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Threat to NAND supply if talks fail and court favours Tosh Updated Western Digital revenues and profits rose in its first fiscal 2016 quarter but worries surfaced about its access to 96-layer 3D NAND if the Toshiba talks fail and it loses at court.…

Becomes one massive managed service provider Backup supplier Datto, with its combined on-premises/public cloud offering, has been scooped up by private equity.…

The 900P might run Star Citizen smoother – emphasis on 'might' As spotted a couple of days ago, Intel has announced a smaller Optane drive – the 900P.…

What the fudge, Evaluator Group and IOmark? Analysis Diane Greene's server-powered storage startup Datrium says it has achieved the highest-ever IOmark benchmark at 8,000 VMs on a DVX cluster, five times higher than the previous record by IBM's FlashSystem V9000 (1,600) and ten times more than an Intel server/VMware/vSAN Optane system (800) (PDF).…

A tactic ailing companies might want to use? How do you increase the value of your business by 300 per cent overnight? Simple, add a buzzword to your name.…

I can’t go into the details of our intelligence, but... The UK government has joined Microsoft in blaming North Korea for the WannaCry ransomware attack.…

Creepy Sophia strikes again Saudi Arabia has granted citizenship to a robot in a move that appears to elevate its rights above those of women within the Middle Eastern country.…

Europe's buying tech kit 'n' services Computacenter – one of Europe’s largest resellers – today reported Q3 financials that are sure to warm the cockles of investors' hearts: sales jumped by a fifth as businesses splashed the cash on tech kit and services.…

But numbers aren't everything, are they, Dyn? The Reaper IoT botnet is nowhere near as threatening as previously suggested, according to new research.…

And push for a gender pay gap report while you’re at it Oracle investors have reportedly been told to vote against the company’s executive pay plan, which would give bosses pay packets worth more than $100m.…

'People are doing it for high-end properties – why not Grimsby?' A man in Grimsby wants to flog his house for 18 Bitcoin (£81,305) because he calcuates the currency is a better investment than cold hard British pounds in the bank.…

Gear has less than half range needed to defend Heathrow DJI, the Chinese drone manufacturer, has been trying to win the trust of regulators with its new Aeroscope product. Yet the product itself falls short of its stated aim.…

Nissan brings new meaning to 'open door policy' Something for the Weekend, Sir? Cheep-cheep-cheep. I'll try again. Cheep-cheep-cheep. Nope, that didn't work, how about this? Cheep-cheep-cheep. Or… this? Cheep-cheep-cheep. Come on, lock up, you bastard car. Cheep-cheep-cheep.…

Compulsory layoffs coming if VR targets not met DXC Technologies is seeking volunteers in customer support teams to strap themselves to the redundancy cannon as the process of shipping jobs out of higher wage locations and into cheaper ones continues.…

Service was warned of the risks a year before ransomware hit The NHS could have fended off WannaCry "if only it had taken simple steps to protect its computers", but failed to heed warnings about falling victim to a cyber attack a full year before that incident happened.…

Elliot Management finds US$1.6bn for network intelligence outfit Networking vendor Gigamon has agreed to sell itself to private equity concern Elliot Management, for around US$1.6bn.…

Office's only climate controller was in the server room, so everyone wanted in On-Call Far out, it's Friday! Which means it's time for another edition of On-Call, El Reg's week-ending reader-contributed tales of support gigs that went south.…

This is why Windows Server 1709 left it out. While you wait, have proper SCOM crypto Microsoft's offered an explanation, of sorts, for the unexpected disappearance of Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server version 1709.…

Boffins think 'dendrites' are the inevitable result of re-charges, which is awkward Video For the first time a group of scientists has captured close-up images of mysterious finger-like growths known as dendrites that can lead to short circuits and fires in the lithium-ion batteries that power hordes of smartphones, laptops and other gadgetries.…

Astro-boffins have waited decades to see something with such an odd orbit Astronomers have spotted an object that they believe came from another star system.…

Flash arrays have singed SANs, so Cisco's turned on the data tap to help you burn bottlenecks Cisco's decided to save the world from all-flash arrays by giving it a new 32G Fabric Switch, an upgraded Nexus 93180 and data galore.…

Hey, there's always money in the cellular modems, huh? Intel reported better than expected results for the third quarter of the year, beating analysts' predictions.…

Carrier already this overseas, seeks Oz punters' opinions on 'NBN extras' plan, name Vodafone Australia is market testing a product called “nbn extras” that will see it offer voice-over-WiFi or a virtual landline that redirects to mobile phones.…

More cloud, more integration and more security is new CEO Henshall's plan Citrix's new CEO has revealed his plan for the company and it looks like more of the same.…

Google star of the show, again Google parent Alphabet announced on Thursday a better-than-expected quarter, driving up its share price.…

Azure up, Office going great, LinkedIn... not terrible Microsoft is crediting its Azure and Office cloud operations with helping to drive a better-than-expected start to its fiscal year.…

AWS revenue up 42 per cent, compared to 34 per cent overall Defying subdued predictions, Amazon on Thursday reported healthy third-quarter earnings of $0.52 per diluted share, based on net income of $256m, on par with $0.52 per diluted share and $252m a year ago.…

Huawei goes NVME for intensive IO future SPONSORED Few technologies have forced their way into enterprise IT strategies with such efficiency as All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) in the process pushing aside two decades of established SAS and SATA hard disk drive technology.…

And Jack's off on the user numbers Twitter has kicked up a fresh new crop of controversies over both its advertising policies and its user numbers.…

Nothing to see here. Move along, comrade, move along A computer at the center of a lawsuit digging into Russian interference in the US presidential election has been wiped.…

Internet policy wonks scramble over GDPR Analysis The internet policy world is scrambling as one of the most critical and fiercely contested aspects of the global domain name system – its registration system – has started to fall apart.…

Open-source Sections added to Facebook's Litho UI Android developers looking for a way to write more maintainable apps with highly optimized scrolling lists may want to take a look at Sections, a Java-based data structuring API from Facebook.…

Biz sued for allegedly screwing over women, people of color Uber is once again being hauled into court, this time on allegations it deliberately underpaid women engineers and staff who were not white or asian.…

I'm not a robot, muhaha, hahah Computer software that mimics how the human visual cortex works can solve text-based CAPTCHA challenges, the image recognition tasks often used by websites to differentiate human visitors from spam bots.…

Laggardly spec will help gear get faster and may vanish soon after Somewhat later than expected, the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group, or PCI-SIG, has finally gotten around to releasing the PCIe 4.0 specification, which describes the technical requirements for connecting devices through the PCI Express I/O bus in personal computers and servers.…

America more popular market for young UK firms – survey UK scaleups' interest in expanding into Europe nosedived after the Brexit vote, while US and China grew in popularity, according to Deloitte.…

Home Office proposals seek ways to justify £20m+ spend The Home Office wants cops to use body-worn cameras to carry out suspect interviews away from the police station, according to revised rules on the tech.…

Israeli lads tackle disaster recovery and live migration in the cloud Analysis Add WANdisco active file replication to Bridgeworks parallel TCP/IP and Zerto DR and get something like CloudEndure, an Israeli startup with two products – Disaster Recovery and Live Migration.…

Narrow vote goes against the 'it'll stifle innovation' crowd MEPs have today voted in favour of moving on with legislation that aims to give users more rights over websites that wish to track them.…

Spark, TensorFlow, Gluon, Theano – room for everyone Data-warehousing and business intelligence firm Teradata is set to turn on its TAP – Teradata Analytics Platform – later this year.…

AmosConnect v8 vulnerable to 'blind SQL injection' Security researchers have gone public about "critical" security flaws in a maritime communication platform.…

Chief reckons biz did well despite 'negative impact' of EU regs Operating profit at Spanish telco Telefonica - owner of UK cell network O2 - dropped 1.9 per cent in its third quarter to €4.1bn (£3.6bn), mainly due to the loss of roaming revenue and changes to exchange rates.…

Security researchers dismantle LG's IoT appliance range LG SmartThinQ smart home devices were totally hackable prior to a recent security update, according to new research.…

200mph runs up and down Newquay Airport runway The 1,000mph (1,609 kmph) Bloodhound supersonic car is undergoing its first test runs at Newquay Airport in Cornwall later today.…

Legal action taken against 3 after South African scandal SAP has claimed that "significant changes" have been made to global sales processes, after reports of corruption rocked its South Africa biz.…

Hackers.mu members prepping for IETF 100 hackathon When IETF 100's hackathon kicks off in Singapore, one of the groups hoping to make waves will come from Mauritius.…

Who needs to protect carriers or send Royal Marines shore anyway? UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has denied that vital British warships may be quietly sold to South American nations as part of the ongoing defence review, according to reports.…

But Cisco still wants to be friends, and the delayed sales are trickling in Analysis Commvault revenues grew in the last quarter – not enough to please Wall Street, but a reference architecture reselling deal with Cisco might mollify the wolves.…

More flash capacity, hardware compression triples capacity IBM has tripled the capacity of its FlashSystem arrays and added hardware compression to squeeeze in more data.…

Will knock 37% off monthly rental from April Fools' Day. No really Former state monopoly BT has agreed to Ofcom's requests to hack more than a third off the price of monthly line rental for its one million landline-only punters across the UK.…