Transformation

So you're planning on outsourcing some enterprise security

Should you keep your in-house crew? What's your plan...
14 Comments
23 Aug 08:25

Berners-Lee and the open-data bunch: £60k for your best collab dataset register ideas

Open Data Institute to fund R&D to get orgs to play nicely
10 Aug 09:53

Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

You live on a steaming dunghill of complexity, vendors want to keep you there and your CIO's way out is early retirement
28 Comments
24 Jul 02:00

HPE PointNext globo boss grilled by El Reg

InterviewYes, there was a lot of cheese
11 Jul 08:35

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

Reg LecturesLet’s leave the polyamorists out of this for now
21 Jun 11:17

So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

Waiting for the next industrial revolution. Still waiting...
47 Comments
07 Jun 09:01

HPE: You're rubbish at hybrid cloud – so we'll cook a NüStack to fix it

HPE Discover 2017Spinning up VMs is so 2010. What you need now are services
06 Jun 06:32

HPE claims new gen-10 ProLiants have more mem persistence, more secure server firmware

Will they live up to the promise, though?
15 Comments
05 Jun 21:00

Who's going to dig you out of a security hole when the time comes?

Finding a partner – what to check for
13 Comments
02 Jun 15:57

BA IT systems failure: Uninterruptible Power Supply was interrupted

AnalysisPotentially by a panicking contractor, if reports are to be believed
255 Comments
02 Jun 13:56

Performance anxiety: A different take on 'hybrid infrastructure'

Who're you calling remote?
01 Jun 08:32

Ransomware realities: In your normal life, strangers don't extort you. But here you are

No crying at the back
34 Comments
30 May 13:26
Switch

BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

UpdatedAll flights from Gatwick and Heathrow were cancelled on 27 May
480 Comments
27 May 18:41
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LinkedIn finds friends to join its 'Open19' data centre standards effort

Stacks up against Open Compute with one design for data centres of all sizes plan
24 May 06:15
Shouting match

'The internet is slow'... How to keep users happy, get more work done

Get the basics right
24 Comments
23 May 08:02

Opinion

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So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

Waiting for the next industrial revolution. Still waiting...

Who's going to dig you out of a security hole when the time comes?

Finding a partner – what to check for
13 Comments
02 Jun 15:57
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Performance anxiety: A different take on 'hybrid infrastructure'

Who're you calling remote?
01 Jun 08:32
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Clouds' crazy kinks can spin your wheels and lead you to mistakes

You're not helping by allowing server sprawl and ignoring backup, though
17 May 05:54

News

Uncle Sam drags feet on govt data center cull

Not enough agencies tightening their belts, say auditors
22 May 13:03

Horse named 'Cloud Computing' finds burst of speed to beat 'Classic Empire' in actual race

We can't make this stuff up: Triple Crown race 'Preakness Stakes' goes to cloudy outsider
35 Comments
21 May 02:27

Clouds' crazy kinks can spin your wheels and lead you to mistakes

You're not helping by allowing server sprawl and ignoring backup, though
17 May 05:54

Partners? With them? No way, says HPE of Nutanix

Nutanix sure is good at getting under rivals' skin
18 Comments
08 May 07:31

How do ransomware scum decide what to charge you? The Big Mac index

Yep, Fatboy slim-e are reading The Economist
05 May 11:01

Intel gives Xeon a makeover to bring us colour-coded clouds

Any Chipzilla kit for data centres are now members of the 'Xeon Scalable Family'
04 May 12:01

Are you ready to transform?

SponsoredCome and have a go, if you think you’re hard enough
28 Apr 10:26

Have we got a new, hip compound IT phrase for you! Enter... UserDev

Yes, the pesky creatures that break your code are often worth listening to
36 Comments
20 Apr 09:33

You just sent an on-prem app to the cloud and your data centre has empty racks. What now?

It's too warm to store booze. Renting it out is risky. Slowing things down can do the job
19 Comments
20 Apr 07:32

How to breathe new life into your legacy kit now you've gone hybrid

Hold fire on the euthanasia
19 Apr 08:03

So, you're 'ISO 27001 accredited', huh? Just saying so doesn't cut it

All the hoops and how to jump through them on your way to information security
22 Comments
18 Apr 10:32

Microsoft raises pistol, pulls the trigger on Windows 7, 8 updates for new Intel, AMD chips

Don't want to use Windows 10? Then you don't want any fixes
231 Comments
13 Apr 23:37
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Gartner halves tech splash forecasts, blames the US dollar

Listen El Reg, our WW Spending Forecast is based on 'proven methodologies... not guesswork. OK?'
11 Comments
10 Apr 14:37
Jerry Maguire

Who really gives a toss if it's agile or not?

CommentJust show me the money!
72 Comments
10 Apr 08:00
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The 'data driven enterprise' is actually just the enterprise

Making the qualitative quantitative
27 Mar 09:21
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Converged systems market is so hot it just went backwards

FY 2016 was okay, but Q4 was ugly, which may explain the SimpliVity fire sale and Nutanix's revenue warning
27 Mar 00:58
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Defence in Depth: A 'layered' strategy can repel cold attackers

Yes, a vest, cardigan and an overcoat
11 Comments
23 Mar 09:26
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Surprise! Thanks to the cloud, you've got a hybrid infrastructure

Don't be bitten by the differences
22 Mar 09:06
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Police Scotland and Accenture were at odds over ill-fated IT project i6

Audit uncovers rows over what was required, deliverable

HPE gobbles Nimble Storage for $1.2bn

Flash array maker to give infrastructure biz a shot in the arm
31 Comments
07 Mar 15:21

Big data should be 'part of UK's core national infrastructure' – Civil Service chief exec

There's an app that maps public toilets – how could it not be core infrastructure?
14 Comments
21 Feb 15:01

Hyperconverged market gets hyper-competitive as new riders enter field

AnalysisBut they'll be hard-pressed to catch Dell and Nutanix
17 Feb 11:52
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