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 | 6
Cryptojackers spread their nets to capture more than just EC2 AMBERSQUID operation takes AWS's paths less travelled in search of compute Research18 Sep 2023 | 3
37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 52
There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here's what to consider Feature Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 1
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
The Pentagon has no idea how to deal with bad cloud contracts, say auditors Terrible IT practices at the DoD? You don't say Cloud Infrastructure Week14 Sep 2023 | 7
Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 30
Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 | 7
Despite the hype, generative AI is not a significant chunk of enterprise cloud spend Not to be a buzzkill, but let's take a deep dive into the disparity Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 2
Automating cloud infrastructure: Do you want APIs with that? Interview Flipping the script to a control plane Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 2
D2iQ's AI Navigator ready to answer your deepest cloud concerns Kubernetes configuration laid bare by chatbot, customer context next on roadmap Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 |
Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost Feature 'Hyperscalers made it sound like it was all self-service, in reality it was not' Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 22
IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent All PaaS, including OpenShift, gets a three-point bump. IaaS users outside the US get the nastiest numbers Off-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 20
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
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 31
2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones Special Projects Bureau Revisited Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Offbeat04 Sep 2023 | 14
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 | 11
The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on Opinion A queue gone mad leads to surprising results for 3D printing – but still no regulation Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 31
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this Storage24 Aug 2023 | 80
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom Opinion So those 218,000 enterprise customers are wrong to hold meetings on web? Offbeat24 Aug 2023 | 106
Why these cloud-connected 3D printers started making junk all by themselves Message brokering software blamed for dumping backed-up print jobs on idle devices Devops24 Aug 2023 | 68
Now NetApp sued by its own veep over claims of broken sales commission promises I was screwed out my cut, alleges exec in fraud, discrimination lawsuit Storage23 Aug 2023 | 11
Tencent predicts big profits from lock-in to cloudy AI Asia In Brief PLUS: Lucasfilm quits Singapore ‘Sandcrawler’; China criticizes India’s tech push; Red Apple celebrates 30 years in China AI + ML21 Aug 2023 |
Oracle shrinks its on-prem cloud into a single rack Big Red rigs start at 552 fourth-gen EPYC cores and 150TB storage, can scale to 6,624 cores and 3.4PB On-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 1
Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits What? How? Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 4
Another thing you can blame AI for: Cloud grows but server shipments are down Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW? Systems07 Aug 2023 | 1
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 India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig Software02 Aug 2023 |
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
Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials? Cyber-crime15 Jul 2023 |
Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9
Broadcom asserts VMware's strategy isn't working and it basically needs rescuing Redacted document filed with UK regulator states customers aren't buying Virtzilla's poorly-executed vision Virtualization14 Jul 2023 | 43
VMware teases multi-cloud generative AI offerings for August debut Data here, model there, Virtzilla’s usual abstraction principles in between Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 |
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
IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years Boffins given five months to migrate, with vanilla DaaS suggested as the alternative PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2023 | 7
Japan rebukes Fujitsu for cloud security fails Asia In Brief PLUS: Philippines cyber-slave raid; South Korea’s crypto crackdown; AWS boosts Chinese exports; and more Security03 Jul 2023 |
Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts Just in case you blurt out that L***x is better than Windows? (That was a joke, PR friends) Offbeat30 Jun 2023 | 43
AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B Still the most profitable arm of Bezos's biz PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
IBM bets $4.6 billion that cloud bills and IT sprawl will be enduring problems Acquires Apptio and plans 'virtual command center' for multicloud Off-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 10
US cyber ambassador says China knows how to steal its way to dominance of cloud and AI Calls on governments to combat 'playbook' that propelled Huawei to prominence Security23 Jun 2023 | 21
Vultr Cloud Alliance rises to take on cloud Goliaths David's got a marketplace where users can mix and match services PaaS + IaaS22 Jun 2023 | 1
Forester delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora Devconf.cz Golang project also works with the CentOS Linux replacements OSes22 Jun 2023 |
Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud Updated Fight! Fight! Fight! SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
Alibaba boss steps down to become boss of Alibaba Cloud Near-flop of China shopping fest suggests cloud and AI are the priority growth engines Off-Prem21 Jun 2023 | 1
SAP admits HANA Cloud makes for multicurrency messes Singapore dollar snafu used to illustrate workaround Software20 Jun 2023 | 13
With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible Security19 Jun 2023 | 20
Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim Racist tirade at delivery driver never actually happened Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 246
Despite declines, DXC Technology boss awarded $20.3m in 2023 Revenues shrank and net profit evaporated but progress made in other areas, says board Software15 Jun 2023 | 10
AWS experiment with Lambda in cloudless configuration fails to impress Service took a long nap in the notorious EAST-1 region Off-Prem14 Jun 2023 | 9
Kinder, gentler Oracle says it's changed, and now wants you to succeed Only took 'em 46 years … Software13 Jun 2023 | 47
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2
Microsoft says share the wealth with cyber-info for business It's better to take action than wait for attacks Security08 Jun 2023 | 9
Sweden’s Evroc going full Viking with Euro cloud to raid US providers Ikea just messes up your weekend – this could cause a serious storm PaaS + IaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 | 1
Microsoft embraces Apple Mac loyalists – as long as they're using its software iDevice admins now have a safe space where they can talk about M365 On-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 18
Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax' Exclusive Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg Off-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 53
Exasol brings SaaS-flex to on-prem and public cloud systems In-mem data warehouse unifies approach across environments, beefs up cost optimizer Databases31 May 2023 |
Top cloud players reject Microsoft's attempt to settle EU licensing complaint Exclusive Offer described by trade group as 'pretty paltry' – it wants more before negotiations begin PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 17