*Thunk* No worries, the UPS should spin up. Oh cool, it's in bypass mode This Damn War Power outage and no Plan B – hilarity ensues On-Prem05 Apr 2018 | 105
On-premises hardware sales about to boom says Morgan Stanley You put off buying any while figuring out the cloud, but now you're ready to spend On-Prem27 Feb 2018 | 15
Zuckerborg, Microsoft, Amazon letting the side down for green energy among hyperscalers But they're trying, bless 'em, says IHS Markit report On-Prem15 Feb 2018 | 12
This Valentine's day Oracle's given you 12 big red data centres Flowering fleet will still trail Azure and AWS SaaS13 Feb 2018 | 4
Open NFV kit and software gets verification program Huawei, ZTE, Wind River, Nokia first to fly 'OPNFV Verified' flag Networks08 Feb 2018 | 1
Stick to the script, kiddies: Some dos and don'ts for the workplace Get your filthy, fallible hands out of filthy, fallible Github On-Prem23 Nov 2017 | 66
No humans allowed: How would a machine-centric data centre look? This isn't a sci-fi premise, it'll influence how we segment our kit a few years down the line On-Prem06 Nov 2017 | 14
Power meltdown 'fries' SourceForge, knocks site's servers titsup Exclusive Total Inability To Support Unusual Projects On-Prem27 Sep 2017 | 49
D-Link in Pluribus-powered white box play to target enterprise sales Netvisor gets a crack at the consumer and SME channel in new 54-port switch Networks23 Aug 2017 | 2
Heavy clouds in IT world make it rain gold for UPS box manufacturers Data centers need good uptime, and good uptime means backup power – ka‑ching! SaaS07 Aug 2017 | 6
IBM signs up for EU Cloud Code of Conduct, opens four data centres Big Blue's public serivce hits nearly 60 DCs worldwide SaaS19 Jul 2017 | 6
Apple building data centre in China to comply with tough cybersecurity laws Citizen data can only be stored within the country On-Prem12 Jul 2017 | 16
Australian Dept Defence pulling kit out of China-owned Global Switch Cites security concerns as justification for AU$200m migration Legal20 Jun 2017 | 4
Management's agile, digital (insert buzzword here) strategy ossifying? Blame the Red Queen Young servers, old servers, no middle-aged servers Devops17 May 2017 | 12
UK.gov still drowning in legacy tech because no one's boarding Blighty's £700m data centre Ark Analysis Little love for Crown Hosting from Whitehall depts On-Prem23 Jan 2017 | 63
Could a robot vacuum cleaner monitor your data centre? El Reg takes LG's webcam-and-WiFi equipped Roboking Turbo+Homeview for a spin Personal Tech16 Dec 2016 | 24
Docker opens up crucial container plumbing code cunningly disguised as 'boring infrastructure' Get stuck into a containerization runtime this Xmas. Go on Devops14 Dec 2016 | 5
So. A new tech upstart wants 'feedback'. Um, maybe it actually does Sysadmin Blog Astride both sides of data centre startup line Storage08 Dec 2016 | 5
Stay out of my server room! Sysadmin blog This is for computers, not your reams of paper! On-Prem23 Nov 2016 | 123
Fire alarm sparked data centre meltdown emergency This Damn War All fun and games till the shutters come down Networks10 Nov 2016 | 37
OpenPOWER sees bright future HPC blog Rebel Alliance leaders report good progress On-Prem10 Nov 2016 |
Tailored Swift – coming soon to a cloud near you Interview 'Jono' Guthrie of PerfectlySoft makes the case for server-side Swift Software09 Nov 2016 | 4
HP Enterprise, Mirantis sack couple of hundred OpenStack engineers Still super committed, though, we're told Devops02 Nov 2016 | 9
Mesosphere half-year pledge: Fresh DC/OS open source baking 'Exciting changes' for Microsoft's favourite cloud container fabric Software20 Oct 2016 |
Microsoft takes shot at Amazon as it wraps up UK cloud data centres Office 365 and Azure go local Channel07 Sep 2016 | 26
Tech-for-insurers biz out of action for 10 days now. Hope they had, er... SSP tells The Register 'We are aware of the issue' On-Prem05 Sep 2016 | 17
Cisco is the new container for ContainerX Upstart start-up assimilated into cloud biz Channel31 Aug 2016 |
Apple allowed to put up bit barn in the Fields of Athenry Locals had worried tech titan might bash bats, pollute, nick Trevelyn's corn On-Prem15 Aug 2016 | 12
Startup AirTrunk plans big new data centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Asia Exclusive Claims it has has tenants waiting to fill big slabs of bit barns, if lizards allow it On-Prem29 Jul 2016 | 3
Can Ireland's grid green satisfy Facebook and Apple? Giants drive what consumers can't On-Prem01 Jul 2016 | 26
ODM for the masses? Facebook's OCP still ain't for you, brother The nuts and bolts of the matter Systems30 Jun 2016 | 6
Friends with benefits: A taxing problem for Ireland in a post-Brexit world So near (shore), so far Channel16 Jun 2016 | 78
Over Ireland? Bothered by Brexit? Find that new home for your cloud Options for data centres when Belarus isn't an option Channel13 Jun 2016 | 16
Would YOU start a fire? TRAPPED in a new-build server farm This Damn War When the going gets tough, the tough get messy On-Prem03 Jun 2016 | 57
Cavium arms ARM bodies for fresh data centre compute charge Does new 14nm ThunderX2 pack enough punch to take on Chipzilla? Systems31 May 2016 | 6
New Australian data centres are like buses: none for ages then along come two at once NextDC to break ground in Brisbane and Melbourne On-Prem19 May 2016 |
Super cool: Arctic data centres aren't just for Facebook Going north: More than an icy blast in your chiller cabinet On-Prem12 May 2016 | 26
Is VMware the power it once was? Sysadmin Blog World's changing. Is VMware adaptable enough to cope? Virtualization27 Apr 2016 | 26
Apple will be grilled by Irish National Planning Board over €850m data centre plan 'It's a 500 acre forest: there's room for Apple and the badgers' On-Prem27 Apr 2016 | 21
Iron.io signs on to integrate Intel's Snap Optimising workloads in the world of Docker Software06 Apr 2016 | 1
Web hosting and domain name merchant UK2 Group puts up for sale sign If the price is right Channel24 Mar 2016 | 1
Cisco CTO: Containers will ride to private cloud's rescue. Oh yes! Cisco Partner Summit Translation: We're touting services but please don't forget to buy our on-prem kit Channel03 Mar 2016 | 7
Tech Data signs data centre kit slinger Quanta in big local sales deal Far Eastern ODMs marching to Europe, rub belly, eyes major brands' lunch Channel02 Mar 2016 | 2
Commodity flash just as good as enterprise drives, Google finds Flash failures put drives on a slippery slope, Ad giant finds after crunching SSD stats Storage28 Feb 2016 | 13
Brit bit barn and hosting slinger C4L Group sold for £23m Castle Street Investments goes from online dating biz to tech services Channel16 Feb 2016 |
Heart Internet in 22-hour TITSUP after data centre power stuffup One of the 'most efficient and resilient data centres in Europe' Channel11 Feb 2016 | 62
Microsoft sinks to new depths with underwater data centre experiment Why schlep data cross-country when we live on the coast, near free cooling? Channel01 Feb 2016 | 57
Hell, high water, and ice: Facebook's Dublin data center choices Options for extreme data crunching On-Prem28 Jan 2016 | 8
Facebook brings European cats' snaps closer to home with £151m Irish data centre Hmm, wonder why it chose Emerald Isle location? Systems25 Jan 2016 | 10
Data centers dig in as monster storm strikes America's East Coast Generators, power supplies, and contingency plans all around On-Prem23 Jan 2016 | 71
Telecity shuffles off London stockmarket UK data centre biz waves goodbye, newly-formed US entity says howdy Channel15 Jan 2016 | 7
JetBlue blames Verizon after data center outage cripples flights Travelers stranded, planes grounded amidst network chaos On-Prem14 Jan 2016 | 24
Southend-on-Sea splashes £1.5m on hybrid cloud data centre Deal will create 'agile' services, apparently. Erm, ever heard of G-Cloud? Channel12 Jan 2016 | 17
Slimmed-down Verizon looks to lop off another piece of itself Data centers reportedly on the block in $2.5bn sell-off On-Prem07 Jan 2016 | 3
Iomart, Logicalis and VIRTUS buy data centre firms Buyers and sellers play poker over assets, says analyst On-Prem01 Dec 2015 |
Russian nuke plant operator to build on-site data centre 'Status: Green' may not be what you want to hear if you put data in Kalinin On-Prem27 Nov 2015 | 20
Telecity fails with car park net rescue plan. In fact, things got worse. Again 'Seamless' power transfer borked all the juice supplies Channel25 Nov 2015 | 22
Uncle Sam's IT bods find 2,000 data centers they FORGOT about Can't consolidate until we stop discovering lost ones On-Prem20 Nov 2015 | 43
Behold, the fantasy of infinite cloud compute elasticity Comment Spinning up thousands of servers in minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah SaaS18 Nov 2015 | 42