AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline
Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware
PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 4
Cloud Computing
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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 | 76
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
Microsoft: Watch out for password spray attacks – especially you, Basic Auth
Exchange Online users should have authentication policies in place
CSO04 Oct 2022 | 7
Digital Ocean won't let new customers create resources in four DCs, won't say why
Can't even spin up the compute necessary to reply
PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 14
Google kills off Stadia
We gave the cloud gaming service two years to live. It managed three
Personal Tech29 Sep 2022 | 65
Microsoft to kill off old access rules in Exchange Online
Awoooogah – this is your one-year warning to switch over, enterprises
CSO28 Sep 2022 | 13
Microsoft among software titans under spotlight for restrictive licensing
US campaign group forms as customers complain of lock-in, unclear terms, problems using wares in cloud
Off-Prem28 Sep 2022 | 12
Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade'
It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts
Channel26 Sep 2022 | 1
Fake sites fool Zoom users into downloading deadly code
Ah, the human touch
Security22 Sep 2022 | 5
Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data
chmod a+rw at hyperscale
PaaS + IaaS21 Sep 2022 | 5
Oracle brews Java 19. Mmmm, kinda tastes like RISC-V
Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it
Software20 Sep 2022 | 1
OVH opens less flammable datacenter at site of 2021 fire
This time it has sprinklers and the batteries are outside the building – where they flaming well belong
On-Prem13 Sep 2022 | 28
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 |
Security pros get ability to manually add incidents to Microsoft Sentinel
*Tappity tappity* Yes the NSA's on the phone. Well maybe the automated log check didn't pick it up yet, Chad!
Security12 Sep 2022 |
VMware has clouded the SmartNIC market, not created it
Analysis Virtzilla has built itself an island. Important players aren't welcome to visit and might go elsewhere
Virtualization11 Sep 2022 | 5
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
Google CEO Pichai: We need to up productivity by a fifth
Ideas include restructuring key goals and expunging needless meetings
Off-Prem07 Sep 2022 | 57
IBM adds iTaaS to System I, Power 10 server bundle
$50/user/month to bring cloud-like opex delights to midrange on-prem environments
On-Prem06 Sep 2022 | 2
SoftIron to start selling 'fully turnkey' cloud platform
Hypercloud will be facing some stiff competition in the hyperconverged infrastructure space, say analysts
PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2022 |
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
VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns – it’s just ‘the next transition’
VMware Explore And so is vSphere for Arm: CEO tells Reg he’s ‘beating up’ the exec responsible for the port
Virtualization30 Aug 2022 | 5
Googler says she was forced out after opposing $1.2bn cloud contract with Israel
Fears of human-rights abuses overshadow Project Nimbus
AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 166
VMware reckons 20% of server cores can come back to work thanks to vSphere 8 and SmartNICs
VMware Explore Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again
Virtualization30 Aug 2022 | 1
Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier
Move over, GitLab, this purge begins in October
Devops25 Aug 2022 | 15
Huawei CEO reportedly puts company in survival mode
Ren Zhengfei warns tough economic times mean it’s time to focus on profit and quality
Networks24 Aug 2022 | 7
OVH to hike prices, blames 'l'inflation'
Energy costs are up 40 percent and OVH isn't going to eat that without sharing some pain
PaaS + IaaS23 Aug 2022 | 29
Cloudera launches SaaS platform for the lakehouse crowd
And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy, so it's hoping open approach sets it apart
Databases18 Aug 2022 | 1
Cloud and datacenters start to feel the slowdown amid spiking energy costs
While enterprises are spending more on infrastructure than ever before, what goes up must come down
PaaS + IaaS17 Aug 2022 | 5
Discord details how it dodged latency with a super-disk made in the cloud
For when a GCP Local SSD is just not quite reliable enough
Systems16 Aug 2022 | 11
After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023
Updated Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket
SaaS12 Aug 2022 | 14
Economic uncertainty can't stop cloud growth
You may have had your fill of chips – but AWS, GCP, and Azure are still hungry, analyst tells El Reg
Off-Prem11 Aug 2022 | 3
Clouds lift Lenovo ISG to third consecutive profit
Sees sunlit uplands ahead with plans for factory and ITaaS expansions
On-Prem10 Aug 2022 |
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