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Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about

Interview And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack

The State of Storage12 Jun 2025 | 5

Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves

Register Debate And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it?

PaaS + IaaS02 Dec 2021 | 54

Reg debate asks readers about their post pandemic status. Half ask, 'What status?'

Register Debate Some get a halo from the boss. Others barely get a hello

On-Prem05 Nov 2021 | 9

Love or hate your IT dept, money talks – and tech workers are getting more of it

Register Debate Show you’re worth it, demand more

On-Prem03 Nov 2021 | 23

Reg readers: Don't assume anything when sharing health data

Register Debate Debate exhibits chronic distrust of policy makers, Big Pharma, and insurance companies

Science15 Oct 2021 | 21

Sharing medical records with researchers: Assumed consent works in theory – just not yet in practice

Register Debate The UK shows us how not to run an opt-out approach

Science14 Oct 2021 | 31

Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame

Register Debate Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards

SaaS17 Sep 2021 | 15

Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that

Register Debate And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders

SaaS16 Sep 2021 | 53

Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts

Register Debate As the wisdom of the crowd decides

Databases18 Sep 2020 | 11

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

Book Review New book details snatch for humanity's joystick

Bootnotes20 Aug 2018 | 25

Politics is going digital, but guns and money still pack a punch

Reg Lectures If you’re looking for power, you probably haven’t got any

Lectures14 Nov 2017 |

History shows why geeks will never, ever, ever... get along

Register Lecture Schismogenesis? Isn’t that a posh word for Flame War?

Lectures10 Nov 2017 | 21

Machine learning? AI? How we learned to relax at MCubed

Events Reg conference shows humans how to stay in driving seat

AI + ML08 Nov 2017 |

Byte Night: Bed down with tech chiefs, celebs ... or stay on your sofa

There may be trouble ahead – but you can help

Bootnotes29 Sep 2017 | 3

The Register Lecture: The secrets of power in the digital age

Reg Events Feed your brain over a beer

Site News14 Sep 2017 | 4

Reg lecture exposes the radicals intent on remaking your society

Transhumanists, hallucinogens, the far right... and blockchain

Lectures06 Apr 2017 | 5

UK gov draws driverless car test zone around M40 corridor

No need for top hats and red flags says secretary of state

AI + ML31 Mar 2017 | 67

BMW chief: Big auto will stay in the driving seat with autonomous cars

Tech companies will struggle to take over the road

Edge + IoT31 Mar 2017 | 41

Northamber's Phillips ponders non-exec role after nearly four decades

Profitability? Not just yet...

On-Prem27 Mar 2017 | 2

Can we learn to love AI and sex robots?

Reg lecture explores what turning on a machine really means

AI + ML22 Mar 2017 | 13

Just finished your first TensorFlow app? Might be time for a rewrite...

Google's machine learning library hits 1.0

AI + ML16 Feb 2017 | 1

Get orf the air over moi land Irish farmer roars at drones

Pledges to eradicate drone burglary threat by 'any means necessary'

Bootnotes10 Feb 2017 | 77

Non-existent sex robots already burning holes in men’s pockets

Saddos only? Nope, happily married dudes just as keen apparently

AI + ML20 Dec 2016 | 107

Sexbots could ‘over-exert’ their human lovers, academic warns

Ethics expert has built ladybird-sparing vacuum cleaner

AI + ML19 Dec 2016 | 111

Fujitsu pivots from chips to leaves with salad-as-a-service

Finnish factory to change diet of the happiest people in Europe

On-Prem28 Nov 2016 | 1

Puppet pulls in (almost) former Cisco exec to head EMEA

Perches itself between Jack the Ripper territory and the City

Devops21 Nov 2016 |

Dirty code? If it works, leave it says Thoughtworks CTO

Only change what you really need to

Devops15 Nov 2016 | 56

CIOs: VDI? Maybe, just maybe, it really will be different this time...

Register Roundtable Tech bosses endorse thin clients, throw hands in the air over millennials

On-Prem11 Nov 2016 | 11

Tell us your DevOps, Agile, CD and Container stories

Continuous Lifecycle 2017: Call for papers closes in one month

Devops01 Nov 2016 | 4

Could Heather from EastEnders turn on Kettering if Lohan is no-show?

She don't call, she don't write, wail worried midlands burghers

Bootnotes28 Oct 2016 | 20

Northamber almost strikes cheery note, warns profit a year off

Cautious distie sees revenues slip, losses climb

On-Prem28 Oct 2016 | 2

Atlassian promises elastic pipelines and premium plan

Bets on devs moving to the cloud wholesale

Devops12 Oct 2016 | 1

FT journo roasts channel leaders for spouting bullshit

Canalys Channels Forum 2016 Tech industry needs more Wan Longs, apparently

Channel07 Oct 2016 | 35

'Too big to fail' cloud giants like AWS threaten civilization as we know it

Canalys Channels Forum 2016 Canalys chief warns traditional hardware skills could die out

Channel04 Oct 2016 | 28

Artificial intelligence will eradicate channel drudgery, says Lenovo boss

Canalys Channels Forum 2016 Any intelligence would be a start, grumble partners

AI + ML04 Oct 2016 | 16

Cloud will NOT eat the tech industry, Michael Dell declares

Canalys Channels Forum 2016 Oh, and that HP split? That was me, adds Texan supremo

Channel04 Oct 2016 | 9

Apple moving to scrubbed up London's Battersea Power Station

Tim Cook moves in opposite dog’s home? Pigs will fly...

Channel28 Sep 2016 | 17

Silicon Valley’s top exorcist rushed off his feet as Demons infest California

Poor mental healthcare, internet porn also a problem confirms priest

Bootnotes26 Sep 2016 | 44

CA blows on fingers, grasps testing vendor BlazeMeter

From mainframe to DevOps in just 40 years...

Devops21 Sep 2016 |

Naked, drunken Swede assaults chicken shed after 60th birthday

Gets plastered, ends up in chicken shed instead of chicken shop

Bootnotes20 Sep 2016 | 34

Intel drafts in troubleshooting veteran for CFO slot

Swan righted EDS Navy, drove Webvan...

Channel20 Sep 2016 |

GitLab snags VC cash, promises to 'Git-ify' the world

AND build more features, of course

Devops13 Sep 2016 | 10

HashiCorp pulls in $24m to build out DevOps infrastructure portfolio

Cash comes AFTER senior appointments for a change...

Devops08 Sep 2016 |

Intel adds vision to its AI vision with computer vision firm buyout

Eyes up Movidius, reaches for its wallet

Science06 Sep 2016 |

Atlassian promises frictionless, casual video encounters

HipChat escalates the face

Devops18 Aug 2016 | 1

Baffled Scots cops call in priest to deal with unruly spirits

Terrified family evacuated after encounter with Chihuahua chucking poltergeist

Bootnotes15 Aug 2016 | 75

Mobile malaise drags down Asus Q2 numbers

Pulled ahead of Apple, still struggling to grow

Channel12 Aug 2016 | 3

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

Populist politician decries 'ideological excesses'

Bootnotes10 Aug 2016 | 121

Sysadmin-waker PagerDuty targets CEOs and Europeans next

Escalate, escalate

Devops08 Aug 2016 |

West country cops ponder appearance of 40 dead pigeons on A35

Dead dove dumping just latest avian abstruseness to afflict UK

Bootnotes04 Aug 2016 | 58

All roads lead to Rome as Irish seminary gripped by Grindr scandal

'Strange goings on' prompt Dublin bish to send trainees abroad

Bootnotes01 Aug 2016 | 40

Google and Microsoft are playing catchup with AWS's cloudy power

Hardware 'incumbents' battered – but small fry may drop out soon

Channel29 Jul 2016 | 11

Who should deliver our next Reg lecture? You tell us

You could be one of our brains in a bar

Bootnotes28 Jul 2016 | 20

Lowland Scots plunged into panic by marauding ostrich family

Nicola Sturgeon’s home county stalked by angry Struthionforme

Bootnotes27 Jul 2016 | 57

World religions stake out positions on Pokemon Go

Worried masses cross-check Revelations, Pokedex, take out insurance

Bootnotes22 Jul 2016 | 63

Need a Brain Lift? Welcome to the Reg Summer School

Reg Events 12 videos to help you top up your grey cells

Site News21 Jul 2016 | 2

Red Hat redraws Ansible Tower so even enterprise managers can get it

Engineering worldview not always ... appreciated in the enterprise

Devops20 Jul 2016 | 2

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Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about

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Reality check: We should not expect our communications to remain private

When it comes to renting tech kit, things can get personal, very quickly

Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves

Reg debate asks readers about their post pandemic status. Half ask, 'What status?'

Love or hate your IT dept, money talks – and tech workers are getting more of it

Reg readers: Don't assume anything when sharing health data

Sharing medical records with researchers: Assumed consent works in theory – just not yet in practice

Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame

Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that

Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

Politics is going digital, but guns and money still pack a punch

History shows why geeks will never, ever, ever... get along

Machine learning? AI? How we learned to relax at MCubed

Byte Night: Bed down with tech chiefs, celebs ... or stay on your sofa

The Register Lecture: The secrets of power in the digital age

Reg lecture exposes the radicals intent on remaking your society

UK gov draws driverless car test zone around M40 corridor

BMW chief: Big auto will stay in the driving seat with autonomous cars

Northamber's Phillips ponders non-exec role after nearly four decades

Can we learn to love AI and sex robots?

Just finished your first TensorFlow app? Might be time for a rewrite...

Get orf the air over moi land Irish farmer roars at drones

Non-existent sex robots already burning holes in men’s pockets

Sexbots could ‘over-exert’ their human lovers, academic warns

Fujitsu pivots from chips to leaves with salad-as-a-service

Puppet pulls in (almost) former Cisco exec to head EMEA

Dirty code? If it works, leave it says Thoughtworks CTO

CIOs: VDI? Maybe, just maybe, it really will be different this time...

Tell us your DevOps, Agile, CD and Container stories

Could Heather from EastEnders turn on Kettering if Lohan is no-show?

Northamber almost strikes cheery note, warns profit a year off

Atlassian promises elastic pipelines and premium plan

FT journo roasts channel leaders for spouting bullshit

'Too big to fail' cloud giants like AWS threaten civilization as we know it

Artificial intelligence will eradicate channel drudgery, says Lenovo boss

Cloud will NOT eat the tech industry, Michael Dell declares

Apple moving to scrubbed up London's Battersea Power Station

Silicon Valley’s top exorcist rushed off his feet as Demons infest California

CA blows on fingers, grasps testing vendor BlazeMeter

Naked, drunken Swede assaults chicken shed after 60th birthday

Intel drafts in troubleshooting veteran for CFO slot

GitLab snags VC cash, promises to 'Git-ify' the world

HashiCorp pulls in $24m to build out DevOps infrastructure portfolio

Intel adds vision to its AI vision with computer vision firm buyout

Atlassian promises frictionless, casual video encounters

Baffled Scots cops call in priest to deal with unruly spirits

Mobile malaise drags down Asus Q2 numbers

Italian MP threatens parents forcing veggie diets on kids with jail

Sysadmin-waker PagerDuty targets CEOs and Europeans next

West country cops ponder appearance of 40 dead pigeons on A35

All roads lead to Rome as Irish seminary gripped by Grindr scandal

Google and Microsoft are playing catchup with AWS's cloudy power

Who should deliver our next Reg lecture? You tell us

Lowland Scots plunged into panic by marauding ostrich family

World religions stake out positions on Pokemon Go

Need a Brain Lift? Welcome to the Reg Summer School

Red Hat redraws Ansible Tower so even enterprise managers can get it

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