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Borg plans 'AI-assisted operations in IT', but first we get new HCI boxen for ROBO

Cisco will next week reveal something called “Project Starship” that it promises will allow greater and easier automation of UCS servers and its HyperFlex hyperconverged appliances, no matter if they run in the data centre, remote office or a small business.…

Patches for servers and clients

OpenVPN has patched another round of security vulnerabilities, turned up by a researcher independently of the organisation's 2016/17 code audit.…

International Trade Commission says its kit should be fine to import again

Arista's long slog back to the shelves in America continues with an initial determination from the International Trade Commission okaying its product redesign.…

Senate Intelligence Committee frustrated by lack of details

Russian attempts to hack key US election systems are more advanced than first thought, according to testimony by Homeland Security officials in Congress on Wednesday.…

No wonder they're trying to get away from on-prem

Oracle says it has finally turned the corner with its cloud compute transition as it reports big gains for the business, both in the quarter and the fiscal year.…

Grab your camping gear and prepare for August 21

America will witness, for the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse stretching from coast to coast on August 21.…

Government senators play the 'this is fine' card

Federal Government senators have rejected a Senate report that describes its “robo-debt” program as “set up to fail”.…

Government senators play the 'this is fine' card

Federal Government senators have rejected a Senate report that describes its “robo-debt” program as “set up to fail”.…

Retail giant prefers partners not feed Amazon their cloud cash

Retail giant Walmart says it doesn't want its developer partners using Amazon Web Services to host their cloud apps.…

Benchmarks aren't useful anyway, says cofounder

On Tuesday OnePlus launched its latest smartphone with much hoopla, and the handset has already found notoriety.…

Did it decorate notices with glitter and sparkles?

Arts and crafts market Etsy announced today that it is cutting more workers in an effort to get its finances back on track.…

'This deal is the coming of age of the offensive security model'

Cybersecurity startup Cybereason is looking to go to the next level after securing $100m in funding from SoftBank.…

No you can't have full specs or pricing until next month

The first fruit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s buy of SGI is set to hit the streets in July with the release of a high performance system - the HPE SGI 8600.…

Take a deep breath. You might have to hold it for a while

The US Air Force has today restarted flights of F-35As that were grounded by oxygen supply problems, even as it admits that it still doesn’t know what caused the life support systems to malfunction.…

Podcast Plus: Amazon's Whole Foods move, pizza on Mars, Uber chaos, and more

On-premises data centre not such a big deal any more, it seems

Analysis NAS acceleration and cloud on-ramp supplier Avere is facing a surging cloud on-ramp business, now at parity with its data centre business, and growing much faster, with a Google relationship looking key.…

Issue ongoing since last week

Certain TalkTalk customers have been unable to load Amazon's website since last week.…

How does that rank on the Morissette Scale?

The operation behind the UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered a breach exposing the email addresses of registered consultancies, it told them today.…

It's raining money from that sweet, sweet cloud

Adobe has locked customers into its cloud services, and the fluffy white stuff has continued to, well, fluff up both its top and bottom lines.…

No minivans or sedans rolled out of plant for 24 hours

Honda said today that it had briefly halted operations at a car plant in Sayama, Japan earlier this week because of the infamous WannaCrypt ransomware.…