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 | 3
Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filing Channel18 Mar 2024 | 7
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 43
McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles Global meltdown turns fast food slow Off-Prem15 Mar 2024 | 105
Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief' Channel15 Mar 2024 | 28
Here's another thing AI can do: Spark a boom in edge infrastructure spending IDC forecasts spend to grow 15.4% in 2024 to $232B – then add another $100B in three years Edge + IoT14 Mar 2024 |
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower Complainant moved to 'retire in place' role after Sarbanes Oxley Act report, filing alleges SaaS14 Mar 2024 | 10
South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites Plans to digitally transform trees Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 1
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators Off-Prem13 Mar 2024 | 14
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26
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
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4
European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use Euro folk have until December to put house in order Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29
VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May Exclusive But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content Channel11 Mar 2024 | 7
The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things Opinion All too many 'smart' devices are security stupid Edge + IoT09 Mar 2024 | 58
Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway On Call And soon learned he had won the argument Off-Prem08 Mar 2024 | 220
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
Reaping the rewards of a strategically powerful cloud relationship An explanation of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure can nearly double ROI Webinar
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TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested
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Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea
Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'
ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation Infosec in brief Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns
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
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
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 |
Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 2
Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen? Personal Tech28 Feb 2024 | 28
40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13
Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables, but here we are Off-Prem27 Feb 2024 | 100
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
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe Public Sector22 Feb 2024 | 37
Boss at one of Microsoft's largest resellers quits, admits secret share deals London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resigns Channel22 Feb 2024 | 10
Nvidia revenue grows 265 percent with more to come as new GPUs and Ethernet near Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they're 'fairly allocated' Systems22 Feb 2024 | 3
China Unicom becomes Middle Kingdom's second carrier with a billion subscribers Rivals aren't far behind and 5G numbers are huge, but growth is slowing Off-Prem21 Feb 2024 | 2
Microsoft says it'll throw €3.2B at AI ops in Germany What's the wurst that could happen? Off-Prem16 Feb 2024 | 10
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
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer 'agile and flexible' approach SaaS13 Feb 2024 | 28
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23
India weighs 18 bids to build subsidized local chip factories APAC in Brief PLUS: Rideshare mega-merger mooted; France raids Huawei; Mongolia plans first satellite Off-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 1
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
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 |
Think tank funded by Big Tech argues AI’s climate impact is nothing to worry about Sure, datacenters consume lots of energy. But maybe they'll invent stuff that helps Off-Prem07 Feb 2024 | 12
Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21
Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble Paytm's bank has been locked out, edtech darling Byju's faces bankruptcy PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2024 | 18
ASEAN bloc to build submarine cable network, link government apps APAC in Brief PLUS: TikTok returns to Indonesian e-commerce; Chinese giants' EV battery swap scheme; India drops mobile tariffs Off-Prem04 Feb 2024 | 1
What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption Kettle Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ... AI + ML03 Feb 2024 | 7
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
Singtel does the 'we’re building datacenters to host Nvidia clusters’ thing Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI Off-Prem01 Feb 2024 | 1
Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services Off-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 5
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
Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech Opinion It's not just you – things really are getting worse Off-Prem30 Jan 2024 | 159
Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right Off-Prem30 Jan 2024 | 4
Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge have converged And it will all come together in one big, happy, hybrid innovation engine Off-Prem29 Jan 2024 | 3
Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35
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
eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered 9% of workforce getting boot after execs hired too many during pandemic Channel24 Jan 2024 | 20
AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Channel23 Jan 2024 | 1
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
Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |
Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group Updated Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors Channel19 Jan 2024 |
Google to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world Including for cross-border remittances, which could shake things up nicely Off-Prem19 Jan 2024 | 6
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
As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction Channel18 Jan 2024 | 27
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
Alphabet CEO tells Googlers: More job cuts on the way It won't be anywhere near the 12,000 heads that rolled last year, though, says Pichai Off-Prem18 Jan 2024 | 14
India's big four services giants soar on demand for AI Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowed Channel18 Jan 2024 |
Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure PaaS + IaaS16 Jan 2024 | 17
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 rings in 2024 with sweeping layoffs Cuts are a continuation of late-2023 redundancies to help teams better 'align their resources' Off-Prem11 Jan 2024 | 6
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
Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering Suppliers don’t know much about what’s going on. Which leaves users in limbo, too Channel28 Dec 2023 | 9
Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago Asia In Brief PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening Channel27 Dec 2023 | 26
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
Ubiquiti blunder let some folks view others' security cameras, accounts Cloud misconfig blamed and now fixed Off-Prem15 Dec 2023 | 15
China’s e-commerce players commit to broaden overseas If all goes to plan, more Chinese goods will flow into the global market Off-Prem15 Dec 2023 | 6
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
To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled? Kettle Register journos brew up on the future of hybrid in our latest Kettle Off-Prem09 Dec 2023 | 63
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
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
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
Citrix pulls the plug on its User Group Community To be replaced by virtual community and ‘in-person event experience’ hosted by vendor Off-Prem05 Dec 2023 | 6
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 23
China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 3
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43
Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7
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 | 40
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
Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet Take that, Elon Off-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 1
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 28
Black Friday? More like Blackout Friday for HSBC's online and mobile banking Updated Think of all the crap discounted things you won't need to buy now Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 40
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 28
India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends Off-Prem22 Nov 2023 | 3
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
Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48
Civo CEO on free credits, egress fees, and hauling it all back on-prem Interview And why the UK cloud industry can't ape the energy sector and make it easier to swap suppliers PaaS + IaaS17 Nov 2023 | 9
Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass? SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6
Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2