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Sysadmins: Poor capacity planning is not our fault
Our latest reader survey was a little different to usual. Normally we research new stuff like the latest hot technologies and ideas. On this occasion, though, we looked at a discipline that's been around for decades – capacity planning.
Dale Vile,
05 Sep 08:07
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Beautiful, efficient, data-sucking Smart Cities: Why do you give us the creeps?
Huawei Connect
“Smart Cities” have been heavily promoted by tech giants like IBM, and the idea excites the pulse of fad-chasing technocrats and wonks.
Andrew Orlowski,
02 Sep 11:25
Cisco's upsell plan: tell you
your
old kit is not as secure as
its
new kit
Sales conference leaks also hint at mightier UCS and new customer portal
Simon Sharwood,
23 Aug 06:01
OpenFlow controller design killing SDN, say network boffins
Packet serialisation means processors waste up 20 per cent of their time
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Richard Chirgwin,
22 Aug 00:03
Cisco axes up to 5,500 workers in scramble to remain relevant
Official cull figure not quite the 14,000 rumored
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Chris Williams,
17 Aug 20:27
Light at the end of Intel's Silicon Photonics: 100Gbps network tech finally shipping, sorta
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17 Aug 17:51
Speaking in Tech: Intel joins ARMs race – even Chipzilla needs to Make All The Things
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Keep those multi-billion dollar fabs pumping
17 Aug 14:23
Chip giants pelt embedded AI platforms with wads of cash
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Shift from supercomputer to mobile continues
17 Aug 09:14
Linux Foundation becomes a PNDA-hugger
Big data network analytics platform gets the open-source embrace
17 Aug 04:58
Cisco-backed iOT comms aspirant LoRa ships IoT dev kit
Thing-makers get a bi-directional wireless standard they can all agree on
15 Aug 06:30
Boffins tweak StreaMon for the NFV era
Monitoring code put through the virtualisation atomiser
08 Aug 03:02
Juniper Networks grabs silicon photonic developer Aurrion
Optics are the most expensive bits of a switch these days and Juniper hopes vertical integration changes that
03 Aug 00:41
Fun fact of the day: Network routers are illegal in Japan
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18 Comments
02 Aug 21:36
Happy Sysadmin Day!
Today, it's all about you
24 Comments
29 Jul 11:03
Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink
Performance review sparks deletion, 110 offices knackered
81 Comments
27 Jul 18:57
Data's democratisation: Because there's no doh in Type 0
Handle me with care
26 Jul 10:03
Verizon wants to replace your net gateways with 'a simple mux'
And then pipe in virtual network functions from all the big bit-movers
25 Jul 05:57
Raving mad: Glow sticks are secret weapon in Facebook's 2.1Gbps laser internet drones
Umm-tsch umm-tsch umm-tsch umm-tsch
16 Comments
20 Jul 23:41
Internet exchange Linx cuts peering prices by 40% after rip-off claims
Did Netflix's accusations force company's hand?
10 Comments
20 Jul 19:04
BT internet outage was our fault, says Equinix
Faulty UPS takes out 10 per cent of BT customers
58 Comments
20 Jul 13:07
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Speaking in Tech: Intel joins ARMs race – even Chipzilla needs to Make All The Things
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Keep those multi-billion dollar fabs pumping
Question: What's missing in Microsoft's data science professional degree?
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Hint: It's relational
23 Comments
20 Jul 09:04
Ban ISPs from 'speeding up' the internet: Ex-Obama tech guru
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Er. What?
60 Comments
15 Jul 12:27
Hey, tech industry, have you noticed Amazon in the rearview?
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85 Comments
12 Apr 09:35
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Question: What's missing in Microsoft's data science professional degree?
Comment
Hint: It's relational
23 Comments
20 Jul 09:04
Microsoft tweaks TCP stack in Windows Server and Windows 10
Ideas dreamed up by BitTorrent and Google people should speed Windows
59 Comments
20 Jul 07:30
VMware/Cisco software-defined spat thaws as ACI comes to vSphere
The two companies are now collaborating nicely, thanks in part to an
intern
20 Jul 06:31
LTE-U vs. WiFi fight gets closer to a settlement
Broadcom brief the FCC on the last sticking point slowing spectrum-sharing agreement
12 Comments
19 Jul 05:02
Happy 50th birthday, optical fibres for telecoms
In July 1966, Charles Kao looked into glass and saw the future of telecoms
14 Comments
18 Jul 00:10
Ban ISPs from 'speeding up' the internet: Ex-Obama tech guru
Comment
Er. What?
60 Comments
15 Jul 12:27
Cisco gives you two nasty bugs to fix before the weekend
NCS 6000 and ASR 5000 routers need some lovin'
15 Jul 07:41
Boffins bash better brains into OpenFlow
When white box switches monitor themselves, packets prosper
14 Jul 07:31
AT&T's ECOMP code to land soon at Linux Foundation
Giant going MANO et MANO with pygmies
14 Jul 03:56
Juniper's bug hunters fire out eight patches
Junos OS has been put through the wringer since that nasty backdoor scandal
14 Jul 00:58
If you’re a data scientist, it’s time to experiment with some new tools
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The three Vs? Let’s start with a video
30 Jun 10:00
Loop Dreams: Top college talents showcase their skills … in cabling
Remember these names, they'll be running copper in the big leagues soon
30 Jun 06:02
Future proofing your data infrastructure? Which future were you thinking of?
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Tomorrow’s analytics depends on today’s decision
29 Jun 09:48
Juniper: Yes, IPv6 ping-of-death hits Junos OS, too
Here's some firewall rules while we work on a fix
08 Jun 02:01
Is Windows 10 ignoring sysadmins' network QoS settings?
Sysadmin fingers auto-update mechanism as source of accidental-self-DoS-hell
82 Comments
08 Jun 01:25
Picture this: Live 'net congestion maps for sysadmins
So you can know, before Twitter does
07 Jun 02:58
Three
Four top Cisco execs leave after being made 'advisors'
Updated
Senior veeps responsible for 'spin-in' acquisitions exit
07 Jun 00:56
Arista cuddles storage giants with leaf switch
Big buffers, 100 Gbps support
06 Jun 03:02
Cisco warns IPv6 ping-of-death vuln is everyone's problem
Neighbor Discovery flaw in its routers is not specific to Switchzilla's gear
The hybrid cloud wants your data
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26 May 15:05
Beleaguered 123-reg customers spot price hike
Price went up before mass deletion
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26 May 08:19
Brocade tunes up Workflow Composer for network automation
Management tools will script out admin jobs
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