Public Cloud

US sets reporting requirements for AI models, infrastructure operators

Washington wants to know what the biggest model-makers are up to

AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 1

DataVita declares sovereignty with 'National Cloud' for UK

Scottish provider promises no hidden fees, full control, and safe haven for data

PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2024 | 11

Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD

VMware Explore While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’

Off-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 18

Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands

For 100 concurrent users, the card delivered 12.88 tokens per second—just slightly faster than average human reading speed

Systems23 Aug 2024 | 12

All that new AI-fueled datacenter space? Yeah, that's mostly ours – cloud giants

Construction surged 70% ... with 80% already snapped up

On-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 3

Amazon's latest 'flex' VMs promise savings for your burstiest apps

Updated Sustained workloads need not apply

PaaS + IaaS16 May 2024 | 3

AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm

Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see

SaaS14 May 2024 | 2

Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns

Talk about going round the (South) Bend

PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 | 4

Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road

Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan

Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way

Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15

Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?

£75 million in the offing in government tender

PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2024 | 109

Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips

Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year

Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1

Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card

Opinion We've done it once, we can do it again

Public Sector08 Apr 2024 | 73

Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers

Even when tech crew gets the tweaks approved, vendor lead times are bonkers, says report

Public Sector05 Apr 2024 | 94

Lambda borrows half a billion bucks to grow its GPU cloud

Will buy tens of thousands of Nvidia's prized accelerators, which will be collateral for the loan

PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2024 | 8

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Exclusive After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position

Public Sector04 Apr 2024 | 99

Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion'

Updated We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us

PaaS + IaaS28 Mar 2024 | 27

Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS

Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage

PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3

Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M

E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant

Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13

Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI

Updated Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly

AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 27

With $1B to burn on green tech, HSBC seeks Google’s help

The clock's ticking on those 2030 net zero climate goals

Systems08 Feb 2024 | 7

Google settles with Singular Computing over claims of stolen AI chip tech

Search giant faced potential damages of over $5B but terms haven't been disclosed

On-Prem25 Jan 2024 | 8

Does AI give InfiniBand a moment to shine? Or will Ethernet hold the line?

You could go all-in on Nvidia for the lower latency. Or tough it out with less exotic kit and tolerate slower training

Systems24 Jan 2024 | 6

Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment

Land of the rising profit?

PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |

Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized

If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher

PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7

Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP

Analysis Hint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt

PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2024 | 16

Google's TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge

Singular alleges AI accelerators built from ripped-off blueprints

On-Prem10 Jan 2024 | 28

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

Software cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros

Systems14 Dec 2023 | 44

Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training

Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound?

Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 23

French monopoly cops raid Nvidia office in cloud probe

Updated AI accelerator maker suspected of potential anti-competitive tricks

CxO28 Sep 2023 | 3

Bermuda, your data, Google's gonna take your US data

Updated Search giant's latest subsea cable will feed your YouTube addiction

Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 14

Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them

And they're all tailored for efficiency

Systems20 Sep 2023 | 12

The future of the cloud sure looks like it'll be paved in even more custom silicon

You're probably using cloud providers bespoke chips already and not even know it

Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Sep 2023 | 6

AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors

Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons

Cloud Infrastructure Month21 Aug 2023 |

Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?

100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google

Sysadmin Month15 Jul 2023 | 73

Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris

'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 |

AMD's 128-core Epycs could spell trouble for Ampere Computing

Analysis We still have more cores, exec sniffs

Systems21 Jun 2023 | 15

Amazon isn’t sold on AMD’s tiny Zen 4c cores in manycore Bergamo processors

Or Ampere's Arm cores for that matter

PaaS + IaaS15 Jun 2023 | 1

Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure

Telemetry revealed 'anomalous spike in HTTP requests' says post-incident report

PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2023 | 6

Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon

Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing

Systems19 May 2023 | 3

Ampere heads off Intel, AMD's cloud-optimized CPUs with a 192-core Arm chip

Just don't look too closely at the benchmarks

Systems18 May 2023 | 19

Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage?

It's not just Cupertino, most status pages aren't what they claim to be

Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 21

To quench AI's thirst, the way we build, operate datacenters needs to change

AI infrastructure isn't just hot and power hungry, it's uses a prodigous amount of water researchers tell El Reg

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7

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

Why Microsoft is really abandoning evaporative coolers at its Phoenix DCs

Less about love of the planet, more frustrated city officials

Energy Efficient Datacenters11 Apr 2023 | 30

Just because on-prem is cheaper doesn’t make the cloud a money pit

Comment Oh and expect to DCs to get more expensive, not less, analysts warn

Energy Efficient Datacenters11 Apr 2023 | 55

Nutanix's cloudy clusters now officially at home in Azure

HCI upstart adds a hybrid option that could be of interest to nervous VMware customers

Virtualization14 Mar 2023 |

Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells

And not the green hydrogen kind

Systems06 Feb 2023 | 10

Oracle cozies up to IBM, adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux

So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers

Devops31 Jan 2023 | 6

EU plan to make big tech pay 'fair share' of telco fees reportedly weeks away

All traffic is equal but some traffic is more equal than others

Networks12 Jan 2023 | 30

Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth

Did someone say teenage mutant ninja servers?

Systems30 Dec 2022 | 149

The era of cloud colonialism has begun

Opinion Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires

Off-Prem28 Dec 2022 | 40

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