacker certification, is serving the dangerous Angler exploit kit.…

IOS, IOS XE and Unified Communications Manager all vulnerable Cisco's urging SIP users to patch their software, after discovering a remotely-exploitable denial-of-service vector in a memory leak.…

And there you were thinking hyper-convergence was about convergence If you thought hyper-convergence is all about putting everything in one box, think again: some users are now asking for disaggregated hyper-convergence that sees the storage put back out on the network.…

Cyber scum slapped for victimising hundreds of women. A former US State Department official has been handed 57 months prison for hacking the email accounts of women and forcing them into sending him sexual photographs.…

Data centres to get speed boost on existing cable Mellanox reckons it can shrug off the threat posed by Intel's OmniPath technology, announcing silicon photonics-based devices running at 50 Gbps per QSFP lane for a total of 200 Gbps.…

Malicious web page could achieve remote PC takeover without authentication Oracle is urging Java users to upgrade, ASAP, to crimp a very nasty bug in the desktop and browser plug-in versions of the software.…

Even after all these years, it pays to beware of geeks bearing code The most beleaguered bank in the United States was hit with 513 financial trojans last year, says Symantec threat bod Candid Wueest.…

$1,000,000,000,000 fleet offers literal Blue Screen of Death The F-35 multirole fighter won't be close to ready before 2019, the US House Armed Services Committee was told on Wednesday.…

Big Blue found in breach of contract over controversial portal IBM could face a $120m bill after losing its case against the US state of Indiana over a botched government project.…

Swift has landed on Linux. Repeat: Swift has landed on Linux The latest iteration of Apple's open-source programming language Swift has taken its first major step towards Linux support.…

Redmond's cloud not that popular, says web giant's Brian Stevens GCP Next Google has been showing off the Stackdriver cloud monitoring tool it opened in beta at the start of the year, and it's bad news for Microsoft.…

Housing assistance and the tale of the $175,000 butler Analysis When you think of affordable housing programs, it's probably safe to say you're thinking about cooks, or cleaners, or even teachers being given a way to live near the neighborhoods where they work. In effect, it's bedrooms for poor people.…

Is Tom Wheeler on the verge of following a dangerous path? Analysis The FCC's continued push against the powerful telco lobby has swung a spotlight onto the American regulator's archaic work practices and increasingly partisan atmosphere.…

On-demand music nudges slightly ahead of digital sales for first time Last year, revenues from streaming music topped those of paid downloads for the first time ever.…

Dead tab or a vulnerable tab – your choice, Apple fans Apple's latest iOS update, version 9.3, is bricking iPad 2 devices.…

You won't prosper with a weightless economy Analysis A few years ago, Andy Grove took the Davos crowd to task. The received wisdom at the time – and it still is – was that America's future was as a "knowledge economy."…

Time to all learn how to code, wrangle AI, we're told GCP Next If you work in IT operations, Google thinks your role is going the way of the gas station attendant: replaced by do-it-yourself, self-serving tools.…

One step forward, two steps back Mobile security biz Zimperium reckons 600 to 850 million Android devices are still vulnerable to a Stagefright flaw that lets webpages and videos inject malware into phones and tablets.…

Patent licensing logic has no room for product operations Crossroads Systems has sold its StrongBox archiving products business to StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. of Canada for just $1.85m in cash.…

Cellebrite refuses to comment but breaking into phones is what it does An Israeli company has been identified as the "third party" helping the FBI break into a killer's locked iPhone – the phone Apple refused to work with.…

'I was wondering when you'd ask', company mouthpiece says Management head-to-wall banging at Acer has seemingly inspired a novel idea to fix the things that are wrong the business - more restructuring. Well done, C-suite execs! Bonuses all round!…

Navinder Singh Sarao will appeal, says lawyer Navinder Singh Sarao, the man accused of causing the stock market “flash crash” in 2010 has lost his court battle against extradition to the US.…

Issues can be confidential, moved, or just plain deleted GitLab claims to have smoothed deployment to Kubernetes and introduced “confidential issues” in the latest release of its code management platform, 8.6.…

Don't belive in plastic or paper? Try silicon and bytes Google’s smartphone payment system, Android Pay, is coming to the UK “in the next few months".…

Firm didn't tell customers for another 9 hours after realising An unfortunate sysadmin has deleted the production database of diagramming outfit Gliffy, ironically while attempting to fix a problem with backup systems.…

Europe's premier HPC conference, June 19-23 Promo Registration is open for ISC 16, Europe’s most important high performance computing conference.…

Larry Ellison never got beyond auditioning boulders Ground-breaking British Artist Emin Tracy has announced she has married a large stone in the South of France.…

Enterprise play Microsoft has introduced a macros-blocking feature within Office 2016 in a move designed to collar a long-running malware threat.…

Snoop-proofed trickster targets air-gapped systems Hackers have created a trojan that that makes exclusive use of USB devices in order to spread.…

Leaping the species boundary, again A recently published Microsoft patent application hints at future efforts to make Windows leap across the species boundary.…

How else will they develop 'predictive policing'? The police are to consolidate a number of their large databases into a single "platform" in order to "protect victims and spot potential links to other crimes."…

Is this an all hands on deck moment? Spotting threats in cyberspace is like star gazing. There are lots of them out there, but telling them apart and working out which ones are about to go supernova takes experience and skill.…

Linux spinner claims hybrid cloud growth Red Hat is in the enviable position of having become the first open-source firm to break the $2bn revenue barrier.…

Meanwhile GDS has £450m and no official plan to spend it The government's digital strategy will not be released until after the EU membership referendum, culture secretary Ed Vaizey has admitted.…