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 | 1
Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests Alphabet Workers Union says bosses refuse to listen to concerns Off-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 85
Google laying off staff again and moving some roles to 'hubs,' freeing up cash for AI investments Restructure of finance teams will see some leave, and other roles created in Mexico City, Bangalore, and US cities Off-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 6
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Storage17 Apr 2024 | 12
Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so Kettle Won't somebody please think of the shareholders SaaS17 Apr 2024 | 4
Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages Off-Prem17 Apr 2024 | 2
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Virtualization16 Apr 2024 | 15
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
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 182
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure Asia In Brief PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more Off-Prem15 Apr 2024 | 3
UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4
GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15
Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system? £75 million in the offing in government tender PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2024 | 106
SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council 8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses SaaS10 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
Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing Cloud Next We're on a highway to ML PaaS + IaaS09 Apr 2024 | 6
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers Updated Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands
Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake
IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug 2.9 gives a taste of what's to come
Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff Chip designer legging it after Arm Edge + IoT08 Apr 2024 | 14
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 Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition Consortium will spend $1.65 billion on Azure, 365 – and of course some AI Software08 Apr 2024 | 1
Naver debuts multilingual HyperCLOVA X LLM it will use to build sovereign AI for Asia Because English isn't the only language AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers? Channel07 Apr 2024 | 1
Taiwan quake to hit chipmakers' capex, not chip supply Some equipment suffered minor damage, but the silicon show must go on Off-Prem05 Apr 2024 | 1
Lambda borrows half a billion bucks to grow its GPU cloud Will buy tens of thousands of Nvidia's prized accelerators, which will be collateral for the loan PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2024 | 8
Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts SaaS04 Apr 2024 | 54
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in Exclusive After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position Public Sector04 Apr 2024 | 99
OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door 'Caracal' improves AI capabilities and is pitched as an alternative to VMware Software04 Apr 2024 | 3
TSMC shrugs off impact of Taiwan earthquake Nonetheless DRAM prices may yet feel slight aftershocks Off-Prem04 Apr 2024 | 3
AWS severs connection with several hundred staff 'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately PaaS + IaaS03 Apr 2024 | 13
TSMC evacuated fabs after M7.4 earthquake hit Taiwan Video Internet outages recorded as Japan issues tsunami warning Off-Prem03 Apr 2024 |
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
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 |
Microsoft rolls out safety tools for Azure AI. Hint: More models Defenses against prompt injection, hallucination arrive as Feds eye ML risks AI + ML29 Mar 2024 | 10
Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion' Updated We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us PaaS + IaaS28 Mar 2024 | 27
CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix Off-Prem27 Mar 2024 | 168
Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan Off-Prem27 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
Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often 'Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed Off-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 14
EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services Exclusive Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing SaaS22 Mar 2024 | 29
Japan's NTT and NEC reckon they can boost optical network capacities 12x First tests of manycore fibres hailed as success over oceanic distances Off-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 4
ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time Software21 Mar 2024 | 3
First the Super Bowl, now this: Kansas City getting a Google bit barn Exact location, power source, and go-live date unknown. But don't worry, there'll be digital jobs Off-Prem20 Mar 2024 | 3
Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments First they came for McDonald's and I did not speak out because I have even worse taste in food Off-Prem20 Mar 2024 | 251
Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division FYI, FTC: Karén Simonyan, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman absorbed rather than acquired AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
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 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 | 12
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 | 57
McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles Global meltdown turns fast food slow Off-Prem15 Mar 2024 | 108
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 | 31
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 | 8
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 | 222
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
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 | 8
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