Tuesday, 31 July 2018

The American dilemma: Competition, or fast broadband? Pick one

It's Groundhog Day for the US broadband industry

Analysis  A report out today into internet access in the United States has concluded – yet again – that the majority of netizens have a hard choice between competition or broadband speed.…


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Brit comms providers told: You must tell people when their cheap contract's about to end

Rolling rolling rolling... Stop those contracts rolling.. don't hiiiiide

Ofcom has announced plans to require communications providers to tell customers when they are nearing the end of their contract to encourage them to shop around.…


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Nokia scores a $3.5bn deal to inflict 5G on T-Mobile customers

5G takes another tentative step to actually being a thing

Nokia and T-Mobile have inked a $3.5bn deal to take the US telco into the bright new world of 5G communications.…


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Beam me up, UK.gov: 'Extra-terrestrial markup language' booted off G-Cloud

Close encounters of the civil service kind

UK.gov bods have been stripped of access to services for the emerging non-terrestrial standard XTML, beamed in by little grey vendors A51 Technologies, following an El Reg probe.…



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Monday, 30 July 2018

SoftNAS no longer a soft touch for hackers (for now)... Remote-hijacking vulnerability patched

Your files are someone else's files, too, thanks to storage bug

SoftNAS has plugged a serious vulnerability in its cloud storage management tool that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a victim's server.…



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BT boosted by punters and sport – as it preps to squeeze it harder

Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up

BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the British telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…


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BT results boosted by consumer unit as it preps to squeeze it harder

Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up

BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/30/profits_up_revenues_down_in_bts_latest_set_of_results/

Sunday, 29 July 2018

Brit web host biz UKFast gears up to IPO on London Stock Exchange

Server and cloud outfit aims to float by October if tech market evades Brexit jitters

Exclusive  UKFast, a British web hosting provider and bringer of clouds, is planning to float on the London Stock Exchange with the aim of raising a £350m warchest, The Register can exclusively reveal.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/28/ukfast_ipo_announcement/

Friday, 27 July 2018

Slurps aplenty in your serve of network news

AWS load balancer gets redirects, CableLabs SNAPs to Kubernetes, and more

Security just got a little easier for AWS Elastic Load Balancing customers: the platform now supports redirects and fixed responses.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/27/network_roundup/

Openreach annual review: Eat fibre and be merry, we fixed the faults before you called

The sun is sunny and the dark fibre access is virtual

Openreach claims it is now more independent of BT than ever before, adding that the UK's fibre rollout is going just fine and all ISPs are now very happy with the BT-owned telecoms infrastructure company.…


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Gin and bear it: Another tight quarter for Juniper, hopes berry high for growth by Q4

$1.2bn revs beat guidance, routers lumpy, software, security strong

Juniper Networks' Q3 revenue is 8 per cent lower than last year, but at $1.2bn it came in ahead of the company's previous guidance, and CEO Rami Rahim now expects Juniper to return to year-on-year growth by the December quarter.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/27/juniper_networks_q2_2018/

Is it OK if we call $53bn-a-quarter Amazon the Bit Barns and Ignoble?

Get it, like Barnes and No– oh, just gimme that beer. It's been 5 o'clock somewhere for hours

Amazon, a cloud computing monster with a gift shop tacked on the side, watched its sales surpass $52bn during its latest quarter.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/27/amazon_q2_fy2018/

Thursday, 26 July 2018

Big Switch pokes a straw into the cloud, sucks its netops onto the premises

You too can have your very own network-as-a-service

What's missing from Virtual Private Clouds? According to Big Switch Networks, it's an on-premises implementation.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/26/big_switch_on_prem/

Wednesday, 25 July 2018

Your 60-second guide to security stuff Google touted today at Next '18

Two-factor authentication keys, cloud defenses, G Suite protections, and more

It's day two of Google's Cloud Next 2018 conference in San Francisco – and the Chocolate Factory has been unveiling its defenses to thwart hackers and malware.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/25/google_cloud_security/

In Microsoft land, cloud comes to you! Office 365 stuff to be bled into on-prem Office 2019 Server

Redmond smiles: We want to support customers in journey to cloud

Microsoft threw a commercial preview bone to cloud-phobes* this week in the form of on-premises versions of its Server and Office applications.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/25/office_2019_server_preview/

400GbE party. Loud knock at the door. Music stops. In jumps Juniper

And it's clutching a roadmap that charts first shipments before end of 2018

The next round of bonkers-fast upgrades to data center networks is going to be 400Gbps Ethernet – and Juniper Networks has joined the party with a suitable roadmap.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/juniper_400gbps/

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

♫ Reans can come true. Look at me, babe, I'm with you – Hitachi V

AWS'n'Azure cheerleader with $65m US military cloud contract snapped up

Hitachi Vantara is gobbling up Rean Cloud – a public cloud systems integrator, managed service provider, and AWS pusher that comes with a $65m five-year US military contract in its back pocket.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/hitachi_vantara_acquisition_rean_cloud/

Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle

Cloud Services Platform debuts, mixing containers, monitoring, AI and management

Amid ongoing renovations at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, Google Cloud Next '18 opened on Tuesday, the scent of new carpeting and paint still lingering in the air.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/google_cloud_next/

Google's Alphabet hit by Europe's other GDPR: Global Domination = Profit Reduction

Net income for Q2 slashed by $5bn Android antitrust fine

Dusting off a $5bn European monopoly abuse fine over Google's Android business, parent company Alphabet delivered better than expected Q2 2018 earnings – lifting its shares in after-hours trading.…



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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/23/alphabet_q2fy2018_eu_fine/

Monday, 23 July 2018

UK.gov commits to rip-and-replace of Blighty's wheezing internet pipes

Full-fibre diet for all by the year 2033, vows Ministry of Fun

The Ministry of Fun* is wheeling out a new national telecoms strategy (PDF) that aims to slather the UK in healthy full-fat broadband fibre by 2033.…


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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/23/national_telecoms_strategy/