Cloud Computing

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UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger

21 Jan 2022 12:43 | 8

PaaS + IaaS

Cloud spending back to business as usual at end of 2021: Slight slowdown was a blip due to overprovisioning

IDC figures suggest providers had extra inventory to shift after pandemic panic

17 Jan 2022 14:29 |

Databases

And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good

Let's not mention on-premise licences....

15 Jan 2022 01:54 | 1

Security

Orca Security tells AWS fail tale with a happy ending

Those critical AWS flaws that exposed data and broke tenant separation? All fixed!

13 Jan 2022 21:02 | 4

PaaS + IaaS

UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff

Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks

11 Jan 2022 16:15 | 16

Databases

All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines

Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021

06 Jan 2022 17:28 | 5

Off-Prem

The (IT capacity) testing times we live in: Survey's in – and my, how some of you have grown

Only one respondent 'noticeably reduced the capacity of their systems'

07 Dec 2021 14:30 |

RE:INVENT

Graviton 3: AWS attempts to gain silicon advantage with latest custom hardware

Key to faster, more predictable cloud

06 Dec 2021 12:17 | 2

Off-Prem

Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch

02 Dec 2021 03:55 |

re:Invent

AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up

The cloudy concern is a prodigy, but early promise is no guarantee of dominance

29 Nov 2021 03:58 | 11

Security

Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked

Ad giant's first stab at providing the 'world's premier security advisory' starts with the obvious

25 Nov 2021 06:59 | 11

Off-Prem

US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle deemed worthy

19 Nov 2021 22:30 | 12

SaaS

CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers

What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere!

18 Nov 2021 10:15 | 4

PaaS + IaaS

Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much

Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB

16 Nov 2021 04:29 | 4

Servers

European server sales sink to 4-year low: Cloud, software-defined and chip shortage blamed

Double-digit declines in Germany, UK, France and 15 other countries

09 Nov 2021 10:15 | 4

Virtualization

VMware's divorce from Dell is complete: Virtualization giant now a separate biz with $64bn valuation

Wants to be the 'Switzerland' of cloud

01 Nov 2021 23:02 | 13

Off-Prem

Googlebusters: Cloud biz jumps 45% in Q3 but misses Wall St consensus, operating losses almost halved

Advertising engine still revving amid pandemic

27 Oct 2021 14:25 |

SaaS

Ever wondered where the 'cloud' was in Adobe Creative Cloud? Here it is in beta form

In-browser editing previewed for Photoshop and Illustrator

26 Oct 2021 14:33 | 22

Off-Prem

EU digital rules must consider anti-competitive licensing terms, say cloud sellers

*cough* Microsoft and Oracle *cough*

26 Oct 2021 12:59 | 3

On-Prem

OVH blames hour-long global outage on human error during 'routine' network reconfiguration

'No impact expected' then pop – and weren't they in the process of an IPO?

13 Oct 2021 10:10 | 10

Off-Prem

Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment

Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team

12 Oct 2021 12:14 | 7

Servers

OVH drops IPO target against figure mooted a month ago

Still plans to raise €350m and aim for non US-cloud fans

05 Oct 2021 15:57 | 3

Updated

Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut

28 Sep 2021 21:57 | 4

PaaS + IaaS

Two months after Microsoft's fee slash, Google prepares to take a lower cut from vendors on Cloud Platform

It's dev-ine intervention

27 Sep 2021 16:15 | 1

Security

Thousands of internet-connected databases contain high or critical CVEs, says report by cloud security biz

Put your data on someone else's computer to keep it safe, urges Imperva

14 Sep 2021 11:30 | 14

PaaS + IaaS

T-Systems and Google Cloud building 'sovereign cloud services' for Germany

Sovereign according to Google's definition, that is

10 Sep 2021 13:01 | 11

Software

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is so flexible it wants to be called by a new name

Meet Amazon OpenSearch Service, more or less the same code, without the trademark infringement

10 Sep 2021 01:25 | 3

Updated

HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests

A pause on community-submitted PRs

07 Sep 2021 13:46 | 19

Security

Boffins find if you torture AMD Zen+, Zen 2 CPUs enough, they are vulnerable to Meltdown-like attack

Chip biz's fix involves performance-inhibiting LFENCE, if warranted

30 Aug 2021 21:49 | 22

Updated

Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club

Lower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests

24 Jul 2021 00:07 | 15

SaaS

IBM's 3% sales growth may not seem like much but it's the biggest it's had in three years

Maybe keep the email systems down a little longer if it helps this much?

20 Jul 2021 01:23 | 10

Off-Prem

Dedicated (Local) Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service to grow almost 1000 per cent in five years

IDC says on-prem clouds like AWS Outposts will grow from from $140M annual sales to $14B

06 Jul 2021 07:45 | 21

Security

Microsoft hooks up with MITRE to map Azure's ATT&CK surface for 'proactive security'

Amazon's AWS next cloud platform in line for adversarial tactics framework

30 Jun 2021 22:02 |

Servers

Google cosies up to AMD for high-performance scale-out Tau VMs – but makes eyes at Intel and Arm, too

New 60 vCPU VMs come with some bold price-performance claims, but AMD needs to stay on its toes

17 Jun 2021 13:24 | 2

Security

Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster

Using techniques Microsoft had previously considered 'not a vulnerability'

08 Jun 2021 15:30 | 3

Updated

Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing

'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline

08 Jun 2021 10:46 | 103

Servers

FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof

Rarely seen miscalculations now crop up frequently at cloud hyperscale

04 Jun 2021 00:07 | 165

Analysis

VC's paper claims cost of cloud is twice as much as running on-premises. Let's have a look at that

'You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it' - but others disagree

02 Jun 2021 09:15 | 46

Analysis

AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'

Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills

28 May 2021 10:46 | 86

PaaS + IaaS

IBM Cloud’s biggest region hit by five-hour Severity One brownout

When we logged in for the status report, IBM was touting $25 gift vouchers to customers brave enough to review its cloud

20 May 2021 05:00 | 5

Exclusive

Google Cloud confirms departure of EMEA president Chris Ciauri

That 41% 2020 regional revenue growth lagged US and APAC. Sources claim HQ expected higher returns

18 May 2021 08:30 | 1

Updated

Google Docs users, you are on notice: Code rewrite may break browser extensions

HTML and CSS? What is this, 2003?

13 May 2021 06:24 | 43

Updated

If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can

Unlimited picture-hosting service suddenly gets very limited

12 May 2021 18:58 | 6

Off-Prem

Rackspace CEO: Offshoring, real estate closures and other cost cutting measures. Did NASDAQ cheer? Well? Nope

Q1 revenue up, losses widen, boss says new Elastic Engineering cloud product selling fast

12 May 2021 11:30 | 6

PaaS + IaaS

Infrastructure cloud market $11bn higher than a year ago as AWS and Microsoft get fatter and fatter

Two words: Digital transformation. Stop gagging. It's about how we learned to love the cloud

30 Apr 2021 17:46 | 1

Updated

Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision

Yes, AWS is still fighting for this $10bn deal

28 Apr 2021 22:53 | 22

Applications

Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers

Maybe we can make software modular, secure, speedy all at the same time

28 Apr 2021 13:00 | 69

Virtualization

It's been a long time coming but AWS has at last enabled an interactive serial console for de-borking VMs

Handy in an emergency, but only for Nitro instances and requires work in advance

01 Apr 2021 18:05 | 16

Applications

X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine

The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in

01 Apr 2021 08:07 | 16

PaaS + IaaS

Oracle dangles new cloud lift-and-shift service in the wake of SAP RISE

It's all about driving down costs on OCI... so it can compete with AWS, claims analyst

31 Mar 2021 17:32 | 1

SaaS

State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation

Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement'

31 Mar 2021 14:05 | 40

Updated

Ex-IBM staffer files lawsuit claiming company stole his cloud computing tech IP

Seeks jury trial and share of profits from IBM's Hybrid Cloud platform

25 Mar 2021 19:35 | 13

Off-Prem

China’s 2020 cloud infrastructure spend outpaced the world, says analyst

66 percent jump saw $19bn change hands, but they’re just 14 percent of global spend

25 Mar 2021 03:54 | 4

Off-Prem

OVH flames scorched cloud customers with pledge to build data centre fire simulation lab

Restoration of some services at destroyed data centre promised for this week, SBG1 data centre status in doubt again

23 Mar 2021 07:01 | 44

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UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

Cloud spending back to business as usual at end of 2021: Slight slowdown was a blip due to overprovisioning

And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good

Orca Security tells AWS fail tale with a happy ending

UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff

All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines

How's 2022 going for you so far? Hopefully better than it is for IBM Cloud

Four years: That's how long Azure's App Service had a source code leak bug

AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances

AWS flicks the switch on an Indonesian region

The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed

AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages

The (IT capacity) testing times we live in: Survey's in – and my, how some of you have grown

Graviton 3: AWS attempts to gain silicon advantage with latest custom hardware

Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up

Google advises passwords are good, spear phishing is bad, and free clouds get attacked

US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system

CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers

Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much

European server sales sink to 4-year low: Cloud, software-defined and chip shortage blamed

VMware's divorce from Dell is complete: Virtualization giant now a separate biz with $64bn valuation

Googlebusters: Cloud biz jumps 45% in Q3 but misses Wall St consensus, operating losses almost halved

Ever wondered where the 'cloud' was in Adobe Creative Cloud? Here it is in beta form

EU digital rules must consider anti-competitive licensing terms, say cloud sellers

OVH blames hour-long global outage on human error during 'routine' network reconfiguration

Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment

OVH drops IPO target against figure mooted a month ago

Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Two months after Microsoft's fee slash, Google prepares to take a lower cut from vendors on Cloud Platform

Thousands of internet-connected databases contain high or critical CVEs, says report by cloud security biz

T-Systems and Google Cloud building 'sovereign cloud services' for Germany

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is so flexible it wants to be called by a new name

HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests

Boffins find if you torture AMD Zen+, Zen 2 CPUs enough, they are vulnerable to Meltdown-like attack

Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club

IBM's 3% sales growth may not seem like much but it's the biggest it's had in three years

Dedicated (Local) Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service to grow almost 1000 per cent in five years

Microsoft hooks up with MITRE to map Azure's ATT&CK surface for 'proactive security'

Google cosies up to AMD for high-performance scale-out Tau VMs – but makes eyes at Intel and Arm, too

Siloscape malware targets Windows containers, breaks through to the underlying Kubernetes cluster

Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing

FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof

VC's paper claims cost of cloud is twice as much as running on-premises. Let's have a look at that

AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'

IBM Cloud’s biggest region hit by five-hour Severity One brownout

Google Cloud confirms departure of EMEA president Chris Ciauri

Google Docs users, you are on notice: Code rewrite may break browser extensions

If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can

Rackspace CEO: Offshoring, real estate closures and other cost cutting measures. Did NASDAQ cheer? Well? Nope

Infrastructure cloud market $11bn higher than a year ago as AWS and Microsoft get fatter and fatter

Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision

Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers

It's been a long time coming but AWS has at last enabled an interactive serial console for de-borking VMs

X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine

Oracle dangles new cloud lift-and-shift service in the wake of SAP RISE

State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation

Ex-IBM staffer files lawsuit claiming company stole his cloud computing tech IP

China’s 2020 cloud infrastructure spend outpaced the world, says analyst

OVH flames scorched cloud customers with pledge to build data centre fire simulation lab

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