Max Smolaks

Cloud vendors can't resist the lucrative smell of gaming dollars – and they're all in it to win it

Feature It makes sense to provide infrastructure for the biggest biz in entertainment

SaaS06 Aug 2019 | 24

Trump continues on the warpath: Now US tariffs cover nearly everything arriving from China

Settle in because we are here for the long haul

Legal02 Aug 2019 | 81

Who's for another trade war? Japan hits South Korea, Seoul survivor promises to retaliate

Movement of LEDs and chipmaking gubbins to be slowed

On-Prem02 Aug 2019 | 15

IBM ships software portfolio into containers thanks to Red Hat providing the packaging

Spreads the Openshift love around for Cloud Paks

Software01 Aug 2019 | 7

You'll soon be fragging noobs on Kubernetes with Google's cloudy take on game servers

Harnessing container tech to ease the Agones of laaaaaggg

Personal Tech01 Aug 2019 | 9

To get a sense of Samsung's Q2 profits, picture a Galaxy Fold closing to half the size

NAND if you think it's bad now, wait 'till Japan's trade sanctions bite

Storage31 Jul 2019 | 12

Bit barn raising Arizona: Thirsty Microsoft mounts blazing saddle, plants 3 solar-powered server farms

What, under its actual name?

On-Prem31 Jul 2019 | 23

Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb

The tech has been around for years – why aren’t we using it?

Networks31 Jul 2019 | 105

Google becomes third major cloud vendor to tie the knot with VMware

More cloud polygamy for Dell EMC's Virtzilla

SaaS30 Jul 2019 | 5

US sanctions fail to get in Huawei as embattled Chinese vendor reports 23% revenue growth

It may be a 'plane riddled with bullet holes' – but it's still flying

On-Prem30 Jul 2019 | 19

Rambus gobbles tasty chip slinger Northwest Logic in a move away from patent litigation

Turns out the PHYS not the limit

On-Prem30 Jul 2019 | 5

Toodle-oo Raijin and g'day Gadi, you beauty! Australia's fastest super 'puter will bench 38 PFLOPS later this year

HPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November

HPC29 Jul 2019 | 15

It's official: Deploying Facebook's 'Like' button on your website makes you a joint data slurper

Using widgets probably not worth the GDPR minefield

Legal29 Jul 2019 | 88

Juniper Networks struggles with service providers as US-China trade war continues to suck

One thing is certain: it's not China paying for the new round of tariffs

Networks26 Jul 2019 | 7

The democratisation of IT: Amazon and Microsoft own half the cloud infrastructure market

Choice? Yes, we've heard of it too

SaaS26 Jul 2019 | 8

Somebody is working on a $600m data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, could rhyme with schmoogle

'Google? Who is Google? My name is Guy Incognito'

On-Prem25 Jul 2019 | 11

The silicon market is in such a dark place, Texas Instruments' revenue decline was rewarded

Profits down, shares up

On-Prem24 Jul 2019 | 5

Hark at that! Arrcus bags $30m venture capital, confirms it's pulling up Broadcom’s shiny new SoC

Now how to use that mini cash pile? R&D, more staff and wider support services

Networks24 Jul 2019 |

BT adopts Ubuntu OpenStack as core brains for its 5G, fibre-to-the-premises rollout

Canonical drags the telco into the 21st century

Software24 Jul 2019 | 36

Google pays out $13m to make Wi-Spy scandal go away: Bung goes to peeps and privacy orgs

Not a 'rogue engineer,' nor was the harvested wireless network data 'fragmented, despite Google denials'

Networks23 Jul 2019 | 38

I don't know but I've been told: IBM slurps AU$95.5m ERP delivery contract from Aussie DoD

The software itself is from SAP though

Software23 Jul 2019 | 12

Just add water: Efficient Energy’s HFC-free chillers arrive in the UK

The EU goes to war against refrigerants – so the German upstart designed a system that uses tap water

On-Prem23 Jul 2019 | 86

SUSE taps SAP exec Melissa Di Donato to become open-source biz's first female CEO

Taking the reins after Nils Brauckmann retires in August

Software22 Jul 2019 | 5

British telco Onecom grabs £100m in private equity dosh

With former Easynet CEO in charge of the board

Networks22 Jul 2019 | 1

Cisco 'in talks' to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech

It is but WAF-er thin... – report

Security22 Jul 2019 | 1

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

What a waste of time and money that was

Personal Tech20 Jul 2019 | 146

Echelon gets the upper hand: Scores final nod for 100MW bit barn campus in Arklow, Ireland

Appeal from competitor who fought Apple application fails to stop project

On-Prem19 Jul 2019 | 10

You totally need VMs to do AI, nods VMware as Bitfusion dissolves in its vSphere of influence

Virty GPU upstart joins the fold

AI + ML19 Jul 2019 | 4

Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County

'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak

On-Prem18 Jul 2019 | 14

DRAM, is it cold in here? Semiconductor market expected to shrink 12% in 2019

Device numbers growing, but manufacturers are using fewer/cheaper chips per device

On-Prem18 Jul 2019 | 8

Qualcomm fined €242m over 'predatory pricing' that helped to knock off British competitor Icera

Too late for chip flinger, but a win for the EU taxpayer

Legal18 Jul 2019 | 18

Having flogged off its data centers, AT&T cozies up to Microsoft, IBM to keep it running

In a cloud war, the US telco opts for the Swiss model, stays neutral

Networks17 Jul 2019 | 8

Email scammers extract over $300m a month from American suits' pockets

FinCEN has recovered more than $500m to date

Security17 Jul 2019 | 7

Oh look. Vodafone has extended its ultrafast 5G network to deliver... Wi-Fi?

Hey, that's a real use case, you at the back, stop your sniggering

Networks17 Jul 2019 | 45

Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

There's a bit more to it than leaning down and fumbling for reset switch, though

Science17 Jul 2019 | 45

Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk

And Windows XP is alive and not well in the public sector

Security16 Jul 2019 | 19

DDoS attack? Mad dash to file forms? No, errant network switch crashed Australian tax service

Strewth, mate!

Networks15 Jul 2019 | 3

UK's Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station takes an eye off the sky to strike out into data centre biz

Complete with an immersion-cooled machine learning cluster

On-Prem15 Jul 2019 | 6

Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note

Binary and blueprints: is this the nerdiest banknote ever?

Bootnotes15 Jul 2019 | 117

Literally rings our bell: Scottish eggheads snap quantum entanglement for the first time

Pic 'Spooky action' caught on camera – see it for yourself

Science13 Jul 2019 | 129

X-ray specs: Signal whizz JMA Wireless claims to have solved indoor 5G, everyone

But how will it compare against Wi-Fi 6?

Networks12 Jul 2019 | 12

Usenet file-swapping was acceptable in the '80s – but not so much now: Pirate pair sent down for 66 months

Yep, Usenet is still around

Legal12 Jul 2019 | 44

Nvidia and friends: GPU giant's AI data centre network is going global

Big iron systems servin' all over the world with new deals

On-Prem12 Jul 2019 | 1

Rackspace cloudy 'mix and match' stacks now available for EMEA mortals

Service Blocks float across the Pond 9 months after landing in US

SaaS12 Jul 2019 | 2

RTFM: Wireless Broadband Alliance squeezes out 40-page ode to the joy of Wi-Fi 6

Which means we're nearly there

Networks11 Jul 2019 | 23

Brussels sprouts yet another 'transparency' centre: This time the honour is all ZTE's

Networks and phone builder joins compatriots Huawei in insisting it has nothing to hide

Networks10 Jul 2019 | 3

Big Switch to Big Photon for Cisco: Switchzilla to splurge $2.6bn on Acacia

All aboard for 'siliconisation of optical interconnect'

Networks10 Jul 2019 |

Who's been copying AMD's homework? Intel lifts the lid on its hip chip packaging to break up chips into chiplets

Interconnects, never sexy but very useful for Chipzilla's plans

On-Prem10 Jul 2019 | 51

Micro Focus pats itself on the back over SUSE jettison as licensing revenue shrinks

But the software museum model prevails

Software09 Jul 2019 | 8

Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space

From elephants to fish, there's no GDPR in the animal kingdom

Security09 Jul 2019 | 30

Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal

Alongside Navi GPUs, and a Ryzen 3 APU priced at just $99

Personal Tech08 Jul 2019 | 97

US giant GTT continues biz banquet by wolfing down Dutch telco KPN's networking unit for $50m

European fibre for American firm with global aspirations

Networks08 Jul 2019 | 4

UK competition bods to stick probe into worrying lack of said competition in online advertising

Facebook, Google have a reason to be worried

Legal05 Jul 2019 | 16

Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach

It was a game of two halves

Security05 Jul 2019 | 10

Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing

It's one rule for Jeff Bezos' online empire, and another for everyone else

On-Prem04 Jul 2019 | 82

Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling

It’s all lulz until someone goes to prison

Security04 Jul 2019 | 36

Surrey Uni boffins take us a step closer to the cyberpunk future with cell-scanning nanotech

Scalable probe manufacturing process a boon for medicine, human-computer interfaces

Science04 Jul 2019 | 1

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Cloud vendors can't resist the lucrative smell of gaming dollars – and they're all in it to win it

Trump continues on the warpath: Now US tariffs cover nearly everything arriving from China

Who's for another trade war? Japan hits South Korea, Seoul survivor promises to retaliate

IBM ships software portfolio into containers thanks to Red Hat providing the packaging

You'll soon be fragging noobs on Kubernetes with Google's cloudy take on game servers

To get a sense of Samsung's Q2 profits, picture a Galaxy Fold closing to half the size

Bit barn raising Arizona: Thirsty Microsoft mounts blazing saddle, plants 3 solar-powered server farms

Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb

Google becomes third major cloud vendor to tie the knot with VMware

US sanctions fail to get in Huawei as embattled Chinese vendor reports 23% revenue growth

Rambus gobbles tasty chip slinger Northwest Logic in a move away from patent litigation

Toodle-oo Raijin and g'day Gadi, you beauty! Australia's fastest super 'puter will bench 38 PFLOPS later this year

It's official: Deploying Facebook's 'Like' button on your website makes you a joint data slurper

Juniper Networks struggles with service providers as US-China trade war continues to suck

The democratisation of IT: Amazon and Microsoft own half the cloud infrastructure market

Somebody is working on a $600m data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, could rhyme with schmoogle

SK Hynix to cut DRAM production, investment as profit declines 89%

Huawei is planning to inject $436m into Arm-based server silicon

German patent hoarder IPCom fires sueball at Vodafone over 4G

The silicon market is in such a dark place, Texas Instruments' revenue decline was rewarded

Hark at that! Arrcus bags $30m venture capital, confirms it's pulling up Broadcom’s shiny new SoC

BT adopts Ubuntu OpenStack as core brains for its 5G, fibre-to-the-premises rollout

Google pays out $13m to make Wi-Spy scandal go away: Bung goes to peeps and privacy orgs

I don't know but I've been told: IBM slurps AU$95.5m ERP delivery contract from Aussie DoD

Just add water: Efficient Energy’s HFC-free chillers arrive in the UK

SUSE taps SAP exec Melissa Di Donato to become open-source biz's first female CEO

British telco Onecom grabs £100m in private equity dosh

Cisco 'in talks' to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

Echelon gets the upper hand: Scores final nod for 100MW bit barn campus in Arklow, Ireland

You totally need VMs to do AI, nods VMware as Bitfusion dissolves in its vSphere of influence

Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County

DRAM, is it cold in here? Semiconductor market expected to shrink 12% in 2019

Qualcomm fined €242m over 'predatory pricing' that helped to knock off British competitor Icera

Having flogged off its data centers, AT&T cozies up to Microsoft, IBM to keep it running

Email scammers extract over $300m a month from American suits' pockets

Oh look. Vodafone has extended its ultrafast 5G network to deliver... Wi-Fi?

Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk

DDoS attack? Mad dash to file forms? No, errant network switch crashed Australian tax service

UK's Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station takes an eye off the sky to strike out into data centre biz

Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note

Literally rings our bell: Scottish eggheads snap quantum entanglement for the first time

X-ray specs: Signal whizz JMA Wireless claims to have solved indoor 5G, everyone

Usenet file-swapping was acceptable in the '80s – but not so much now: Pirate pair sent down for 66 months

Nvidia and friends: GPU giant's AI data centre network is going global

Rackspace cloudy 'mix and match' stacks now available for EMEA mortals

RTFM: Wireless Broadband Alliance squeezes out 40-page ode to the joy of Wi-Fi 6

Brussels sprouts yet another 'transparency' centre: This time the honour is all ZTE's

Big Switch to Big Photon for Cisco: Switchzilla to splurge $2.6bn on Acacia

Who's been copying AMD's homework? Intel lifts the lid on its hip chip packaging to break up chips into chiplets

Micro Focus pats itself on the back over SUSE jettison as licensing revenue shrinks

Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space

Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal

US giant GTT continues biz banquet by wolfing down Dutch telco KPN's networking unit for $50m

UK competition bods to stick probe into worrying lack of said competition in online advertising

Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach

Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing

Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling

Surrey Uni boffins take us a step closer to the cyberpunk future with cell-scanning nanotech

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