NetApp has produced a verified architecture for VMware on its Element hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), promising deployment in under 30 minutes if its rules are obeyed.…
The Pentagon is no longer taking questions on its controversial cloud contract after making last-minute amendments to the deal – and has received another complaint from disgruntled prospective bidder Oracle.…
Salesforce is launching an office for "ethical and humane" tech less than a week after it was heavily criticised for supplying software to the US Border Patrol, which is itself overseeing an abusive immigration policy.…
Russian researchers armed with Shodan and Censys have identified nearly 5,000 SD-WANs with vulnerable management interfaces.…
Huawei has pleaded with the US Federal Communications Commission to come to its rescue in the ongoing debate over whether its kit can compromise national security.…
Exclusive AIM-listed iomart has carved out the umpteenth notch on its bedpost, so to speak, buying UK managed hosting and cloud minnow Bytemark.…
As the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) secured domain querying draft creeps towards standardisation, Mozilla has run a test to see if applying encryption brings too heavy a performance penalty.…
When new European privacy legislation forced internet registries and registrars to withhold the ownership details of internet domain names, a number of groups - including intellectual property lawyers and cybercrime experts - warned it would result in a jump in spam and online fraud.…
The UK's Ministry of Fun is still trying to give away piles of cash to companies tempted to install superfast broadband, with £95m up for grabs from last autumn's commitment to splurge £195m.…
Cloudera's hybrid cloud data warehouse-as-a-service – Cloudera Altus Data Warehouse – will be available from tomorrow, a week ahead of the firm's latest financial results.…
The City of Detroit's Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) – more used to channeling waste away from civilisation – has squeezed out some fluff for Oracle by claiming its migration to Big Red's cloud saved it $1m.…
Sometimes it's the little things that count: in prepping a refresh of its branch and home office networking kit, one of the things Cisco Meraki paid attention to was getting rid of docking stations.…
Analysis We've discovered another reason why IPv6 is, right now, a poor substitute to IPv4: fisticuffs have broken out over the protocol on the internet's trunk roads, causing traffic jams.…
With vendors gearing up for the transition from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps Ethernet in bit-barns, The Register's networking desk spoke to Juniper Networks' Manoj Leelanivas about to expect.…
Aside from the complexity and cost and lack of interactivity, we've discovered another reason why IPv6 is currently a poor substitute to IPv4: the new tech can be less stable.…
The California State Assembly is voting today on a revised net neutrality bill for the state; one that would likely create a standard that other states will adopt.…
The UK government handed about twice as much cash to large firms for 'digital services' than small ones over the past four months – but still brags about helping SMEs "flourish".…
The European Union reckons 5G R&D needs a boost – so it has slung a loan of €500m in the general direction of Finland.…
Back when net neutrality was a thing, engineers at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) tested US interdomain links, and found them mostly flowing freely.…
The Broadband Forum has dropped the first open-source code in an access interoperability project designed to support cloud-based access infrastructure and services.…
Five Eyes member Australia has banned Huawei and ZTE from participating in the coming rollout of 5G mobile networks – without naming the companies.…
SUSE today confirmed that Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services has opted for its OpenStack Cloud as the standard for its Enterprise Cloud Platform (ECP).…
A village in former communications minister Ed Vaizey's Parliamentary constituency is suffering ongoing internet outages despite once being the darling of Britain's superfast broadband rollout.…
Verizon has been accused of throttling the data plan of a California fire department in the midst of the state's worst-ever wildfire.…
Google Cloud Platform has armored its cloud in metal by offering customers beta access to hardware security modules (HSM) to handle encryption keys.…
Brits have found themselves facing long delays in acquiring Railcards following a week of mysterious technical problems at railcard.co.uk.…
Longtime Linux slinger SUSE has emitted a kernel optimised for the cloudy world of Microsoft Azure.…
London Gatwick Airport’s shiny new cloud-based flight information display system had a hard landing this morning as its vision of the future was brought down to earth with a bump.…
The Home Office wants to dump all of Britain’s national-level police IT onto Amazon Web Services' public cloud.…
Telefonica’s O2 has confirmed that it is experimenting with transmitting high speed data using lightbulbs, the brainchild of an Edinburgh University professor Harald Haas.…
Alibaba and Elastic, the purveyor of scalable open-source search engine Elasticsearch, are to offer their joint Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch product outside of China for the first time.…
EE is being strongly challenged by rival networks that have improved their reliability, and in some cases their data performance too.…
Microsoft has kicked out a build of its Azure Stack on-premise cloud for US government use.…
Reg Lectures Trolls, fake news, Russian bots, radicals – there's plenty to put you off going online.…
Microsoft has said it'll be bringing "software-defined" capabilities to Windows Server in 2019.…
Extreme Networks’ share price almost halved after its Q4 financials hit the wires on Wednesday, in spite of the US network infrastrucutre kit-maker reporting a double-digit bounce in turnover. It serves as a timely reminder that tech companies miss Wall Street forecasts at their peril.…
A former Brocade marketer turned Cisco veep is leaving the networking kinpin, along with another veep who ran the service provider division.…
Exclusive The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has today confirmed the resignation of Liam Maxwell, though the UK government’s top tech advisor will work his notice period and not leave until October.…
Virgin Media's operating income slid 17 per cent over the past year despite the Brit telco growing its Q2 2018 revenues to £1.275bn, creating interesting conditions for its newly acquired chief operating officer.…
If you’ve got a big bare-metal data center, or if you’re just BM-curious, head on over to GitHub, where there’s a new load balancer on offer by, um, GitHub.…
Hortonworks, once criticised for burning through cash, has reported a fair second 2018 quarter, with revenues up 40 per cent and net losses down 27 per cent.…
DXC Technology, fed up with the cloud brigade eating into its own IT outsourcing (ITO) business, has set up an "integrated practice" with AWS to get in on the action itself.…
Salesforce chief operating officer Keith Block is to become co-CEO with Mark Benioff, in a move echoing their former employer Oracle's setup.…
Cisco has made the next move in its integration of 2017 acquisition Viptela, prepping an SD-WAN upgrade it is going to ship to a million routers.…
It has been twenty years since the publication of the first draft of the IPv6 standard, in response to the growing realisation that the IPv4 address space would sooner or later be entirely filled. Fast-forward to today, and amazingly the world is clinging stubbornly to IPv4, with the rate of adoption of IPv6 possibly slowing.…
Hard on the heels of the Linux kernel's packets-of-death attack dubbed SegmentSmack, a similar vulnerability has been disclosed and fixed in FreeBSD.…
DOCSIS 3.1 has finally landed in Australia, courtesy of a currently-limited rollout to HFC-connected National Broadband Network (NBN) customers.…
Oracle has filed an official complaint with US government over plans to award the Pentagon’s lucrative cloud contract to a single vendor.…
Does the world need another streaming platform? Cloudflare thinks so, and today it set its Cloudflare Stream beta (running for nearly a year) to general availability.…
Google is pondering a cloudy move to China and a hookup with local operators Tencent and Inspur, according to reports.…
Mellanox claims to have rolled out the world's fastest Ethernet storage fabric controller at this year's Flash Memory Summit.…
If your inter-office Cisco-powered VPN suddenly isn't working properly, there's an upcoming update you may need to install.…
An internal investigation has laid waste to the FCC's claims that its net neutrality comments system was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
Arista has cut a deal with Cisco that leaves the former $400m lighter, and ends nearly all of the long-running legal battles between the two networking vendors.…
Promo Learn the tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Performance Efficiency pillar, hosted by Reliam CTO Jonathan LaCour.…
Customer data stored on Salesforce's marketing cloud might have been shared with unauthorised parties, cloud slinger has warned.…
Over at the Internet Engineering Task Force, a notorious piece of history is being consigned to... well, history.…
Another network vendor has had its financials dented by component shortages: this time, it's Arris.…
Settle in and take you seats, “Rocky Nine” is about to begin filming, in the form of another round of litigation between Arista and Cisco.…
Communications revenues in the UK reached their lowest point in 2017, falling 2.1 per cent to £54.7bn, while people are ditching calls and texts for over-the-top messaging, according to Ofcom.…
When you need parts-per-billion frequency accuracy, “Let's synchronise our watches” doesn't cut it. Take LTE and 5G for example: they need tight synchronisation, both in frequency and phase, and that makes time-signalling an important part of the network.…
The Irish Supreme Court has made the unprecedented decision to hear Facebook’s appeal in its long-running legal battle with privacy activist Max Schrems – and to do so with urgency.…
Email slinger FastMail took some time out to smell the roses this morning, much to the dismay of its paying users.…
We can be forgiven for not having weaned ourselves onto IPv6 earlier. It's been around in draft form since late 1998, but was only released as a standard in July 2017 (that'll be RFC 8200). That this has finally happened, though, means we're being told more loudly than ever that we no longer have an excuse. So do we have one? Can we still stick with IPv4 if we want to?…
A bunch of Telegram messages went the long way round on Monday: a BGP leak sent people's Telegram chat communications via systems in Iran.…
