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Lees meerLoss-making company continues to be, well, loss-making Shrunken Imation's revenues have started edging ahead in its third 2016 quarter as pared-back Nexsan grows, but losses continue.…
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Lees meerThe GSMA is on the case, and carriers are listening An analyst outfit is warning that the Internet of Insecure Junk Things industry's enthusiasm for proprietary protocols will come to an abrupt halt once standards bodies get their acts together.…
Lees meerLord & Taylor axes scores people from corporate tech HQ Retail chain Lord & Taylor is closing down its US tech headquarters in St Louis, Missouri, and axing 77 IT jobs in the process.…
Lees meerInternet Architecture Board grabs stake, eyes coffin: 'Still not dead? Let's fix that' Well, that took a while. Eighteen years after the IETF brought us IPv6 as an answer to then-looming-now-upon-us IPv4 address exhaustion, the Internet Architecture…
Lees meerNew Backpack gear shifts tons of data for VR future It’s odd thinking of Facebook as an infrastructure company rather than a purveyor of cat pictures and fake news. However, the web giant is rapidly becoming one of the key leaders in telecommunicati…
Lees meerRoss Callon provides departing KISS (keep it simple, stupid) A retiring veteran of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has left the organization with a departing piece of advice: stop creating so many protocols.…
Lees meerEpic failures compromise safety at Minnesota facility XtremIO storage is reportedly failing at Fairview Health Services in Minnesota, hindering patient operations.…
Lees meerWe have database engines, too Sandwiched between its third-quarter results and re:Invent conference, Amazon's been pitching AWS as production-ready.…
Lees meerSpin up to Seagate's HPC User Forum at SC16 Promo You can crunch all the data you want, but you need somewhere to keep it before, during, and after.…
Lees meerMonty Widenius chats with El Reg at the Big Data London conference Interview Monty Widenius, the Finnish author of MySQL and now the chief technology officer at MariaDB — a fork of MySQL — told The Register how laziness and hate drove him to create…
Lees meerIsraeli firm wants to kick serious file system ass Analysis Liran Zvibel is a Jew in Israel and sits across the table from me in a Tel Aviv restaurant eating pork chops. This is a man who doesn't mind going against the grain. He's co-founder and Ch…
Lees meerPumping up performance, price/performance and product virtualization +Comment Kaminario is building its K2 all-flash array mountain higher in scale, performance and price/performance terms and adding dynamic composability.…
Lees meerMeet top OpenStack peeps, hear how Dept of Defence went OpenStack PROMO Next Monday, November 14th, OpenStack Australia Day: Government hits Canberra. And The Register has free tickets for readers.…
Lees meerUpstart lets apps use on and off-prem storage in two shakes of a lamb's tail Microsoft has partnered with object storage software startup NooBaa, which has developed an Amazon S3-compatible front-end to Azure.…
Lees meer'See if we care, slacktivists' Virgin Mobile has finally upgraded its network to 4G – with an eye-catching deal: Facebook and WhatsApp data usage won't count against your monthly data bundle, a practice known as zero rating.…
Lees meerCompany is putting more drives in thinner trays to grow capacity Infinidat is tweaking its Infinibox array design to increase its capacity.…
Lees meerSets up DL rack servers using profile data – bare metal becomes usable system HPE OneView's system on-ramp automates the setting up of ProLiant DL servers as well as HPE's BladeSystem.…
Lees meerTabs vs spaces? Unfortunately there are deeper, uglier issues facing IT Sysadmin Blog Gentlemen of IT, I think it's time we talked. I hate people who use spaces to indent their code instead of tabs. I don't mildly dislike them. I am not uncomfortab…
Lees meerOptimism on Optane with 4X better throughput than Intel P3700 NAND SSD Analysis Lenovo x86 servers fitted with Intel Optane SSDs will be available by the end of the year.…
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