But Bezos' juggernaut still not happy, and we'll hear all about it soon The US government has filed a motion [PDF] to the Court of Federal Claims asking for 120 days to "reconsider certain aspects" of the Pentagon's decision to hand Microsoft the JE…
Lees meerA sudden uptick in Slack usage? Who would have thought it Adobe and Slack reported quarterly revenues last night, but the former's earnings suffered at the sticky hands of COVID-19 while the latter pondered the impact of the virus.…
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Lees meerWe can't even go to the pub and wait for this to all blow over BT Group has confirmed its CEO has been diagnosed with COVID-19 just days after meeting fellow telco top brass at a gathering organised by the UK government's Department of Culture, Medi…
Lees meerOracle grows cloud, beats Wall St expectations, slams SAP, Workday Oracle on Thursday reported $9.8bn in revenue for Q3 of its 2020 fiscal year, a two per cent year-over-year gain and enough to lift the database giant's stock in after-hours trading …
Lees meerXen, KVM muscling in, meanwhile Despite earlier assertions, VMware has no immediate plans to turn ESXi on Arm into a supported product – and may never do it – because it’s yet to figure out why.…
Lees meerTech companies are love the attention while keeping schtum on outages With more and more companies across the world telling employees to work from home in an effort to limit, or slow, the spread of COVID-19 – which was last night declared a pandemic…
Lees meerWhat could go wrong? Capita has won a contract to ensure existing Airwave emergency radios can work with the UK's Emergency Services Network (ESN), should the 4G pipe dream ever get switched on.…
Lees meerMicrosoft and others take steps to handle remote staffer crunch With the COVID-19 outbreak pushing many companies to keep workers at home, admins are finding themselves having to deal with a crunch of traffic on VPNs and network appliances suddenly …
Lees meerIt's clearly not a pressing issue – this is the fourth time now The United States Department of Commerce has granted yet another extension – the fourth – to telcos using Huawei kit to run their networks.…
Lees meerNo need to be an also-RAN HPE is entering the 5G game with a new 5G core network software stack that aims at wooing telcos away from the large network equipment providers, such as Huawei, Nokia, and Ericsson.…
Lees meerSpirited equine gambols from vendor to vendor UK finance giant Lloyds Banking Group is to slice off a portion of its £3bn digital transformation investment and feed it to Google as part of a five-year agreement.…
Lees meerNarrow House of Commons victory sees fresh wave of counter-Chinese comms pledges MPs have narrowly voted down a Parliamentary amendment that would have banned Huawei altogether from the UK's 5G networks.…
Lees meerWe have to Just Walk Out of that shop, right? Oh... with products You know how it is: you start by selling books online, then take over the world of ecommerce, and almost by accident end up dominating the multibillion-dollar cloud computing market. …
Lees meerThe K8s on-ramp you didn't realise you need, or so Virtzilla hopes VMware has followed through on its promise to make vSphere capable of managing both virtual machines and Kubernetes (K8s) clusters by announcing version 7 of vSphere and a plethora o…
Lees meerEl Reg speaks to Siemen's Lars Reinkemeyer Interview Ignoring process mining could leave money on the table or set application upgrades up for failure. A new vendor-neutral book offers guidance from people who walk the talk at BMW, Bayer and Uber. …
Lees meerInternet community expresses frustration during virtual conference In 11 days, DNS overseer ICANN is supposed to rule on the $1.13bn purchase of a critical piece of the internet – the .org registry with its 10 million domain names. But ICANN has yet…
Lees meerStill a record year for hardware orders US data centre power biz Vertiv has cut its financial forecasts for the next quarter in response to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on its supply lines.…
Lees meer£1bn boon to improve coverage across the home nations UK ministers are meeting the heads of O2, Three, EE and Vodafone later today to formalise plans for a Shared Rural Network (SRN), which would improve coverage in rural black spots.…
Lees meerNo auto-driving cars or or indeed any cars in this TITSUP* pile-up Ride sharing service, Uber, and its culinary tentacle Uber Eats, have fallen down and there does not appear to be a helpful driver to pick them up.…
Lees meerDatabase giant needs 'adapt its spending to its revenue situation' Oracle is reportedly preparing to cut as many as 1,300 jobs across Europe.…
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