Big Cable tells US government 'Now's not the time to talk about internet speeds, just give us the money'

Consumer groups beg to differ

Big cable companies have told the federal government that "now's not the time" to talk about US internet speeds; despite a new program that will pay them billions of dollars to expand broadband access across the country, and a new proposal that put even more money in their pockets.…

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FCC's latest 5G plan little more than corporate cash giveaway, warns expert

One-size-fits-all pricing will expand, not narrow, digital divide

The latest effort by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand 5G networks across the United States is little more than a cash giveaway to large telcos and will grow, rather than close, the digital divide.…

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Microsoft Azure gains Availability Zones and Immutable Blobs

It's WORM storage all round as Immutability goes to General Availability

Microsoft has announced two more Azure availability zones and hit the red button on Immutable Storage in what must have been a breathless few days for its Azure team.…

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Vodafone sues Ofcom to reclaim 'overpaid' mobe spectrum fees

EE set it up, now Voda's shooting for goal

Vodafone has taken UK comms watchdog Ofcom to the High Court in England to reclaim overpaid spectrum access charges imposed by the telecoms regulator in 2015.…

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DNSSEC in a click: Cloudflare tries to crack uptake inertia

Meanwhile global key rollover is confirmed for October 11

Cloudflare is offering DNSSEC in a single click.…

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Nutanix shares briefly wobble over Google appliance fears

What if someone else owns someone else's computer?

Despite Google's claims that it isn't building a private cloud product, its partner Nutanix's shares took a 10 per cent dive when word got out.…

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Cloudflare invites folk to dabble in the 'distributed web' with InterPlanetary File System gateway

Five billion pages on open-source project, just like the original World Wide Web

Cloudflare has decided the four-year-old InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) project looks strong enough to warrant a little love, and has launched a gateway to allow the IPFS-curious to try out the "distributed web" protocol.…

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Microsoft: Like the Borg, we want to absorb all the world's biz computers

Farewell, Patch Tuesday – and perhaps, farewell IT admins sucked into the big backend

Microsoft hopes to assimilate traditional IT admin roles into its cloud with the launch of its Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) service.…

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No wonder Oracle exec Kurian legged it – sky darkens as cloudy tech does not make it rain

Sales growth stalls, forecasts missed, stock price falls

Oracle's stock price took a hit on Monday after the enterprise giant saw revenue growth come to a virtual crawl, crucial cloud segments stagnated, and overall performance fell short of forecasts.…

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Microsoft pulls plug on IPv6-only Wi-Fi network over borked VPN fears

Plus: Sysadmin sets up public shamiing site for IPv4 laggards

Microsoft has scrapped plans to go IPv6-only on one of its internal networks over fears its campus visitors would be unable to use their virtual private networks (VPNs).…

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Microsoft reveals train of mistakes that killed Azure in the South Central US 'incident'

Thunderbolt and lightning, Azure outage frightening

Microsoft has published the preliminary findings for what it calls “the South Central US incident”, but what many will call “the day the Azure cloud fell from the sky” and it doesn’t make for happy reading.…

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Salesforce supremo Benioff buys Time magazine for $190m

Are we seeing the rise of a new era of media moguls?

Salesforce supremo Marc Benioff and his wife are buying the US magazine Time for $190m, according to reports.…

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Sysadmin misses out on paycheck after student test runs amok

College should've stuck to departmental nomenclature

Who, Me?  Welcome once more to the world of Who, Me? – El Reg's weekly trip down memory lane with our dear readers.…

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The internet – not as great as we all thought it was going to be, eh?

Number of netizens in favor of the web plunges, according to latest US study

Society is slowing souring on the internet, according to the latest research by Pew.…

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The internet; not as great as the US thought it was going to be

But being poor is worse

Society is slowing souring on the internet, according to the latest research by Pew.…

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On the edge of its seats: Cloud rains down even more cash on Adobe

You'll eat our subs model... and our bottom line will expand. See how this works?

Adobe, the maker of reassuringly expensive software for creative types that have limited tech alternatives, has again wrapped up another quarter of double-digit jumps in both the top and bottom lines.…

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US government confirms FCC's broadband data is garbage

GAO report on tribal land may open up rigged system

A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has confirmed what others have reported for years: that official data on internet access across the country greatly over estimates availability and competition.…

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Profits diving? All part of the plan, says Juniper Networks beancounter

Just wait till 400Gbps Ethernet boxen start shifting...

Juniper Networks' chief beancounter has told world+dog that he has a cunning "strategic" plan that explains precisely why both revenues and profits have been slipping downwards at the US networking kit firm.…

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Adobe chatting up Marketo - reports

Fancies slipping automated marketing software biz into its portfolio

Adobe, the developer of software clouds for creative types is reportedly locked in talks to buy marketing software-as-a-service slinger Marketo.…

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Like tax? Love networks? HMRC has a job just for you

Public sector money crew wants a head of networks just in time for Brexit

HM Revenue and Customs is hiring a head of networks, for those who fancy a real pre-Brexit IT challenge.…

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Xero needs a hero as business accounting site takes morning off

He's gotta be strong, he's gotta be fast, and he's gotta bring up the website

Online accounting outfit Xero, whose website suggests "reliable data" as a reason for using its wares, took some time out today to the distress of its customers.…

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Danube diss: Cloud spending to outstrip Slovakia's GDP this year

Have you ever been told that you're SaaSy?

What sector of tech is forecast to grow fatter than the Slovakian economy or Elon Musk’s ego in 2018? The cloud. Global spending on the fluffy white stuff is predicted by mystics at Gartner to reach $175.8bn this year.…

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Milton Keynes: Come for roundabouts, stay for near-gigabit broadband

Aberdeen and Peterborough to follow in Vodafone scheme

Lucky Milton Keynes. The UK's modernist fantasy town is finally set to reap the fruits of Vodafone's partnership with wholesaler CityFibre, announced last November.…

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Vodafone cops ads rap over Martin Freeman's vanishing spaceship

Thou shalt not use sync speeds instead of throughput speeds, decrees Brit watchdog

Vodafone was today slapped by the Advertising Standards Authority for quoting router sync speeds instead of throughput speeds in its advertising following a complaint from rival BT.…

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Non-profits push back against Big Cable's broadband blueprint for rural America

Monopoly or competition? Guess which one is winning

A group of 17 consumer and civil rights groups have launched a new coalition aimed at countering efforts by Big Cable to siphon off funds for rural broadband into their already deep pockets.…

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Plex plucks cloud service, sends users scurrying to exit

Syncing company dumps storage plans, infuriates customers

Streaming provider Plex has dumped its cloud storage offering, prompting users to dump its subscriber service.…

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Look at me! Phone industry contracts nasty case of 5g-itis

Our 5G is bigger and better than theirs, promise Ericsson, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T

It may not exist yet but the mobile phone industry is determined to let everyone knows that when it does, their 5G is going to be the best.…

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Trade war could flip the switch on Cisco price hikes

Chief exec warns on US-China tariff tiff

Cisco chief exec Chuck Robbins has warned that a US-China trade war over tariffs could lead to price rises for Switchzilla’s networking kit.…

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Nvidia promises to shift graphics grunt work to the cloud, for a price

Nvidia waxes lyrical about 5G and GeForce Now leveling the playing field for gamers

It's a fact of life for gamers: If you want to be able to compete, you need the best hardware to give you an edge.…

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Guys, geez... finally 5Gs: AT&T grows super-fast mobile net city rollout

More American cities will get super-fast mobile internet

AT&T has promised real-world rollouts of 5G super-fast mobile internet in five more US cities before the end of the year, taking the total to 12, with another seven due next year.…

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So what's Microsoft's grand counter-AWS cloud strategy? Don't be evil

Lil pupper yaps at big doge

A Microsoft VP has optimistically opined that Amazon's expansion will help Microsoft nibble a little harder at the ankles of the world’s top public cloud firm.…

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Hungry, hungry network firms: Ericsson, NXP chow down, Ciena on the prowl

Also: New Huawei, ADVA, Fortinet gear, and ENISA overlooks squirrels

Freed from the attentions of Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductor has been looking around for its own acquisitions, and this week announced it had slurped OmniPHY.…

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AI biz borks US election spending data by using underpaid Amazon Mechanical Turks

Senate disclosure forms rife with errors from 'hi-tech' outfit

Captricity, a company that touts AI software capable of reading text better than people, has been blamed for a bumper crop of data entry errors that misrepresent what many US Senate candidates are actually spending for their campaigns.…

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Y'know what? VoIP can also be free from pesky regulation – US judges

It may be a phone service but it's over 'the internet,' so yeah, f**k me, right?

The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that a phone service over the internet is no longer a phone service but an "information service" – freeing it from regulatory oversight.…

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Palo Alto Networks' new boss hints at borging rivals as losses shrink

And they're sitting on a giant cash pile, much to chief exec Nikesh Arora's glee

Two things are happening at Palo Alto Networks: it is losing less cash, and the latest exec to reside in the head shed is rubbing his hands together at the prospect of selling more tech as a service.…

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Is someone chopping onions? Oracle cloud boss bids colleagues emotional farewell

Thomas Kurian to take 'extended leave' from Big Red

Oracle's cloud guru Thomas Kurian has reportedly taken extended leave from the firm.…

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Cloudera and MongoDB execs: Time is running out for legacy vendors

Database upstarts' revenues grow as sales plans take shape

"Antipathy" towards legacy database vendors is at an all-time high because Internet of Things data is arriving too fast for them to handle – so say execs at two competitors that went public last year.…

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HubSpot outage KOs Red Hat Ansible site and other hapless marketers

Right in the middle of Inbound 2018 conference, no less

Sales and marketing software slinger HubSpot has suffered a large outage – amid the Inbound 2018 marketing conference and just one day after it revealed plans to shift all its cloudy plumbing onto AWS.…

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Make BGP great again, er, no, for the first time: NIST backs internet route security brainwave

It's always a good idea to know who you're talking to

A proposal for securing BGP – the protocol that lays out the traffic pathways of the internet – has a another backer: NIST, aka America's National Institute for Standards and Technology.…

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Huawei wants to print data centres for telcos to fling at governments

ShapeCloud scheme to build bit barns on demand

At Huawei's Operations Transformation Forum 2018 gabfest in Munich, Germany, this week, the Chinese giant teased "ShapeCloud" – a concept designed to help telcos build bit barns for government customers.…

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Ever wanted to strangle Microsoft? Now Outlook, Skype 'throttle' users amid storm cloud drama

Weird error message triggered by Azure update blunder

Folks around the planet are today unable to use Microsoft Skype and Office 365's Outlook due to a baffling "Throttled" error message.…

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Belfast's networks are hella fast, London's are in the bog

Northern Ireland capital is tops for just about everything mobile

As if you needed another reason to love Belfast, residents of the Northern Ireland capital enjoy the fastest and most reliable mobile network performance in the UK, while Londoners are stuck in the slow lane.…

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Cloud-slingers get 3-week extension to pitch for Pentagon's JEDI contract

Hate leads to... a single vendor

The Pentagon has pushed back the deadline for its $10bn cloud services contract by three weeks.…

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Juniper, Ericsson sign 5G product pact

Pour an aquavit, pour a gin, take a deeeep breath ...

Juniper and Ericsson are extending a long-standing love-in to cover 5G network tech.…

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Webinar series: Learn to build better apps with Microsoft's Azure cloud

Free sessions for Reg to readers explore cloud platform’s main components

Promo  Microsoft has launched a series of free on-demand webinars to help businesses make the best use of the varied resources that are looking to make Azure cloud services the platform of choice for building and deploying the next generation of modern applications.…

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Oz carrier Vocus rushes cable into service following SMW-3 break

First light for Australia-Singapore Cable

In response to another – yet another – failure on the SeaMeWe-3 submarine cable, Australian telco Vocus has lit up its ASC submarine cable ahead of schedule.…

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Strewth! Aussie Broadband gets its IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6

When the bottom line gets bashed, priorities change

For years, internet engineers have predicted that the cost of an ever-smaller pool of IPv4 addresses would cause people to shift to the internet's new IPv6 protocol. Well, it finally appears to be happening.…

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Thunderstruck: Azure Back in Black(out) after High Voltage causes Flick of the Switch

Lightning storm Shook Texas facility All Night Long

Microsoft is blaming bad weather for the massive outage that knocked a number of Azure cloud and Visual Studio Teams services offline Tuesday.…

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Azure: It's getting hot in here, so shut down all your cores

US customers wake up to a sleepy public cloud service

Microsoft has warned that a "subset of customers in South Central US" may experience Azure problems today after cooling issues sent the servers scurrying for the shutdown button.…

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5G can help us spy on West Midlands with AI CCTV, giggles UK.gov

£50m connectivity tech trial announcement marred by Panopticon-style horror

The West Midlands is to become the first UK urban 5G testbed area at a cost of up to £50m – with one use for the new tech being China-style AI-powered CCTV cameras with automated facial recognition, according to the government.…

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Microsoft Germany emerging from behind Deutsche Telekom cloud

Frankfurt, Berlin regions to launch end of 2019, T-Systems 'trustee' deal to be retired

Microsoft's Frankfurt and Berlin data centres will start shipping bits from the fourth quarter of 2019.…

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Plusnet customers peeped others' deets during system upgrade

Brit broadband pusher admits hiccups in new billing engine

Plusnet has admitted that some customer accounts showed other people's names and addresses during a planned upgrade to its billing systems.…

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BT scoops Home Counties chunk of new NHS IT contract

Competition is great, especially when the new contract's run by the old contractors

BT has won a five-year contract to supply comms and IT services to various chunks of the NHS.…

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Cisco patches yet another Data Centre Network Manager vuln

Good news is that it was just a proof of concept... we hope

Cisco has coughed to its Data Centre Network Manager (DCNM) software having a rather unpleasant vulnerability – but there's a patch for it.…

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Good news, bad news, weird news - it's the week in networking

Air traffic messages over the Internet? All this and more

Ciena gets to lead this week's networking roundup, courtesy of financial results that saw its share price jump nearly 13 per cent.…

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Who wants to read 34 pages about getting VMware Private Cloud to run on NetApp HCI?

Deployment in 'less than 30 min' – but not including reading the manual

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.…

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Oracle trying hard to make sure Pentagon knows Amazon ain't the only cloud around

Big Red files additional protest over JEDI contract

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.…

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Let's get ethical, says Salesforce as revenues rocket 27% – thanks in part to US Border Patrol

Benioff: CEOs just want to spend, spend, spend

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.…

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Can a script kiddie pwn your SD-WAN? Better check the config, friend

Unpatched, outdated software abounds, say researchers

Russian researchers armed with Shodan and Censys have identified nearly 5,000 SD-WANs with vulnerable management interfaces.…

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Huawei pleads with FCC to overturn US ban, says it's 'anticompetitive'

While Japan mulls own action against Chinese comms giant

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.…

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AIM-listed iomart inhales third cloud biz in 4 months

North Yorks-based Bytemark slipped into trolley

Exclusive  AIM-listed iomart has carved out the umpteenth notch on its bedpost, so to speak, buying UK managed hosting and cloud minnow Bytemark.…

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No D'oh! DNS-over-HTTPS passes Mozilla performance test

Privacy-protecting domain name system standard closer

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.…

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Fear mongers forced to eat shorts over spam swamping claims

GDPR and no Whois hasn't caused catastrophy

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.…

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UK.gov flings £95bn at public sector superfast broadband rollouts

Local council or NHS? Step right this way. Not you, SMEs

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.…

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Cloudera stirs its data warehouse-as-a-service into hybrid cloud with dollop of analytics

Hadoop-who-now?

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.…

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Detroit sh*t shifter's operating costs waste away with Oracle's cloud

Sewerage department pinches off big brown puff for Big Red

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.…

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Cisco Meraki kills the dongle star, adds SD-WAN to branch and teleworker kit

Docking stations were a pain, because people trip on cables

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.…

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We've found another problem with IPv6: It's sparked a punch-up between top networks

Peering rows lead to traffic turbulence – report

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.…

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Juniper prepping for a 400 Gbps Ethernet world

Interview: EVP Manoj Leelanivas talks to El Reg

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.…

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We've found another problem with IPv6: it's less stable

Report flags peering disputes as cause of global problems

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.…

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Net neutrality and unbundlers spam California's with dishonest robocalls

Everybody gets a raise in the heady world of ISP lobbying

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.…

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UK.gov's love-in with big biz for digital services continues, as does claim of boosting small firms

More millions handed out to Atos, CDW, AWS...

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".…

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EU tosses Nokia a small loan of €500m, tells it to go crazy with 5G R&D

Cites being left behind by US and China in tech stakes

The European Union reckons 5G R&D needs a boost – so it has slung a loan of €500m in the general direction of Finland.…

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It's a net neutrality whodunnit: Boffins devise way to detect who's throttling transit

Simple, really – follow the congested links

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.…

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Netadmins: Grab a plate and wander down El Reg's network buffet

Broadband Forum standards, ZTE drags down optical market, and more

The Broadband Forum has dropped the first open-source code in an access interoperability project designed to support cloud-based access infrastructure and services.…

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Australia blocks Huawei, ZTE from 5G rollout

Claims network protections are 'ineffective' in 5G. No, really

Five Eyes member Australia has banned Huawei and ZTE from participating in the coming rollout of 5G mobile networks – without naming the companies.…

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Outsourcerer Tata sidles up to SUSE OpenStack Cloud, kisses IaaS

Sprinkles its Enterprise Cloud Platform with the SUSE juice

SUSE today confirmed that Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services has opted for its OpenStack Cloud as the standard for its Enterprise Cloud Platform (ECP).…

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Ex-UK comms minister's constituents plagued by wonky broadband over ... wireless radio link?

Three years on, 'superfast' village's internet is terrible

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.…

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Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

Not a great look for telco giant ahead of net neutrality suit

Verizon has been accused of throttling the data plan of a California fire department in the midst of the state's worst-ever wildfire.…

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What's holding you back from Google Cloud? Oh, OK... it was hoping you'd say 'lack of hardware security modules'

Like AWS and Azure, GCP now hosts secrets inside HSMs

Google Cloud Platform has armored its cloud in metal by offering customers beta access to hardware security modules (HSM) to handle encryption keys.…

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Brit Railcard buyers face lengthy, unexplained delays. Sound familiar?

The Southern Rail experience without stepping on a train

Brits have found themselves facing long delays in acquiring Railcards following a week of mysterious technical problems at railcard.co.uk.…

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SUSE and Microsoft give enterprise Linux an Azure tune-up

Veteran penguin botherer feels the need. For speed

Longtime Linux slinger SUSE has emitted a kernel optimised for the cloudy world of Microsoft Azure.…

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London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail

Staff forced to whiteboard in terminals as cloud connection goes TITSUP*

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.…

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Home Office opens AWS cash firehose a little wider with police IT deal

Contract notice reveals yet another UK.gov systems migration to Bezos cloud

The Home Office wants to dump all of Britain’s national-level police IT onto Amazon Web Services' public cloud.…

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Blinking internets, Batman! O2 trials 5G over lightbulbs

Let there be light

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.…

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Alibaba and Elastic slingshot searchable, analyticky cloud ... outside China

That noise was AWS rolling over in its sleep

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.…

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Vodafone's spending pays off - but EE hangs on to UK network crown

EE by gum, BT Group brand wins

EE is being strongly challenged by rival networks that have improved their reliability, and in some cases their data performance too.…

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Microsoft gets edge on AWS with Azure Stack for government

Feds can now stick Redmond clouds into on-prem hardware

Microsoft has kicked out a build of its Azure Stack on-premise cloud for US government use.…

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Grubby, tortuous, full of malware and deceit: Just call it Lionel because the internet is MESSY

So what are we going to do about it? Anything?

Reg Lectures  Trolls, fake news, Russian bots, radicals – there's plenty to put you off going online.…

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Ethernet Alliance plugs and prays so you don't have to, and other networking morsels

Microsoft software-defined data centre coming, NVMe-oF kit, play Mist for me and more

Microsoft has said it'll be bringing "software-defined" capabilities to Windows Server in 2019.…

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Extreme Networks? Extreme Share Price Crash, more like

Misses Wall Street numbers by circa $1m

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.…

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Four-year switch: Two Cisco veeps pack bags and go for a wander

Service Provider gros fromage and marketer leave biz

A former Brocade marketer turned Cisco veep is leaving the networking kinpin, along with another veep who ran the service provider division.…

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Off down the Amazon: DCMS confirms UK national tech advisor Maxwell has resigned

He'll help AWS to 'transform' international governments

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.…

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Creased Lightning: Profits wobble at Virgin Media while fibre project stays sluggish

Mind you, they're doing all right on basic B2B phone lines

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.…

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GitHub looses load-balancing open-source code on netops world

GLB Director keeps those packets humming even when new servers are added to pools

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.…

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Hortonworks revenues up 40%: Mum, are we nearly profitable yet?

Data biz trumpets international sales and IBM partnership

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.…

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DXC will be damned if it lets cloud cannibalise the IT outsourcing biz before DXC does

Frankenfirm sets up 'integrated practice' with AWS to eat its lunch before others do

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.…

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Salesforce takes leaf out of Oracle's book to forge little co-CEO bromance

Room for another ego at the top, Benioff?

Salesforce chief operating officer Keith Block is to become co-CEO with Mark Benioff, in a move echoing their former employer Oracle's setup.…

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Magic million: That's how many Cisco routers can now run SD-WAN

Viptela vManage comes to boxen running IOS XE

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.…

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IPv6: It's only NAT-ural that network nerds are dragging their feet...

Adoption is inevitable, and yet we all keep putting it off

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.…

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