Wednesday 31 October 2018

It's been a week since engineers approved a new DNS encryption standard and everyone is still yelling

DoH or DoT? Punch-up time!

Last week, amid some acrimony, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally adopted a new encryption standard for the internet naming systems.…


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If you have inner peace, it's probably 'cos your broadband works: Zen Internet least whinged-about Brit ISP – survey

As for you, Virgin Media...

Virgin pipped BT to be the most-moaned-about UK ISP in Whinge Which? magazine's most recent survey of British broadband.…


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Spectrum-starved Wi-Fi vendors look at DSRC band, sharpen knives

FCC reckons 5.9 GHz coexistence can Pai

A mostly-unused slice of radio spectrum set aside for connected cars in 1999 could soon be shared with Wi-Fi, with the Federal Communications Commission seeking comment on the future of the 5.9 GHz band.…


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Tuesday 30 October 2018

It's been a week since engineers approved a new DNS encryption standard and everyone is still yelling

DoH or DoT? Punch-up time!

Last week, amid some acrimony, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally adopted a new encryption standard for the internet naming systems.…


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Unsure why you can't log into Office 365? So is Microsoft

Reports of online 'productivity' suite going AWOL

Microsoft's Office 365 has been giving some users cold sweats. No matter how hard they try to log in, they simply can't access the service and haven't been able to for hours – others say it has wobbled for days.…



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Budget 2018: Landlords could be forced to grant access for full-fibre connections

Currently 'no incentive' for telcos to chase lazy 'uns who ignore requests, admits UK.gov

Up to 40 per cent of UK landlords ignore telcos’ requests to connect properties for full-fibre broadband, the government has said, and current laws incentivise operators to exclude those tenants rather than press for access.…


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Aussies: Want gigabit NBN? We've got good news and bad news

It's coming, but only for enterprise customers

Australian businesses will soon get retail offers for the kind of National Broadband Network services consumers pine for: symmetrical gigabit-per-second Ethernet access, delivered over fibre.…


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McAfee says cloud security not as bad as we feared… it's much worse

Quick takeaway: most everyone sucks at IaaS

The average business has around 14 improperly configured IaaS instances running at any given time and roughly one in every 20 AWS S3 buckets are left wide open to the public internet.…



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Monday 29 October 2018

Oz spy boss defends 'high risk vendor' ban

Huawei, ZTE are threats to critical infrastructure. Super Micro servers? No problem

The head of the Australian Signals Directorate, the Down Under equivalent of America's NSA, has said Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE would be a threat to critical infrastructure if they were allowed to take part in building the country's 5G networks.…


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Pirate radio = drug dealing and municipal broadband is anti-competitive censorship

The world according to FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly

Comment  It has long been a sad truth that Washington DC lives within its own distorted universe, but even by DC standards a recent speech by federal regulator Michael O'Rielly is a wonder to behold.…


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IBM sits draped over the bar at The Cloud or Bust saloon. In walks Red Hat

Thirsty for cloud? Let's have a drink

Analysis  IBM has spent a good long spell slumped at the bar in the last chance saloon for businesses figuring out how to make a mark in the public cloud arena. The proposed buy of Red Hat is supposed to change all that.…



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Don't dismiss that imperfect candidate

Over the years I've hired a lot of amazing people, from basic IT support staff through to highly qualified developers, network engineers, infrastructure admins and managers. Some of the most valuable hires I've ever made were candidates who failed to have a perfect educational history or a slick CV...

Read the full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-dismiss-imperfect-candidate-sean-ferigan/

Friday 26 October 2018

Super Cali goes ballistic, net neutrality hopeless? Even Ajit Pai's gloating is something quite atrocious

US govt's legal challenge halts rollout of internet safeguards

The US state of California has agreed to put its controversial net neutrality law on hold pending a legal challenge against it from the federal government.…


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What can I say about this 5G elixir? Try it on steaks! Cleans nylons! It's made for the home! The office! On fruits!

Yeah, everyone's getting fed up with next-gen wireless hype

Once in a generation, a technology comes along that changes everything: how we work, communicate, trade, live.…


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Nokia layoffs possible, Broadcom waves new network silicon, Arista goes 400G and more

The week in networking

Roundup  Nokia is sharpening the axe again, looking for €700m in savings after turning in net sales of €5.45bn for Q3 2018, and a net loss of €54m, in what president and CEO Rajeev Suri said was a solid result.…


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Openreach hacks full-fibre broadband prices for developers... Property developers, that is

Sorry, programmers. No bowel-moving discounts for you

BT's Openreach has said it is dropping the price of installing fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband by around three-quarters as the race to install high-speed internet connections across the UK continues.…


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Our brave El Reg vulture sat through four days of Oracle OpenWorld to write this cracking summary just for you

Blurred lines, blurred sales figures, killing robots in the cloud, and much more

Analysis  Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. Oracle – the IT giant once known for its derision of the off-premises tech – spent its four-day annual conference waxing lyrical about how it is now great at the fluffy stuff.…



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Amazon is at this point a money-printing cloud machine with a grocery store by the parking lot

$3bn-a-month in profit and most of coming in from AWS

Amazon, a global cloud compute provider with a gift shop on the side, is slipping in the stock market despite posting another solid quarter.…



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If you saw a Google ad recently, know that it helped pay off one of its 'sex pest' executives

Revenue: up. Profit: up. Number of managers booted for being creeps: a dirty dozen

If Google parent Alphabet was hoping its financial results for the third quarter of 2018 would result in a flood of positive coverage on Thursday, it was in for a disappointment. A slew of stories about execs sexually harassing staff stole headlines instead.…



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Thursday 25 October 2018

BT's new chief exec Philip Jansen to trouser £3.9m+ from telco

Former Worldpay chief to start January next year

BT has hired former Worldpay boss Philip Jansen as its CEO, handing him an annual pay packet worth £3.9m for his first year of service – if he lasts longer, his compensation will swell further.…


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EU Citrix Cloud users experiencing non-virtual problems starting up their virtual desktops

Engineers too busy looking for missing-in-action SD-WAN 10.1.1?

Using Citrix Cloud in the EU? You might want to consider taking a longer lunchbreak as the virtualisation service is having a bit of a moment.…



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Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened? Is your high-speed data going round the twist?

Oz boffins swivel light to cram up to x100 more data in fiber

One of light's stranger characteristics – the ability to give its wave propagation a “twist” – has taken a step closer to practical application, and could be used to increase fiber-optic network speeds a hundredfold.…


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Wednesday 24 October 2018

NetApp: Public cloud, public cloud we really love the... you're going to keep some things on-premises, right? Right?

Flashes AWS and Azure cloudification, ONTAP as cloud abstraction layer

At its Las Vegas Insight event, NetApp was quick to assure customers they could have the public cloud and NetApp products both – and that indeed, the two are better together.…



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BT, beware: Cityfibre reveals plan to shovel £2.5bn under Britain's rural streets

Full fibre deployment shifts up a gear

Privately-owned broadband biz CityFibre declared this morning that it would spend £2.5bn on building out full-fibre connections to British homes.…


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Bad news: Juniper to pass Trump's China tariffs onto customers. Good news? It'll be about 4%, hopefully

Meanwhile: Q3 sales slid downwards, profits pointing up

Juniper Networks has confirmed its margins will be squeezed in 2019 by US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese electronics and components coming into America.…


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Tuesday 23 October 2018

US congress-critters question prime directive of Pentagon's $10bn JEDI cloud contract

These are not the vendors you're looking for, republicans suggest in demand for probe

A pair of US congressmen are calling for an investigation into the Pentagon's $10bn single-vendor IT contract dubbed JEDI – aka the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure.…



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Well, it is the Empire of enterprise IT... Oracle's Ellison plans 'Star Wars cyber defense' for his second-generation cloud

Does he mean some farm boy with just womp rat experience can destroy the whole thing?

OpenWorld  Oracle reckons it has “fundamentally” rebuilt its cloud architecture to boost security, promising full separation of customer software and cloud control code.…



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Monday 22 October 2018

Microsoft Azure looks to make cloud-native payments SWIFTer

Financial messaging to get a bit more, er, agile

Microsoft and money-message flinger SWIFT have announced a proof of concept aimed at demonstrating that Azure could be a good fit for the financial network’s infrastructure.…



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Alibaba pulls dust covers off its new London cloud presence

Can Chinese cloudy crowd check rise of AWS?

Alibaba Cloud has launched in the UK, the Chinese cloud purveyor has declared, as it prepares to take on dominant player AWS and the other also-rans.…



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Saturday 20 October 2018

Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app

All working now says biz. No, no, no, no, say customers, it is NOT!

An unspecified and “unexpected load” on its infrastructure broke the Smart Living Home app for a day, an apologetic Yale Security UK confirmed to customers yesterday - however the smell of failure still lingers today.…



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Friday 19 October 2018

F5: Don't panic but anyone can log into our load balancers, thanks to libssh's credentials-optional security goof

Also: AWS talks how to avoid TLS state machine slips

Network box maker F5 says it has shipped load balancers that are vulnerable to the libssh authentication-bypass bug – meaning anyone who can reach the devices over the network or internet can potentially dive in simply by asking nicely.…


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Ericsson's very good bad quarter, Mozilla encrypts SNI, new TIP projects, and more

Your weekly dose of networking

Coming off a long string of losses, Ericsson probably hoped to turn in some good news, but at its latest financial results, the company announced the sacking of 50 people in response to a corruption scandal.…


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Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app

All working now says biz. No, no, no, no, say customers, it is NOT!

An unspecified and “unexpected load” on its infrastructure broke the Smart Living Home app for a day, an apologetic Yale Security UK confirmed to customers yesterday - however the smell of failure still lingers today.…



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Ex-Huawei man claims Chinese giant is suing his startup to 'surpass' US tech dominance

Both parties accuse each other of IP theft

CNEX Labs co-founder and CTO Yiren Ronnie Huang have accused Huawei and its subsidiary Futurewei of engaging in industrial espionage to steal CNEX's SSD intellectual property.…


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F5: Don't panic but anyone can log into our load balancers, thanks to libssh's credentials-optional security goof

Also: AWS talks how to avoid TLS state machine slips

Network box maker F5 says it has shipped load balancers that are vulnerable to the libssh authentication-bypass bug – meaning anyone who can reach the devices over the network or internet can potentially log in simply by asking nicely.…


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Thursday 18 October 2018

UK Home Office admits £200m Emergency Services Network savings 'delayed'

Oh, and the £1.1bn Airwave extension hasn't yet been triggered

The fine minds behind Britain's bungled Emergency Services Network comms system have admitted that its projected £200m savings might not kick in until 2020.…


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Come on, Cisco bug-hunters: No terrifying critical vulns? Are you saving for Halloween?

(It's good news, really)

Good news, Cisco admins: there are no bugs rated “critical” in this week's batch of security patches – but there are seven that copped a “high” rating, and four of those are remotely exploitable.…


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Wednesday 17 October 2018

Battling a multi-cloud deployment? Get our expert IT advice in this handy catch-up video

There are many mistakes you can make – learn how to avoid them from gurus

Webcast  For those of you who missed out on our live online broadcast on the the seven deadly sins of multi-cloud last week, fear not, a catch-up video is available now.



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Tuesday 16 October 2018

IBM spits out one cloud manager to rule them all

Cross-platform? Sure, but there's still no place like home

IBM has trotted out tech it reckons will ease management of services over a variety of cloud infrastructures, including Microsoft and Amazon's as well its own.…



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Amazon Prime Music turns the volume down a little too much

Users face hours without tunes as streaming service trips up mid-dance move

In a reminder of a golden age when we still had physical media, Amazon Music decided to pop on its headphones and chill out to some Harold Budd this morning, leaving users unable to access the streaming service.…



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Fujitsu: We love Microsoft Azure, we're training 10,000 bods on it

Er, one-tenth of the human capital AWS is throwing at its public cloud

Fujitsu may have given up the ghost on its own K5 cloud, but it is promising to throw a ton of human resources at selling and managing Microsoft Azure – its public cloud service of choice.…



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Emergency Services Network delays to cost public purse £1.1bn, Home Office reveals

Police forces have 'real anxieties' about incremental uptake, dodgy 4G coverage

The Home Office has admitted a three-year delay to the rollout of the UK’s new 4G Emergency Services Network will cost £1.1bn – but insisted it will still demonstrate value for money.…


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Mobe networks battle to bring comms back after Hurricane Michael smashes US Gulf Coast

'Unprecedented' fibre damage from deadly storm, says Verizon

Verizon and AT&T are slowly bringing the Florida Panhandle, and surrounding areas in the US, back online after Hurricane Michael devastated its mobile and fiber networks.…


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Monday 15 October 2018

Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama

Status: TITSUP – Total Inability To Support Users' Packets

Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest broadband and TV cable providers, is suffering an outage right now. If you can't access the internet or watch the telly, then it's not just you. It's quite a few of you.…


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Outside of Japan, Fujitsu KILLS the K5 cloud with 'immediate effect'

Another old world vendor to rely on hyperscale beasties... in thin instance, Azure

Fujitsu has taken the K5 platform for a long walk off a short pier, sending the hybrid cloud service to a watery grave - to stretch the metaphor - just a year and a half after its UK launch.…



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Cease and DE-CIX: German internet operator fights spies, IEEE eyes 802.11 future and more

Also: Juniper and the gang plus AI network research tools

Roundup  German internet exchange operator DE-CIX has again attempted to block the country's spy agency from tapping its network – this time by filing a constitutional complaint.…


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Friday 12 October 2018

300,000 BT pensioners await Court of Appeal pension scheme ruling

RPI or CPI? A percentage point really can make all the difference

Can UK telco giant BT move its pension scheme increases off the RPI inflation measure and onto CPI? Earlier this year the High Court said no, but now the telco and 300,000 of its pensioners are awaiting the Court of Appeal’s verdict on this thorny question.…


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Thursday 11 October 2018

Here you go, cloudy admins: Google emits NATty odds 'n' sods

Incremental titbits aimed at time-poor techies

Google Cloud Next  Google has released another handful of networking features for its cloud, including Cloud NAT, which lets devs build cloud-based services that do not have public IP addresses.…



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All quiet on the mobile data front, says network watcher OpenSignal

UK operators this summer look much like they did last year

Mobile data monitor OpenSignal has found no major gains in performance since spring in its latest quarterly UK survey (PDF) as operators focus investment more carefully ahead of the upcoming 5G spectrum auction.…


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Wednesday 10 October 2018

I find your lack of faith disturbing, IBM: Big Blue fires photon torpedo at Pentagon JEDI cloud contract

But Oracle shot first

IBM has officially griped to a top US government watchdog about JEDI – the Pentagon's proposed 10-year $10bn single-vendor IT system for America’s Green Machine.…



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Google Cloud boss promises 'security built into every layer of the system' at UK shindig

Hopes to lure new cloud-sniffers with location lockdown feature

Google Cloud Next  At the Google Cloud Next conference in London today the adtech company's enterprise tech arm declared that business clients would soon enjoy location restriction policies and other new tools of control freakery on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).…



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Tuesday 9 October 2018

Pentagon's JEDI mind tricks at odds with our 'values' says Google: Ad giant evaporates from $10bn cloud contract bid

'Compliance' is a corporate value isn't it?

Google has withdrawn from bidding on a multi-billion US military cloud contract, citing corporate values. And a lack of certification.…



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Sunday 7 October 2018

US Congresscritters discover Wi-Fi, updates on Oz's nbn broadband plan and much more

It's your week in the world of networks

Oh no, Congress wants to lead Wi-Fi policy, and to that end representatives Republican Bob Latta and Democrat Jerry McNerney have created the Congressional Wi-Fi Caucus*.…


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Friday 5 October 2018

Ex-Cisco chief John Chambers: Tech biz bods are 'too arrogant'

It's easy to be serene from a throne of cash

Today's captains of the tech set are just too arrogant, according to multimillionaire and Cisco-exec-turned-venture-capitalist John Chambers.…


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Former General Electric boss explains how he got the internet wrong

'You can't just give Washington the finger,' says Jeff Immelt at Cloudflare Internet Summit

In San Francisco this week, Cloudflare held its fourth Internet Summit to discuss the state of the industry, in keeping with the norms of navel gazing and self-fascination that afflicts Silicon Valley.…


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Thursday 4 October 2018

Brit mobe operator O2 asks cut-off customers: Have you tried turning it on and off again?

Classic. But in the meantime, folk can't make or receive calls

O2 customers have been reporting problems using their handsets on what's become a troublesome Thursday afternoon for the UK network operator.…


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Palo Alto Networks buys security startup Redlock for $173m

Threat detection outfit gets new owners

Palo Alto Networks has gobbled Californian cloud security startup Redlock for $173m.…


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Step right up: AWS Cloud Transformation Day Comes to London

Free, day-long event offers training, customer insights, and networking

Promo  Whether you're already taking your first steps toward the cloud, or just exploring the idea, AWS Transformation Day 2018 taking place in London on 30 October is a good place to start your journey.…



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Wi-Fi Alliance ditches 802.11 spec codes for consumer-friendly naming scheme

Meet Wi-Fi 6, the protocol previously known as 802.11ax

Wi-Fi, known for about two decades by its wonky Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers designation, IEEE 802.11, has adopted a new consumer-oriented naming scheme.…


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Wednesday 3 October 2018

Cisco Webex meltdown caused by script that nuked its host VMs

Comms software flinger confesses to ultimate snafu, trigger still under investigation

Cisco has confessed that the cause of the mega Webex outage last week – which it is still trying to clean up – was an automated script "which deleted the virtual machines hosting the service".…


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UK's Openreach sends full fibre to Coventry

Slow your roll... only Radford's hooked up for now

Full-fibre broadband has reached Coventry, Openreach has declared – while adding that had made 600k new FTTP connections.…


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What's in the container, Cisco? A nice, plump SAP Data Hub

One Kubernetes to rule them all

Cisco's Container Platform, launched in January, is now certified to run SAP's year-old Data Hub management platform.…


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Tuesday 2 October 2018

Cloud file services outfit CTERA rakes in $30m to boost SE Asia presence

Singaporean funding will result in Singaporean offices

Secure edge and cloud file services supplier CTERA Networks has trousered $30m in D-round funding to build out its infrastructure in South East Asia.…



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Ofcom pokes probe into Vodafone and EE over network coverage numbers

One may have said too much, one may have said too little

UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into Vodafone and EE for allegedly giving inaccurate data about mobile coverage areas.…


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Monday 1 October 2018

A web where the user has complete control of their data? Sounds Solid, Tim Berners-Lee

WWW daddy punts decentralised internet project

WWW creator Tim Berners-Lee has taken aim at the internet giants with his new decentralised web project Solid, which pushes for individuals, not firms, to control their data.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/01/tim_berners_lee_solid_inrupt/

IT management software crowd Kaseya buys cloudy data protection crew Spanning

Private equity holdings shuffle

Kaseya has bought in-cloud backup supplier Spanning as Insight Venture Partners, which owns the latter and has a controlling stake in the former, shuffles its holdings pack.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/01/kaseya_buys_spanning/

Volkswagen links arms with Microsoft for data-slurping cloud on Azure

Dieselgate car maker goes all SaaSy on us

Volkswagen is plugging its cars – and your data – into a cloud built on Microsoft Azure.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/01/volkswagen_microsoft_azure/

Netadmins, catch: Here's your weekly dose of networking intel

Net vendors at Ignite, Barefoot wanders into programming, Intel transceivers and more

Microsoft's Ignite conference attracted some attention in the networking biz this week, with Fortinet and Riverbed putting up the jazz hands to get attention.…


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