Computacenter, one of Europe's largest resellers, struggling with data centre kit, up to 6-month lead times
Customers pulling forward orders to mitigate mounting supply worries
09 Sep 2021 | 7
Paul Kunert is the UK editor at The Register. In addition to running the London office, areas of coverage include the technology supply chain, IT outsourcing, cloud services and more.
Component shortages: HPE pushes up some hardware prices and as if by magic, reports 'record' gross margin in Q3
Average unit prices climbed mid-to-high single digits, confirms chief beanie
03 Sep 2021 | 12
Remember the Oracle-botherers at Rimini Street? They are expanding third party support into open source database world
About time: 51 per cent of databases run on open source now
02 Sep 2021 | 7
HPE bags $2bn HPC-as-a-service gig with the NSA
Ten-year agreement kicks off in 2022 to help spies do spying
01 Sep 2021 | 1
IBM looks to pandemic and post-Brexit fallout, sees nothing but money-making opportunities
Makes prediction as revenue sinks and profits evaporate at UK trading arm
01 Sep 2021 | 8
World Intellectual Property Office settles dispute with CIO it previously ousted for 'criminal misconduct'
Exclusive Complaints of 'retaliation and irregular termination' over whistleblowing backed by committee, admits governing body
16 Aug 2021 | 12
£3m for 8 weeks of consultancy work: McKinsey given contract to advise UK.gov on tech project business cases
One of issues with public sector IT? Technical debt. £2.3bn to keep lights on in 2019, and £22bn more over next 5 years
13 Aug 2021 | 37
Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports
That spells trouble for up to one in five workers expected to be WFH
11 Aug 2021 | 98
HPE UK sales crash after infrastructure projects delayed, but PC-flinging HP Inc watches Brit biz rise
The pandemic and a tale of two HPs
09 Aug 2021 | 8
Flushing roulette: Southern Water installing digital sewer monitors to prevent blockages
Plan to deal with fatbergs NOT related to that £90m fine for dumping effluent into sea on England's south coast
06 Aug 2021 | 72
Fastly CEO opens up on that June outage that crippled so many websites
Admits some customers, including one in top ten yet to return its network
05 Aug 2021 |
Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets
Big brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute
05 Aug 2021 | 59
Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe
Knock-on effect for NAS and SSD devices too
05 Aug 2021 | 67
RingCentral shouts revenue growth from the rooftops while shareholders can't help but notice deepening losses
Isn't that work-at-home-workforce eyeing a return to the office?
04 Aug 2021 | 2
'This is the worst I've seen it' says Arista boss as entire network hardware sector battles component shortages, doubled lead times for semiconductors
Campus, routing, switching, and data centre kit all affected
03 Aug 2021 | 5
Shopping for execs: ID management biz Okta poaches Google's veep of engineering to run product dev activities
Head techie for Chocolate Factory's search ad biz departs Mountain View
03 Aug 2021 | 6
Nuisance call-blocking firm fined £170,000 for making almost 200,000 nuisance calls
Irony, thy name is Yes Consumer Solutions Ltd
02 Aug 2021 | 42
Chromebooks fighting for mind share at PC makers with higher-margin Windows 11 machines in the lead, says IDC
Colour us surprised
02 Aug 2021 | 11
'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google
Fewer and fewer orgs want to run their own data centre
30 Jul 2021 | 18
Zoom! That's the sounds of comms firm chomping down on loss-making Five9 in transaction valued at $14.7bn
Pandemic smiles on Unified-Comms-as-a-Service biz
19 Jul 2021 | 6
BT and Communication Workers Union draw up 'principles' to guide future planning on pay and redundancies
Threat of national industrial ballot in May forced telco back around negotiating table
08 Jul 2021 | 5
Google Cloud poaches SAP exec Adaire Fox-Martin to run EMEA ops
Hired to boost channel sales and, erm, 'accelerate' that 'growth journey'
05 Jul 2021 | 4
Tax check tool CEST is the pits, say UK contractor consultancies as latest HMRC usage stats are published
IR35 status of 1 in 5 cases still undetermined by 'fundamentally flawed' app
25 Jun 2021 | 11
UK watchdog fines biz £130k for 900,000+ direct marketing calls to folk who had opted out
Colour Coat accused of lying, being rude and aggressive, and hanging up on cold-call victims
24 Jun 2021 | 44
