Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google? As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29
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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
Aviatrix releases tool to help enterprises prevent cloud network costs spiraling Just as providers prepare to crank up their fees Networks03 Nov 2022 | 1
Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping' Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown Off-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 5
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
UK launches competition probe into cloud giants in digital services All right, what's all this, then? Three of you, are there? PaaS + IaaS22 Sep 2022 | 9
Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2
Remember when Microsoft was going to put Azure in space? It's still trying 'Cloud connectivity' hits different this time Networks14 Sep 2022 | 4
Google shuts off IoT Core services shortly after announcing API stability commitments Customers could be better off with specialist providers and service partners, Chocolate Factory decides Applications19 Aug 2022 | 40
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
Microsoft Azure cloud region settles over desert in Doha, Qatar Opening was delayed during that pandemic thing Systems16 Aug 2022 | 13
Google Cloud expands to Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences Off-Prem10 Aug 2022 |
Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources Off-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 46
Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire Off-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 17
Google, Oracle clouds still affected by UK heatwave Some hard disks appear to have cooked, along with bit barn designers' best laid plans Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 22
Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites Clouds burst as nation hits 40C Off-Prem19 Jul 2022 | 66
Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace Comment Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch PaaS + IaaS14 Jul 2022 |
Vodafone picks Google for MLops project that self-serves models in minutes Teradata, Oracle Cloud still play a role in carrier's data-wrangling plans AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |
AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument On-Prem01 Jul 2022 | 3
$6b mega contract electronics vendor Sanmina jumps into zero trust Company was an early adopter of Google Cloud, which led to a search for a new security architecture CSO23 Jun 2022 | 1
Google recasts Anthos with hitch to AWS Outposts If at first you don't succeed, change names and try again On-Prem17 Jun 2022 | 1
Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 119
Transport giant picks up Google Cloud AI to aid package delivery, tracking When an exec asked for help tackling supply-chain woes, were they told to 'just Google it' or what? AI + ML06 Jun 2022 | 1
Algorithm spots 104 asteroids in huge piles of data Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code Science01 Jun 2022 | 13
Google picks business chiefs for European Advisory Board A sign that the company is taking data sovereignty concerns more seriously PaaS + IaaS23 May 2022 |
Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1
Google Cloud hopes to woo factories with its usual fare: Analytics and AI A different kind of assembly language AI + ML06 May 2022 | 3
Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft Big three’s market share now at 65 percent almost everywhere outside China PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 4
Q1 cloud growth lifts AWS, Azure, and Google 34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys PaaS + IaaS29 Apr 2022 | 2
Google Cloud sees storm brewing over API security Strap in, we're on a tour from zero trust to chatty digital assistants Applications26 Apr 2022 | 2
CAST AI puts out report on extent of enterprises cloud resource overspend Tool relies on platform getting everything right in real time, cautions analyst PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2022 | 3
Google Cloud launches exclusive AI management platform Prevision.io wants to 'democratize machine learning innovation' for smaller organizations AI + ML19 Apr 2022 | 3
Google's plan to win the cloud war hinges on its security aspirations Interview VP Sunil Potti talks strategy with The Register PaaS + IaaS19 Apr 2022 | 22
Google's on-prem edge gear to challenge AWS Outposts Web giant's racks and appliances now generally available Edge + IoT04 Apr 2022 |
Google introduces new Cloud infrastructure pricing New, in this case, meaning generally more expensive Off-Prem14 Mar 2022 | 11
Azure pulls in front of AWS in public cloud adoption It's close as Microsoft finds favor with surveyed enterprise IT pros Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 13
£5bn up for grabs in UK govt G-Cloud 13 framework Latest iteration of procurement in model dating back to 2011, how has that cloud first policy gone? Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 3
Microsoft adds GCP to Defender for Cloud And let me clue you in: I am the one who CloudKnox Security23 Feb 2022 |
AMD, DoiT to help Google Cloud customers optimize for Epyc Pair promise to provide the tools to achieve peak Zen PaaS + IaaS17 Feb 2022 | 3
Google Cloud takes a gap year. It may come back with very different ideas Opinion Twelve months without refreshment can break an addiction PaaS + IaaS07 Feb 2022 | 12
Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions Parent company Alphabet hails first year of revenue above $250B PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2022 | 47
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 PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2022 | 17
US Government Accountability Office explains why it sustained Microsoft's protests over $10bn NSA contract Not so much JEDI lightsabers, more magic WANDS Off-Prem15 Dec 2021 | 6
WTF is a 'software-defined community cloud'? Basically a slice of public cloud with better isolation and governance – just like our cloud, says Google Off-Prem10 Dec 2021 | 5
Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud Lengthy support for enterprises that prefer things just so Software14 Jun 2021 | 4
AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200' Analysis Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills PaaS + IaaS28 May 2021 | 86
Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner Multi-cloud for data is too complicated Off-Prem19 May 2021 | 7
Google Cloud and SpaceX buddy up to fling edgy data and cloud services via Starlink Sign-ups open in second half of 2021 Off-Prem13 May 2021 | 4
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 Applications01 Apr 2021 | 16
Google’s site reliability senseis offer to train you in their mystical ways Only for Google cloud customers, and The Chocolate Factory will need 'deep familiarity with your workloads’ Off-Prem15 Mar 2021 | 7
Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares Dodging lock-in good for the career as well as the soul Off-Prem10 Feb 2021 | 20
Google's cloud pulls out in front for best performance overall, while AWS remains most cost-efficient – report Azure wins on Ultra Disk storage but it's expensive, says Cockroach Labs SaaS20 Jan 2021 | 7
A flurry of data warehouse activity surrounds Snowflake's staggering $120bn valuation Analysis Firebolt says it can do it better while the cloud giants talk up services tweaks Storage15 Dec 2020 | 9
Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight Billing budget? Free plan? All useless when buggy code went into overdrive SaaS10 Dec 2020 | 116
75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider AWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises' Databases02 Dec 2020 | 28
Nokia snuggles up with Google Cloud as it aims to switch off on-prem servers within next two years Yep, there it is. 'Digital transformation' SaaS14 Oct 2020 | 5
Why cloud costs get out of control: Too much lift and shift, and pricing that is 'screwy and broken' Feature The Reg talks to the experts about how to manage spend SaaS03 Sep 2020 | 61