Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands
Special report Underutilized staff get sent to the 'bench' – and seldom return
On-Prem01 Oct 2024 | 39
Cloud Computing
Cloud threats have execs the most freaked out because they're not prepared
Ransomware? More like 'we don't care' for everyone but CISOs
Research30 Sep 2024 | 3
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways
Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation
Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6
AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-prem
See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator
PaaS + IaaS17 Sep 2024 | 73
Keen to bring it on home? Private cloud appliance pitched at compliance-conscious
Service with endless scalability, at least that's the plan
PaaS + IaaS11 Sep 2024 | 5
Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps
Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data
Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2
NARROWER TOPICS
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome
VMware Explore But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly
VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 32
The elusive dream of cloud portability: Why migrating workloads isn't so simple
Analysis Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor
Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2024 | 18
China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions
Orgs are accessing restricted tech, raising concerns about more potential loopholes
AI + ML23 Aug 2024 | 6
HPE nabs long-time ally Morpheus Data
The CMP boasts to be the orchestration platform behind GreenLake since 2022
Software15 Aug 2024 |
If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be... Northern Virginia
If you guessed Beijing, sorry – but it is number 2, according to Synergy Research figures
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2024 | 10
Cloud growth puts hyperscalers on track to take up 60% of datacenter capacity by 2029
Enterprises used to spend more on own kit than cloud infra services... now it's the other way around
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2024 |
Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip
Sigcomm 2024 Focus on physical ports helped spot issues across 100,000 switches and a million servers
Networks07 Aug 2024 | 5
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS
Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination
HPC07 Aug 2024 | 6
Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo
Sigcomm 2024 That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 25
Enterprise spend on cloud up sharply as world biz splashes $80B in Q2
Plus: Oracle nudges to top of second tier providers
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 |
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency
Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3
AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure
Analysis Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades
Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2024 | 2
Amazon: Our cloud growth just sped up. Did you know we are also quite a big retailer?
Reveals Kuiper broadband sats to fly later this year and solid Q2 sales
Cloud Infrastructure Month02 Aug 2024 | 9
Superclusters too big, but single servers too small? Oracle offers AI Goldilocks zone
Adds L40 bare metal option to the O-Cloud, plus A100 and H100 VMs. And teases a GH200 beast
PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 1
'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea
Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play
Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 2
VMware sends vSphere 7 into extra time by extending support for six months
A nice surprise, but some other vAdmins have an August 1 deadline to sort out subscriptions
VMware Explore24 Jul 2024 | 9
Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon
Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival
OSes23 Jul 2024 | 6
Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members
Exclusive Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint
Software22 Jul 2024 | 7
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved
Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble
Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66
What exactly did Microsoft promise CISPE in its settlement?
Analysis Analysts: 'At the end of the day, the settlement is nothing'
PaaS + IaaS17 Jul 2024 | 3
Microsoft wasn't CISPE's only suitor – it seems Google was willing to pay for its views on cloudy licensing to prevail
Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants
Off-Prem16 Jul 2024 | 2
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23B
The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory?
Security15 Jul 2024 | 17
Microsoft 365's Chinese host uses just four percent renewable energy: Greenpeace
Red clouds are in no rush to go green
On-Prem12 Jul 2024 | 6
Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch
The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers
Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
Microsoft avoids formal antitrust EC probe over abusive licensing claims by settling case with CISPE
Pays 'lump sum,' setting up new Azure Stack for hosters and more but some concerned about the private deal
PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2024 | 5
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users
Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 19
Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters
Prioritizing Mexico and Southeast Asia
Off-Prem01 Jul 2024 | 2
Anthropic tries 'to enable beneficial uses' of AI by government agencies
Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking
AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 3
Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits
Dance! Dance for me!
PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5
SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud
But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says
Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1
Alibaba Cloud unleashes thousands of Chinese AI models to the world
Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk
Off-Prem25 Jun 2024 |
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles
Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
Kyndryl and Apollo Global linked to bid for DXC Technology
Creating economies of scale by merging ever-shrinking infrastructure services businesses
On-Prem12 Jun 2024 | 7
Microsoft extends Azure into Oracle cloud to satisfy OpenAI
Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business
Off-Prem12 Jun 2024 | 3
Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud
WWDC Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry
Off-Prem11 Jun 2024 | 12
Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions
PaaS + IaaS10 Jun 2024 | 11
AWS leads UK cloud market while Microsoft dominates growth and new customers
And guess who has highest margins? Some interesting findings from fresh market watchdog report
PaaS + IaaS28 May 2024 | 4
Alibaba is taking its cloud to Mexico, likely following Chinese manufacturers
More AZs in its Asian backyard also planned
Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 3
IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem
Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years
On-Prem22 May 2024 | 4
Critical Fluent Bit bug affects all major cloud providers, say researchers
Crashes galore, plus especially crafty crims could use it for much worse
Research21 May 2024 | 2
Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time
Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun
Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29
CoreWeave debt deal with investment firms raises $7.5B for AI datacenter startup
Funds to be used for purchasing servers and networking kit
AI + ML17 May 2024 | 2
AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany
It'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local
PaaS + IaaS17 May 2024 | 20
UniSuper Google Cloud outage caused by an unfortunate series of events
Duplication across geographies no defense against the 'one-of-a-kind' accidental deletion
PaaS + IaaS09 May 2024 | 17
Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid
Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places
On-Prem09 May 2024 | 3
Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week
That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again
PaaS + IaaS08 May 2024 | 11
Spanish startups say 'no más' to Microsoft cloud dominance
Updated Group alleges anticompetitive behavior
PaaS + IaaS07 May 2024 | 4
AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service
Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing
PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 | 6
Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21%
Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022
PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 |
Microsoft continues multibillion-dollar cloud and AI sprinkle in Malaysia
Satya reaches once more into his wallet
AI + ML02 May 2024 | 2
Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host
Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs
Off-Prem02 May 2024 | 3
Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods
Because nobody wants a big surprise
Public Sector02 May 2024 | 24
GPU cloud upstart CoreWeave gets $1.1B injection as AI hype train chugs on
A $19B valuation sounds like a lot, but then you look at OpenAI
AI + ML01 May 2024 | 4
AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire
Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day
Storage01 May 2024 | 66
AWS hits $100B revenue run rate, expands margins, delivers most of Amazon's profit
Growth is rather slower than cloudy rivals, but boss Andy Jassy can explain that
Off-Prem01 May 2024 | 3
Alibaba Yitian 710 rated fastest Arm server CPU in the cloud (for now)
Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win
Off-Prem29 Apr 2024 | 6
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