Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 4
Google Cloud misses revenue estimates – and it's your fault, wanting smaller bills Keeping old servers alive is more lucrative than the G-Cloud Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 15
Google offers some copyright indemnity to users of its generative AI services 'If you are challenged, we will assume responsibility' AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 8
UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5
Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late' If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 39
Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15
Google throws down gauntlet with first compute instances powered by AmpereOne chips Interview Though this is still a preview so another provider could swing it Systems30 Aug 2023 | 1
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40
Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig Software02 Aug 2023 |
AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2
Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials? Cyber-crime15 Jul 2023 |
Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9
Microsoft to hike prices in Australia and New Zealand Asia In Brief ALSO: Google Cloud extends support in Korean and Mandarin; Cambodia lashes Meta; MSFT India boss bails; and more Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3
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
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 | 53
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
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
Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer Off-Prem26 Apr 2023 | 9
Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting CxO19 Apr 2023 | 3
Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8
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
You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security? And Google Cloud is next CSO21 Mar 2023 | 3
Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 11
Cloud, datacenter vendors muscle in on traditional telco territory at MWC Join us in the 'new world of opportunity' says GSMA chief Networks28 Feb 2023 | 1
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
Taking notes from AWS, Google prepares custom Arm server chips of its own Aim of the game is to match Intel and AMD on performance Systems14 Feb 2023 | 11
Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7
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
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