Wednesday 30 May 2018

UK Home Office considers 'complete shutdown' of emergency services mobile platform

Meeellions could be spent extending Airwave until 'future date' decided for 4G

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.…


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Wednesday 23 May 2018

UK chancellor puts finger in air, promises 15 MEELLION full fibre connections by 2025

Goal to be achieved not with government cash, but 'market conditions'

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.…


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Tuesday 22 May 2018

OVH prepares not-discounts to not-match AWS, Azure, et al

As bit barn builds subside, increased quotas and capacity will land at the same price

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.…



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Friday 18 May 2018

Look how modern we are! UK network Three to kill off 3G-only phones

'An industry-leading approach'

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.…


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UK ISPs get their marker pens out: Speed advertising's about to change

Oh dear, fewer than half of punters get what they paid for

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.…


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TalkTalk ups the (dis)satisfaction ante as UK folk wake up to borked email

New approach to dealing with complaints working wonders

TalkTalk's customers woke up this morning to find the UK broadband provider's email service was still fast asleep.…



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Thursday 17 May 2018

Microsoft's Azure green-lit for use by US spies

Government deal clears the way for a run at JEDI

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.…



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1.5m Brits pay too much for mobile and crappy broadband – Ofcom

Wake up, people!

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.…


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It was thought Carlisle couldn't be worse – then Virgin Media rocked up

ISP fined £385k for cable-laying chaos in northern border city

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.…


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Wednesday 16 May 2018

Whois privacy shambles becomes last-minute mad data scramble

Internet address industry given one week to introduce unfinished GDRP policy

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.…


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HPE to gobble software defined data fabric networking startup

Plexxi hoovered up for an undisclosed sum

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to slurp software-defined data fabric networking maker Plexxi for an undisclosed sum.…


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BT bets farm on consumers: Announces one network to rule 'em all

Puts best face on user biz after miserable results in enterprise

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.…


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Verizon commits to AWS after buying and selling its own cloud

Can anyone catch the big three (plus Oracle and IBM?)

Amazon Web Services has announced a new and significant marquee customer: Verizon.…



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Tuesday 15 May 2018

Pointless US Congress net neutrality vote will take place tomorrow!

Democrats making a difference the only way they know how to

After weeks of teasing, Senate Democrats will finally take decisive action on bringing back net neutrality on Wednesday – by holding a pointless vote.…


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Pentagon on military data-nomming JEDI cloud mind trick: There can be only one (vendor)

Unless offerings 'become... seamlessly integrated'

The Pentagon has doubled down on its plan to hand a megabucks cloud contract to a single vendor.…



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We've found it! A cloud-and-AI angle on the royal wedding

Harry and Meghan's guests to be ID'ed in real time by AWS vid-scrapers, pumped into apps

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be brought to the world with the help of cloudy machine learning.…



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Monday 14 May 2018

MPs petition for legally binding target of 95% 4G coverage across UK

Bumkins still lag cityzens on connectivity

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.…


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Friday 11 May 2018

Date engraved onto Net neutrality tombstone: June 11, 2018

But wait! Is that a shining white knight come to save us all?

So we finally have a date: June 11, 2018.…


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AWS Won Serverless – now all your software are kinda belong to them

Devs are lapping up Lambda, and this has already redefined the future of computing

"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.…



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Thursday 10 May 2018

Data centre down: Budget plane-ride mart Ryanair goes all in with AWS

Not just public cloud services for public cloud servicer

Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair is shuttering the "vast majority" of its data centres and moving the infrastructure to AWS.…



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Google borg gobbles Israeli cloud migration startup

Alas poor Velostrata! You knew those AWS and Azure workloads well

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.…



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UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures

Still making it rain for MS

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.…



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Wednesday 9 May 2018

Project Lightning, you say? Virgin Media's fibre rollout is pretty glacial

Meanwhile, corporate daddy Liberty Global flogs European assets to Vodafone for €18.4bn

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.…


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Intel CEO Brian is a man living on the edge

And what's on Krzanich's mind? Data. Your data. Petabytes of data

Comment  Intel declined to comment on industry whisperings that Qualcomm is mulling ending its Arm-powered server processor efforts.…



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Tuesday 8 May 2018

Windows app makers told to think different – you're Microsoft 365 developers, now

As Microsoft switches to surrender, surround, subsume

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.…



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AWS Glue is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region

You can now use AWS Glue in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region.



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JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal

This may not be the vendor you're looking for – explain yourself to get your funding

A grenade in the form of an updated authorisation bill has been lobbed at the Pentagon's attempt to shift to commercial cloud.…



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Africa's internet body faces sexual harassment cover-up claims

Calls for vote of no confidence in entire Afrinic Board

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.…


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Measure for measure: Why network surveys don't count what counts

Punters want reliable calls most

Interview  If you can't measure something, does it actually exist?…


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Adobe, 'hyper personalisation' and your privacy

End user privacy controls? We'll get back to you on that

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.…



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Monday 7 May 2018

The world is becoming a computer, says computer company CEO

At Microsoft Build 2018, it's all Azure and AI

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.…



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Heir to SMS finally excites carriers, by making Google grovel

Next-gen TXT offers rich messaging services, should make it onto most 'Droids soon

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.…


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Arista: sales up, profit up, share price down

Stock-jocks disappointed that 40 per cent growth won't last

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.…


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Friday 4 May 2018

AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Local Testing and Debugging

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.



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Announcing Amazon EC2 H1 Instances Price Reduction

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.



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FCC shifts $8bn fund for low-income consumers causing fears of corporate money grab

Pai accused of reverse Robin Hood for business buddies

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.…


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Virgin Media to chop 800 jobs in Wales call centre

Act 1 of real estate consolidation play

Virgin Media is axing nearly 800 jobs from its Swansea call centre, with the site expected to be shut down by autumn next year.…


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Thursday 3 May 2018

AWS Service Catalog Launches Ability to Copy Products Across Regions

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.



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Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client Is Now Available in Python

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.



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Updated Quick Start for Tableau Server on the AWS Cloud Supports Linux

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.



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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US)

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.



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Introducing Amazon EC2 Fleet

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. 



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Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Canada Region

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).



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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Increases Application Limits

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.



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Typical cynical Brits: Broadband speeds up, satisfaction goes down

Who was crowned worst ISP? You get one guess

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.…


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I've got way too much cash, thinks Jeff Bezos. Hmmm, pay more tax? Pay staff more? Nah, let's just go into space

The world needs fewer men like Amazon's CEO

Comment  Poor, poor Jeff Bezos.…



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Wednesday 2 May 2018

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US)

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.



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AWS Config Adds Support for AWS X-Ray

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.



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New AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow Simplifies Cloud Provisioning

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.



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Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Regional Expansion

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.



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New York looks at California, drafts net neutrality legislation

"Bicoastal effort" adds to the mess that is internet rules

New York has introduced new net neutrality legislation copied directly from California in an effort to bypass a federal effort to kill net neutrality.…


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Techies tell US lawmakers: We want to see Pentagon's defence of winner-takes-all cloud contract

Industry calls on DoD to publish procurement report on single vendor award

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.…



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Cisco boots shrivelling video software unit back to Dr Martens owner

Also splashes $270m on biz intelligence startup Accompany

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).…


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Cisco launches direct sales site for SMBs

Chillax, partners, and buyers beware - this modest effort is no Amazon or NewEgg

Cisco’s quietly kicked off the trial of direct online sales that The Register revealed in March 2018.…


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Tuesday 1 May 2018

AWS Service Catalog Introduces the Ability to Chain the Launch of Multiple Products

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.



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AWS CodePipeline Supports Push Events from GitHub via Webhooks

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.



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Deploy TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition with New Quick Start

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.



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Amazon Inspector Adds the Ability to Schedule Recurring Assessment Runs and Install the Agent from the Console

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.



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Access Amazon VPC resources for training and hosting with Amazon SageMaker

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.



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Alexa for Business now provides shared device connection status



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Amazon S3 Adds Support for Amazon Glacier and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access to Amazon CloudWatch Storage Metrics

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.



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Announcing the General Availability of AWS IoT Analytics

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.



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Cloudy upstart touts lasso for rustling up Big Tech office spending

CloudHealth punts metadata sniffing stuff

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.…



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Net neutrality protector Comcast: Buy our TV service or no fast internet for you!

Cable giant bribes cord-cutters to come back with speed hike

Comcast says it will only be offering its top broadband plans to customers who also agree to subscribe to its cable television service.…


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VMware and Microsoft make up and get NSX-y together

Virtzilla's virtual cloud networking push is on and Switchzilla is in its sights

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?…


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Democrats need just one more senator (and then a miracle) to reverse US net neutrality death

It won't pass but hey, why pass up a partisan punch-up?

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.…


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