Public Cloud

Refrigeration failure at Hong Kong datacenter takes out Alibaba Cloud and others

Unlike Oracle and Google, this time there's no heatwave to blame

Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 1

Datacenter switching surged everywhere except Europe last quarter

Economic headwinds, surging energy prices batter EMEA switch sales

Systems03 Dec 2022 | 1

US commerce bosses view EU rules as threat to its clouds

Rules haven't been decided yet but others are already kicking up a stink

Off-Prem02 Dec 2022 | 139

Amazon unfreezes some hiring to expand its datacenter footprint

No matter what, the cloud must grow

Off-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 1

Fortinet's cloud firewall ditches custom ASICs for Amazon's Graviton CPUs

You might say they've Arm-ed their security suite for battle

Off-Prem29 Nov 2022 |

Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender

Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it

HPC09 Nov 2022 |

Amazon freezes corporate hiring amid worsening economic outlook

The decision comes as the e-commerce giant stuggles with soaring energy prices and cash-strapped customers

Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 7

Google, Oracle’s Ampere VMs get Arm’s SystemReady seal of approval

So that means everything just works now, right?

PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 |

VMware wants to help fund your next cloud migration

Totally not about trying to keep customers in the ecosystem. Okay, maybe a lot about that

Virtualization02 Nov 2022 |

Big backlogs, cloud cash shield server makers from economic turmoil – for now

Analysis As with all good things, it won't last forever

On-Prem01 Nov 2022 |

OVHCloud results show its November price hike will be a nice little earner

CEO claims no pushback from customers

Off-Prem27 Oct 2022 | 1

Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation

Erstwhile national cloud hero drowns in unpaid debts

Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 40

Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year

CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation

PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34

Cisco's latest switch packs 32 800G ports into a pizza box

If you need even more speed, Nvidia and Broadcom have silicon twice as fast

Networks19 Oct 2022 | 5

Google Cloud is super keen to keep certain customers on pricey Intel VMs

Unless your app really needs AVX 512, AMD and Ampere's cores may be a cheaper, better bet

PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 6

Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud

Scammers are using cloud services to create and host web pages that can be used to lure victims into handing over their credentials

Security22 Aug 2022 | 7

Broadcom challenges Nvidia's Spectrum-4 with 51.2T switch silicon

Double the bandwidth of previous gen and 6x reduction in power consumption

Networks16 Aug 2022 | 1

VMware delivers a load of updates for its Amazonian incarnation

Windows 11 debuts, as service extends to Hong Kong

Virtualization28 Jul 2022 | 3

Memory constrained? Amazon and AMD now offer 1.5TB VMs

Or about two and a half Chrome tabs

Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 4

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 3

Will cloud giants really drive colos off a financial cliff?

Analysis The dude who predicted the Enron collapse bets they will

Systems04 Jul 2022 | 10

HPE thinks your next GreenLake deploy will be a private cloud

Plus: IT giant expands relationship with Red Hat and SUSE, tackles hybrid data fabrics

On-Prem28 Jun 2022 |

OMIGOD: Cloud providers still using secret middleware

RSA Conference in brief All the news you may have missed from RSA this week

Security11 Jun 2022 | 18

To multicloud, or not: Former PayPal head of engineering weighs in

Not everyone needs it, but those who do need to consider 3 things, says Asim Razzaq

Systems23 May 2022 | 4

Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon

You have died of dystopia

PaaS + IaaS06 May 2022 | 16

Azure flaw allowed users to control others' accounts

AutoWarp security hole wasn't exploited – though researchers saw a way into a bank and a telco

Security08 Mar 2022 | 7

Toshiba reveals 30TB disk drive to arrive by 2024

I want to be your SledgeMAMR

Storage09 Feb 2022 | 72

Microsoft tweaks Teams and Viva to help bridge gap between frontline workers and their managers, among other things

Want a pay rise and paid leave? Can't help you there. Need better workplace tech? Walk this way...

Off-Prem12 Jan 2022 | 21

Cloud vendors can't resist the lucrative smell of gaming dollars – and they're all in it to win it

Feature It makes sense to provide infrastructure for the biggest biz in entertainment

SaaS06 Aug 2019 | 24

The democratisation of IT: Amazon and Microsoft own half the cloud infrastructure market

Choice? Yes, we've heard of it too

SaaS26 Jul 2019 | 8

Having flogged off its data centers, AT&T cozies up to Microsoft, IBM to keep it running

In a cloud war, the US telco opts for the Swiss model, stays neutral

Networks17 Jul 2019 | 8

Rackspace cloudy 'mix and match' stacks now available for EMEA mortals

Service Blocks float across the Pond 9 months after landing in US

SaaS12 Jul 2019 | 2

Enterprise hardware makers cry out as hyperscalers clip infrastructure spending

Still said to be worth around $66.9bn in 2019

On-Prem21 Jun 2019 | 1

Virtustream xakes xanaged, xrofessional xervices to xhe xtreme xith xStreamCare

Biz will do almost anything for money (as long as it is cloud-related)

On-Prem17 May 2019 | 3

Arista cats far from purring despite shifting plenty more switches in Q1

Dyspeptic hyperscalers belch: We couldn't eat another bite for now, thanks

Networks03 May 2019 | 1

Whose cloud is it anyway? Apple sinks $30m a month into rival Amazon's AWS – report

iPhone maker set to feed competitor even more dollars over the next five years

SaaS23 Apr 2019 | 18

We reveal what's inside Microsoft's Azure Govt Secret regions... wait, is that a black helico–

Redmond hopes to lure Uncle Sam's spy agencies, military away from Amazon

SaaS18 Apr 2019 | 17

Better late than never: Cisco's software-defined networking platform ACI finally lands on AWS

Go hybrid or go home

Networks11 Apr 2019 | 9

Go on, feast your eyes on... HMRC's backend: 4,000 IT staff, its hookup with AWS and more

OpenInfra Days UK 2019 UK taxman's digital boss talks living with Amazon

SaaS02 Apr 2019 | 29

Europe, Japan: D-Wave would really like you to play with its – count 'em – '2,000-qubit' quantum Leap cloud service

Solve tricky maths in a fraction of the time... supposedly

Science28 Mar 2019 | 10

That's Huawei I like it: Chinese giant's cloudy arm dumps 19-inch rack for newer model

All future cloud data centres to be designed with 21-inch Open Rack in mind

Systems18 Mar 2019 | 19

Big Switch pokes a straw into the cloud, sucks its netops onto the premises

You too can have your very own network-as-a-service

Networks26 Jul 2018 |

Public cloud services could be worth $302 BEEELLION by 2021

And just a handful of vendors will run the show

SaaS12 Apr 2018 | 7

Is the writing on the wall for on-premises IT? This survey seems to say so

Suppliers, time to consider that SaaS and/or public cloud angle

SaaS19 Jan 2018 | 56

Tailored SwiftStack update should help get your GDPRse in gear

But code and admin roles more complicated as a result

Storage31 Oct 2017 | 3

Hey, cloud big three! AI-wielding Huawei says it's coming for you

Announces public cloud alliance for China and beyond

AI + ML05 Sep 2017 | 9

IBM signs up for EU Cloud Code of Conduct, opens four data centres

Big Blue's public serivce hits nearly 60 DCs worldwide

SaaS19 Jul 2017 | 6

Google cloud browned out after automation snag struck

Fix for App Engine memory allocation mess will be applied to just one data centre

SaaS14 Jun 2017 | 3

Michael Dell? More like Michael in-Dell-nial: No public cloud, no future

Opinion He's got it all – and it's all to lose... even Oracle has woken up to it

Storage09 May 2017 | 44

Dell backs out of in-cloud backup business by selling Spanning

Another EMC acquisition let go

SaaS21 Apr 2017 |

Newly cloud-tastic Oracle sees hardware sales droop

Analysis Is public cloud focus punishing on-premises biz?

On-Prem16 Mar 2017 | 5

Cloud is the future, wait, what? Cohesity cloud software now touted for on-prem gear

Cloud Platform becomes Virtual Edition for ROBO use

Storage14 Feb 2017 | 1

IDC's abacus fiddlers say a third of all IT spend goes on cloud

Number crunching exercise shows what we all suspected

Channel15 Jan 2016 | 4

Yes, HPE and Azure are dating, but it's OK if we see other people – Hilf

HPE Discover Cloud belongs to no one vendor, so yes, we'll work with AWS, VMware ...

On-Prem02 Dec 2015 | 2

HP Enterprise: You with the horn, be silent, we are composing infrastructure

HPE Discover Synergy - firm's answer to hybrid IT ships next April, hopefully not on Fool's Day

Channel01 Dec 2015 | 2

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Azure sitting in a tree, p-a-r-t-n-e-r-i-n-g

The company that's definitely not HP Inc makes Microsoft its 'preferred public cloud' supplier

Channel25 Nov 2015 | 1