Saas

Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting

Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation

SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4

After 11 years, Atlassian customers finally get custom domains ... they don't want

Oz upstart promised jira.domain.com, now offers something.jira.domain.com

Software03 Apr 2023 | 31

Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff

Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors

SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6

AWS dragged over lengthy downtime to migrate PostgreSQL DBaaS

Aurora needs a break to get users off 11.x, says cloud giant

Spotlight on Databases14 Feb 2023 |

Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website – with traffic throttle

Updated Those who think Big Tech has its thumb on the scales are going to love this

Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 25

OpenText completes Micro Focus buy, CEO says bye to 8% of workforce

Here's your new desk, phone, security card, and an unpleasant missive for some

Software01 Feb 2023 | 4

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Command line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere

Networks30 Jan 2023 | 66

Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle

Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn

SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6

UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several different ERP systems

Software to support 46,000 users as group part of £900m program to simplify central government back end

Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 | 16

Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint

CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry

SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6

Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO

It doesn't work for SAP and Salesforce but does work for Workday. For now

PaaS + IaaS21 Dec 2022 | 2

Cisco closes in on debut of cloudy Nexus management service

Existing Nexus Dashboard to be recommended for sovereign clouds or air-gapped rigs

Networks12 Dec 2022 | 1

Deutsche Bank backs Nvidia's bet to make big bucks on software

German financial giant aids GPU maker's vision of vertical integration

Software07 Dec 2022 | 3

Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migraines

Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause

Security05 Dec 2022 | 37

Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself

Updated Legacy process overwhelmed infrastructure, brought ten hours of trouble

SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 34

Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants

Cash flow is king, even in the cloud

SaaS01 Dec 2022 | 14

Salesforce ends CEO job share – again. Marc Benioff back as sole boss

Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter

SaaS01 Dec 2022 |

As recession looms, Workday warns that legacy HR systems need updating

Company hopes future will be 'nearly impossible to navigate' without its wares

SaaS30 Nov 2022 | 15

Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users

Updated 'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice'

SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39

Micro Focus prepares for private ownership, turnaround still WIP

Russia and strong dollar weigh heavy on 2022, but OpenText is ready for COBOL expert

Software14 Nov 2022 | 1

Nvidia bundles enterprise AI software with incoming H100 systems

GPU maker wants more of your money with next wave of servers

Systems14 Nov 2022 |

WTF is Sovereign SaaS? VMware’s way to satisfy pesky regulators your cloud is local

Reveals closer ties to Equinix and Wipro as Broadcom finds new ways to promise peace

Virtualization08 Nov 2022 | 1

Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory

Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway

Databases01 Nov 2022 |

ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP

Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending

SaaS27 Oct 2022 |

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

Opinion But, it won't play out the way you think it will

OSes14 Oct 2022 | 151

SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision

'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8

SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon

User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction

Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1

Salesforce lets Genie out of the bottle

Integration tooling might work for those with multiple installs, but check the budget first – analyst

SaaS21 Sep 2022 | 1

Google says some AI call center agents took the morning off

Updated Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said …

AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 8

Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

1.5 million machines and half a billion acres of land connected to the John Deere Operations Center within a matter of years

Software12 Sep 2022 | 89

Enterprise software deals slower to close as macroeconomics hit IT departments

Picture of longer sales cycles, more deliberation, enterprise upgrade challenges emerging across industry

SaaS09 Sep 2022 |

Green alert: SaaS giants may use sustainability to justify price hikes

Which should make you see red because using renewable energy is supposed to cut their costs

SaaS01 Sep 2022 | 4

Google Workspace Individual arrives in Europe

It's taken Mountain View a year to refine the service for the Continent

Personal Tech18 Aug 2022 | 1

Cloudera launches SaaS platform for the lakehouse crowd

And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy, so it's hoping open approach sets it apart

Databases18 Aug 2022 | 1

After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023

Updated Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket

SaaS12 Aug 2022 | 14

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Exclusive Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year

Devops04 Aug 2022 | 103

VMware’s subscriptions start at 16 cores, prices won't be made public

Prepaid one-, three-, or five-year terms preferred for big bundles

Virtualization29 Jul 2022 | 29

Microsoft sunsets Windows built-in data leak prevention

The alternative is a paid subscription service. What's the bet it's more expensive than the current offering?

Software22 Jul 2022 | 10

Hundreds of millions up for grabs as UK taxman set to stick with SAP ECC6.0

Updated Support for finance system ends in 2027, leaving questions for HMRC

Databases19 Jul 2022 | 3

Intel tried selling software before. Will it succeed this time?

Analysis After offloading McAfee and Wind River, the x86 giant is building a commercial software business again

Software18 Jul 2022 | 22

IT departments often regret technology buying decisions

The longer the purchase takes, the more frustrating, says Gartner

On-Prem15 Jul 2022 | 52

Mergers and acquisitions put zero trust to the ultimate test

Bypasses an arduous integration process with right security footing from the start

CSO13 Jul 2022 | 1

Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022

Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars

Off-Prem04 Jul 2022 | 1

Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public

Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds

Software27 Jun 2022 | 10

Adobe apologizes for repeated outages of its Creative Cloud video collaboration service

Frame.io admits it was 'slow to scale as demand rose

Off-Prem15 Jun 2022 | 12

Datacenter networks: You'll manage them from the cloud, eventually, claims Cisco

Nexus portfolio undergoes cloudy Software-as-a-Service revamp

Systems14 Jun 2022 | 4

Oracle cloud growth up 19% but it's still a market minnow

Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt

SaaS14 Jun 2022 | 1

Governments opt for XaaS, dump datacenters in droves

Outsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner

PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2022 | 4

Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360

Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens

SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 1

UK Home Office awards Oracle a deal extension worth tens of millions

Fellow travelers in the Whitehall shared services journey await their SaaS move

SaaS07 Jun 2022 | 5

Salesforce shrugs off economic uncertainty with upbeat Q1 results

CEO admits integration of mega-mergers remains an ongoing project

Applications01 Jun 2022 |

Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming

Virtualization27 May 2022 | 45

ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points

Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions

SaaS25 May 2022 |

Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner

Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag

PaaS + IaaS20 Apr 2022 | 9

Block claims ex-employee downloaded customer data after leaving firm

Leak highlights worker offboarding policies as SaaS use grows

Security06 Apr 2022 | 10

Sophos fixes critical hijack flaw in firewall offering

Authentication bypass followed by remote-code execution at the network boundary

Security28 Mar 2022 |