Win a monster laptop
Competition Samsung RF711 17.3in Core i7 up for grabs
We've got a beast of a laptop to give away for free as part of our Reg Hardware competition.
If you're looking for something that packs a punch and half, this should be just the fillip. It's the afore mentioned Samsung RF711 17.3in Core i7 which should be more than enough wallop for most of your needs.
It'll take approximately …
The Register is rocking on Windows Phone 7
App of the week?
We’re gradually updating our mobile app efforts. First out of the gate is this beauty for Windows Phone 7.
El Reg news rolls on Windows Phone
It’s a jazzy little number in a sleek black outfit delivering you all of our content from the convenience of your Win 7 phone. And it's completely free.
Before you ask, yes. We did …
The Big Reg data centre survey
Calling all the unsung data centre heroes
When it comes to data centres, we know that most of you think they are pretty modern and up to date, although some tweaking wouldn’t go amiss. We also know that many of you have started consolidating servers by using virtualisation to make better use of your existing kit – and a fair number of you think that you’ve got about as …
How to manage IT like a (service) pro
Live broadcast Can corporate IT learn from managed service providers?
On April 17th at 10:00 BST, we’ve got a live broadcast featuring a service management workshop.
Organisations are often told that running their IT as a service is the right thing to do, but how realistic is this and what does it mean in practice?
How exactly do service providers operate, and how do their best practices map to …
Is private cloud the next step for the data centre?
I can see clearly now
The Register has constructed a lovely survey about Private Cloud, which will form the basis of a freely available report that will be published in the coming weeks. The survey is, admittedly quite a chunky, one-pager and will take maybe 10mins of your time.
[We do quite a lot of studies with our readers and they’re all available …
Unlocking value with Business Intelligence
Live today Initiatives that work for you
Live today at 11:00GMT El Reg front-man Jon Collins is packing our studio with some information management experts that we hope will give you a leg-up on your BI initiatives.
Tony Lock from Freeform Dynamics is coming along with a stash-bag of findings from the latest research that many of you took part in. We’ve also got Chris …
Creating information management Initiatives that deliver
Live broadcast Ofsted, Parity and Reg readers offer advice
On March 13th at 11:00GMT El Reg front-man Jon Collins is packing our studio with some information management experts that we hope will give you a leg-up on your BI initiatives.
Tony Lock from Freeform Dynamics is coming along with a stash-bag of findings from the latest research that many of you took part in. We’ve also got …
For those thinking Private Cloud
Live event Here’s your project check list
Our very own Tim Phillips is dragging some clever sorts from the industry and beyond into a studio to talk about building private clouds. They’re remit is ‘be helpful’ and to give us a, ‘check list for building a private cloud.’ We’re hoping by the time they're finished you'll have something of a weighty steer on what it takes …
Winners and losers in the information race
Live today Information management: Is IT being asked the impossible?
Involved in information management? Then join us live today at 11:00 GMT, as we discuss the findings from the latest Reg research and offer tips and techniques on good information practice.
Today's Regcast features research lead Martha Bennett from Freeform Dynamics, Jason Frost from Blueprint, which specialises in helping …
Information management in financial services
Déjà vu all over again?
Involved in information management? Then join us on January 25 at 11:00 GMT, when we discuss the findings from the latest Reg research and offer tips and techniques on good information practice.
This Regcast features research lead Martha Bennett from Freeform Dynamics, Jason Frost from Blueprint, which specialises in helping …
Think twice before moving to SaaS office
Reg Reader Study Benefits available, but must do homework
We all have enough scars to remember that when it comes to core email and office productivity capabilities, migrations are never as easy as they seem. So when SaaS vendors claim that they can magically make things cheaper and simpler we know that it may not be quite that smooth in practice. So what's the real deal when it comes …
El Reg takes man for romantic weekend for two at Intel chip factory
Fab trip to Intel Fab
So what do you get when you enter a competition on the Reg? The leftovers from the Cash and Carrion bin? Whatever unboxed review kit we’ve managed to hide from the courier?
Or a cracking weekend for two in a luxury hotel in one of the world’s liveliest cities, with a trip to Europe’s most advanced chip factory thrown in. For …
Infographic: The road to desktop virtualisation
We're on a road to somewhere
So much been said over the years about desktop virtualisation, so many claims, so much noise, so much clutter.
Let us to bring some clarity to the proceeding with a cunning diagram that demonstrates the familiar options, the uptake, some of the challenges - and we've even sprinkled it with some top drawer advice from our experts …
It's the customer, not stupid
Broadcast Data deluge, data desert, or both?
Organisations of all shapes and sizes know they can no longer just spend money on new technology, especially in the light of today's economic travails.
Such an approach, common enough, results in information and process silos. Not good. With the information deluge getting every more deluge-y, and with belts tightening and …
Couldn't be there? Our conference vids for you
The Register and Intel LIVE 2011
Last week The Register teamed up with Intel to put on an all-day conference in Millbank, central London. We had a great line-up of speakers, which included Professor Brian Cox and security God Bruce Schneier - for me a stand-out.
We filmed the proceedings for those of you who couldn't be there. The event went down a storm with …
Driving customer focus with information
Broadcast Big data to the rescue?
Given today's economic background, organisations of all shapes and sizes are recognising they can no longer just spend money on new technology. While prevalent in the past, this approach has led to information and process silos that can be a long way from optimal. With quantities of information continuing to increase, but with …
Business Cloud Summit preps for launch
Countdown begins
It’s called the Business Cloud Summit and it’s about how Cloud Computing changes the way we all do business. But what about the technology behind the Cloud that enables us to realise the potential of the Cloud model – and the people who deploy and develop that technology?
This year’s Business Cloud Summit in London on December 5 …
Flex your tech for remote working goodness
Live Today Half Man Half Laptop
Remote workers need support and training. The IT department needs to secure their devices and fix them when they go wrong. Consumer devices need to be integrated, and business systems need to be re-engineered.
But that's not all. Research shows that remote working demands a whole new set of skills from the staff - time …
Tech productivity tactics
Broadcast Home improvements for the perfect flexible worker
It's clear that there are fundamental changes happening in the way people, and businesses, want to work. The relentless pace of technology developments has given us ever better and more connected notebooks, and now smartphones and tablets. This means we can work wherever and whenever it suits.
That's all well and good, but just …
What happens when users are left to their own devices?
Broadcast The changing shape of practices
It's clear that there are fundamental changes happening in the way people, and businesses, want to work. The relentless pace of technology developments has given us ever better and more connected notebooks, and now smartphones and tablets. This means we can work wherever and whenever it suits.
That's all well and good, but just …
The Register goes Live on 22 Nov 2011
Brian Cox, Genevieve Bell and Bruce Schneier in waiting
We’ve got five places left* for what promises to be the sci-tech event of the year – The Register and Intel Live 2011.
It’s going to be a day with El Reg and some of the brightest brains in science and technology, and it’s all happening by the Thames.
We have Professor Brian Cox, from the telly, Mr (Security) Bruce Schneier and …
It's time to rethink storage management
So say the experts
In these cash-strapped times spending you way out of a data boom isn't as easy as it was so last week we packed our studio with 3 storage experts to talk through the alternatives.
Jon Collins from Inter Orbis hosted the gig and he was joined by Tony Lock from Freeform Dynamics and Ian Shave from IBM. They look at the challenge …
The boom and bust challenge of storage management
Live today Better management = better bang per buck?
Today at 11:00 GMT we're broadcasting live from our St Paul's studio with a program, and some experts, that look at the challenges of storage management. You can join us for free from the comfort of your desk – just make sure you bring your questions along because we've got a top drawer set of presenters for you.
Jon Collins …
The storage boom and bust cycle
Broadcast Save cash, manage better
Tomorrow at 11:00 GMT we'll be broadcasting live from our St Paul's studio with a program, and some experts, that look at the challenge of improving storage management without just throwing money at it.
You can join us for free from the comfort of your desk – just make sure you bring your questions along because we've got a top …
The data boom and bust cycle
Broadcast Don't buy more, manage it better
More data more often than not means more disks. It was ever thus - but in these cash-strapped times, just buying more kit is no longer an option. But is it really that easy to stop the growth/spend cycle and make what you’ve already got work harder? Could you solve everything by throwing a bit of elastic cloud storage into the …
University of Colorado
SCC Team Profile Can veteran team finally Buffalo the competition?
The Colorado Buffaloes are one of five teams returning to the fifth annual Student Cluster Challenge in Seattle next month during SC11. Like Purdue, Colorado has participated in every challenge but has yet to take home the gold medal. (There aren’t any gold medals awarded. Pity.)
The Buffaloes have won some awards and plaudits …
Still got too much Information
Part 2 Get over it
Welcome back to Reg Ltd, where Graham finally has his trousers on. But there's crisis in the air: ahead of the annual meeting, Ronald's slashing budgets and threatening to take the company bowling. How can Microsoft cloud technologies smooth the process of planning the budgets? How can Emily hang on to her share?
We can't do …
The rise of the modular Cloud?
Broadcast With a little help from JANET
Dr Phil Richards from Loughborough University heads into The Reg studios on October 20th at 10am (BST) to tell us how he's building modular hybrid clouds.
Dr Richards has recognised numerous challenges with ageing data centres, some of which you'll recognise and some of which you won't. One of them was that doing things the old …
Cloud on the rise (Love JANET)
Broadcast A Modular, hybrid success story
Dr Phil Richards from Loughborough University heads into The Reg studios on October 20th at 10am (BST) to tell us how he's building modular hybrid clouds.
Dr Richards has recognised numerous challenges with ageing data centres, some of which you'll recognise and some of which you won't. One of them was that doing things the old …
El Reg drives Cloud Summit
Event Possibly more accurate: Cloud Summit drives us
On December 5, London's increasingly popular annual Business Cloud Summit features a Technology and Developer stream helmed by The Register’s own Tim Phillips. For you, dear reader, that means finely tuned, guff-free content.
The theme for this year is ‘The Practical Cloud', so expect techies in suits, talking about real …
HPC and its growing reach
The Register talks HPC with Intel
El Reg's Tim Phillips talks High Performance Computing with Gordon Graylish who is the VP and GM for enterprise solutions sales.
They run through the definitions of HPC, where HPC is being used as a default, and also the potential for HPC in broader markets – particularly with HPC becoming much more accessible and affordable. …
Doing big stuff in the cloud
Live webcast Data crunching in scalable environments
At 11am today we're broadcasting live with a show that takes a different angle on cloud.
Over the last few months our broadcasts have focussed on the use of cloud for delivering internally facing services such as email and collaboration. We've also looked at how cloud can be used to achieve reach. Now we're switching our …
El Reg drives Cloud Summit
You can join us too
In December, the increasingly popular annual Business Cloud Summit will feature a Technology and Developer stream that is driven by The Register’s own Tim Phillips. Why, you might ask, does that matter? Well, it virtually guarantees the tech stream will be largely guff free and that, if nothing else, it will be a perfectly tuned …
Big data and the cloud
Broadcast Where scalability and elasticity really matter
Peter Elleby is the IT Director at natural search specialists Hydra. It’s a company that, in layman's terms, tells its client how well they perform on the web and how to improve that performance. In order to do this it’s got to crunch and parse huge volumes of unstructured data. As a start-up that would have meant a significant …
Can SaaS improve your efficiency?
Reg reader he say...
SaaS might give you more availability, it might cut your capital costs, and it might give you a big empty server room in your basement where you can play ping pong after work, but will it make your business more efficient?
That's the question IT support manager and Reg reader, Geoff Stone asked himself when DORMA UK decided that …
Consumerisation of IT: What do the end users think?
Survey The big bad IT department
We’re hearing lots of stories about the ‘consumerisation’ of IT – in other words giving users freedom to choose the equipment and online services they need to do their jobs well – and this is the topic of our latest Reg Reader survey.
We have already had a ton of responses from IT professionals - hardly surprising, given Reg …
Is using your own kit at work a good thing?
The Big Reg Consumerisation Survey
One of the latest buzzwords to contaminate this great language of ours is ‘consumerisation’. According to many marketeers, it defines the future of end user computing.
As with all good marketing terms, various definitions exist because ambiguity leaves more room for creative product positioning. Fundamentally, however, employees …
Finding the black-spots in service delivery
And what to do when you clock them
Today at 17:00BST/ 9:00PDT Reg Editor Tim Phillips is hosting a live event with Freeform Dynamics’ analyst Andy (ding ding) Buss and CA Technologies’ Patrick Ancipink. Together they'll try and help you spot, diagnose and fix the service black-spots in your business.
IT nowadays is so complex that even the best systems, operated …
Finding the black-spots in service delivery
Regcast And what to do when you clock them
IT nowadays is so complex that even the best systems, operated by the best people in the game, can have black-spots when you bring them together to deliver a service to your customers. You've no doubt experienced the problem. You're sitting in IT looking at your systems management dashboard admiring the green lights, whilst the …
Virtualising your critical apps
Broadcast: 1500BST Experts line up to offer help
Today at 3pm UK time we have a team of experts in our studio to talk about how and why you would virtualise your mission critical apps.
The Register’s Tim Phillips is your host for the hour. With him are Andrew Buss from our friends at Freeform Dynamics, Andrew Fryer from Microsoft and Alun Rogers from Risual. Between them, …
How to virtualise critical apps
Broadcast Time to get your hands dirty
Tomorrow, 12th of July, at 15:00BST we have a team of experts in our studio to talk about how and why you would virtualise your mission critical apps.
The Register’s Tim Phillips is your host for the hour. With him are Andrew Buss from our friends at Freeform Dynamics, Andrew Fryer from Microsoft and Alun Rogers from Risual. …
Going Critical
Regcast The how and why of virtualising core business applications
The first wave of virtualisation projects are done and dusted, with many applications consolidated and running (reasonably) well. But in a lot of cases the business is still looking for more - faster response times, better availability, quickfire provisioning and on-demand capacity.
Creating a dynamic infrastructure is becoming …
What's the point of data centre orchestration?
Baton twirlers start here
Flipping the script on the 80/20 rule is the idea of data centre orchestration.
It promises to take 80 per cent of the time IT departments spend fire-fighting and reallocate it to service delivery – putting big smiles on board members' faces and increasing job satisfaction in the IT department.
Good luck with that, you might …
The Co-operative on application migration
Broadcast 11:00 They tell us how they're doing it
When Reg reader Ian Cawson, technical architect for the Co-operative, was given some new projects to tackle - including CRC targets, reducing IT complexity to minimise M&A impact and a move of headquarters - he grasped the challenge with both hands and charged down to Vulture Towers to tell us all about it.
Today at 11am BST Ian …
Does Office365 keep its promises?
Broadcast 13:00 BST Find out now
The end of June marks the launch of Microsoft's biggest cloud initiative so far: Office 365. Some of you will have been playing with the beta, some of you will have it scheduled for the future, and some of you will see it implemented over your dead bodies.
Today at 13:00 BST (8AM EST) we've got Penman Designs - who have been …
The Royal Mail tells us about its private cloud projects
Broadcast: 11am A tale of virtualisation
Recently we brought you the feelgood tale "Royal Mail Moves to the Cloud" , in which intrepid Adrian Steel and his trusty sidekick Glyn Knaresborough migrated 30,000 desktops into the cumulus - and lived to tell Reg readers their heartwarming story. They were so good, we had to give them easter eggs and make them answer all the …
El Reg talks chips with Intel server strategist
Video 2nd generation
Danny Bradbury from The Register heads down to Intel to talk about the new 2nd Gen chips, the E7 family of Xeon chips, with Dylan Larson, director of server technology initiatives for Intel. ®
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Royal Mail tells The Register how it's using private cloud
Broadcast Back by public demand: this time it's virtual
Holmes and Watson. Kirk and Spock. The Chuckle Brothers. And now, Steel and Knaresborough.
Recently we brought you the feelgood tale "Royal Mail Moves to the Cloud" , in which intrepid Adrian Steel and his trusty sidekick Glyn Knaresborough migrated 30,000 desktops - and lived to tell Reg readers their heartwarming story. They …
Does Office 365 keep its promises?
Broadcast The verdict from people who know
The end of June marks the launch of Microsoft's biggest cloud initiative so far: Office 365. Some of you will have been playing with the beta, some of you will have it scheduled for the future, and some of you will see it implemented over your dead bodies.
Whatever you think about Office 365 - or if you're looking for an …
They shoot mainframes, don't they?
Rethinking big iron for the data centre
What does two and two make? The answer: a myth.
It’s a joke, but not a very funny one, for IBM’s System z team: when they talk to customers who refuse to consider a move to a mainframe environment, two and two is their objection: "it will take me two years to do it, and I’m going to spend two million dollars in the struggle," …
