Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits Dance! Dance for me! PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5
HPE GreenLake sales on the rise as branding tweaks include more lines The strategy has changed so much that previously poor channel numbers don't count, we're told PaaS + IaaS24 Jun 2024 | 3
UK CMA says public sector will be in cloud services probe after all Nothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants? PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2024 | 1
Advania acquires Servium as part of IT services outfit expansion plans Exclusive CEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2024 |
Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions PaaS + IaaS10 Jun 2024 | 11
UK CMA early findings indicate Microsoft restricts cloud choice Pricing, licensing, ease of switching and more under the microscope PaaS + IaaS07 Jun 2024 | 6
Microsoft could be about to write a fat check to stave off cloud antitrust complaint 'No agreement has been reached,' Euro cloud lobby insists PaaS + IaaS03 Jun 2024 | 20
AWS leads UK cloud market while Microsoft dominates growth and new customers And guess who has highest margins? Some interesting findings from fresh market watchdog report PaaS + IaaS28 May 2024 | 4
Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks Kettle Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build' OSes25 May 2024 | 75
Alibaba is taking its cloud to Mexico, likely following Chinese manufacturers More AZs in its Asian backyard also planned Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 3
Microsoft invites punters to test drive custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU VMs in Azure Build Subscribers in US, Europe, SEA can take silicon out for a spin for free PaaS + IaaS22 May 2024 | 2
IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years On-Prem22 May 2024 | 4
CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed Next Predicts worse to come for customers as he builds AR for slot machines around Nutanix Virtualization21 May 2024 | 43
Google's €1B Finnish datacenter expansion to heat the local community AI might take your job, but you'll be toasty warm while you starve On-Prem21 May 2024 | 19
AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany It'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local PaaS + IaaS17 May 2024 | 20
Amazon's latest 'flex' VMs promise savings for your burstiest apps Updated Sustained workloads need not apply PaaS + IaaS16 May 2024 | 3
Ellison's exemplar SAP-to-Oracle region rules out ditching Oracle Largest local authority in Europe expects to go live with re-implementation PaaS + IaaS14 May 2024 | 23
Once Alibaba’s main investor, SoftBank sheds remaining stake SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company PaaS + IaaS14 May 2024 | 1
UniSuper Google Cloud outage caused by an unfortunate series of events Duplication across geographies no defense against the 'one-of-a-kind' accidental deletion PaaS + IaaS09 May 2024 | 17
From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore PaaS + IaaS09 May 2024 | 1
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation
Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack
Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX, the OS hiding in a lot of computers Software System Award recognises his contributions to education
Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86 AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop
If you're using Polyfill.io code on your site – like 100,000+ are – remove it immediately Scripts turn malicious, infect webpages after Chinese CDN swallows domain
Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and, if all goes to plan, ultimately off to home in Australia
America's best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good Analysis 'Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal'
Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion Updated Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno
Humanity's satellite habit could end up choking Earth's ozone layer Just when you think we've solved chlorofluorocarbons
Ollama drama as 'easy-to-exploit' critical flaw found in open source AI server About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told
Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again PaaS + IaaS08 May 2024 | 11
VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins Updated Customers brace for bumpy ride PaaS + IaaS07 May 2024 | 2
Spanish startups say 'no más' to Microsoft cloud dominance Updated Group alleges anticompetitive behavior PaaS + IaaS07 May 2024 | 4
AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 | 6
Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21% Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022 PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 |
Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs Off-Prem02 May 2024 | 3
Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders Analysis Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples AI + ML01 May 2024 | 42
Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns Talk about going round the (South) Bend PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 | 4
Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison PaaS + IaaS24 Apr 2024 | 17
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13
Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages Off-Prem17 Apr 2024 | 2
UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15
GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15
Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system? £75 million in the offing in government tender PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2024 | 109
US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2024 | 4
Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing Cloud Next We're on a highway to ML PaaS + IaaS09 Apr 2024 | 6
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
What happened to agility and new business models? Cloud benefits have all gone to IT Orgs are missing a trick when it comes to the white fluffy stuff, survey says PaaS + IaaS08 Apr 2024 | 30
Lambda borrows half a billion bucks to grow its GPU cloud Will buy tens of thousands of Nvidia's prized accelerators, which will be collateral for the loan PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2024 | 8
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in Exclusive After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position Public Sector04 Apr 2024 | 99
OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door 'Caracal' improves AI capabilities and is pitched as an alternative to VMware Software04 Apr 2024 | 3
AWS severs connection with several hundred staff 'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately PaaS + IaaS03 Apr 2024 | 13
French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies Action gathers steam in the EU, US and UK as anti-trust teams collate market feedback PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2024 | 6
Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion' Updated We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us PaaS + IaaS28 Mar 2024 | 27
Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon Looking for feedback before pressing the production button PaaS + IaaS26 Mar 2024 | 4
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4
Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3
Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13
40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13
Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23
Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble Paytm's bank has been locked out, edtech darling Byju's faces bankruptcy PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2024 | 18
Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex Microsoft named – again – by EU trade groups seeking to level the playing field PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2024 | 11
IBM Cloud is upgrading a datacenter and users will have to halt their Power VMs Big Blue will move two VMs in each five-hour window offered to those willing to stay PaaS + IaaS25 Jan 2024 | 8
Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2024 | 3
Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |
Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure PaaS + IaaS16 Jan 2024 | 17
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7
Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP Analysis Hint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2024 | 16
Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss Interview How the hyperscalers derailed Europe's cloud infrastructure train PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2024 | 11
Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 11
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8
Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027 PaaS + IaaS06 Dec 2023 | 43
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 23
Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 40
Civo CEO on free credits, egress fees, and hauling it all back on-prem Interview And why the UK cloud industry can't ape the energy sector and make it easier to swap suppliers PaaS + IaaS17 Nov 2023 | 9
Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2
Motives of multi-cloud users? Compliance and dodging vendor lock-in top the list Reasons less technical than you'd think as research respondents cite EU's DORA rules PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2023 | 1
European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2023 | 15
AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2023 | 2
AWS says it wants in on the European sovereign cloud game Appealing to growing crowd that wants data outside US jurisdiction PaaS + IaaS25 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16
Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair Opinion All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2023 | 9
Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive We hope cloud storage service is ready for this web wingman PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 49
Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 5
UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2023 | 10
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure At least it was the weekend PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2023 | 1
Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2023 | 7
Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience Updated Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they're buying PaaS + IaaS01 Sep 2023 | 1
Price rises yet to hit customers, says Salesforce as it raises forecasts CRM vendor might find itself pushed to the margins to keep investors happy PaaS + IaaS31 Aug 2023 | 5
Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2023 | 12
Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2023 | 26
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58
Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40
S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart PaaS + IaaS08 Aug 2023 | 35
AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server Updated Amid all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2023 | 15
Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy' Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6
AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2
Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris 'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 |
LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 | 184
Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform If it walks like a duck... PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2023 | 62
Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 15
Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog Ofcom takes quick glance, says: It's off to the CMA with you PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 6