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But these are Gartner numbers, not ours, so there Comment In a November 2014 blog, Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen wrote ...…

All singing, all dancing audio system ticking all the right boxes Pics Ever had a great idea but not everyone seemed to think so? That was pretty much what happened to Yamaha when it first launched MusicCast back in 2003. A CD-ripping music server with wireless client speakers and Ethernet too, if needed. What a great idea.…

Singapore's ST Telemedia led the way ... handy for the Far East expansion The money pouring into Big Data storage and analytics startups has just been boosted by another $40m. Datameer – a Hadoop-based, spreadsheet-style analytics tool and service company – is the lucky recipient.…

One API to rule them all ... or at least let them all talk to each other The Redfish API has hit version 1.0, signalling a new era of co-operation among vendors regarding the increasingly hot topic of data centre management. Redfish is the result of efforts by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to bring all physical equipment within a data centre together with one API to manage them.…

Tiny PCs are sysadmin and thin client friendly, to a point Review "Little Stick. Big Surprise." That's what Intel says about its Compute Sticks, the new 'smaller than an iPhone' mini-PCs designed for portability and ease of use…

No, you're not allowed to covertly plug stuff just because they pay you The UK's Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has told video bloggers (vloggers) on YouTube et al to admit when they are getting paid to shill a product.…

See? Information really does want to be free The cause of those who feel that information wants to be free, and that academic research should always be, have a new tool: a guide to defeating tracking traps that could identify document leakers.…

Maybe a ‘well done’ after GCSE results would suffice? With thousands of GCSE pupils eagerly awaiting their results, UK electrical retailer Currys has, strangely, revealed the length to which parents are willing to go (essentially handing over lots of money) to equip children "with the technology they need for further study".…

That felt soooo good, say mission boffins, as rover's drill finally gets hard again The Curiosity Rover has found the wettest patch of ground it's yet observed on Mars.…

Shiny new Angler exploit kit and mothballed macroviruses top attack charts Net scum are employing both cool new attacks like the Angler exploit kit and oldies-but-goodies such as macroviruses in their undergoing something of a generational clash, with Cisco reporting both Word macros and the sophisticated Angler exploit kit are the most popular attack vectors this year.…

Think of it as archival-grade OneDrive with policies and you've got the idea Microsoft has flicked the switch on its Azure Backup service for Windows 10 clients.…

Claims weaponised mammal deployed to spy on Palestinian navy Palestinian news outlet Nadae Al Watan reports that a spy dolphin was captured in the Mediterranean Sea off Gaza.…

Lots of users appear to have used work addresses Comment It has been a depressing and enlightening day at El Reg's San Francisco office as we've been churning through the Ashley Madison databases, and a recurrent theme echoing around the room is: "How could people be so stupid?"…

Patched server holes could making for painful reading Information security man Clint Ruoho has detailed server-side vulnerabilities in the popular Pocket add-on bundled with Firefox that may have allowed user reading lists to be populated with malicious links.…

South Koreans really do not want to pay out those damages Samsung is taking its patent battle with Apple to the US Supreme Court.…

Take half a day out to cut your incident recovery time Promo HP will be deploying its security big guns over Australia next month, in the shape of its upcoming Security Innovation Tour featuring former US Air Force head of Cyber Security Earl Matthews.…

Bill tabled to remove restriction on high definition broadcasts by Australia broadcasters Australia's Communications minster Malcolm Turnbull yesterday introduced the Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Primary Television Broadcasting Service) Bill 2015, an amendment to 1992's Broadcasting Services Act that will remove the regulation requiring Australian television stations to broadcast in standard definition on their main channels.…

We're up against Norks, China ... but who else? LinuxCon 2015 Security guru Bruce Schneier says there's a kind of cold war now being waged in cyberspace, only the trouble is we don't always know who we're waging it against.…

Contractor blamed for weekend chaos The Federal Aviation Administration has blamed a software upgrade to its next-generation radar system for the hundreds of delayed and cancelled flights from Washington DC airports on Saturday.…

Docker-compatible Windows containers have arrived The third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 is here, and with it, Microsoft takes another step forward into the much-hyped world of cloud native computing.…

ALM seemingly unconcerned about families of cheaters Infidelity website Ashley Madison has pledged to continue operations after hackers leaked its customer database online.…

Stop trying to hide behind those puppets, we all know it's you The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued an order preventing satellite TV giant Dish from purchasing broadcast spectrum rights under the guise of a small business.…

Just wants to get through next 6 months LinuxCon 2015 Linux kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds isn't thinking about where his creation will be ten years from now – in fact, he claims he doesn't even think ahead one year.…

Frankenstein still some way off, but DARPA's keen A scientific team in Ohio has managed to raise the most complete human brain yet, and plan to use it for testing drugs and trying to understand autism.…

Time to retire Apache OpenOffice in favour of LibreOffice? A prominent LibreOffice user has called for the Apache Foundation to retire OpenOffice.…

Eagerly anticipated VMware-running cloud products break cover Ravello is launching two new products today: InfinityDC and Inception SX. Both technologies allow VMware environments to be run on top of Amazon's AWS or Google's Compute cloud. Though the technologies have been undergoing fairly public testing for some time, this marks the official launch of commercially supported products.…

Staple desktop and NAS drives get to 6TB level WD has upped its 3.5-inch Black and Red Pro drives to the 6TB capacity level, adding 5TB and 6TB variants to the existing product ranges, which previously topped out at 4TB.…

Resupply mission space truck safely off the ground Japan earlier today successfully launched its Kounotori 5 ("White Stork 5") ISS resupply vehicle from Tanegashima Space Center.…

Careless net adminds leave systems with cleartext trousers down Security watchers have warned about a new class of DDoS amplification attack threat which only exists because too many users are failing to follow basic safeguards.…

Rumours, damned rumours and wild-eyed speculation Comment This storage business is as frenetic as a party of hyperactive speed daters, with partnerships hinted, forming, parting, lifelong relationships coming, Tinder-style quickies over in a flash and conspiracies galore as the players sprint between the tables.…

Cabinet Office pens MoU with giant, keeps schtum on details The Cabinet office has signed a 'memorandum of understanding' with Oracle in a desperate bid to ease the financial burden of its eye-wateringly expensive contracts with the database titan.…

Now flies in exactly the same way as bricks don't An official upgrade to EE Harrier Mini mobes is bricking them. The upgrade, which was pushed out to customers last week, requires a back-to-base fix.…

Japanese private equity firm aims reanimated ex-Sony brand upmarket Sony Vaio is making a comeback overseas, with plans to relaunch the brand on Windows 10 devices in the US and Brazil later this year.…

No reports of bandits in the area, fortunately An operator of Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer, returned to her wartime workplace to fly a drone this week.…

If only it was all share and share alike for O2 and Vodafone The “Vodafonica” project Cornerstone, which aimed to combine the O2 and Vodafone network infrastructure, will fail to meet its self-set target of 98 per cent UK population coverage this year.…

Massive Gallic digital shrug, while Brits go OTT French consumers prefer to stick to good, old-fashioned live telly rather than those new-fangled digital services such as Netflix, a report has revealed.…

@DadSecurity creep responsible for DDoS... and swatting? Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts and another user were both targeted in swatting attacks at the apex of a series of hack attacks that may have led to the compromise of user logins at the high-profile, UK-based parenting site.…

Try looking in the backup, maybe Wikimedia UK, the national charity supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects, has told the MP and former Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps he can't see internal emails he has requested under the Freedom of Information Act ... because it's deleted them.…

It's the scramble for excuses after the Ashley Madison hack

New effort gives the nod to security-conscious projects LinuxCon 2015 The Linux Foundation says it plans to introduce a new, voluntary badge program designed to help IT admins identify open source projects that have made security a priority.…

Redmond hijacks control over what users can and can't do with their own PCs Microsoft is trying to create its own “walled garden”, much to the detriment of consumers, Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda has told El Reg.…

It's all about volume and the maps, man Worstall on Wednesday I get the point of driverless cars: once they actually work they're going to be great for everyone except the recreational driver, and it wouldn't be a surprise to find the technology being made mandatory for use on some of the public road network some decades down the line.…

Mo(bile) money, mo(bile) problems, says Florida team Branchless banking apps targeted at customers in the developing world are rife with vulnerabilities, according to security researchers.…

Arrow’s channel to build hyper-converged SMB gear Lenovo and StorMagic are offering three hyper-converged configurations from Arrow partners that are channel-integrated, pre-tested and ready to plug-and-play for less than $5K.…

Ebony and ivory can live together in perfect harmony Today sees the release of Parallels Desktop 11, the latest update to the PC virtualisation software which lets Mac users run Windows within OSX. It replaces Parallels Desktop 10, released in August 2014.…

Data centre survives explosion as corruption accusations fly The Tianhe-1 supercomputer in the Chinese city of Tianjin is back online.…

Is it containers? Is it virtualization? It's both LinuxCon 2015 Intel and CoreOS have teamed up to produce an application container runtime that supports hardware enhanced virtualization.…

Surprising it can read anything at all through all the smoke Smart Dust is entering the Innovation Trigger, Micro Data Centres are nearing the Peak of Inflated Expectations and virtual reality has escaped the Trough of Disillusionment en route to the Slope of Enlightenment.…