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Duo pair up to conquer Jade kingdom's hyper-converged appliance market China's Lenovo has picked Maxta software to build a hybrid flash/disk hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) for the Chinese market.…

Meanwhile Huawei, Deutsche Telekom launch cloudy rival Amazon is to launch its AWS Database Migration Service today, in a bid to slurp big enterprises into the cloud by making it easier to ditch their legacy systems, according to reports.…

What good is that? Analysis Three parent CK Hutchison is so keen to get its merger of O2 approved by Brussels, it’s willing to give up infrastructure and spectrum that a new entrant could use to create a fourth network.…

Containers, Microservices, DevOps and CD, we’ve got it covered We’ve got almost 40 conference sessions running at Continuous Lifecycle, but if you really want to get deep into the key issues you should really consider our Day 3 workshop program.…

Hybrid cloud is so basic. That's what my broker told me Comment Hybrid cloud is so yesterday – multi-cloud is where it’s at. Spreading your cloud apps between different providers is now becoming a trend.…

Mata au hi made As expected, HPE has announced a ProLiant DL380-based hyper-converged system; one that is for remote and branch offices (ROBO) and mid-sized businesses.…

Impressive, but short in the Blofeld department We're obliged to those readers who pointed us in the direction of a hi-def vid of yesterday's ExoMars mission launch, in which Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli "entry, descent and landing demonstrator module" (EDM) thundered aloft from Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Proton-M rocket.…

When low energy levels are a good thing Call it green computing or sustainable IT, ten years ago it was all the rage. The IT press was filled with articles about it. Today, it’s hard to find a headline that mentions it. What happened?…

Blocking the blockers. Insert obvious pun here Swedish publishers will mount an aggressive counter-offensive against ad blocking software later this year. “80 to 90 per cent” of publishers will simultaneously block the ad blockers for the month of August.…

Opposition? We are no such thing, how very dare you IPB The second reading, and thus the first vote, on the Investigatory Powers Bill will take place in the House of Commons this afternoon, where the Labour opposition is sending mixed signals as to what the electorate may expect.…

Biometrics overseer told Home Office about it in mid-2015 – and nothing was done Police have been ignoring laws which prevent them from using unlawfully retained biometrics data.…

Everyone's a critic? It'll be worse when everyone's a director Hollywood will be turning to the worlds of DevOps and Continuous Delivery to make movies in the future - at least they will if GitLab is right about where developer collaboration tools are heading.…

Some twit put the wrong thing on the web and - silly us! - we took it at face value Yesterday, we reported that Microsoft had stopped accepting Bitcoin in its digital tat bazaars.…

314GB drive designed to slurp less power, ships with OS bootloader Western Digital's WDLabs has spun up a hard disk just for the Raspberry Pi 3.…

It's 2016 and the macro virus is still a thing thanks to phools phalling for spear phishing Microsoft's PowerShell has once again become an attack vector for malware, this time a file-less attack dubbed "Powersniff" by Palo Alto Networks.…

Full robot games on the cards Pics and video A 15-year-old schoolboy from the UK has won a first prize of US$250,000 (£175,000) after besting 31 other pilots at the first World Drone Prix in Dubai.…

NASA radios due for in-flight test in May When the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission rode the fire and set out on a seven-month trip to Mars, it also carried a telecommunications upgrade for the Red Planet's satellite networks.…

Teamwork and sticky feet move mountains Video Six robot ants, weighing a total of 3.5oz (99.2g), have managed to pull a 3,900-lb (1,769-kg) car by mimicking the behavior of wild ants and using a few other tricks of nature.…

Signal isolation using modulation, not magnets, improves silicon-scale antennas Antennas can be tuned by changing their shape, and a group of University of Texas Austin researchers wants to use that simple phenomenon to help get rid of noise in silicon-scale antennas.…

HTTP needs to SCRAM - the Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism As part of the long process to make the Internet more secure, user credentials need better protection than the transaction layer security (TLS) standard.…

SEC filing warns of weak PC business, tax risk of new stock and reveals executive pay Dell and EMC have agreed on the documentation to be put to the latter's shareholders at a forthcoming meeting that will vote on the merger of the two companies. And the document reveals that Dell plans to sell off some non-core businesses after the merger.…

Want succesful-turnaround@yahoo.com? Just edit the POST in a mail Yahoo! has plugged a sender spoofing bug in its mail service turned up by independent researcher Lawrence Amer.…

Holy jiggling gyroscopes, Batman! That phone can take you to another dimension! Qualcomm has its eyes on virtual reality, and is getting ready to release a VR SDK for its Snapdragon 820 processor.…

Slow downloads? Blame retailers, not FTTP, says nbnnbn, the builder of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), says it now does not expect to make the 500,000 connections it's previously said would be made on the hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) network for which it paid Optus AU$800 million.…

Improved PS/2 mouse-handling, KVM Hyper-V smarts and Intel's Kaby Lake support all land Version 4.5 of the Linux kernel has been loosed upon a waiting world.…

'Pearcey' fires up at Australia's CSIRO Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has run up a 230-node cluster from Dell to support its data-intensive and computational modelling research activities.…

Sprint's sugar daddy could further push up prices US carrier Sprint could be getting in on the upcoming FCC wireless spectrum auction after all.…

Writing code is so 2013 – you wanna write some hardware instead Pic At the OCP Summit last week in San Jose, California, Intel quickly mentioned it will later this year ship Xeon processors with built-in FPGAs.…

Receivers promise privacy will be respected Australian online retailer Kogan has announced it's going to buy the online properties of the failed Dick Smith Electronics, chiefly because it reckons the brand retains enough recognition to make it worth the effort.…

Because nothing says investing like assigning arbitrary numbers Silicon Valley's top 100 venture capitalists have been ranked and the results posted online, sparking an ego explosion in Northern California.…

Carl Ferrer refused to turn up to hearing on sex trafficking The CEO of Craigslist-style classified ad website Backpage.com may be the first person in 20 years to be found in contempt of US Congress.…

Arbiter reaffirms antitrust finding in Yandex complaint An arbitration court in Russia has upheld an earlier decision that could see Google banned from bundling its stuff on Android gear.…

This is actually a pretty big deal, let us explain why Water cooler – El Reg, what's all this about a Google AI playing a board game against a human?…

Shifts 90% of your files from Amazon to in-house systems Dropbox has sucked the vast majority of its data off Amazon's cloud servers and into its own custom storage centers. This shunting of customers' files has been dubbed Project Magic Pocket.…

They'd just send it to the NSA if they really wanted access, says Clarke A former counter-terrorism chief has laid into the Feds over its ongoing Apple iPhone battle – saying FBI director Jim Comey is exaggerating the need for access and that if agents really wanted into the phone, they would just send it to the NSA.…

While Google's AlphaGo is living it large in South Korea, AIX is forced to climb hills Microsoft's boffins in its New York research lab are encouraging a Minecraft character to teach itself how to climb a hill.…

SMB first, NFS to follow as virtual SAN tops up with files Nutanix is unifying files and blocks with its Acropolis hyper-converged appliance: it's added the native Acropolis file system (AFS) to the virtual-machine-running Acropolis hypervisor software.…

We wanted more than the FlashArray. Let's hope this lives up to our hopes Comment Today Pure Storage is announcing a new product called Flashblade. It’s definitely a bold one.…

Cameras can 'can easily provide a gateway' to internal servers, study finds Closed circuit TV systems, designed to protect organisations' physical assets, commonly create holes for hackers to exploit and tunnel their way into enterprise systems.…

Voice control is Sonos' next great challenge Analysis Hi-Fi Wi-Fi streaming speaker supplier Sonos is in a hole and sees Amazon Alexa-style voice control as the way out.…

Plus FlashStack Mini converged infrastructure, with vSphere or Hyper-V Not content with launching a FlashBlade scale-out filer/object all-flash system, Pure Storage has developed a smaller, entry-level FlashArray//m and a separate converged FlashStack Mini system with Cisco and VMware or Microsoft hypervisors based on it.…

And after 12 months you can pay for that too Virgin Media is to put its legacy hosting biz Webspace out to pasture, after taking over the service via its acquisition of NTL back in 2006.…

Good for exports. Exporting your job A trade group representing companies that ship UK tech jobs overseas says we should vote to stay in the European Union.…

Gneural Network out - now let's teach it some tricks... The GNU free software project has launched version 0.0.1 of its Gneural Network package in response to the “outstanding and truly inspiring” results achieved of late in proprietary artificial intelligence.…

RS-25 motor propellant consumption clarified Last week, NASA successfully test fired the first RS-25 flight engine which will one day help the Space Launch System (SLS) slip the surly bonds of Earth.…

Abacus-stroker says only HPE and 'others' are gaining share IDC's latest quarterly storage tracker * shows HPE gaining share in enterprise storage, and everyone else except the "others" category losing it, as overall market revenues gently slumped 2.2 per cent year-on year.…

You’re a winner! Just ignore those pesky warnings, dude Masochistic Windows users have been given a helping hand from hackers, in the form of step-by-step instructions on how to get their PCs infected with malware.…

Oh, users. You only call IT when you can't get in In this article I'm going to talk about the second most important aspect of being an IT manager or engineer. “The second?” I hear you cry. Yes, the second, because the most important aspect is terribly dull and doesn't take 800 words to describe: safety. (And if you think I'm mad, ask yourself whether you'd break down the door of your secure data store to rescue the guy inside in the event of a fire).…

Hardware rack 'em and file/object software stack 'em FlashBlade is Pure Storage’s rack-scale flash system for multi-protocol access to unstructured data and the first all-flash object-based unstructured data storage system.…

Stopping monopolies, protecting labour equally important An Italian MP co-sponsoring Europe’s first legislation on “sharing economy” platforms tells us the bill ensures casual labour isn’t hit with swinging, punitive taxes.…