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Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Geek's Guide

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

Verity Stob

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Storage

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint

29 May 21:22 | 61

Reader survey

How fit is your storage to deliver with speed and resilience?

Have your say – we want to hear your insights and experiences

28 May 17:30 |

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Watch live: Backup and restore on AWS can be a challenge – is there a way to make it better, faster, cheaper?

You’ve come to the right place: We’re running a webcast to show you how

27 May 18:00 |

Huawei: The next stage of the all-flash era

Flash-only+ program delivers AFAs at the price of hybrid storage

21 May 22:00 |

Storage

SD cards hop on the PCIe 4.0 bus to hit 4GB/s with version 8.0 of storage spec

Even microSD will hit nearly 2GB/s, which will make for mighty fine rPis

20 May 07:25 | 8

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Calling relational database nerds: Please share your thoughts on info storage in today's hybrid world

Reader surveyContributions anonymous, and we’ll give you a full report when it’s done

19 May 17:00 |

Storage

Got a few spare terabytes of storage sitting around unused? Tardigrade can turn that into crypto-bucks

Just not very many – don't go all Bitcoin farming on this

14 May 13:30 | 16

Storage

Sorry if this seems latency obvious, but... you can always scale out your storage with end-to-end NVMe

CommentHere's how you might go about building an infrastructure for modern workloads

12 May 18:00 | 7

Regarding the unification of block and file storage for the hybrid cloud

New data architectures for new workloads

28 Apr 16:00 |

Storage

AWS rolls faster and more secure Snowballs

Identity and access management comes to movable edge

17 Apr 05:27 | 2

Storage

HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation

Get your patch in place to avoid future data loss

25 Mar 18:56 | 38

Storage

Western Digital hands chief exec seat to boss of Cisco's networking and security biz

David Goeckeler finally gets keys to his own kingdom, says he's stoked to ride 'massive wave of new opportunity'

06 Mar 14:00 | 4

Storage

What a mesh: Snowflake punts edge tech tie-up at SecOps teams

Cloud data warehouse slinger claims it can help comb through event logs

03 Mar 16:52 |

Storage

Blow me down with a feather, well, storage server software update gone awry: Nest vid streams go dark for 16 hours

Google so sorry after devices fly the coop in multi-hour outage

25 Feb 22:25 | 17

Storage

Hard Disk Dri, er, Connive: Two sales execs accused by Uncle Sam of bumping up HDD component prices

Japanese supplier's biz model, like its products, were straight as a spring

18 Feb 20:45 | 3

Storage

Psst. SANshine, fancy a bit of shared block storage on Azure?

Microsoft previews its efforts to bring complexity of on-prem IT to the cloud

18 Feb 11:13 | 6

Storage

Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD

The days of spinning rust in lappies looks numbered and deskops will be next, says analyst

14 Feb 11:30 | 100

Storage

Photobox ditches Amazon's Redshift, cuddles up to Snowflake

AWS and Google data warehousing stuff considered, then ignored

20 Jan 15:29 | 8

Storage

The eyeopening multi-billion-dollar merry-go-round of Insight Partners, Veeam – and their one-time beau N2WS

UpdatedPlenty of cash flying around ahead of that $5bn biz gobble

15 Jan 17:07 |

Storage

Archive storage comes to Google Cloud: Will it give AWS and Azure the cold shoulder?

Fast retrieval and 'Bucket lock' security, but not the cheapest for cloud storage

09 Jan 14:13 | 3

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Storage

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

How fit is your storage to deliver with speed and resilience?

Watch live: Backup and restore on AWS can be a challenge – is there a way to make it better, faster, cheaper?

Huawei: The next stage of the all-flash era

SD cards hop on the PCIe 4.0 bus to hit 4GB/s with version 8.0 of storage spec

Calling relational database nerds: Please share your thoughts on info storage in today's hybrid world

Got a few spare terabytes of storage sitting around unused? Tardigrade can turn that into crypto-bucks

Sorry if this seems latency obvious, but... you can always scale out your storage with end-to-end NVMe

Regarding the unification of block and file storage for the hybrid cloud

AWS rolls faster and more secure Snowballs

HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation

Western Digital hands chief exec seat to boss of Cisco's networking and security biz

What a mesh: Snowflake punts edge tech tie-up at SecOps teams

Blow me down with a feather, well, storage server software update gone awry: Nest vid streams go dark for 16 hours

Hard Disk Dri, er, Connive: Two sales execs accused by Uncle Sam of bumping up HDD component prices

Psst. SANshine, fancy a bit of shared block storage on Azure?

Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD

Photobox ditches Amazon's Redshift, cuddles up to Snowflake

The eyeopening multi-billion-dollar merry-go-round of Insight Partners, Veeam – and their one-time beau N2WS

Archive storage comes to Google Cloud: Will it give AWS and Azure the cold shoulder?

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80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

Australia to refund $720m in 'debts' determined by dodgy algorithm

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Back up a minute: Private equity outfit coughs $5bn for Veeam

Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown

The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes

Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'

Nutanix: There have always been losses. You know what's really fattening? Our subs

Gospel according to HPE: And lo, on the 32,768th hour did thy SSD give up the ghost

'Not normal': Dell and NetApp price war puts crimp in Pure Storage revenue growth

Canada's OpenText buys SMB backerupper Carbonite for $1.42bn

When the IT department speaks, users listen. Or face the consequences

Is that twitch in sales the memory market coming back to life? SK Hynix would like to think so

HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with 'Price Fixing' as the subject

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