Microsoft: You're not out of love with cloud, you're just 'optimizing' it for a bit
Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease
Software25 Jan 2023 | 8
Cloud Computing
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice
It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it
SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
AWS expands footprint at site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region
Virginia welcomes $35 billion investment plan with $140 million grant to help things along
Off-Prem23 Jan 2023 | 3
Miscreants sure do love ransacking cloud networks, more so than before
Thanks for putting all your data in one basket
CSO20 Jan 2023 | 9
Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality
Bit factory giants see sales slimming in economically challenged times, party still far from over
PaaS + IaaS19 Jan 2023 | 27
What's driving multicloud? War, regulation, plague, says Acronis CEO
All y'all want data near you, but that doesn't mean you're going back on prem
Off-Prem19 Jan 2023 | 2
NARROWER TOPICS
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales
Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded
SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 36
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud
Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further
Off-Prem16 Jan 2023 | 98
Microsoft boosts Azure networking, storage with composable infra grab
Slurps ‘Fungible’, a manufacturer of DPUs and fabrics that will join Redmond’s engineering gang
Off-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 2
Homeland Security, CISA builds AI-based cybersecurity analytics sandbox
High-spec system is crucial to defending against the latest threats
Government Tech Week10 Jan 2023 | 5
Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware
British developer uses homegrown scanning tool to check for risks
Software09 Jan 2023 | 20
Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data
Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort
PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15
Hybrid multi-cloud is a mess to clean up, not an innovation to excite
Opinion We really should have known better than to end up with siloed applications on different platforms
Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 11
Tencent CEO Pony Ma reportedly bemoans internal corruption, inefficiency
This has the ring of truth to it because Chinese giant has disclosed similar worries on earnings calls
Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 9
AWS wins 5-year, $700m+ contract for cloud services to US Navy
Much money for Amazon, that is. Bezos heads to dockside after doomed JEDI deal
PaaS + IaaS20 Dec 2022 | 3
Microsoft patent eyes ads in streaming online games
Picture your avatar wearing a logo-emblazoned shirt driving past a billboard touting a product
Personal Tech20 Dec 2022 | 63
Google integrates Indian government's cloud services into Android
Collab obviously goes deep – accessing DigiLocker requires use of national identity service
Software20 Dec 2022 |
With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs
A day after Openreach engineers overwhelmingly accept new compensation, telco says it will merge Enterprise and Global businesses
Networks16 Dec 2022 | 18
To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services
Updated Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers
Off-Prem15 Dec 2022 | 51
AWS strains to make Simple Storage Service not so simple to screw up
Not Amazon's fault buckets are exposed, but the loaded shotgun and your foot are all there ready and waiting
Security14 Dec 2022 | 22
Just blob it in: Microsoft greases skids for data migration to Azure
Storage Mover tool to push on-premises workloads to the cloud, where Windows giant wants it
Storage12 Dec 2022 | 1
Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle
Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has
PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7
Cloud customers are wasting money by overprovisioning resources
And all that energy feeding those humming servers isn't free either
PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2022 | 7
Yandex signs up Putin ally to help with restructuring
Alexei Kudrin, former head of Russia's Audit Chamber, to advise on corporate development
Off-Prem05 Dec 2022 | 6
Broadcom tries to quash VMware price rise rumors as CEO promises they won't
Hock Tan says hiring engineers is his strategy … but still won't explain plan for massive rapid profit increase
Virtualization01 Dec 2022 | 4
AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path
Analysis CPU roadmaps are fragmenting to serve a variety of needs. Time to do some homework
HPC30 Nov 2022 |
'Russian missiles can't destroy the cloud': Ukraine leader describes emergency migration
Re:Invent Urgent digital transformation in a war-torn country
Off-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 29
AWS intros homebrew Graviton CPU tuned for HPC, network stack tuned to updated Nitro system
'Scalable Reliable Datagram' uses multi-path topography to smoke TCP
PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 | 1
AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030
That basically means more H2O returned to the environment than is supplied
PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2022 | 25
France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school
Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone
Software22 Nov 2022 | 81
AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline
Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware
PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 4
Cloud vendors should take some responsibility for stolen compute, says Canalys CEO
Canalys Forums APAC Crypto winter also attributed to semiconductor slumps in recent quarters
Cyber-crime16 Nov 2022 | 5
US Department of the Interior seeks $1b single-vendor cloud contract
Plan is to consolidate DCs, cut costs and carbon under one-CSP-to-rule-it-all deal
Off-Prem14 Nov 2022 | 6
Microsoft's grand unified theory of .NET advances a little
More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7
Software10 Nov 2022 | 11
Databases still pushing more hardware purchasing than any other app
$40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone
Systems08 Nov 2022 |
Microsoft feels the need, the need for speed in Teams
Desktop app buckles up for faster switching between chats or channels or join a meeting
Applications04 Nov 2022 | 52
Microsoft gives away '$400m in cloud support' to Ukraine
Freedom isn't free
PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 12
Alibaba Cloud plans for a fifth of its servers to use homebrew Arm CPUs by 2025
Sanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures
PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 4
Kyndryl loses $281m in the quarter as modernization agenda continues
How to turn a classic infrastructure biz into something fit for the cloud era
On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 5
Microsoft mulls cheap PCs supported by ads, subs
Want a low-cost machine? Agree to be bombarded and the Windows giant could have a solution for you
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 87
The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale
Comment You're paying too much for too much, and the providers know it
PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 | 75
Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral
AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry
Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7
Microsoft's Windows 10 Patch Tuesday update crashes OneDrive
The software giant expects a fix, but not until at least next week
Storage28 Oct 2022 | 16
AWS warns of demand slowdown as customers seek to cut spend
Amazon shares pummelled, but cloud operation thinks Graviton CPUs can save the day
Off-Prem28 Oct 2022 | 5
Microsoft warns Server Manager disk resets can vanish data
It has a workaround. Plus: Software giant also has a round of tweaks to Windows 11 22H2
Software27 Oct 2022 | 1
If someone tries ransacking your Windows network, it's a bit easier now to grok in Microsoft 365 Defender
Blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing...
CSO26 Oct 2022 | 6
Microsoft will help trim your Azure bill to encourage loyalty
This is not altruism: investors are nervous about slowing growth. Redmond’s response is short term pain for long term gain
Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 7
Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services
Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year
HPC25 Oct 2022 | 1
AWS users can finally use Nitro Enclaves on Arm Graviton EC2 instances
Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams
SaaS25 Oct 2022 |
Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud
But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology
PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI
Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019
AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3
UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure
Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 10
BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years
SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings
Security20 Oct 2022 | 4
Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal'
Why does it always rain on renters, asks CTO?
Networks20 Oct 2022 | 25
Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps
Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first
PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7
Microsoft makes another round of jobs cuts amid slowing economy
Around 1,000 souls reportedly tossed onto employment bonfire
Off-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 4
AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS
Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending
Virtualization18 Oct 2022 | 3
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
OpenStack ends requirement for six-monthly upgrades with ‘SLURP’ plan
As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little
Software06 Oct 2022 |
Microsoft drops the C bomb on financial services – 'compliance'
Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up
Off-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 3
DoJ ‘very disappointed’ with probation sentence for Capital One hacker Paige Thompson
‘This is not what justice looks like’ says official on sanction for leak of 100 million records
Cyber-crime05 Oct 2022 | 40
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