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AWS warns of demand slowdown as customers seek to cut spend

Amazon shares pummelled, but cloud operation thinks Graviton CPUs can save the day

Off-Prem28 Oct 2022 | 5

Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation

Erstwhile national cloud hero drowns in unpaid debts

Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 40

AWS users can finally use Nitro Enclaves on Arm Graviton EC2 instances

Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams

SaaS25 Oct 2022 |

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

AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters

Server farm power concerns as winter nears and fears of blackouts grow

On-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 28

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

AWS Snowball edge compute capacity snowballs beyond 100 vCPUs, 400GB of memory

There's a fat AMD Rome under the hood and 28TB of storage too

On-Prem20 Oct 2022 |

FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor

"Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines

Virtualization19 Oct 2022 | 9

AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS

Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending

Virtualization18 Oct 2022 | 3

Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived

GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too

AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 3

Microsoft drops the C bomb on financial services – 'compliance'

Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up

Off-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 3

Amazon lets you rent Ubuntu Pro. Yes, it's Linux on the virtual desktop

Insert your Year of Linux joke here, we dare you

Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 7

AWS, Microsoft, Google own 72% of Euro customer cloud spending

Democratizing IT? The next biggest 3 in region are also US headquartered giants

Off-Prem29 Sep 2022 | 5

Amazon adds 2.7 gigawatts of renewable energy to its operations

But the question remains whether it is polluting more or less

Off-Prem21 Sep 2022 | 1

Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked

Updated AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more

Cyber-crime16 Sep 2022 | 44

Remember when Microsoft was going to put Azure in space? It's still trying

'Cloud connectivity' hits different this time

Networks14 Sep 2022 | 4

Microsoft scales up Azure's Policy-as-code in 'new approach'

The code's on GitHub for admins to play with

Off-Prem12 Sep 2022 |

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

VMware’s Amazonian incarnation drops requirement to run on dedicated hosts

VMware Explore vSphere users can start smaller without paying cluster-bucks

Virtualization02 Sep 2022 | 5

Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud

Scammers are using cloud services to create and host web pages that can be used to lure victims into handing over their credentials

Security22 Aug 2022 | 7

Qualcomm readying new Arm server chip based on Nuvia acquisition

AWS said to be taking an interest in homegrown silicon, meaning chipmaker must have a functional demo

Systems19 Aug 2022 |

AWS takes a shot at the private 5G network

Well, more like 4G LTE right now, and you'll probably need someone to put up the radio

Networks12 Aug 2022 | 1

VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users

But warns 'upcoming major release of vSphere' will break some plugins

Virtualization12 Aug 2022 | 9

AWS and Splunk partner for faster cyberattack response

Black Hat OCSF initiative will give enterprise security teams an open standard for moving and analyzing threat data

Security11 Aug 2022 |

Google Cloud expands to Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand

Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences

Off-Prem10 Aug 2022 |

Tiers before bedtime: AWS updates Lambda pricing structure

'Time to update your spreadsheets,' expert says of 'inscrutable' changes

Devops08 Aug 2022 | 3

Windows 11 comes to AWS EC2 as a VM import option

UEFI is sorted, but BYO licenses are required

Virtualization03 Aug 2022 |

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 |

VMware delivers a load of updates for its Amazonian incarnation

Windows 11 debuts, as service extends to Hong Kong

Virtualization28 Jul 2022 | 3

Price, lead times and scarcity of fiber optics may derail projects

Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof

Networks25 Jul 2022 | 9

AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's softened cloud licensing regime is a sham

Claims Redmond still prices rivals out of the market even after allowances for Euro-clouds

Off-Prem25 Jul 2022 | 12

Memory constrained? Amazon and AMD now offer 1.5TB VMs

Or about two and a half Chrome tabs

Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 4

IBM launches Db2 operator for Kubernetes on AWS

Azure soon to follow as Big Blue accomodates a world with many clouds

Databases20 Jul 2022 | 2

Cloud, on-prem ... we've got the network service to rule them all, says AWS

It takes one to know WAN

Networks14 Jul 2022 | 4

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

Amazon squashes years-old authentication bugs in AWS Kubernetes service

Three vulnerabilities in one line of code

Security12 Jul 2022 | 1

AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis

They're cheaper than cloudy x86 Apples, but not entirely tempting

PaaS + IaaS08 Jul 2022 | 3

Microsoft, AWS awarded Ukraine peace prize for cloudy services

Google has one already, and Ukraine now has a ‘drone army’

Off-Prem07 Jul 2022 | 6

AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere

And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument

On-Prem01 Jul 2022 | 3

AWS sent edgy appliance to the ISS and it worked – just like all the other computers up there

Congrats, AWS, you’ve boldly gone where the Raspberry Pi has already been

Edge + IoT24 Jun 2022 | 10

Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer

Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it?

AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 6

Amazon can't channel the dead, but its deepfake voices take a close second

Megacorp shows Alexa speaking like kid's deceased grandma

Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 22

AWS buys before it tries with quantum networking center

Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help

Science22 Jun 2022 | 5

Price hikes, cloud expansion drive record datacenter spending

High unit costs and fixed capex budgets propelling enterprises cloudwards

On-Prem16 Jun 2022 | 1

Elasticsearch server with no password or encryption leaks a million records

POS and online ordering vendor StoreHub offered free Asian info takeaways

Security16 Jun 2022 | 22

Oracle cloud growth up 19% but it's still a market minnow

Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt

SaaS14 Jun 2022 | 1

AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads

Buyer beware, say analysts, technical debt will catch up with you eventually

Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 10

Amazon finally opens doors to its serverless analytics

Still managing app servers by hand? What is this, 2012?

Devops02 Jun 2022 |

AWS launches fresh challenges to on-prem hardware vendors

Offers alternative to vanilla servers and recruits world's biggest tech distributors to push hybrid storage appliance

Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 4

That critical vulnerability might not be the first you should patch

Startup Rezilion suggests enterprises should change prioritization strategies

Security30 May 2022 | 5

AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production

Just one instance type for now, cheaper than third-gen Xeons and Epycs

PaaS + IaaS24 May 2022 | 12

Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany

More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1

Arm, Microsoft at pains to say this CPU arch can be trusted with real server work

It should just run like x86, pair basically stress

Virtualization17 May 2022 | 11

San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance

In brief Plus: Tech giants commit $30m to open-source security, miscreants breach DEA portal, and US signs cybercrime treaty

Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 18

Those NitroTPMs Amazon teased now really are coming to AWS EC2

Yes, give those smartNICs something to do

PaaS + IaaS13 May 2022 | 1