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 Week12 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 Week21 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
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