Exclusive The UK Home Office is contemplating "a complete or a partial shutdown" of its ambitious programme to shift blue light services off radio and on to 4G, The Register can reveal.…
The UK's chief purse-strings-puller Philip Hammond has pledged 15 million premises will receive full-fibre broadband by 2025, in an apparent bid to boost Britain's fortunes post-Brexit.…
OVH’s wave of global expansion is nearly done and the company will soon follow other public cloud operators’ leads by cost-cutting for customers.…
The UK's first 3G network is to stop selling 3G-only devices, a move it says demonstrates how whizzy, modern and farsighted it is.…
ISPs are scrambling to tweak advertised broadband speeds as the great unwashed continue to receive services that are on average 51 per cent slower than they were led to expect, according to a Which? report.…
TalkTalk's customers woke up this morning to find the UK broadband provider's email service was still fast asleep.…
Microsoft has rolled its tanks onto Amazon’s lawn thanks to a multi-million dollar deal to bring its Azure Government product into 17 US intelligence agencies.…
Around 1.5 million Brits are spending more than necessary by continuing to pay the same monthly fee for mobile phones after their contracts have expired.…
Virgin Media is facing a £385,000 fine after its cable expansion plans in the northwest of England wreaked havoc on the streets of Carlisle.…
Thousands of internet registries and registrars will have just one week to overhaul their customer databases to fit with a policy that is still under development, or face ruinous fines.…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to slurp software-defined data fabric networking maker Plexxi for an undisclosed sum.…
Still smarting from last week's dismal annual results, BT today made a raft of announcements for its consumer group, including a converged broadband and mobile network.…
Amazon Web Services has announced a new and significant marquee customer: Verizon.…
After weeks of teasing, Senate Democrats will finally take decisive action on bringing back net neutrality on Wednesday – by holding a pointless vote.…
The Pentagon has doubled down on its plan to hand a megabucks cloud contract to a single vendor.…
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be brought to the world with the help of cloudy machine learning.…
A group of cross-party MPs have urged digital secretary Matt Hancock to whack a legal obligation on the UK's four mobile operators to provide 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK's landmass by 2022.…
So we finally have a date: June 11, 2018.…
"Serverless" didn't get a single mention in Amazon's quarterly earnings call. Neither did its poster child, AWS Lambda. Apparently it's not the sort of thing investors want to hear about, even if the developers that keep dumping cash into Amazon's pockets do.…
Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair is shuttering the "vast majority" of its data centres and moving the infrastructure to AWS.…
Israeli multi-vendor cloud migration startup Velostrata might not be so agnostic about which data centres it shifts workloads to after agreeing to be gobbled by Google for an undisclosed financial sum.…
Growth in spending on cloud by certain sectors of the UK government looks to be coming to a juddering halt, according to information provided under Freedom of Information (FoI) and open data.…
Virgin Media reported another quarter of low growth for its troubled £3bn fibre programme Project Lightning, adding just 111,000 premises in the first three months of 2018 – the lowest for the last four quarters.…
Comment Intel declined to comment on industry whisperings that Qualcomm is mulling ending its Arm-powered server processor efforts.…
Build During the second day of its Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday, Microsoft shined the spotlight on Microsoft 365, its year-old swirl of software and services made by whipping Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) into a single confection – a suite.…
You can now use AWS Glue in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region.
A grenade in the form of an updated authorisation bill has been lobbed at the Pentagon's attempt to shift to commercial cloud.…
The body responsible for allocating internet addresses across Africa has been enveloped in yet another scandal, resulting in calls for the entire board to step down.…
Interview If you can't measure something, does it actually exist?…
Adobe Summit Business success today is about "data required to understand each person's context in every moment", with the intelligence to take the right action, said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen in the opening keynote of the company's EMEA Summit in London.…
At its Build 2018 developer conference in Seattle, Wash. on Monday, Microsoft showered attention on artificial intelligence, as it did last year, leaving Windows chatter for later.…
ANALYSIS A couple of weeks ago, the world learned that Google's desire to gain more than a toehold in the world's messaging market had spawned a new "Chat" app.…
Arista has turned in just over 40 per cent growth for Q1 2018 over the same quarter last year, recording US$472.5 million revenue for the quarter.…
You can now locally test and debug your AWS CodeBuild builds using the new CodeBuild local agent. Previously, if you wanted to test your AWS CodeBuild build, you had to fully configure and run CodeBuild. Now, you can simulate a CodeBuild environment locally to quickly troubleshoot the commands and settings located in the BuildSpec file. The agent also allows you to build your application locally before committing your changes to build on the cloud.
We are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices for Amazon EC2 H1 Instances in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland) Regions by 15%. These changes will take effect immediately.
This week, one year after the US General Accountability Office (GAO) formally recommended that it do so, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved $8bn it held in a private bank to the US Treasury.…
Virgin Media is axing nearly 800 jobs from its Swansea call centre, with the site expected to be shut down by autumn next year.…
AWS Service Catalog, used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, now allows administrators, via the console, to copy products across AWS Service Catalog supported AWS regions. This makes it easier for administrators to manage products across their enterprise.
The Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client is a software library that helps you to protect your table data before you send it to Amazon DynamoDB. Encrypting your sensitive data in transit and at rest helps assure that your plaintext data isn’t available to any third party, including AWS.
This updated Quick Start automatically deploys Tableau Server in a standalone or cluster environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. With this update, you can deploy on either Linux or Microsoft Windows Server.
We have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US). This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains additional bug fixes and improvements.
With this update, we have also added support for the ‘orafce’ extension to emulate a subset of common functions and packages in version 9.6.6; and the ‘prefix’ extension to provide prefix range functions capability in version 9.6.6 .
To use the new versions, you can create a new Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, or upgrade an existing instance using point-and-click upgrades. An upgrade operation involves a short period of unavailability for your database instance. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for regional availability.
Amazon EC2 Fleet is a new feature that simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones and across On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase models. With a single API call, now you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and across purchase models to achieve desired scale, performance and cost.
Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Canada (Central) Region. With availability in eleven AWS Regions, WorkSpaces lets you deploy cloud-based desktops close to your users and data while also meeting local regulatory requirements, all without the cost and complexity of building on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
We have increased the maximum row size allowed in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 512KB, so you can process and analyze streams with hundreds of columns. We have also increased the maximum code size of Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 100KB, allowing several hundreds of SQL statements in an application.
British people are increasingly unhappy with their broadband services, and once again TalkTalk is the most whinged about provider, according to a comprehensive annual survey by Ofcom.…
Comment Poor, poor Jeff Bezos.…
We have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US). This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains additional bug fixes and improvements.
With this update, we have also added support for the ‘orafce’ extension to emulate a subset of common functions and packages in version 9.6.6; and the ‘prefix’ extension to provide prefix range functions capability in version 9.6.6 .
To use the new versions, you can create a new Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, or upgrade an existing instance using point-and-click upgrades. An upgrade operation involves a short period of unavailability for your database instance. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for regional availability.
You can now record configuration changes to AWS X-Ray using AWS Config.
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production-level distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are functioning to identify and troubleshoot performance issues and errors.
AWS Service Catalog, used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, is announcing the AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow. The connector allows you to use your existing AWS Service Catalog configuration, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose this to your ServiceNow administrators and users.
Amazon DynamoDB global tables is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. With global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to an Amazon DynamoDB table for fast read and write performance. You can also use global tables to replicate DynamoDB table data to additional AWS Regions for higher availability.
New York has introduced new net neutrality legislation copied directly from California in an effort to bypass a federal effort to kill net neutrality.…
The Pentagon's decision to hand a multibillion-dollar cloud contract to one vendor has come under renewed scrutiny, after an industry group urged Congress to make public the department's reports on the proposals.…
Cisco has kicked its video software business back to Permira, the owner of iconic Brit boot brand Dr Martens, having originally bought it off the private equity fund in 2012 for $5bn (£3.6m).…
Cisco’s quietly kicked off the trial of direct online sales that The Register revealed in March 2018.…
AWS Service Catalog, used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, now allows customers to chain together the launch of multiple products. Customers gain the flexibility to compose products with smaller AWS CloudFormation templates as building blocks rather than creating a monolithic application stack template.
AWS CodePipeline, a continuous integration and continuous delivery service, can now execute pipelines in response to events in GitHub. Previously, if you were using GitHub as a source action, CodePipeline checked periodically to see if there was a change. Now, CodePipeline can receive a webhook from GitHub when a change is made to your GitHub repository. Webhooks can tell CodePipeline to initiate a pipeline execution.
This Quick Start automatically deploys BusinessWorks Container Edition into a highly available architecture on AWS, using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) host instances and an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository for plug-ins. The deployment is automated by AWS CloudFormation templates and takes about 25 minutes.
With this update, you can now schedule recurring security assessments through the Amazon Inspector console. You can also now install the Inspector Agent directly from the Inspector console using the Systems Manager Run Command.
You can now access Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources for training and hosting workflows in Amazon SageMaker. With this new feature, you can use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets that are only accessible through your VPC to store training data, as well as to store and host the model artifacts derived from the training process. In addition to S3, models can access all other AWS resources contained within the VPC. Support for VPC resources in training and hosting also allows you to use VPC Flow Logs to monitor all traffic flowing in and out of the Amazon SageMaker algorithms and models.
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon S3 now includes storage metrics for Amazon Glacier and S3 OneZone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) storage classes. Storage that has been uploaded to S3 One Zone-IA or transitioned to S3 One Zone-IA or Amazon Glacier from S3 Standard or S3 Standard-IA storage classes using S3 Lifecycle policies will be available in CloudWatch storage metrics. These storage metrics will also include object overhead bytes applied to objects in Amazon Glacier and small objects in S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA.
You can now use AWS IoT Analytics to cleanse, process, enrich, store, and analyze IoT data at scale. AWS IoT Analytics is a fully-managed service that makes it easy to run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of data from IoT devices and sensors, empowering customers to uncover insights that lead to more accurate decisions for their IoT and machine learning applications.
Analysis There are two kinds of technology: the sexy new stuff that creates a new product category and the ho-hum kind for beancounters to help manage things better.…
Comcast says it will only be offering its top broadband plans to customers who also agree to subscribe to its cable television service.…
Who do you trust to take you into the promised land of software-defined networking: a hardware company disaggregating its products as fast as it dares, or a software company trying to build a vast platform spanning any data centre, anywhere?…
Democrat in the US Senate have vowed to vote on a measure that would, if passed, kill off efforts by America's communications watchdog, the FCC, to scrap net neutrality rules.…
