Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Channel19 Apr 2024 |
Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages Off-Prem17 Apr 2024 | 2
Alleged cryptojacker accused of stealing $3.5M from cloud to mine under $1M in crypto No prizes for guessing the victims Research16 Apr 2024 | 2
Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86% Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 3
Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury Updated Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'willful' Storage11 Apr 2024 | 24
SharePoint logs are easily circumvented and Microsoft is dragging its heels Now is the perfect time to review those permissions Applications10 Apr 2024 | 7
US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2024 | 4
Huawei Cloud reveals the dynamic traffic allocation system it uses to cut bandwidth bills Created during COVID to handle video boom and sliced bandwidth costs by 30 percent Off-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 3
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 113
Alibaba Cloud slashes prices outside China Domestic customers saw their fees cut last January Systems08 Apr 2024 |
What happened to agility and new business models? Cloud benefits have all gone to IT Orgs are missing a trick when it comes to the white fluffy stuff, survey says PaaS + IaaS08 Apr 2024 | 29
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
French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies Action gathers steam in the EU, US and UK as anti-trust teams collate market feedback PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2024 | 6
Intel courts devs with open arms and exotic hardware Interview Is Developer Cloud enough to steal Nvidia's thunder? Software02 Apr 2024 |
Huawei's cloud unit is its current growth vehicle Big in China – and a presence elsewhere, but not at a scale to worry global hyperscalers Off-Prem02 Apr 2024 |
Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI Interview A RAGs to riches story AI + ML26 Mar 2024 |
Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon Looking for feedback before pressing the production button PaaS + IaaS26 Mar 2024 | 4
SAP users aren't keen on upping spending right now Cloud and upgrade conversions remain steady if sluggish, according to ERP spending bellwether DSAG Databases21 Mar 2024 | 5
Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials CSO18 Mar 2024 | 11
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators Off-Prem13 Mar 2024 | 14
GitHub fixes pull request delay that derailed developers Went down yesterday, too, longer and harder. Maybe we should call it GitFlub? Software13 Mar 2024 | 5
British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun Cyber-crime11 Mar 2024 | 45
Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability Infosec in brief PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities Security11 Mar 2024 | 10
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard Preview's promise ends in digital dust Storage08 Mar 2024 | 22
French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba's RISC-V SoC €15.99/month server offered with Ubuntu or Debian, and a zero percent Service Level Agreement Systems04 Mar 2024 | 7
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
Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations CEO Frank Slootman announces retirement as former data cloud rising star sees value sink Databases29 Feb 2024 | 8
Alibaba Cloud cuts prices – hard – for multi-year commitments in mainland China This might solve its twin problems of low growth and short-term customers Off-Prem29 Feb 2024 |
Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41
Gen AI and cloud optimization help Asian SuperApp Grab turn a profit Headcount down 18 percent as content creation time shrinks from 99 hours to 90 minutes Off-Prem26 Feb 2024 | 3
Prompt engineering is a task best left to AI models Machine-learning boffins find open source neural nets can optimize their own queries AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 17
Europe's data protection laws cut data storage by making information-wrangling pricier GDPR also slashed processing costs by over a quarter Public Sector21 Feb 2024 | 45
Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server? Analysis Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash On-Prem16 Feb 2024 | 38
Cloudflare joins the 'we found ways to run our kit for longer' club Finds modest savings, but isn't modest about ability to land big customers or sell AI Off-Prem09 Feb 2024 | 14
Arm share price bulges after AI pumped revenue to a new record Smartphones surge, but chip design champ isn't ready to predict its cloudy future On-Prem08 Feb 2024 | 3
Alibaba Cloud posts modest growth, mostly thanks to other Alibaba business units Customers from beyond the Chinese giant are being let go if they've signed for low-margin contracts Off-Prem08 Feb 2024 |
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
Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume Off-Prem02 Feb 2024 | 16
Alphabet just banked $3B by stretching life of its servers Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to – or the reason for – everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions Off-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 14
Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Storage29 Jan 2024 | 63
Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud? Legal29 Jan 2024 | 5
Competition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber for it Comment Suppliers know they can get away with less and the cloud means alternatives are less likely to emerge On-Prem28 Jan 2024 | 31
IBM Cloud is upgrading a datacenter and users will have to halt their Power VMs Big Blue will move two VMs in each five-hour window offered to those willing to stay PaaS + IaaS25 Jan 2024 | 8
AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Channel23 Jan 2024 | 1
Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow? Off-Prem19 Jan 2024 | 2
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra SaaS18 Jan 2024 | 45
Secret multimillion-dollar cryptojacker snared by Ukrainian police Criminal scored $2M in crypto proceeds but ends up in ‘cuffs following property raid Cyber-crime12 Jan 2024 | 8
Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss Interview How the hyperscalers derailed Europe's cloud infrastructure train PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2024 | 11
Singapore wants datacenters, clouds, regulated like critical infrastructure Even systems located outside city-state could be considered 'foundational' and face performance demands Off-Prem20 Dec 2023 | 3
India builds massive tech infrastructure to support finance sector ERP for 63,000 small rural lenders, software for 1,800 banks, and better-than-hyperscale cloud for the rest On-Prem20 Dec 2023 | 1
SAP admits attempt to adapt on-prem security for its cloud flopped Software giant learned the hard way that lift-and-shift isn’t easy Off-Prem14 Dec 2023 | 9
AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications' re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6
Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot OSes08 Dec 2023 | 28
Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 11
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully Security07 Dec 2023 | 21
Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027 PaaS + IaaS06 Dec 2023 | 43
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 37
You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 9
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Public Sector30 Nov 2023 | 12
Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region Updated Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems Storage30 Nov 2023 | 26
AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you? Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1