El Reg rifled through the history of Huawei's 'new' GaussDB – only 'new' bit is machine learning Third version since 2016 Databases15 May 2019 | 18
Prez Trump's trade war reshapes electronics supply chains as China production slows Not great for US importers who have to pick up the bill, good news for Taiwan and Vietnam On-Prem15 May 2019 | 94
Do Xpect Custard Creams? DXC buys cosy New Jersey data centre, moves in with Credit Suisse Swiss bankers to get new neighbours in colocation agreement On-Prem14 May 2019 | 4
BSO wolfs down IX Reach to create *checks notes* world's 'largest' private telecom biz 330 PoPs and counting On-Prem13 May 2019 | 2
Ex-Arm execs' upstart Agile Analog palmed $5m to sink into AI-driven chip design Robot overlords making robot overlords Networks13 May 2019 | 4
AI! Databases here we come, yells Huawei as it preps software you can fling your Arm around Watch your back, Larry E: New tech's hitting Beijing on Wednesday Databases13 May 2019 | 18
Tech giants get antsy in Northern Virginia: Give us renewable power, there's a planet to save... and PR to harvest Nobody likes monopolies On-Prem12 May 2019 | 72
Let's rack and roll: Sanmina's hulk can bench press 4,500lbs This is your IT on steroids Systems10 May 2019 | 7
Nvidia, King's College train robot overlords to spot oddities on radiology scans It's X-ray men: Rise of the machines – as units deploy AI for NHS AI + ML10 May 2019 | 16
Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition? AWS Summit London Supermarket chain helps Amazon, er, live well for less through AWS SaaS10 May 2019 | 21
Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware's software-defined data centre stack New reference architecture rolls together containers and VMs On-Prem09 May 2019 |
Machine log expert Sumo Logic to fatten up further on calorific dish of $110m venture capital Something something unicorn AI + ML09 May 2019 |
Marvell's Avengers, er, Aquantia Endgame: Biz gobbled up for $452m in robo-ride Ethernet bid Self-driving cars are gonna need a decent amount of internal networking Networks07 May 2019 | 1
This move by Dropbox will reduce users' files to tiers: Rarely, regularly accessed data now kept separate Not all documents are created, er, stored equal SaaS07 May 2019 | 23
Dutch chip-making specialist ASML rifles through pockets of rival XTAL: Nice IP. We'll be having that Bankrupt competitor can't pay $845m for trade secrets theft On-Prem07 May 2019 | 11
Packet expands footprint of bare metal cloud, tells devs: Soz m8, no k8s as a service 4u But we've added networking features, OK? Systems03 May 2019 |
Arista cats far from purring despite shifting plenty more switches in Q1 Dyspeptic hyperscalers belch: We couldn't eat another bite for now, thanks Networks03 May 2019 | 1
Personality quiz for all you IT bods: Are you a chameleon or an outlaw? A diplomat or a high flier? Vote right here Poll More entertaining than Myers-Briggs, about as useful as a bag of… sticks Bootnotes03 May 2019 | 138
Mellanox investor proposes class action to kill Nvidia's $6.9bn mega buy Calling all the ASIC snitches... Networks02 May 2019 | 5
Equinix is rolling in it.... money that is Colo giant racks up the dollar bills by renting space to big 'n bulky cloud slingers On-Prem02 May 2019 | 6
VMware now officially supported on Azure. We repeat: VMware now supported on Azure Dell World 'Member when Microsoft tried this in 2017? It didn’t go well... Virtualization01 May 2019 | 21
Help us, SD-WAN to grow fee: Goldman Sachs and pals chuck $50m at Aryaka That ought to help MPLS meet with a little, er, accident Networks01 May 2019 | 5
FYI: AMD's server-grade Arm system-on-chip is still kicking around in SoftIron hybrid arrays More flash squeezed into HyperDrive Density+ boxes Storage01 May 2019 |
Google Cloud grabs serving spoon, ladles instances loaded with Nvidia’s Tesla T4 GPUs For the diner that wants to chow down on ML and analytics data but can't stomach Tesla Volta V100 costs SaaS30 Apr 2019 | 2
Come friendly bit barns and fall on Slough: Equinix opens £90m data centre in London rust belt Say it with us now: Despiiiiite Brexit On-Prem30 Apr 2019 | 40
Vertiv: Li-ion already eats 1 in 3 battery sales... let's shove multi-batt box into data centre folk's paws Server-cabinet-sized chunk has new management tools On-Prem30 Apr 2019 | 10
Say hi to pay-as-you-go on-prem IT: Dell, VMware tout private cloud-as-a-service, or rentable tech as everyone would call it Dell Technologies World If you're getting HPE deja vu, so are we On-Prem29 Apr 2019 | 28
Switchzilla rolls out Wi-Fi 6 kit: New access points, switch for a standard that hasn't officially arrived Snitches get switches, apparently - as 802.11ax(ed) and sexy 6 moniker stitched Networks29 Apr 2019 | 16
OVH pulls gloves off bare metal fighters as it eyes up US cloud vendors Big hot machines for large customers, cheaper boxes for small biz Systems29 Apr 2019 | 5
Northern Virginia cements spot as bit barn capital of the world with jigawatt capacity That’s a lot of servers On-Prem26 Apr 2019 | 32
Gin and bear it: Juniper Networks sales down across the board... so, er, 'better than expected' Hopes to berry woes of sloe Q1 '19 Networks26 Apr 2019 | 5
Buying a second-hand hard drive on eBay? You've got a 'one in two' chance of finding personal info still on it Troves of deleted data lingers on disks... according to this 'ere study, anyway Storage25 Apr 2019 | 56
Having dated for a while, Xilinx gets serious and buys Solarflare to raise its networking game FPGAs + NICs = profit On-Prem25 Apr 2019 |
Databricks launches open-source project to drain all your data swamps into info lakes From the creators of Apache Spark, comes a new tale of friendship and imagination Storage24 Apr 2019 | 1
Clear Ventures does an Electric Boogaloo with sequel fund to splash $180m on 'Industry 4.0' Venture with a vengeance On-Prem24 Apr 2019 |
SAP's cloud revenues swell 45% – just don't ask about the gaping €136m hole in profits Qualtrics slurp and restructure aren't making any money yet Software24 Apr 2019 | 3
Dell EMC and Cisco renew their vows as converged offspring VxBlock turns 10 Yes, converged infrastructure model is still a thing On-Prem23 Apr 2019 | 2
Whose cloud is it anyway? Apple sinks $30m a month into rival Amazon's AWS – report iPhone maker set to feed competitor even more dollars over the next five years SaaS23 Apr 2019 | 18
We reveal what's inside Microsoft's Azure Govt Secret regions... wait, is that a black helico– Redmond hopes to lure Uncle Sam's spy agencies, military away from Amazon SaaS18 Apr 2019 | 17
Cloud Atlas: Huawei's homegrown AI hardware hits shelves. Oh, and it's working on DNA storage Machine learning chips for everyone and everything On-Prem18 Apr 2019 | 1
Selling data centre hardware? Prepare for pain as Gartner spies market spending shift IT services are in, building and upgrading your own data centres – not so much On-Prem17 Apr 2019 | 2
Intel swallows Brit chip slinger Omnitek in bid to boost FPGA business Sure, FPGAs don't make much cash, but they might soon? On-Prem17 Apr 2019 | 6
Absolute mad lads are teaching physics to AI because how else will it learn to solve real-world problems (like humans) Can't take over the galaxy if you don't know how it works, innit? Science17 Apr 2019 | 28
Now, how to boost fibre throughput to a stonking 240Gbps? With frikkin' spin-lasers, of course Approach could one day create faster data centre interconnect Networks17 Apr 2019 | 21
Commercial spinoffs of Fujitsu's Post-K super 'puter will hit shelves long before exascale daddy switched on HPC goodness sure to cost an Arm and a leg HPC16 Apr 2019 | 8
You're not our FRAND any more, Apple tells Qualcomm: iGiant and pals lob $30bn sueball Juiciest mobile IP case since Apple battled Samsung over ownership of geometric shapes Personal Tech15 Apr 2019 | 24
Either Facebook is building yet another massive bit barn in Iowa, and doesn't want you to know about it.... ... or this is a massive, massive coincidence. What's a Zuckerberg? We're Siculus! On-Prem15 Apr 2019 | 42
They live: The US government is not killing its zombie servers fast enough say its auditors You’ve got to aim for the head On-Prem12 Apr 2019 | 8
Russian parliament waves through powers for internet iron curtain High potential of cutting off the nose to spite the face Networks12 Apr 2019 | 26
Better late than never: Cisco's software-defined networking platform ACI finally lands on AWS Go hybrid or go home Networks11 Apr 2019 | 9
DRAM, son: Global chip revenues hit $474.6bn in 2018... and that's a slowdown Samsung's still king and memory still hottest item, despite unstable pricing On-Prem11 Apr 2019 |
China responsible for just, oh, 20% of global semiconductor revenue in 2018, no biggie That's almost a hundred BEEEELLION dollarydoos On-Prem10 Apr 2019 | 13
Raise a Stein for OpenStack: Latest release brings faster containers, cloud resource management But adds just one new module, and even that is more of a transplant On-Prem10 Apr 2019 | 2
An offer you Kata refuse: OSF accepts virty container wizards as 'part of the family' Making it the first new top-level project since 2012 Virtualization10 Apr 2019 | 8
US boffins tangle with quantum entanglement in spooky rack-mounted networking hardware Supported by quantum storage that works at room temperature Networks09 Apr 2019 | 34
Juniper Networks liberates Contrail SD-WAN from its boxen to frolic among the clouds aaS version of software promises faster deployments Networks09 Apr 2019 |
Teradata decides: If you can't beat 'em, flog your analytics platform as a service in the cloud It's a pay-as-you-go world On-Prem08 Apr 2019 | 1
Dyin'... for some li-ion, from Taiwan? Electronics powerhouse spewing out data centre cells Production ramped up to meet hyperscaler demand On-Prem08 Apr 2019 | 12
Raise some horns: Red Hat's MetalKube aims to make Kubernetes on bare machines simple OpenInfra Days UK 2019 Open-source project borrows bits of OpenStack Software05 Apr 2019 |
If there's 5G connectivity but no 5G devices on it, does it make a sound? Wait, no, that's not right Vodafone blesses Birmingham New Street station with amazing network tech of far-flung future Networks05 Apr 2019 | 41