Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Oracle wants to improve Linux load balancing and failover

Native to ordinary interfaces, Big Red reckons bonded channels are needed for RDMA

Oracle reckons Linux remote direct memory access (RDMA) implementations need features like high availability and load balancing, and hopes to sling code into the kernel to do exactly that.…


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We shall call him Mini-U – Ubuntu reveals tiny cloudy server

‘Minimal Ubuntu’ is optimised for KVM, containers, AWS’ new hypervisor and Google Cloud

Canonical has released a new cut of Ubuntu it recommends for use in the cloud and containers.…



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BGP hijacker booted off the Internet's backbone

Outfit called Bitcanal didn't just camp on addresses, it leased them to spammers

A year-long effort to stop an accused “bad actor” who hijacked border gateway protocol (BGP) routes has borne fruit, with giant Hurricane Electric and Portugal's IPTelecom joining in cutting off an organisation called Bitcanal.…


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Tuesday, 10 July 2018

Huawei won a contract in Oz. Of course there's a whispering campaign

It's time national security agencies bring facts to the table

Comment  Huawei has won another sizeable contract, this time in Australia, and with it come the all-too-common accusations that the company is a national security risk.…


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Oracle? A strategic priority for CIOs? Nope, says Goldman Sachs

Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors

Oracle is among the legacy tech losers in a Goldman Sachs spending report that quizzed chief information officers on the procurement areas they consider to be top priorities over the next six months.…



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Outage outrage: TSB app offers users a TITSUP* encore

Customers report Terribly Slow Banking

A UK bank's website and mobile app have flatlined this morning – and there are no prizes for guessing which embattled financial firm is struggling.…



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Big contenders in the broadband chart this week, but who will be #1? Well, not Britain

Down four places to 35th – and beaten by Madagascar

Britain's place in global mobile broadband speed rankings has slipped four places to 35th, according to a survey.…


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New AWS auto-scaler started life as private show for Netflix

Amazon’s own auto-scaler now available for third-party apps

AWS has announced that “Application Auto Scaling can be used to add scaling to any services that you build on AWS”, and Netflix has revealed the new feature started life as a custom job for the vid-streaming company.…



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I think I'm a clone now: Chinese AMD Epyc-like server chips appear in China. What gives?

We answer your questions in five minutes

Watercooler   Hey El Reg, over the past few days I've seen news that Chinese chip biz Hygon is producing server-grade processors virtually identical to AMD Epyc processors. I'm kinda getting deja vu – you, too?…



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BGP borked? Blame the net's big boppers

Researcher says routes are leaking because ISP giants aren't filtering route info

The Internet's fundamental routing infrastructure, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), is so fragile that errors in one to four per cent of ISP route filters can propagate bad routes.…


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Monday, 9 July 2018

Cancelled in Crawley? At least your train has free Wi-Fi now, right?

Why your connection is as slow as the service itself

Wi-Fi has been creeping its way on to UK trains over the last few years as the government seeks to deal with the issue of mobile dead-zones by getting the train companies to provide free connectivity.…


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Australia defies trend for network sales slide, shovels cash at Cisco

Good old-fashioned hardware-defined networking growing like topsy Down Under

The router market is stagnating worldwide, but nobody's told Australian buyers.…


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Friday, 6 July 2018

Like an everflowing stream: New tech promises remote S3 nearline disk performance

Cool, but streaming doesn't mean screaming

Analysis  You can't store files in Amazon's public cloud, access them on-premises, and expect local disk access performance.…



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IBM Cloud’s elasticity stretches and stretches (Big Blue's credibility?)

Slow virtual server provisioning incident mistakenly given Red Alert status

IBM’s cloud is having a bad day.…



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Thursday, 5 July 2018

California lawmakers: We swear on our avocados we'll pass 'strongest net neutrality protections' in America

Big Cable lobbyists abandoned after grassroots campaign

California lawmakers promised to introduce the "strongest net neutrality protections in the nation" on Thursday morning, just weeks after a key piece of the legislation was gutted at the committee stage, sparking online fury.…


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TalkTalk, UK2 sitting in a tree, not T-A-L-K-I-N-G: Hosting biz cut off after ISP network upgrade

Partial to a beer for a partial outage?

Updated  ISP TalkTalk is no longer on speaking terms with Brit hosting provider UK2.net – as far as networking their customers over the internet is concerned.…


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UK2 and TalkTalk sitting in a tree, not T-A-L-K-I-N-G

Partial beer for a partial outage?

Brit hosting provider UK2.net is no longer on speaking terms with TalkTalk – at least as far as customers of the telco are concerned.…


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United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield ... or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats

MEPs call for urgent fix

The Privacy Shield deal governing transatlantic data flows should be suspended if the US doesn't comply by 1 September, the European Parliament has said.…



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CableLabs' many hands make light work - at four terabits per second

New optical standards give cable operators lots of headroom as they fibre up

Boffins at CableLabs, the cable TV network operators' pet research house, have turned out two fresh photonic standards: the P2P Coherent Optics Architecture Specification; and the P2P Coherent Optics Physical Layer v1.0 Specification.…


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Big academic networks mind their MANRS to secure routes

This matters because carriers follow where BoffinNets first tread

Europe's GEANT and Australia's AARNET have joined The Internet Society's Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative.…


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