To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk
On Call When maintenance windows are hard to open, a little lubrication helps
Patches06 Sep 2024 |
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SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global
Oh, great: another tech billionaire owns a media company – although his son probably runs the show
Offbeat06 Sep 2024 |
VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked
CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out
Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 2
AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract
Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices
Virtualization05 Sep 2024 | 17
Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes
Unclear if this is a sign controversial service is cleaning up its act everywhere
Public Sector04 Sep 2024 | 10
Elon Musk’s Starlink won't block Elon Musk’s X in Brazil, as required by court order
Appeal panel upholds ban as Musk Xeets up a rage-storm
Legal03 Sep 2024 | 155
Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps
Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data
Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2
One of China's best GPU prospects admits it's failing, lays off workers
Needs new investors to get beyond current modest products
Systems03 Sep 2024 | 8
Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware
More help for Nutanix, too
Software02 Sep 2024 | 22
Novel attack on Windows spotted in phishing campaign run from and targeting China
Resources hosted at Tencent Cloud involved in Cobalt Strike campaign
Research02 Sep 2024 | 3
A nice cup of tea rewired the datacenter and got things working again
On Call See? The world’s second best hot non-alcoholic beverage can fix anything
On-Prem30 Aug 2024 | 115
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome
VMware Explore But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly
VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 32
Nvidia's growth slows to a mere 122 percent but it’s still topping expectations
Still growing in China, ramping Hopper prods and predicting Blackwell billions soon
Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2024 | 10
Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan
VMware Explore Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle
VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 8
Supermicro delays 10-K filling due to accounting issues
Financial research org labels server-maker a ‘serial recidivist’, alleges quality product problems
Systems28 Aug 2024 | 5
Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack
Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in
Software28 Aug 2024 | 11
Gartner warns Omnissa – formerly VMware's end-user compute biz – represents new risks
Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty
Virtualization28 Aug 2024 |
Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns
Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant
Networks28 Aug 2024 | 27
Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD
VMware Explore While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’
Off-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 18
VMware reveals how it will deliver Broadcom's unified hybrid cloud … sometime soon
VMware Explore Claims just two management consoles will emerge
VMware Explore27 Aug 2024 | 7
Thailand spins up approval for Western Digital to make more spinning rust
Kingdom sees growing demand for hard disks and drives to maintain global dominance
Storage27 Aug 2024 |
Japan abandons SLIM hopes its lunar lander will revive, ends Moon mission
Lasted longer than expected, but hasn't been heard from since late April
Science26 Aug 2024 | 2
VMware prepping unified SDK for its core hybrid cloud products
VMware Explore Also working to clean up inconsistent APIs and lack of SSO across vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SDDC Manager, vRealize and more
Virtualization26 Aug 2024 | 1
Broadcom promised to reform VMware so it enables better hybrid clouds. Will it deliver?
VMware Explore It needs to – Virtzilla's customers, allies, and enemies are all pondering off-ramps and trying to lure unhappy users
VMware Explore26 Aug 2024 | 8
Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France
Rumors swirl that lack of content moderation has angered authorities
Personal Tech26 Aug 2024 | 192
Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor
On Call A tale of retro tech – have you heard of Trivector computers? – and a very troubled tech support journey
On-Prem23 Aug 2024 | 111
Open Compute Project seeks standard for concrete, with help from AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft
There's a lot of CO2 in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero
Cloud Infrastructure Month23 Aug 2024 | 10
Devs at Asia's top messaging app drowned in Slack, tamed it with ChatGPT
LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts
AI + ML23 Aug 2024 | 5
Microsoft to stop telling investors about peformance of server products
Shuffles financial metrics so Copilot Pro revenue ends up in a happier place
Software22 Aug 2024 | 7
Cisco calls for United Nations to revisit cyber-crime convention
Echoes human rights groups' concerns that it could suppress free speech and more
Security22 Aug 2024 | 13
China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage
WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits
SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 21
Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases
Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside – and a bigger bill than ever
Cyber-crime21 Aug 2024 | 72
Atlassian CEO's idea to build 4,000-kilometer extension cord plugged in
Giant solar farm in Australia will make 'leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore
Offbeat21 Aug 2024 | 40
Chipmaker Microchip reveals cyber attack whacked manufacturing capacity
Defense contractor gets hacked – what's the worst that could happen
Security21 Aug 2024 | 3
Iran named as source of Trump campaign phish, leaks
Political stirrer Roger Stone may have been a weak link after personal emails cracked
Security20 Aug 2024 | 40
Alibaba and Tencent clouds see demand for CPUs level off, GPUs accelerate
Lenovo also cashes in on AI demand, without being able to turn it into profit
Off-Prem20 Aug 2024 |
Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan
Plus a further 200 delays, rockstars knocked off stage … all on a holiday weekend
Offbeat20 Aug 2024 | 117
Client tells techie: You're not leaving the country until this printer is working
On Call A long and strange tech support story that starts in Africa and ends in a Presidential Suite
On-Prem16 Aug 2024 | 60
Intel, already adrift, now Armless too
Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares
Offbeat14 Aug 2024 | 9
Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS
Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly
Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 | 281
Trump campaign cites Iran election phish claim as evidence leaked docs were stolen
Dots have been joined, but hard evidence is not apparent
Security12 Aug 2024 | 74
Alibaba Cloud claims K8s service meshes can require more resources than the apps they run
SIGCOMM 2024 Built its own replacement – Canal Mesh – that it says leaves Google's Istio and Ambient eating dust
Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2024 | 9
Chinese satellite broadband launch rocket breaks up into space junk
Asia In Brief Plus: Vietnam's PM leads chips push; Tesla backs out of Thailand; Drones fly trash off Everest; and more
Science12 Aug 2024 | 25
Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours
On Call I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. You're both annoying me
Software09 Aug 2024 | 114
HP Inc loves China – but wants to reduce the risks it presents
Amid reports that plenty of PC production will shift elsewhere, supply chain boss emphasizes agility
Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 9
China’s preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0
Middle Kingdom netizens can look forward to the same kind of letdown Windows users get with Copilot
OSes08 Aug 2024 | 7
ICANN reserves .internal for private use at the DNS level
Vint Cerf revealed Google already uses the string, as do plenty of others
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2024 | 67
Intel: Our balance sheet is a smoking ruin, but we think our new chips work
18A process delivers bootable Panther Lake AI PC processor and Clearwater Forest server silicon
Systems07 Aug 2024 | 18
Supermicro CEO teases service to build or upgrade datacenters in six months
Doubles annual revenue, but warns repeating that will be hard while waiting until March for Nvidia Blackwell
Cloud Infrastructure Month07 Aug 2024 | 2
Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip
Sigcomm 2024 Focus on physical ports helped spot issues across 100,000 switches and a million servers
Networks07 Aug 2024 | 5
Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo
Sigcomm 2024 That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 25
Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership
The smartphone strikes again! And so might the Reg Standards Bureau, with your help
Offbeat06 Aug 2024 | 49
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency
Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3
Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers
Happy to have 'em go hybrid as it wises up to the enterprise
Applications05 Aug 2024 | 9
Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project
On Call The minutes before a maintenance window closes are maybe not the best time to re-learn obscure router syntax
Offbeat02 Aug 2024 | 195
Amazon: Our cloud growth just sped up. Did you know we are also quite a big retailer?
Reveals Kuiper broadband sats to fly later this year and solid Q2 sales
Cloud Infrastructure Month02 Aug 2024 | 9
First-time buyers, especially in China, help Apple to quarterly revenue record
iPhone cash is a little off, but AI might just turn that around
Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 4
Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency
Meanwhile, US apparently considers further AI hardware sanctions
Cyber-crime01 Aug 2024 | 10
Xen hypervisor quadruples its possible core count for version 4.19
Pesky test infrastructure woes seem to be solved, too
Virtualization01 Aug 2024 | 4
Meta to boost training infra for Llama 4 tenfold, maybe deliver it next year
Sweet sweet GenAI money not yet flowing, Zuck reckons other ML efforts are paying off
AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 4
Biting the hand that feeds IT
