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Look to the future or your past will drag you down, says Huawei
20 Jan 23:00 |
Servers
On Call
The Novell NetWare box keeps rebooting over and over again yet no one has touched it? We're going on a stakeout
IT staff can be so... spiky sometimes
15 Jan 08:15 | 143
Servers
Taiwan’s silicon titan TSMC says three-nanometre tech is on track for 2021 debut and a 2022 flood of kit
Outlines $25bn of capex plus plans to expand in China
15 Jan 03:38 | 12
Exclusive
Fujitsu opens door, invites '200 to 250' staff from UK Delivery team to walk out
Juicier payoff for those who do, but employees fear process will become compulsory if numbers aren't met
14 Jan 09:30 | 15
Servers
Qualcomm pays $1.4bn to acquire ex-Apple and AMD Arm server chip engineers (and the biz they set up)
Purchase of Nuvia raises eyebrows
14 Jan 04:06 | 5
Servers
Decades-old UK government papers show that they tried to roll out a 'Cab-E-Net' system in the '90s. It was crap
The more things change, the more they stay the same
12 Jan 10:46 | 27
Comment
Nutanix, VMware are fighting again – yet it's just a sideshow. Why? Look at the giant predators circling
It won't settle anything in the hybrid cloud market
06 Jan 07:07 |
Who, Me?
Server won't boot? Forgot to make that backup? Have no fear, just blame Microsoft
Everything is Windows' fault. Even when it really isn't
04 Jan 08:15 | 39
On Call
I built a shed once. How hard can a data centre be?
Brute force and ignorance a happy VAX does not make
01 Jan 08:15 | 94
12BoC
A pub denied: One man's tale of festive frolics postponed by the curse of the On Call phone
Just a little jiggle
25 Dec 09:30 | 41
Servers
Microsoft is designing its own Arm-based data-center server, PC chips – report
WinTel alliance weakens further
18 Dec 23:03 | 40
On Call
Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there
Company safe... telephone gear... Is this the cleaner's cupboard?
11 Dec 08:15 | 166
Servers
AMD, Arm, non-Intel servers soar as overall market stalls
Dell and HPE in stasis as mid-range and high-end markets slide
10 Dec 07:02 | 4
Servers
Laggardly HPE kisses Joe Biden's ring, whispers Uncle Sam's IT in dire need of modernisation
And HPE is the one to do it, yeah?
02 Dec 19:46 | 17
On Call
Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?
Another fine mess
27 Nov 08:02 | 360
Servers
Here's a little Intel: Beware of Linux graphics vendors bearing gifts of shared code – open-sourcer
Mesa contributor issues a warning: community matters
12 Nov 14:00 | 12
Servers
Intel is over GPUs and CPUs – it's all about 'XPUs' now that OneAPI code-abstraction tool is golden
And why not have a server-grade GPU dedicated to game-streaming to test the new abstraction tool
11 Nov 15:15 | 10
Servers
Atlassian pulls the plug on server licences, drags customers to the cloud
Pricey Data Center editions remain but customers complain that 'this is insane'
19 Oct 12:45 | 29
Servers
SK Hynix slips past rivals Samsung and Micron to launch world's first DDR5 DRAM sticks
Up to 5,600 megatransfers per second at just 1.1V, company claims
06 Oct 11:27 | 6
Servers
On Her Majesty's Servers: UK's Coronavirus Future Fund sinks 'seven-figure sum' into Arm data-centre kit
Brit firm Bamboo scores cash that can convert to equity. Yup, the government could become a server vendor!
01 Oct 12:20 | 5
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Cloud
On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers
Know-your-client demand may just be ignored by incoming Biden admin
Software
If my calculations are correct, when Google Chrome hits version 88, you're gonna see some serious... security
Manifest v3 plus JavaScript timer throttling, vuln fixes, FTP killed off, etc
Security
FireEye publishes details of SolarWinds hacking techniques, gives out free tool to detect signs of intrusion
Instructions for spotting and keeping suspected Russians out of systems
Software
Windows Product Activation – or just how many numbers we could get a user to tell us down the telephone
A confession from ex-Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer. Also: WPA fun in the Registry
Science
Engineers blame 'intentionally conservative' test parameters for premature end to Space Launch System hotfire
'If this scenario occurred during a flight, the rocket would have continued to fly'
Analysis
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
A last gasp for the era of alternate facts
Security
Malwarebytes says its Office 365, Azure tenancies invaded by SolarWinds hackers, insists its tools are still safe to use
Points finger at privilege escalation via application rights in Azure AD, which Microsoft says is as designed
Security
Dnsmasq, used in only a million or more internet-facing devices globally, patches not-so-secret seven spoofing, hijacking flaws
Get your updates when you can for gear from scores of manufacturers
DevOps
Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol
Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'
Personal Tech
Raspberry Pi Foundation moves into microcontrollers with the $4 Pi Pico using homegrown silicon
Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ board for hobbyists and power users alike
STORIES
Who, Me?
Inflated figures and customers who were never there. Just another data migration then
Well, this is awkward
28 Sep 07:07 | 65
Servers
By the beard of Zeus! Arm takes another tilt at serious servers with SVE-capable 96-core Neoverse V1
Also makes itself denser, in a good way, with 128-core N2 upgrade
22 Sep 13:36 | 2
On Call
The power of Bill compels you: A server room possessed by a Microsoft-hating, Linux-loving Demon
Luckily, earthly pleasures dished out by the exorcist
11 Sep 07:15 | 200
Who, Me?
Competitive techies almost bring distributed disaster upon themselves – and they didn't even find any aliens
Idle hands are SETI's workshop
07 Sep 07:15 | 42
Servers
Are you locally attached? Lenovo makes EPYC effort to wave HCI flag amid reports of sagging server revenues
Handing out ThinkAgile in Microsoft, VMware and Nutanix flavours
04 Sep 12:07 | 1
Servers
Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious
Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State
10 Aug 23:41 | 28
Updated
AMD helps Dell, HPE, Lenovo to cut Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy tin packing Epyc Rome CPUs
Two cores for the price of one, under eleven-month ‘pilot’ scheme
05 Aug 04:03 | 4
Servers
This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing
Chipzilla faces potential class-action headache after stock price plunge
29 Jul 19:30 | 41
Servers
AMD is now following More's Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space
Chipzooky's fortunes are Ryzen Epyc-ly
29 Jul 01:09 | 38
Servers
When those new servers you ordered aren't delivered, you probably won't order any more servers - and that's why India's market has shriveled
Except for IBM’s non-x86 boxes which have posted modest growth
22 Jul 04:01 |
On Call
Oh sure, we'll just make a tiny little change in every source file without letting anyone know. What could go wrong?
Up from the depths / Thirty stories high / Breathing fire / Its head in the sky / IT'S EMAIL!
17 Jul 07:15 | 103
Servers
Hot, synchronous DRAM: Next-gen memory tech spec DDR5 lands
Power-sipping, phat bandwidth and dope density
16 Jul 20:12 | 18
Who, Me?
Finally, a wafer-thin server... Only a tiny little thin one. Oh all right. Just the one...
The UPS gets its revenge in a tale of fire, fury and farming
29 Jun 06:15 | 143
Servers
Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores
That's 32 more than you... when it ships... next year
23 Jun 13:00 | 8
Servers
Ancient Arm server outfit Kaleao resprouts as Bamboo with CPU offload plan and electricity-saving power play
PANDA architecture said to be ideal microservices-muncher
23 Jun 10:01 | 2
Servers
Latest Xeons land in new Huawei server despite looming US ban
Although Huawei’s details are rather thin on this one
19 Jun 03:13 | 4
Servers
Windows Server to require TPM2.0 and Secure boot by default in future release
Jan 1, 2021 deadline for server-makers to get with the program
15 Jun 07:54 | 27
Who, Me?
'We're changing shift, and no one can log on!' It was at this moment our hero knew server-lugging chap had screwed up
Where's the DHCP box? It's behind y... oh heck
11 May 07:15 | 75
Servers
Server sales went through the roof in the first three months of 2020. Enjoy it while it lasts, Dell, HPE, and pals
Enterprise demand set to soften, offset tier-two cloud, telco sales
07 May 07:01 | 1
