Microsoft: You're not out of love with cloud, you're just 'optimizing' it for a bit Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease Software25 Jan 2023 | 8
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
AWS expands footprint at site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region Virginia welcomes $35 billion investment plan with $140 million grant to help things along Off-Prem23 Jan 2023 | 3
Miscreants sure do love ransacking cloud networks, more so than before Thanks for putting all your data in one basket CSO20 Jan 2023 | 9
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
What's driving multicloud? War, regulation, plague, says Acronis CEO All y'all want data near you, but that doesn't mean you're going back on prem Off-Prem19 Jan 2023 | 2
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 36
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further Off-Prem16 Jan 2023 | 98
Microsoft boosts Azure networking, storage with composable infra grab Slurps ‘Fungible’, a manufacturer of DPUs and fabrics that will join Redmond’s engineering gang Off-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 2
Homeland Security, CISA builds AI-based cybersecurity analytics sandbox High-spec system is crucial to defending against the latest threats Government Tech Week10 Jan 2023 | 5
Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware British developer uses homegrown scanning tool to check for risks Software09 Jan 2023 | 20
Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15
Hybrid multi-cloud is a mess to clean up, not an innovation to excite Opinion We really should have known better than to end up with siloed applications on different platforms Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 11
Tencent CEO Pony Ma reportedly bemoans internal corruption, inefficiency This has the ring of truth to it because Chinese giant has disclosed similar worries on earnings calls Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 9
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 patent eyes ads in streaming online games Picture your avatar wearing a logo-emblazoned shirt driving past a billboard touting a product Personal Tech20 Dec 2022 | 63
Google integrates Indian government's cloud services into Android Collab obviously goes deep – accessing DigiLocker requires use of national identity service Software20 Dec 2022 |
With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs A day after Openreach engineers overwhelmingly accept new compensation, telco says it will merge Enterprise and Global businesses Networks16 Dec 2022 | 18
To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services Updated Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers Off-Prem15 Dec 2022 | 51
AWS strains to make Simple Storage Service not so simple to screw up Not Amazon's fault buckets are exposed, but the loaded shotgun and your foot are all there ready and waiting Security14 Dec 2022 | 22
Just blob it in: Microsoft greases skids for data migration to Azure Storage Mover tool to push on-premises workloads to the cloud, where Windows giant wants it Storage12 Dec 2022 | 1
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
Yandex signs up Putin ally to help with restructuring Alexei Kudrin, former head of Russia's Audit Chamber, to advise on corporate development Off-Prem05 Dec 2022 | 6
Broadcom tries to quash VMware price rise rumors as CEO promises they won't Hock Tan says hiring engineers is his strategy … but still won't explain plan for massive rapid profit increase Virtualization01 Dec 2022 | 4
AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path Analysis CPU roadmaps are fragmenting to serve a variety of needs. Time to do some homework HPC30 Nov 2022 |
'Russian missiles can't destroy the cloud': Ukraine leader describes emergency migration Re:Invent Urgent digital transformation in a war-torn country Off-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 29
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
France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone Software22 Nov 2022 | 81
AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 4
Cloud vendors should take some responsibility for stolen compute, says Canalys CEO Canalys Forums APAC Crypto winter also attributed to semiconductor slumps in recent quarters Cyber-crime16 Nov 2022 | 5
US Department of the Interior seeks $1b single-vendor cloud contract Plan is to consolidate DCs, cut costs and carbon under one-CSP-to-rule-it-all deal Off-Prem14 Nov 2022 | 6
Microsoft's grand unified theory of .NET advances a little More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7 Software10 Nov 2022 | 11
Databases still pushing more hardware purchasing than any other app $40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone Systems08 Nov 2022 |
Microsoft feels the need, the need for speed in Teams Desktop app buckles up for faster switching between chats or channels or join a meeting Applications04 Nov 2022 | 52
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
Kyndryl loses $281m in the quarter as modernization agenda continues How to turn a classic infrastructure biz into something fit for the cloud era On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 5
Microsoft mulls cheap PCs supported by ads, subs Want a low-cost machine? Agree to be bombarded and the Windows giant could have a solution for you Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 86
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 | 75
Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7
Microsoft's Windows 10 Patch Tuesday update crashes OneDrive The software giant expects a fix, but not until at least next week Storage28 Oct 2022 | 16
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
Microsoft warns Server Manager disk resets can vanish data It has a workaround. Plus: Software giant also has a round of tweaks to Windows 11 22H2 Software27 Oct 2022 | 1
If someone tries ransacking your Windows network, it's a bit easier now to grok in Microsoft 365 Defender Blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing... CSO26 Oct 2022 | 6
Microsoft will help trim your Azure bill to encourage loyalty This is not altruism: investors are nervous about slowing growth. Redmond’s response is short term pain for long term gain Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 7
Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year HPC25 Oct 2022 | 1
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
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019 AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3
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
BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings Security20 Oct 2022 | 4
Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal' Why does it always rain on renters, asks CTO? Networks20 Oct 2022 | 25
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
Microsoft makes another round of jobs cuts amid slowing economy Around 1,000 souls reportedly tossed onto employment bonfire Off-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 4
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
SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision 'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios' Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8
SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1
OpenStack ends requirement for six-monthly upgrades with ‘SLURP’ plan As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little Software06 Oct 2022 |
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
DoJ ‘very disappointed’ with probation sentence for Capital One hacker Paige Thompson ‘This is not what justice looks like’ says official on sanction for leak of 100 million records Cyber-crime05 Oct 2022 | 40