VMware migrations will be long, expensive, and risky, warns Gartner
And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon
Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 9
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TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan
Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next
Off-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 4
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency emerges with tech modernization mission
US Digital Service re-named and told to audit government tech and work on data-sharing
Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 26
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale
Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy
Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 6
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Columnists20 Jan 2025 | 75
When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight
Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company
Software20 Jan 2025 | 4
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark
Public Sector20 Jan 2025 | 112
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight
On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device
Storage17 Jan 2025 | 81
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops
Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats
Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 7
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero
Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
Science17 Jan 2025 | 107
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 11
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit
As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter
Science16 Jan 2025 | 13
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register
Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off
Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot
In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now
Virtualization16 Jan 2025 | 31
Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it
Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 6
Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing
No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year
Offbeat15 Jan 2025 | 91
Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible
This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 8
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover
Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays
Bootnotes15 Jan 2025 | 53
Intel’s datacenter architecture boss and Xeon lead jumps to Qualcomm
Sailesh Kottapalli sees ‘a once-in-a-career opportunity’ at the house of Snapdragon – maybe server CPUs or AI silicon?
Systems14 Jan 2025 | 1
Sonos CEO steps down after smart speaker app upgrade hit bum note
Board appoints interim leader to stay in tune with its turnaround song, both execs hear sweet sound of cash landing in the bank
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 37
In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team
Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time
AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 10
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist
Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous
Databases13 Jan 2025 | 58
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission
Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 37
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 62
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI
Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger
SaaS13 Jan 2025 | 125
TSMC revenue booms and you don’t need AI to figure out why
Asia In Brief PLUS: China plans unified APIs; Singapore lets Police run scam victims’ bank accounts; Fujitsu now too cool for aircon
Systems12 Jan 2025 | 6
Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'
On Call Screenshot showed it wasn't a possible attack – unless you qualify everything Google does as a threat
SaaS10 Jan 2025 | 79
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader?
Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?
Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach
Offbeat10 Jan 2025 | 66
Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung
CES Lenovo’s already showing them off in a bonkers laptop
Personal Tech10 Jan 2025 | 41
Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners
Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that
Channel09 Jan 2025 | 7
Japanese police claim China ran five-year cyberattack campaign targeting local orgs
‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which may be worrying
Security09 Jan 2025 | 6
Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design
Third-gen Xiangshan may be close to performance of Arm’s made-for-HPC Neoverse 2
Systems08 Jan 2025 | 11
Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing
Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits
Security08 Jan 2025 | 4
Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars
Remember humanoid bot ‘Asimo’, which could kick balls and pour beer? It survives as EV software
AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 9
Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn't qualify for Microsoft's 'Copilot+ PC' badge
CES TOPS, SCHMOPS, says Chipzilla, our NPUs may be slow but that doesn't matter
Systems07 Jan 2025 | 19
US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies
This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft
Security07 Jan 2025 | 13
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride
Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts
Systems07 Jan 2025 |
Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken
Who, Me? Weird syntax AND/OR a junior techie can be very bad for business
Devops06 Jan 2025 | 81
Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July
Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan?
Virtualization06 Jan 2025 | 5
Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables
More evidence of Beijing’s liking for gray zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements?
Security06 Jan 2025 | 13
Tech support warrior left cosplay battle and Trekked to the office
On Call Set aside the bat'leth to fix trivial problem for p'takh
On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 69
Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers?
The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it
Personal Tech02 Jan 2025 | 32
After a long lunch, user thought a cursor meant their computer was cactus
On Call Reg-reading heroes snacked on their woes and solved problems with extreme speed
On-Prem27 Dec 2024 | 94
Techie fluked a fix and found himself the abusive boss's best friend
On Call And there his troubles began …
Software20 Dec 2024 | 125
Rocks from Chinese Moon mission suggest Luna's history needs revision
Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade
Science20 Dec 2024 | 18
Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger
The EV race is well and truly running, and no-one wants to be left in the dust
Personal Tech19 Dec 2024 | 105
Supreme Court to hear TikTok's appeal against law that would force it to shut, or sell
Will consider free speech arguments just nine days before the clock runs out
Legal19 Dec 2024 | 40
Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate
If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony
Off-Prem18 Dec 2024 | 70
Taiwan in talks to tap Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband
In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos
Networks18 Dec 2024 | 6
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them
Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20
BlackBerry offloads Cylance's endpoint security products to Arctic Wolf
Fresh attempt to mix the perfect cocktail of IoT and Infosec
Security17 Dec 2024 | 1
Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware
Exclusive Distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return', chip giant says it 'continues to refine' its channel
Virtualization16 Dec 2024 | 18
China's homebrew Bluetooth alternative is on the march as Beijing pushes universal remotes
'Star Flash' is said to include 5G tech and leave rival wireless protocols struggling in the crack of a sofa
Personal Tech16 Dec 2024 | 54
Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs
Asia In Brief Plus: China wants to end AI mashups of classic vids; TSMC set to open Japan fab; and more
On-Prem16 Dec 2024 | 51
Backup failed, but the boss didn't slam IT – because his son was to blame
On Call ISP deserves criticism too for falling over after script kiddie beefing
Networks13 Dec 2024 | 31
Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped
Chip side of the biz expects to take lion's share of hyperscalers' $60-90 billion XPU spend in 2027, helped by 3nm models coming next year
Virtualization13 Dec 2024 | 21
North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years
DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers
Cyber-crime13 Dec 2024 | 2
Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch
If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish
Legal12 Dec 2024 | 71
Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers
Acquires two companies that help those on the nice list keep naughty list types at bay
Virtualization12 Dec 2024 |
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