Moving from the data centre you have - to the data centre you need
Your data centres are stuck in a rut. Although 90 per cent have had an upgrade in the last three years, the data centre you have isn’t the data centre you want.
If you want to build for tomorrow, you shouldn't start from here.
The hidden problem is the invisible glue: your network. It was hell to set up. It’s difficult to …
Live Reg TV: Windows Azure on your terms
On October 10 at 11:00 BST,we’re broadcasting a live, hands-on training session on Windows Azure that you can enjoy for free from the comfort of your own chair.
The session will show how to get started with Windows Azure, and gives an overview of its key features – particularly the recently released Infrastructure-as-a-Service …
Live TODAY at 11:00 BST: What's the fuss about flash memory?
Firstly, to be clear, we're talking about flash of the memory hardware variety, not the software behind those annoying animated ads. This is one of those topics that everyone has heard about, most people have opinions on, but in which myths and misunderstanding are rife.
Broadcast live today online at 11:00 BST, we're going to …
Continuous delivery: Can IT really 'join up' Ops and Dev?
The Register will be tackling continuous delivery in our latest Live Chat, today at 14:00 BST (9:00 EST).
Join Adrian Bridgwater, Trevor Pott, Freeform Dynamics' Analyst Dale Vile and Perforce's Mark Warren to discuss this significant trend in software development and deployment.
The Reg’s group editor Joe Fay will be your host …
Microsoft Exchange: To host or not to host
Webcast To host or not to host: cloud is the question. With the recent release of Exchange 2013 and Wave 15 of Office 365, you probably have a choice to make in the near future, particularly if you're one of the huge number who also use Exchange for messaging.
Do you migrate to the newest version of Exchange, migrate to the …
Win a top of the range Ultrabook with HP and The Register
HP is running a major online event for the US and European tech communities.
Sign up to attend HP's free Power to Change event on September 10 or October 1 and you could win a top of the range HP Spectre Ultrabook. (The Register is a media partner - and this is our second promo.)
Here's the drill:
Changes in technology are …
Why all the fuss about flash? Pin your ears back and find out
Just to be clear, we're talking about flash of the hardware variety, not the software behind those annoying animated ads. This is one of those topics that everyone has heard about, most people have opinions on, but where myths and misunderstandings are rife.
In our next live Regcast on September 17 at 11:00 BST, we're going to …
Microsoft Exchange: To host or not to host
Webcast To host or not to host: cloud is the question. With the recent release of Exchange 2013 and Wave 15 of Office 365, you probably have a choice to make in the near future, particularly if you're one of the huge number who also use Exchange for messaging.
Do you migrate to the newest version of Exchange, migrate to the …
HP goes virtual with online tech conference for all
HP is running a virtual conference for the US and European tech communities and it is a biggie.
Sign up to attend HP's free Power to Change event on September 10 or October 1 and you could win a Samsung 40in LED TV. (The Register is a media partner - and this is our promo.)
Here's the drill:
Changes in technology are …
Continuous delivery: Can IT really 'join up' Ops and Dev?
The Register will be tackling continuous delivery in our latest Live Chat, on September 13 14:00 BST.
Join Adrian Bridgwater, Trevor Pott, Freeform Dynamics' Analyst Dale Vile and Perforce's Mark Warren to discuss this significant trend in software development and deployment.
The Reg’s group editor Joe Fay will be your host for …
Microsoft Exchange: To host or not to host
To host or not to host: cloud is the question. With the recent release of Exchange 2013 and Wave 15 of Office 365, you probably have a choice to make in the near future, particularly if you're one of the huge number who also use Exchange for messaging.
Do you migrate to the newest version of Exchange, migrate to the cloud and …
One day your datacentre will get you to the pub on time
You are an IT manager and it is late Friday afternoon. You are in the lift descending from the fifth floor and you can already hear the gentle buzz of your friendly local bar. But then the lift stops at level three and the director of human resources gets in.
“I’ve been meaning to talk to you,” she says.“Can you explain why I’m …
Why all the fuss about flash? Pin your ears back and find out
Just to be clear, we're talking about flash of the hardware variety, not the software behind those annoying animated ads. This is one of those topics that everyone has heard about, most people have opinions on, but where myths and misunderstandings are rife.
In our next live Regcast on September 17 at 11:00 BST, we're going to …
What's the most secure desktop operating system?
The debates about whether Macs are actually more secure than PCs, and whether Linux really is the daddy when it comes to bullet-proof desktop computing, have played out in articles and comments right here on this site on many occasions.
But is inherent security a meaningful concept? Perhaps a better question is how easily " …
OpenStack: Is it open for business?
Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system.
Backers claim that it’s the disruptive technology that the cloud needs. but is it ready to deploy, and do you have the skills?
Don’t panic: The Reg is here to explain. Our next …
Virtualisation: Where are my savings?
Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save from virtualisation. It seemed so plausible, but for most of us the savings never arrived. Why not? And what can we do about it?
Good news: if you’re using VMware for virtualisation and Windows Server 2012, someone has finally worked out how to make …
Opportunity knocks? Four jobs for your perusal
Monday and time for our regular outing with reed.co.uk, The Register's UK recruitment partner. Four jobs are presented for your perusal.
The Hood Group, a household insurance company headquartered in Southend, is hunting for a group IT director. Responsibilities include the successful delivery of software development, ensuring …
Virtualisation: Where are my savings?
Three years ago you listened to vendors telling you how much we would all save from virtualisation. It seemed so plausible, but for most of us the savings never arrived. Why not? And what can we do about it?
Good news: if you’re using VMware for virtualisation and Windows Server 2012, someone has finally worked out how to make …
Hands on: Hyper-V 3.0, virtual machine high availability and disaster recovery
Following the success of our first ever Hands on Regcast, we're firing up QA’s Paul Gregory once more to go deep into another feature of Windows Server 2012: using Hyper-V 3.0 to increase the availability of Virtual Machines.
During the hour we will show how the changes in failover clustering and the improvements in scalability …
Career opportunities, the ones that sometime knock
Monday morning and time for our weekly promo with reed.co.uk, our UK recruitment partner. Here are four positions for your perusal. Also scroll down to enter our prize draw.
Architas, part of the AXA insurance group, wants a lead developer to run the development of legacy and new applications and on-going maintenance of IT …
BYOD beyond the noise
A lot has been said about the strategic advantages (and problems) of BYOD, but much less about how to build a wireless infrastructure for it. Good job we're here to put that right.
Join Trevor Kelly and Andy Cooper from HP, and Dale Vile from Freeform Dynamics live today, as they set out the essentials of what will make BYOD …
OpenStack: Is it open for business?
Proprietary cloud threatens lock-in, higher cost and application silos. There is an alternative: OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system. Backers claim that it’s the disruptive technology that the cloud needs. but is it ready to deploy, and do you have the skills?
Don’t panic: the Reg is here to explain. Our next …
Don't like Mondays? Check out the job boards
In this week's selection of vacancies from the jobs boards of reed.co.uk, our UK recruitment partner, we present the following:
Unibet is looking for Oracle database developer to work for a data warehousing team at its Wimbledon office. You need three years-plus experience of working with Oracle databases. Salary is £35K-£42K. …
El Reg drills into Office 365: Unified communications
In the fourth and final video of our short how-to series on Office 365, Trevor Pott explores the software's unified communications' capabilities.
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Live Reg TV: We tour Server 2012's Hyper-V 3 and high availability
On 18 June at 10:00 BST we've got our Tim Phillips and QA’s Paul Gregory diving into another feature of Windows Server 2012: using Hyper-V 3.0 to increase the availability of virtual machines.
During the hour we will run through the improvements to system scalability, the failover cluster engine's ability to perform in-guest …
The Cloud OS: PR fluff or tech awesomeness?
We asked three experts, an analyst, a sysadmin, and a vendor consultant, to give us their views on what, exactly, is the cloud OS, or cloud operating environment, and why would anyone need it? Their contributions are below.
Dale Vile, CEO of Freeform Dynamics
To answer this question we must consider the context. In a recent Reg …
A couple of whitepapers about SIEM
In our first visit to the Reg whitepaper library in some time, we took time out to inspect the security pitches. Here is a couple of vendor papers about SIEM (security information and event management) software that we thought deserved a wider airing. Registration is, as per usual, required.
Data control in the cloud
This …
Jobs: Bored? Time to hit the jobs board
And so to work with our twice-monthly trawl of the jobs boards of reed.co.uk, The Register's UK recruitment partner.
We have come up with four jobs for your inspection.
Tui Travel is looking for a web developer to work in Wimbledon at Fan Travel, a joint venture company. The ideal candidate will have a “strong knowledge of …
Virtual machine high availability and disaster recovery
On the 18th of June at 10:00BST we're firing up our own Tim Phillips and QA’s Paul Gregory to dive into another feature of Windows Server 2012: using Hyper-V 3.0 to increase the availability of Virtual Machines.
During the hour we will show how the changes in failover clustering and the improvements in scalability, in the …
Missed the Hyper V Virtual machine migration training?
Last week we had a record-breaking number of readers, more than 1,800, tune in to enjoy our free live training offer - delivered with aplomb by QA's Paul Gregory and our own Tim Phillips. Today you can watch the recorded version - all the fun, but with no live Q&A, obviously.
The virtual machine migration options have completely …
You're going on a job hunt: Time to catch a big one?
Fresh from our twice-monthly raid of our UK jobs partner reed.co.uk we have found four dev positions, all in the south of England, for your delectation.
Simply Health in Andover is looking for an Oracle Systems Developer, with a minimum of three years’ “full lifecycle development experience extending across large Oracle Systems …
El Reg drills into Office 365: Email migration
Spinning up a new instance of Office 365 to provide email for a brand new domain is easy; migrating email from existing domains is not.
If you're a systems administrator who can count to 10 more or less accurately you're probably okay to dive in, but the everyday non-technical user will still find it a bit of a struggle.
In the …
Attention large Linux workloads
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers power, security, administration licensing and management benefits – but, in an x86 world, many IT departments simply don’t consider running their Linux apps on anything but traditional servers.
IBM’s system z platform offers the …
BYOD beyond the noise
A lot has been said about the strategic advantages (and problems) of BYOD, but much less about how to build a wireless infrastructure for it. Good job we're here to put that right.
Join Trevor Kelly and Andy Cooper from HP, and Dale Vile from Freeform Dynamics, as they set out the essentials of what will make BYOD work: the …
Win a Nexus 7 with reed.co.uk and The Register
reed.co.uk and The Register have teamed again up to offer Reg readers in the UK another opportunity to win a shiny Nexus 7 tablet.
To enter, all you need to do is sign up for reed.co.uk’s jobs by email service using the short form below. reed.co.uk will then send you only the jobs you're interested in as and when new …
El Reg drills in Office 365: See the evidence
This week, Trevor Pott kicked off his exploration of Office 365 with this overview.
Trevor and his team-mate Josh Folland have also produced four hands-on videos for Office 365. We will broadcast these over the next week or so – all free, all on demand.
Here is the first, an Office 365 tutorial.
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Time to get your hands on Hyper-V 3.0: Let's do this
At last, our eagerly awaited live training session with the tech gurus from QA training is ready to roll.
Kick off is 11am BST, right here. Get comfy, fire up your machine, and prep your questions. Come 11am, hit the button on the player below.
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Final call – free Hyper V training
When we do our broadcasts we’re often asked if we can show you how to use the abilities that our experts describe. So, tomorrow at 11:00 BST we’ve got 60 minutes of live training on how to take advantage of the improvements and new features of virtual machine migration with Hyper-V 3.0 and Windows Server 2012.
We’re teaming up …
Got that Monday morning feeling?
Twice a month The Register highlights some tech vacancies gleaned from the jobs board of reed.co.uk, our UK recruitment partner.
In today's outing we swoop on four permie open positions, in London, Manchester, Ipswich and Surrey.
Osborne, a large property company, is recruiting an Applications Support Analyst, to work in …
Deep, deep dive: Hyper-V
Next week, on the 17th May at 11am, we will show you how to take advantage of the improvements and new features of virtual machine migration with Hyper-V 3.0 and Windows Server 2012.
Our award-winning Regcasts crew is teaming up with training provider QA to do the deepest of deep dives for you. And you can join in, for free here …
Attention large Linux workloads
Evidence from users in the real world shows that for large workloads, the mainframe offers power, security, administration licensing and management benefits – but, in an x86 world, many IT departments simply don’t consider running their Linux apps on anything but traditional servers.
IBM’s system z platform offers the …
Workload placement in a hybrid world
If you ask your Oracle team which infrastructure they want their databases and apps running across, they’ll tell you dedicated. Heaven forbid their IO is interfered with by a lagging virtual infrastructure.
Your Windows camp will probably allow most of their apps on virtual and private clouds. But throw the networking guys these …
Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement
You often ask us to show you how to use the abilities that our experts describe. On the 17th May, join us for an hour that will change broadcasting for ever: for 60 minutes we will show you how to take advantage of the improvements and new features of virtual machine migration with Hyper-V 3.0 and Windows Server 2012.
Our award- …
Looking for a new role? Check out these IT jobs
Twice a month The Register will showcase some tech vacancies gleaned from the jobs board of reed.co.uk, our UK recruitment partner.
In our first outing we kick off with four permie open positions, two based in London, one in Newcastle and the fourth, with The Army, which could mean anywhere.
ASOS, the online fashion retailer, …
The politics of the data centre
If you ask your Oracle team which infrastructure they want their databases and apps running across, they’ll tell you dedicated. Heaven forbid their IO is interfered with by a lagging virtual infrastructure.
Your Windows camp will probably allow most of their apps on virtual and private clouds. But throw the networking guys these …
Win a Nexus 7 with reed.co.uk and El Reg
reed.co.uk and The Register have teamed up to offer Reg readers in the UK the chance to win a shiny new Nexus 7 tablet.
To enter, all you need to do is sign up for reed.co.uk’s jobs by email service using the short form below. reed.co.uk will then send you only the jobs you're interested in as and when new opportunities that …
Workloads? It's not just what you do, it's where you do it...
Reg research shows that you are going to be mixing your platforms and deployment models in the future. So, the next question is, which apps and workloads run on which platforms? You have never had more choice.
Our next Regcast examines how you make those decisions.
You're constrained by resources, technology and politics, but …
How to introduce modern architectures and best practice to the data centre
We asked three experts, an analyst, a sysadmin, and a vendor consultant, to give us their views on how best to introduce major changes to data centre operations. Their contributions are below.
Tony Lock, programme director, Freeform Dynamics
It is a standing joke in IT that the answer to the question of how to arrive at the …
Technical architects ahoy!
We’ve teamed up with IASA, the Global IT Architect Association,to promote its April event and have bagged a sizeable discount for any current or aspiring technical architects who’d like to attend.
The event is in London this month, on April 25 and 26, at the Cavendish ConAndrew Searle, High Performance Computing, Jaguar Land …
The Register guide to Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V
In February we published the The Register Guide to Windows Server 2012 as a free ebook. (You can get it here via our ebooks page.)
To date there has been about 8,000 downloads. To give you a flavour of the book, co-written by Trevor Pott and Liam Proven, we are publishing our third and final extract, about Hyper-V - but to read …
