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 | 54
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
Snowflake and Zoom celebrate shrunken cloud bills as margins swell Analytics outfit gets there by moving customers to Amazon’s Graviton CPUs Off-Prem25 May 2023 |
Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you Devops23 May 2023 | 8
Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 1
VMware again extends formal deadline for Broadcom deal Meanwhile, rivals circle and the hybrid cloud management market morphs Virtualization22 May 2023 | 1
What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability Software19 May 2023 | 25
Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is The downside is complexity. The upside, if you strategize properly, is specialist services and diversity Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 13
Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in Yes, there are risks. But you can address them without huge multi-cloud failover rigs Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 35
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures AI + ML11 May 2023 | 1
Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1
Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled Networks10 May 2023 | 20
Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows NVMe storage should mean better performance for data-intensive workloads, says tech giant Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign And $70B in share repurchases didn't calm matters Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 52
AWS, Microsoft make finding important admin info less frustrating It's 2023 and tech giants have discovered email and unified dashboards Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings 50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4
Plugging the infosec holes before the bad guys can sneak in RSA Conference Security posture management gets its due at RSA Spotlight on RSA01 May 2023 | 2
Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 8
Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 | 9
Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond CxO25 Apr 2023 | 97
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
How was Google boss's 2022? He got paid $226M as stock awards kicked in Bumper payday for exec as relentless cost-cutting campaign continues Off-Prem24 Apr 2023 | 25
Microsoft suggests businesses buy fewer PCs. No, really Redmond wants you using Cloud PCs instead because they offer a better sustainability story Personal Tech24 Apr 2023 | 96
It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable CxO21 Apr 2023 | 12
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9
Amazon CEO says AWS staff now spending ‘much of their time’ optimizing customers’ clouds Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadband Off-Prem17 Apr 2023 | 23
Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider' Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw Security14 Apr 2023 | 19
OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems Air by itself just doesn't cut it anymore Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 10
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024 At least Redmond listens to some customers SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments Which means you may suddenly hit a 5GB limit rather than 15GB Storage06 Apr 2023 | 76
Benchmark a cloud PC? No way. Just trust us, they work, says Microsoft DaaS is SaaS, so expect constant change that makes numbers moot Virtualization06 Apr 2023 | 28
Microsoft adds chatbots to Teams for the Pentagon Yes, DoD admins, your users can ask for this now, but make sure your bots are in compliance Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 4
AlienFox malware caught in the cloud hen house Malicious toolkit targets misconfigured hosts in AWS and Office 365 Security30 Mar 2023 |
Euro cloud providers react to MS potentially cutting deal on antitrust Transparency? Redmond's heard of it Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 2
Airbus pulls up hard, no longer buying 29.9% stake in Atos-owned Evidian Under pressure from activist investor, top brass agree to plot new course Systems30 Mar 2023 | 2
Google Cloud pitches 'Gen Apps' – low-code AI-based tools, not post-millennial kids We've got your summarization, your Q&A, your chatbots, your classification tasks ready to go Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 7
Oh, really? Microsoft worries multicloud complicates security and identity Coincidentally lays off techies in its identity team Spotlight on RSA29 Mar 2023 | 8
Rackspace racks up job cuts amid market downturn and talk of offshoring Exclusive Everything from inflation, to war in Ukraine and high interest rates 'point to recession', says CEO in memo to staff Off-Prem28 Mar 2023 | 15
Outage rates fall, but major ones will cost more. Oh and don't bank on SLAs Not what cost-cutting companies want to hear right now. Maybe they should hang onto those engineers? CxO27 Mar 2023 | 9
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block 2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35