Posts by Vulture@C64

What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This...

There's a difference between free speech and anonymity. If you want to say things publicly, it have to be true. This is free speech. Saying something that is untrue (if it was), isn't right and the affected person should have the right to have it taken down and an apology.

Apple and Meta trade barbs over interoperability requests

If Meta or any other company, can scan my phone and apps content, then that would be the end of a smartphone for me.

Where will it end ? After Meta, how many other companies will suddenly spring up and demand the same access, simply to sell the previously unavailable Apple content, to anybody with a cheque book ?

We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry

It's impossible the CEO, Vennels, didn't know what was going on. When you are prosecuting in court, 100s of your staff for alleged theft and bad accounting, this goes to the very top to authorise. It's just inconceivable that she was unaware, as she claims.

AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB

You've investing $$$$$$$ on a massive server, SAP, in the cloud, putting your entire business at the mercy of AWS who have 1000s of customers larger than you, so when something goes wrong, you're on the phone to AWS support, not onto your own IT manager who you know will be doing everything in his power to get the system or network back up and running.

This is where Cloud goes wrong, there are some large systems that a business is so reliant on, that they should stay in their full control - either on premise or in a data centre local to the business with support teams they can call and get immediate action.

The rental is also going to be more expensive than traditional business finance.

Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped

So a further reduction in costs, getting rid of $1.2 billion in a quarter. Well, that's confirmation from Broadcom that the higher paid devs have been let go or walked out. Maybe most of them ? With cuts like this there is no way VMware will be a viable product in 3+ years time, who is developing and researching it, building it for the future. Nobody.

Broadcom makes U-turn on plan to serve top 2,000 VMware customers itself

I suspect Broadcom has found that the support requirements for major cloud partners is complex and they don't have a value offering that works for them, so have dumped them on the partners in the hope they can discount and have additional offerings which will create more value for the customers.

The 500 they have kept will be the largest global business which will find it hardest to migrate to a different platform and will be nurtured as best a snake can nurture, probably by offering discounts because that's the language this snake speaks.

Data on 760K workers from Xerox, Nokia, BofA, Morgan Stanley and more dumped online

Data breaches of this size should end with the CEO and the CTO, at the very least, being jailed for 5 years. That's the only way these breaches will stop.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Despite their money, size, domination and being the designer of the PC CPU, Intel never managed to be a genuine innovator, like AmD or ARM, or even Motorola going far enough back. Every iteration was a bolt on the existing design, maintaining compatibility with software that hardly anybody cared about, or should have cared about.

It's sad to see a key figure in the industry ejected as an offering to the investor gods, he did a lot of good, if not ultimately taking the correct decision about 25 years ago. I await his autobiography, it will be a fascinating read.

A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat

If the first year had been such a success why did Broadcom bring back Enterprise plus ? I'll find out soon, but I wonder how much cheaper that is.

I suspect very few VMware customers use all the software stack. And VSAN ? Who uses that ? That was one of the key factors in us not buying Nutanix when we ditched VMware, it only supports local storage - or recommends only local storage.

Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini

Some of them. Probably about 7, as i said. How do you damage storage anyway ? Modern SSDs will usually cope with 1 DWPD and a desktop won’t get anywhere near that so the Apple SSD will probably last 10-15 years by which time tech will have moved on.

And despite Apple doing this, about 7 people out of the millions who buy the Mini will want to change the size of the storage.

Brit telcos to clash in high-speed mmWave spectrum showdown next year

I'd be very happy with a working, reasonably quick 4G, maybe giving me useable 20mbps in most places and no dropouts in large parts of East Anglia, Essex and Kent. That would be good for me.

You only have to go to India to see how far the UK is behind in coverage and speed. Even in the Himalayas you can get fast 5G, 120+mbps which is responsive, low latency and just works. Same in France. Why can the UK not get the same in denser populated areas with lots of installed fibre almost everywhere ?

As usual, UK regulators are just revolving doors for the money grabbers who have their tongues up the rectums of the various sectors, be it water, energy or telecoms. We are our own worst enemy.

VMware by Broadcom finds friends to advance its private cloud and AI visions

Whatever Broadcom do to try to lure people into the VMware eco system, will fail - why spend all that time certifying on a system which is dying and will be phased out by business in time ?

The Broadcom model is to squeeze and rape the sh*t out of the current customers, to the point they kill the market for the product. It's what they do. So a bigger discount on exams ? No thanks.

Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds

There has always been limited power in the UK for data centre builds, Digital Reality Meridian Gate on Marsh Wall even when it was owned by Telecity had limited power, was one of the main reasons a number of customers moved out.

New builds have been limited for some time by available power. One reason the Slough estate with Equinix and others has its own power station.

They ought to build in France were they have excess nuclear power, or maybe in the Nordic countries, good power from natural sources.

Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard

Apple do not admit that 8GB is not sufficient - it's still going to be sufficient for some people. FFS TheReg is so anti-Apple and just looks ignorant.

My mum and family will be very happy with 8GB in a Windows laptop let alone a Mac, I need 16GB because I edit videos and it's a bit faster with more memory. Why is this so difficult to understand ?

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free

Re: Very Misleading

AWS doesn't give you an IT team. You can buy consultancy at a price if you want but even if everything is in AWS you still need experienced network and firewall staff to drive it, same for AWS specific functions, OS install and configuration, specific product management like load balancers. All the people you need for on-premises you still need for AWS with the exception of the physical hardware lugging, which you get the vendor to do as has been mentioned.

What cloud gives you - they are all the same in this respect - is an easy way in for perhaps inexperienced staff to build a system which appears to be low cost but after a few years will be costing a lot more than anybody estimated. If you've got experienced staff it's going to be cheaper to build it yourself in a co-lo and use AWS perhaps as the DR failover. That would be my choice.

Or for very large enterprises that need global locations, like Spotify, but even for them, I bet they have a whole team just to keep pressure on cost and monitor exactly what's going on and the cost of AWS will be a board level topic on a regular basis.

Critical hardcoded SolarWinds credential now exploited in the wild

Which enterprise IT manager is nw going to buy Solar Winds ? It's not the being sacked that's going to hurt but the massive cleanup process.

Datacenter CEO faked top-tier IT reliability cert to snag $10.7M SEC deal, DoJ claims

It's not difficult to verify a certificate, especially when there is only one body certifying.

Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts plot

Pointless. Won't make any difference except we'll waste more time updating certs and that's where they are stolen, admins getting sloppy because the task is so brain numbing.

AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside

Broadcom doing what Broadcom does ... screwing their customers, assuming AT&T did have an option of 2 years extension, which if they're going to court over it, I suspect they did.

AT&T might have got a discount rate for VMware for years, but they're the type of customer VMware needed to help develop the product and supply stable revenue. It was a two way street until Broadcom put the no entry signs up at one end, so I'd imagine AT&T are pretty pissed off, rightly so.

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

That's what happens with Oracle, it's to be expected. You can't rely on them to implement a system, they make more money correcting mistakes they see being made than they do by doing it right the first time.

This is nothing new, this is how companies like Oracle become so large and wealthy - screwing the customer to the point they drain the cash, making it difficult to migrate elsewhere. It's one of the benefits of an ERP system, for the vendor.

Oracle urged again to give up JavaScript trademark

Asking Oracle to give away something without financial gain ? That will never happen. They are the IT company I would least like to buy from, apart from Broadcom.

As Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate, questions remain over licensing

I suspect that Oracle DB is no longer targeted by modern development, but Oracle makes a lot of business apps and ERP stuff which obviously use their own database.

Personally, with past experience of Oracle, I'd not touch it with somebody else's bargepole, but if you have legacy Oracle apps that need it or even if your business likes running on the edge, and buys Oracle apps now, it's all run on the old Orible DB.

Given the cost of running MS SQL Server in the cloud I'd be surprised if anybody was using it these days for anything other than legacy apps.

Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome

Lack of attendees is also quite possibly down to business ceasing to see VMware as a viable product to base their future on. Broadcom have reamed the heart out of VMware: support staff, R&D, gone. If it's not being developed - and Broadcom would have showcased lots of shiny new features that we want if they had them in the pipeline - it's not safe to depend on.

VMware was always dependable, it was a safe bet, if you put VMware in as your platform you could be sure the support was there, the product development was there and in 5-8 years you were not going to get sacked for buying a dead duck.

VMWare is now a dead duck. It'll be out of date in a few years, support is dependent on third parties which previously were running their own platforms, not supporting others. I don't think Broadcom realise exactly what they have done.

Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack

Geico isn't the first and wont be the last. VMware is a dead product now, you can't justify expending any serious investment into it, either time or money as in a few years it'll be old technology with most of the R&D staff let go, and the price will be increasing rapidly.

OpenStack is a fantastic tool, or set of tools, if you have the staff numbers and deep skills to make it work. I'd love to use it but we're too small and don't have the advanced skills needed. Wouldn't mind working for Geico though, the next few years is going to be exciting from a tech perspective.

VMware reveals how it will deliver Broadcom's unified hybrid cloud … sometime soon

Broadcom is desperate, offering features nobody asked for, probably with another price increase.

In the meantime Nutanix, XCP-ng et al are rolling in it, reaping the rewards of Broadcom incompetence and greed.

Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD

Broadcom telling you VMware is the future, public cloud is the bad guy. Sounds like desperation. Good.

Cloudflare calls for regulatory harmonization amid rising internet challenges

GDPR becoming a global regulation. Oh yes please !

Intel's microcode fix to save Raptor Lake chips may only work with default power settings

As ever, I suggest buying an Apple M device, much more efficient that any Intel processor and it also comers with a very lovely OS, all built in for you :)

Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS

Did the Apple iPod music player not come with music player software ?

Oh boy, all the anti-Apple people are out in force with this one !

People use Apple because, as pointed out above, it just works. It's a very safe, reliable platform and you can trust Apple with your data and credit cards.

Feel free to use Android if you want - it's your choice but don't come banging on again about how bad apple is for soldering memory or charging to use their payment services.

As for Patreon, you don't have to use Patreon, you can simply use PayPal to send a cash amount, it's even free if it comes from a Paypal balance but even PayPal charge you if the money comes from a payment card.

Life isn't free and the better services cost more than the poor ones. It's like buying food - small cafe with greasy food, £15 or a nice restaurant with quality ingredients - £40. Or are you thinking the restaurant should sell you their food at cafe price ?

Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator

It's funny, even when Google is shown to be negligent, careless and running rampant over people's data protection rights, and Apple does the opposite, TheReg still can't appreciate the benefit of using an iPhone or iPad. 9 thumbs down and just two up :). It's like having racist friends :)

Oh wait, is Apple not so nasty now, you do see the benefit of the Apple App Store. Well well well.... :)

India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months

a 16Kw rack is difficult enough to cool so 120Kw ? That's going to be crazy to cool.

US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data

I can just imagine Oracle with its fat snout at the teet of the US people again, feeding off incompetence and fear, swelling its belly whilst delivering nothing. There would be contract extension after extension, more staff needed, increase in rates and well, we tried, but the job was just too big and Bytedance kept moving the goalposts.

Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch

You have always been able to download your iCloud data, be it photos or videos to your own computer then upload them to wherever you want. That's obviously always been possible. You did know that, right ? This is not about accessing your own data, it's a mechanism to directly export data.

VMware by Broadcom makes its stack easier to live with, as promised

Installing and building VMware was never a problem - this is being done to tie in customers even tighter to VMware, make it harder to change.

What does Broadcom spend money on ? Nothing that doesn't make it harder for existing customers to leave or make VMware appear cheaper, as in look at all the useless extras we get.

How Europe can force Apple to support competition

Apple has built a very secure (in so far as it can) platform and the EU, lacking the understanding to accept that, wants to open it up, on the surface to competition, which is a good thing, but in doing so will be damaging one of the key thing that makes Apple so good, their security.

All you need do is look at another story on TheReg on. the same day, about Chrome web store vetting, to see the problem. Other manufacturers have never taken security seriously, Apple has. It's not perfect but it is a long way ahead of the rest and I don't want to see that security broken. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/23/google_chrome_web_store_vetting/

VMware revenue plunges $600M, but Broadcom assures investors growth plan is on track

Only 3000 of the largest 10k customers is a very poor result and $600m down in one quarter is also disappointing (for Broadcom) when you look at the massive price hikes many customers have had to suffer.

But I suspect doing down the route of even more layoffs and cost reductions will worry the 7K remaining customers who haven't signed up yet. Do I really want to sign up to a long term relationship with a company which is destroying the product they are being asked to buy into ? VMware is a massive product and given it sits at the core of business, needs constant development and support from motivated, well paid and supported teams and Broadcom might just be breaking that 'deal' with the staff they rely on.

Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial

Re: Hilarious

He had the money to employ sufficient lawyers to get the job done properly, most of us wouldn't have anywhere near enough cash to do that so we'd sink without sight in the US system faced with similar charges.

CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed

Re: Mind-numbing

Broadcom don't care about the long term. They have bought VMware for the short term gain, 5 years, maybe 10 at most. If it took a 27 site casino business 18 months to migrate from VMware and it's still not finished, then imagine how long it will take larger businesses like banks, insurance companies, shipping businesses, government institutions all over the world - years ! Broadcom have probably tripled their profit from VMware over night by increased revenue and reduced costs (who said support team ?) and they will rape the living poo out of VMware customers until they see profits declining and offer it for sale to another venture capital business which has a different vision and thinks it can rebuild it and create profit with a sale in 3 or 4 years.

Broadcom don't care about customers, they care about profit and giving it to shareholders whilst trimming a little of it for themselves.

Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week

I don't think t's the stability of their infrastructure, or lack of it, it's the fact they've been able to stop funding it for years, saving millions by running kit that's gradually getting older and older, so at some point they have to decide to spend large capex, or move to the cloud with a small capex and ongoing opex, which might at first appear to save money to the untrained eye, but it inevitably costs more. When you refuse to replace kit and end up with an old system, you also inevitably loose key talent you had which is important to run infrastructure, people who understand the business as well as the kit.

VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers

Re: Regarding AWS

A fight between two companies that are run by billionaires with more available credit and cash than most small countries, will always come down to who has the biggest penis !

Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO

Don't make the mistake of thinking that Broadcom won't be making a massive profit from VMware. They have deleted from their responsibility everything that doesn't create profit. They have palmed off the smaller customers to their partners to service. They have retained all the large customers which are unable to change. How long does it take a Bank or an Insurance company or a large hosting business to swap from one hypervisor to another ? It takes years, so most won't bother yet.

VMware will be worth a lot less after Broadcom have raped it, the key staff will leave, the R&D will be deleted over time, their support team has already been shrunk.

So every business has to develop a strategy for how they will delete VMware from their business as over the next 5-7 years the quality of the product will deteriorate, the support will get slower and less effective and there wont be anything new released, so it will eventually become a legacy product and you cant run a modern business on legacy systems.

VMware by Broadcom offers a lifeline to small cloud service providers

As above you have to tell the white label provider who your customers are and then pay a massive cost, if you want pay as you go it's still US$400 minimum per core per year which is for most businesses 4x or 5x what they were paying before and you have to get support from the white labeler... who may not be used to providing support on the level you may need. Most of them have very good internal tech teams for their own cloud offering but aren't used to delivering that to external customers.

Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community

Broadcom might very well make a lot of money from this venture over the next few years, there's no doubt about that, but nobody forgets being shafted, even the CEOs and CFOs of the Fortune 100 don't like it, no amount of stock options or salary or benefits make up for being made a public looser in the finance game. They won't forget and the industry won't forget.

The world is also a much smaller place than you think when it comes to the people who have the authority/money/position to spend millions of $ on IT infrastructure and they won't forget this either ! We can't stop it happening but we can make better decisions in the future.

We've abandoned VMware for XCP-NG, not just because of the cost increase, but primarily because we don't want to do business with a bunch of rancid vultures who think so little of their customers that they think they can walk all over us and then offer us scraps of white label product from the tables of the second tier partners.

Broadcom don't need me or our money, they will survive from the 1000 largest customers VMware has and they will think it's great and as per their plan.

Broadcom builds a SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec

Oh, adding the word Symantec into the mix of VMware products is going to do wonders for VMware's image, not ! They've already removed almost 3000 staff from VMware and probably more to come outside of the US, they'll be loosing highly knowledgable staff from aggregators and partners who no longer qualify and now they want us to by f**king Symantec ! It's a laugh, it's like the kids are running the company.

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

Even when I came through Heathrow last Sunday only a small number of eGates were operational and there were no reported problems then. Staff also shouting at travellers to use all lanes or something like that, many of whom clearly didn't understand the language and through there was a problem like a fire. It's also dirty and shabby, and I'd come from Delhi which was fast, efficient and clean ! Why can't we get basic things like this right and India and most other countries can ?

OVHcloud datacenter 'lacked' automatic fire extinguishers, electrical cutoff

Yes. Have you been to Telehouse, Equinix, Gyron/NTT etc. These top tier data centre operators house the hyperscalers as well as other businesses. You can book a tour and be shown round the public areas by one of their engineering team where you can see the infrastructure, the building and even talk to them about maintenance procedures. They don’t sell me space on the good data floor and then AWS gets the shitty floor :)

Obviously there are other data centres owned by AWS for example which are for their own exclusive use but they will be built to the same standards.

It sounds like they used an old school building as a data centre not a purpose designed building.

Of those customers going legal, how many of them had sent a competent person on a site visit to see where their data was being housed ?