Cloud storage gateway and NAS? Getting crowded in there Cloud storage startup CTERA has gained $25m in a funding round, following on from a similar one in 2014, and taking its total funding to almost $70m.…
Lees meerWe like the BriteCloud so much we're going to write a book about it, says MoD Britain's Tornado fighter jets may soon be deploying with missile-jamming decoys on board after the MoD signed a £2.5m order with Leonardo-Finmeccanica.…
Lees meerIt only applies to 'compromised' servers, says Redmond Microsoft has downplayed the seriousness of an alleged Exchange auto-discovery vulnerability, saying that it sees no need to patch the reported security weakness.…
Lees meerWatch out, Mikey D. Meg W's got enterprise storage parity IDC’s latest storage tracker says the enterprise storage market was flat in the 12 months since 2015’s second quarter, but HPE now ties with EMC for first place, with IBM and NetApp in equal …
Lees meerAnd do it yesterday. Here's a checklist Hybrid infrastructures – where you combine on-premise equipment with systems that sit in a public cloud installation – have their own particular foibles when it comes to management. It's really not so hard, th…
Lees meerDo you really trust prosecutors to upload all their evidence? Train fare and telly licence dodgers will be invited to plead guilty from the comfort and convenience of their phones, according to court reform plans unveiled by the Ministry of Justice.…
Lees meerIf you show us yours, we might show you ours Analysis The government has a funny notion of how to tackle failure. When it comes to contracts, suppliers that have routinely messed up are handed more deals. When it comes to policy, approaches that ha…
Lees meerPart one: Who are you calling an upstart? Sysadmin blog Are startups to be avoided? You'll get different answers depending on who you talk to, but the arguments have relevance for the virtualization and storage markets as, today, most of the innova…
Lees meerBut 229 didn't. Criminals have started to aggressively erase EXIF metadata from their photos to make it harder for authorities to locate them, Harvard University students Paul Lisker and Michael Rose find.…
Lees meerKeep Solar System Tidy message heeded despite plan for three probe dumps NASA has revealed its final plans to crash the Cassini probe into Saturn next year.…
Lees meerYou're all hidden behind NAT, which wouldn't be a problem if you'd just go IPv6 IPv4 address exhaustion is making it harder to measure the size of the Internet, even as IPv6 deployment accelerates.…
Lees meer'Free for personal use' might not include a stadium. Just sayin' It's not always Microsoft's fault. Some of the dozens – literally – of submissions El Reg has received documenting Windows in a state of public undress show the world's most beloved op…
Lees meerHacker brews fast NAND mirroring prototype for $100. University of Cambridge senior research associate Sergei Skorobogatov has laid waste to United States Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) assertions about iPhone security by demonstrating passwor…
Lees meerWorkday named Enemy No. 1 in SaaSLand as Larry Ellison jokes about his pay cut Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle's OpenWorld event in San Francisco on Sunday with news of a second-generation infrastructure-as-a-service offering.…
Lees meerUpdates for vintage text editors are like buses - none for ages then two at once! The first major Emacs update in four years landed over the weekend, a few days after Vim had its first big release in a decade.…
Lees meerHigh school slacker hacker gets LTE for free American T-Mobile subscribers can score free internet access by running traffic through a proxy with "speedtest" in its URL.…
Lees meerSecondary campuses – and your alumni email account – fail 'immediate circle' test When Australia's federal government finally revealed who had been given money to help pay for metadata retention efforts The Register was surprised to see eight Univer…
Lees meerKey exchange 0-day exploited in the wild Cisco's post-Shadow Brokers security review has uncovered an IKEv1 vulnerability that can leak memory contents of its (deprecated) PIX firewalls and various IOS environments.…
Lees meerCloud move means old-school p2p no longer needed It's hardly surprising, really: having replaced the peer-to-peer Skype with a client-to-cloud version, Microsoft's now shuttering the London development office it inherited when it bought the VoIP app…
Lees meerCert-pinning cockup can be exploited to identify Tor users Mozilla will patch a flaw in Firefox that can be exploited by well-resourced attackers to impersonate the browser's software update servers – and thus inject malicious code into victims' com…
Lees meerIf you can't stand the heat, stay out of the poly-alpha-olefin insulation lines The “ready for combat” F-35 has run into headwinds again, with 15 of the F-35A variant grounded in America because cooling line insulation is cracking up.…
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