Analysis
SHOCK and AWS: The fall of Amazon's deflationary cloud
Just as Jeff Bezos did to books and CDs, Amazon's rivals are now doing to it
26 Jul 2014 08:07 | 45
Databases
Put down that Oracle database patch: It could cost $23,000 per CPU
On-by-default INMEMORY tech a boon for developers ... as long as they can afford it
24 Jul 2014 23:18 | 34
SaaS
Amazon Reveals One Weird Trick: A Loss On Almost $20bn In Sales
Investors really hate it: Share price plunge as growth SLOWS in key AWS division
24 Jul 2014 21:37 | 26
SaaS
Hadoop coop's $50m scoop: Hortonworks takes HP coin
Investment gives IT titan seat on the board – just in time for The Machine
24 Jul 2014 17:58 |
On-Prem
White? Male? You work in tech? Let us guess ... Twitter? We KNEW it!
Grim diversity numbers dumped alongside Facebook earnings
24 Jul 2014 00:04 | 57
Networks
Facebook haters, look away now: BABY SNAP site's profit is up 138%
While a third of its addicts log in just from their phones
23 Jul 2014 23:29 | 5
SaaS
IBM soups up SoftLayer for supers with Infiniband tech
Amazon-beating, Google-ganking, Microsoft-muddling high-speed IO lands
23 Jul 2014 21:22 | 1
Comment
HP's Machine and IBM's $3bn R&D splash – aka how to survive Google
Failure to crack next-gen semiconductors threatens to set back humanity
23 Jul 2014 11:02 | 8
Virtualization
How's VMware doing? Like a bull in a China shop, boasts virty beast
Growth in Middle Kingdom plus beans spilled on software-defined networking cash
22 Jul 2014 23:22 |
Channel
SAP gets into OpenStack bed with... ORACLE? (and 100 others)
Splurges $25k to get a seat at the open-source cloud project's marketing table
22 Jul 2014 21:58 | 2
Channel
Autonomy's ex-chief beancounter tries to kill HP investor settlement
Tech titan trying to 'forever bury' multi-billion writedown, claims bloke
21 Jul 2014 23:39 | 2
Science
Boffins discuss AI space program at hush-hush IARPA confab
IBM, MIT, plenty of others invited to fill Uncle Sam's spy toolchest, but where's Google?
21 Jul 2014 21:34 | 14
Analysis
Did HP just tip its hand on Autonomy? Spoiler: It was a busted flush
Breaking the news, literally, about the Pope, a Brit biz and a reseller
18 Jul 2014 23:06 | 7
Science
Dude, you're getting a Dell – with Bitcoin: IT giant slurps cryptocash
1. Buy PC with Bitcoin. 2. Mine more coins. 3. Goto step 1
18 Jul 2014 18:45 | 31
On-Prem
Intel teaches Oracle how to become the latest and greatest Xeon Whisperer
E7-8895 v2 chips are best of the bunch, and with firmware-unlocked speed control
18 Jul 2014 06:29 | 14
SaaS
Microsoft's Black Thursday: XBox Live goes down as XBox Studio canned
Just as 18,000 staff told they face pink slips
17 Jul 2014 22:28 | 23
Channel
Days since IBM last reported revenue growth: About 810
Big Blue inches past analyst expectations in Q2 2014, but at what cost?
17 Jul 2014 21:31 | 11
SaaS
Skiddies turn Amazon cloud into 'crime-as-a-service' – security bod
AWS is a growing haven for malware in survey of top web providers
17 Jul 2014 02:14 | 8
On-Prem
Big Blue Apple: IBM to sell iPads, iPhones to enterprises
iOS/2 gear loaded with apps for big biz ... uh oh BlackBerry
15 Jul 2014 23:59 | 26
On-Prem
Don't mention ZE WAR: Battling Box touts unlimited storage to biz
Having a hard time being profitable? Quick - give every byte away
15 Jul 2014 22:16 |
Software
Microsoft's anti-bug breakthrough: Wire devs to BRAIN SCANNERS
Clippy: It looks your hands are shaking, are you sure you want to commit this code?
15 Jul 2014 20:05 | 34
SaaS
Smashing, groovy, baby – yay, capitalism! Digital Ocean flogs Brit VMs
Plucky Linux cloud startup floats where Amazon fears to tread: Slough
15 Jul 2014 17:30 | 3
Databases
Oracle: You wanted SQL on Hadoop? How about SQL on Hadoop and SQL ON NOSQL?
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
15 Jul 2014 12:00 | 6
Science
Microsoft's new 'Adam' AI trounces Google ... and beats HUMANS
Asynchronous design crucial in giving 120-machine cluster the edge in neural-network wars
15 Jul 2014 00:26 | 23
Personal Tech
Google Glass HOLED: Techno-specs' inventor jets off to Amazon
'Visionary' sees brighter future away from cursed project
14 Jul 2014 18:38 | 7
Channel
InMage now InMicrosoft: Redmond slurps disaster recovery hardware biz
Back it up, back it in, let me begin
11 Jul 2014 22:11 | 8
Special report
Forget the mobile patent wars – these web giants have patented your DATA CENTER
Route traffic? Made a load balancer? Oops
11 Jul 2014 20:54 | 40
SaaS
Salesforce fires tractor beam at RelateIQ, hauls upstart into mothership
If you can't beat it – pay $390m to EAT IT
11 Jul 2014 19:17 |
Channel
Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM and others help Google build cloud Trojan Horse
Tech companies team up to build Kubernetes container manager
10 Jul 2014 23:02 | 2
Channel
Things that make you go hmm: GlobalFoundries hires ex-IBM chip fabber
There are rumours it'll buy Big Blue's chip plants
10 Jul 2014 21:11 | 6
SaaS
Use apps anonymously? We'll help make that happen – Amazon techie
Web giant flashes new mobile backend at software makers, talks to The Reg
10 Jul 2014 18:57 |
Channel
Amazon Zocalo rocks Box, socks DropBox, clocks Google Docs
New cheap file sync'n'share for big biz
10 Jul 2014 17:41 | 18
Channel
Microsoft: Give us three MORE WEEKS, folks – our StorSimple Cloud is coming
Redmond introduces Azure to freshly acquired arrays
09 Jul 2014 23:33 | 2
On-Prem
IBM's $3bn bet on next-gen computers: Carbon nanotubes, neuro chips
Big Blue exec tells El Reg what to keep an eye on
09 Jul 2014 22:38 | 21
SaaS
Why is VMware hiring data center gurus in JAPAN? It doesn't take a vExpert to work it out...
Virty giant plans Pacific assault on Microsoft and Amazon
08 Jul 2014 18:18 | 2
On-Prem
Wannabe Startup CEOs Hate This Guy: Potato Salad man and the $60k
The result will depress you
07 Jul 2014 22:37 | 25
On-Prem
Intel told to PUT A SOC IN IT: Fill our kit with chips, says Panasonic
Chipzilla flexes foundry biz while glaring at ARM wannabes
07 Jul 2014 20:38 | 4
SaaS
THE GERMANS ARE CLOUDING: New AWS cloud region spotted
eu-central-1.amazonaws.com, aka, your new Amazon Frankfurt bitbarn
07 Jul 2014 17:40 | 12
OSes
Distributed Linux OS wizards CoreOS release first commercial product
VCs fling $8m at FOSS OS that updates like a browser
30 Jun 2014 11:30 | 13
SaaS
Cloudera, MapR, IBM, and Intel bet on Spark as the new heart of Hadoop
Screeching sound heard amid Spark stampede as Cloudera changes opinion on Hive
30 Jun 2014 09:44 | 8
Databases
Couchbase relaxes into golden couch stuffed with 60 meellion dollars
VCs bet on Oracle's demise
26 Jun 2014 21:07 |
Databases
MongoDB pops up in Microsoft and Google data centers
Oracle's NoSQL nightmare inks new pacts, gets into all major clouds
26 Jun 2014 00:45 | 1
Google I/O
Flumejava, Millwheel ... No, not NSA codenames: The tech in Google Cloud's data grokker
Ad slinger whips out tool to stick in stream pipes
25 Jun 2014 21:50 |
Interview
Google's Urs Hölzle: If you're not breaking your own gear, you aren't ambitious enough
Infrastructure king on next-gen memory, FPGAs, and more
25 Jun 2014 11:02 | 4
SaaS
SHOCKER: CIA CIO CAN confirm that AWS cloud safe for big government
CIA CIO: AWS RFP NOFORN SIGINT ICT A-OK
25 Jun 2014 05:03 | 11
Databases
Aerospike: Thanks for that $20m, VCs ... next we'll OPEN SOURCE our NoSQL database
'Our goal was always to go after a billion-dollar market'
24 Jun 2014 23:58 | 2
Channel
Rackspace gives world the servers Google and Amazon keep secret
New OnMetal service pairs Open Compute Project hardware with CoreOS software for OPEN CLOUD NIRVANA
19 Jun 2014 23:02 | 3
Channel
Oracle shares pummeled after giant reports glacial growth
Oracle claims it is world's second largest SaaS provider, but core products stagnate
19 Jun 2014 20:50 | 16
Channel
Microsoft: NSA security fallout 'getting worse' ... 'not blowing over'
'Double-digit declines in people's trust in American tech companies' is bad for business
19 Jun 2014 18:30 | 73
Software
ABANDON CLOUD! Docker Linux containers spring a security leak
Root exploit appears, but 1.0 release is safe
19 Jun 2014 00:16 | 6
Networks
Facebook reveals open network gear to drive WEDGE between itself and Cisco
New switch spells doom, gloom and, yes, more gloom for trad networking vendors
18 Jun 2014 20:11 | 5
Updated
Intel reveals its FrankenChip ARM killer: one FPGA and one Xeon IN ONE SOCKET
Scattered reports of maniacal cackling amid driving rain and lightning at Chipzilla's lab
18 Jun 2014 19:21 | 28
Channel
Oracle's $5 BEEELLION acquisition zeppelin looms over Micros Systems
Report: Database giant in 'exclusive talks' with hotel and retail thingummy vendor
17 Jun 2014 22:02 | 4
Channel
Amazon looks at Google's cheap SSDs, slashes its own prices
Bezos's great deflationary tech machine whirrs on
17 Jun 2014 18:15 | 4
SaaS
Google slings SSD persistent disks at huge 'n' hungry servers
Flash! Ah-ahhhh! Savior of the Google Cloud
16 Jun 2014 22:50 | 9
SaaS
Linode busts up Digital Ocean with price-matching speedy server
Penguin vs Penguin as prices plunge in Linux clouds
16 Jun 2014 19:41 | 5
SaaS
Do data centers dream of electric sheep? Microsoft announces machine learning cloud
New Azure service sees Redmond open up a bit of its brain to developers
16 Jun 2014 17:48 |
SaaS
Microsoft 'Catapults' geriatric Moore's Law from CERTAIN DEATH
FPGAs DOUBLE data center throughput despite puny power pump-up, we're told
16 Jun 2014 11:37 | 49
Channel
VMware: Amazon's cloud calculator a load of flatulant FUD
Battle of the marketing bods as Virtzilla chucks some virtual sanity at Bezos & Co
13 Jun 2014 23:01 | 12
Channel
Google discovers it must expose itself to compete with AWS
Cloud competition forces Page & Co. to open brain and give some of it to developers
12 Jun 2014 22:35 |
