Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate PaaS + IaaS19 May 2023 | 1
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month Updated Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises PaaS + IaaS18 May 2023 | 52
EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13
Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising Wait... what? PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 24
Uncle Sam mulls dumping monolithic software stacks for modular blocks Anyone else heard of these microservices? PaaS + IaaS08 May 2023 | 11
Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid PaaS + IaaS03 May 2023 | 43
Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment 'It is a tough day across our organization,' says memo from AWS boss PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 10
Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 8
Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 | 9
China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 |
Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2023 | 97
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9
UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle Vows to regroup and come back stronger after failing in bid Palantir is pipped to win PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2023 | 43
Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2023 | 28
Salesforce lets go of more of its towering presence in San Francisco Updated Fancy a sublease? Office digs in Silicon Valley hometown hotspot up for grabs PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 4
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 23
Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA To that we say good luck PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9
Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them Comment Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong?
Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated books in nine months In-brief Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors
China seeks space cargo launches well below prices NASA pays SpaceX PLUS: ChatGPT hallucinates Japan's PM; Infosys scores huge BP deal; Grab on the way to becoming a bank; and more
China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws Alleges major risks to national security, but is happy for chips to remain in place
Diligent developer courageously lied about exec's NSFW printouts - and survived long enough to quit with dignity Who, Me? Log files don't lie and in this case one nasty incident spoke to a far deeper malaise
One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned The Australian Securities Exchange became a poster child for seriously serious distributed ledgers, but now wants to walk away
VMware again extends formal deadline for Broadcom deal Meanwhile, rivals circle and the hybrid cloud management market morphs
US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers ISC Meanwhile, Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table
G7 nations admit they're nowhere on AI regulation Now they want to catch up, prevent crooks, protect IP ... real soon now … after more talking
Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy Opinion It’s about power and money alright, just not like that
The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need PaaS + IaaS20 Mar 2023 | 66
Chinese biz banned from buying US tech rent it instead Clouds reportedly offering surprisingly cheap access to blockaded comrades PaaS + IaaS10 Mar 2023 | 7
Microsoft wants you to build quantum apps in Azure, the cloud that's both up and down Oh, and pay boatloads for the privilege PaaS + IaaS09 Mar 2023 | 9
WFH? Google Cloud's offices like a 'ghost town' before new policy Desk-sharing scheme adds more bums on seats, claims CEO PaaS + IaaS07 Mar 2023 | 41
US lobbyists commission report dismissing proposed EU cloud regulations But it has a point about the achievability of goal of '75%' European cloud PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2023 | 20
Cloud infrastructure spreads its wings How Huawei KooVerse brings low latency IaaS to customers everywhere Sponsored Feature
Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2023 |
Arm has legs: VMware's Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere Customers are keen on the lower cloudy database prices available after dropping x86 PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2023 | 1
Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point' PaaS + IaaS22 Feb 2023 | 74
Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2023 | 2
DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff Exclusive The layoffs will continue until morale improves PaaS + IaaS15 Feb 2023 | 19
Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7
Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 1
Euronext says non, nein to US cloud providers services as rivals sign up Data sovereignty and compliance gives CEO pause for thought as Deutsche Börse AG jumps in bed with Google PaaS + IaaS10 Feb 2023 | 6
Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google? As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13
VMwhat? Dell snaps up Cloudify for multi-cloud orchestration Intriguing move – just look at the software companies it has ditched... PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 |
Broadcom's $61b VMWare merger faces another hurdle: UK's competition watchdog Nobody expects the British Inquisition. (Except everybody. Everybody expected it) PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 | 5
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29
Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality Bit factory giants see sales slimming in economically challenged times, party still far from over PaaS + IaaS19 Jan 2023 | 27
Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15
NHS England Palantir contract extension could result in further legal threats After promising to return Covid-era data to NHS, UK govt ploughs on with extension, expansion PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 35
Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO It doesn't work for SAP and Salesforce but does work for Workday. For now PaaS + IaaS21 Dec 2022 | 2
AWS wins 5-year, $700m+ contract for cloud services to US Navy Much money for Amazon, that is. Bezos heads to dockside after doomed JEDI deal PaaS + IaaS20 Dec 2022 | 3
Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal US tech giant's data analytics and cloud products for a slice of Brit market action PaaS + IaaS12 Dec 2022 | 30
Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7
Cloud customers are wasting money by overprovisioning resources And all that energy feeding those humming servers isn't free either PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2022 | 7
AWS opens up preview access to instances run on Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 |
AWS intros homebrew Graviton CPU tuned for HPC, network stack tuned to updated Nitro system 'Scalable Reliable Datagram' uses multi-path topography to smoke TCP PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 | 1
AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030 That basically means more H2O returned to the environment than is supplied PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2022 | 25
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win' PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57
Google and Microsoft add more renewable energy for datacenters Both announce green power purchase agreements for UK and Irish DCs as European worries over power continue PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2022 | 11
University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures PaaS + IaaS23 Nov 2022 | 47
Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 2
AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 4
NHS tech chief dismisses concerns over loss of statutory power to protect patient data Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2022 | 37
Microsoft gives away '$400m in cloud support' to Ukraine Freedom isn't free PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 12
Alibaba Cloud plans for a fifth of its servers to use homebrew Arm CPUs by 2025 Sanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 4
Google, Oracle’s Ampere VMs get Arm’s SystemReady seal of approval So that means everything just works now, right? PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 |
The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale Comment You're paying too much for too much, and the providers know it PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 | 76
Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11
Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41
UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 10
Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34
Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7
Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending' PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 12
Google wants to copy-paste your mainframe applications into its cloud GCN Preview service claims to eliminate risks of migrating mission-critical workloads PaaS + IaaS12 Oct 2022 | 5
Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment GCN Plus: AI services, security tools and more from Google Cloud Next this week PaaS + IaaS11 Oct 2022 | 11
Google Cloud is super keen to keep certain customers on pricey Intel VMs Unless your app really needs AVX 512, AMD and Ampere's cores may be a cheaper, better bet PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 6
Digital Ocean won't let new customers create resources in four DCs, won't say why Can't even spin up the compute necessary to reply PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 14
UK launches competition probe into cloud giants in digital services All right, what's all this, then? Three of you, are there? PaaS + IaaS22 Sep 2022 | 9
Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data chmod a+rw at hyperscale PaaS + IaaS21 Sep 2022 | 5
You didn't ask for it but Nvidia's gonna get you a metaverse-as-a-service cloud GTC Sorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2022 | 4
Oracle floats its HeatWave system into Amazon's cloud Avoiding data movement saves $$$ but rivals have own approaches to doing analytics, transactions on same data PaaS + IaaS13 Sep 2022 | 1
Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned Anyone fancy renting some office space? PaaS + IaaS08 Sep 2022 | 2
SoftIron to start selling 'fully turnkey' cloud platform Hypercloud will be facing some stiff competition in the hyperconverged infrastructure space, say analysts PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2022 |
Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site Escalation of targeted threats is an 'emergency' that required 'dangerous' decision 'we are not comfortable with,' says CEO PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2022 | 156
Big cloud rivals hit back over Microsoft licensing changes Customers should be able to 'move freely' says Google cloud veep as AWS brands move 'unfair' PaaS + IaaS31 Aug 2022 | 25
Ubuntu Linux 18.04 systemd security patch breaks DNS in Microsoft Azure Snafu disrupts VMs as cloud giant offers workarounds PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2022 | 44
Official: Arm-based VMs available on Microsoft Azure Going live in 10 regions, running Ampere Altra silicon PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2022 | 4
UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008 PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2022 | 24
ServiceNow: Customers 'struggling to understand the value of ELAs', says Gartner Updated Enterprise agreements can increase pricing, marring an overall positive assessment from the analyst PaaS + IaaS24 Aug 2022 | 11
OVH to hike prices, blames 'l'inflation' Energy costs are up 40 percent and OVH isn't going to eat that without sharing some pain PaaS + IaaS23 Aug 2022 | 29
Quantum computing startup IonQ lands on Microsoft's Azure Yep, that’s the same company a short-seller is alleging is a ‘useless toy’ PaaS + IaaS18 Aug 2022 | 3
Cloud and datacenters start to feel the slowdown amid spiking energy costs While enterprises are spending more on infrastructure than ever before, what goes up must come down PaaS + IaaS17 Aug 2022 | 5
More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns South Dublin County Council ban on buildouts set to be overturned by government PaaS + IaaS15 Aug 2022 | 34
World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2022 | 3
AWS still growing amid talk of global economic woes No stopping the cloud computing division but losses mount on retail side as consumers catch a cold PaaS + IaaS29 Jul 2022 |
Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer) PaaS + IaaS25 Jul 2022 | 5
Deploying disaster-proof apps may be easier than you think Interview When the next cloud datacenter fails, will your software go with it? PaaS + IaaS22 Jul 2022 | 12
Microsoft closes unfilled job openings in cloud and security Despite growth and strong demand in these areas, Redmond keeps trimming investment PaaS + IaaS21 Jul 2022 | 2
Microsoft previews next Azure Stack HCI release Also: Marketplace and Remote Support, for when you'd like an engineer to peer at your infrastructure PaaS + IaaS21 Jul 2022 |
Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud Larry gets your database, while Satya will take your apps PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 15
Microsoft harnesses third-gen AMD Epyc processors for locked-down VMs Blockchain-based Azure Confidential Ledger rounds out latest additions to confidential computing PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 2
Microsoft floats Cloud for Sovereignty More transparency or just the cost of doing business? For customers whose data must remain PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 4
Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace Comment Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch PaaS + IaaS14 Jul 2022 |
Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 3
OpenShift engineering guru Matt Hicks becomes Red Hat's CEO Cormier moves into chairman seat after over 2 years of giving 'em RHEL PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 2
Oracle planning sovereign cloud regions for the EU Specialized infrastructure for the political bloc will help users deal with GDPR data laws PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 5
Will CXL spell the end for boutique composable infrastructure vendors? Regardless, we're looking forward to a shake-up in server architecture PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2022 | 4
AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis They're cheaper than cloudy x86 Apples, but not entirely tempting PaaS + IaaS08 Jul 2022 | 3