Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators Off-Prem13 Mar 2024 | 14
Reaping the rewards of a strategically powerful cloud relationship An explanation of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure can nearly double ROI Webinar
Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13
Microsoft retires Azure IoT Central retirement announcement And fails to clear up end-of-life debacle Networks21 Feb 2024 | 8
Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink Exclusive After March, devs won’t be able to create new application resources, in 2027 the system will be shut down Edge + IoT15 Feb 2024 | 24
Microsoft brings its cloudy virtual desktops on-prem to AzureStack HCI Just in time to cash in on VMware and Citrix uncertainty Virtualization06 Feb 2024 | 4
Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts Updated Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud Databases05 Feb 2024 | 9
Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex Microsoft named – again – by EU trade groups seeking to level the playing field PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2024 | 11
Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2024 | 3
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
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS OSes28 Nov 2023 | 22
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Microsoft adds FPGA-powered network accelerator to Azure 'Azure Boost' vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 6
Microsoft likens MFA to 1960s seatbelts, buckles admins in yet keeps eject button Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically Security07 Nov 2023 | 29
AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2023 | 2
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16
Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode Databases10 Oct 2023 |
Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft kills classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure Users get three-year deprecation and migration warning On-Prem03 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap' Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 35
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure At least it was the weekend PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32
Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy' Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6
Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024 AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 5
AI mentioned 175 times during Microsoft's Q4 earnings call Are you sure that's an exec on the line? Also, smart move distracting folks from revenue growth slowdown, profit slide AI + ML26 Jul 2023 | 2
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6
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
Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 14
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51
Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope Sysadmin Month16 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 |
Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics But the outcome is far from certain Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4
Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130
Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 15
Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this? SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22
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’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem Opinion If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts Software12 Jun 2023 | 80
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2
Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 11
This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database Devops03 Jun 2023 | 89
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 | 54
Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click Ingest, integrate... and imprison SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6
Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers OSes26 May 2023 | 56
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture AI + ML25 May 2023 | 1
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
Microsoft decides it will be the one to choose which secure login method you use Certificate-based authentication comes first and phones last CSO18 May 2023 | 55
Microsoft tries a deeper dive into Azure Firewall traffic If the flow slows, you need to know why Off-Prem16 May 2023 | 3
EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13
Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising Wait... what? PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 24
Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows NVMe storage should mean better performance for data-intensive workloads, says tech giant Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
AMD reveals Azure is offering its SmartNICs as-a-service Still smiling despite Q1 PC chip sales slumping 65 points and flat server sales On-Prem03 May 2023 |
Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical Addresses annoyances like 20-core VMs requiring 24 licenses Software26 Apr 2023 | 23
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
Microsoft opens up Defender threat intel library with file hash, URL search Surprised there's no ChatGPT angle and that it's not called MalwareTotal Security18 Apr 2023 | 1
Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools Windows LAPS and legacy LAPS don't play nicely under certain conditions, Microsoft says CSO14 Apr 2023 | 6
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024 At least Redmond listens to some customers SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
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