Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 1
US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran, Russia Alloys make the list too, as allies try to ensure foes can't weaponise tech Public Sector06 Sep 2024 | 3
If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases Channel05 Sep 2024 | 145
Copilot for Microsoft 365 might boost productivity if you survive the compliance minefield Loads of governance issues to worry about, and the chance it might spout utter garbage AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 21
'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon Software04 Sep 2024 | 58
FCC finally gets around to banning Kaspersky from telecoms kit Communications agency now passing on the order to operators Networks04 Sep 2024 | 3
Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2024 | 136
The amber glow of bork illuminates Brighton Station BORK!BORK!BORK! The train on platform 4 is destined for networking hell Off-Prem04 Sep 2024 | 48
Cloud spend - take back control Get Akamai’s advice on optimizing public cloud expenditure while improving application performance Sponsored Post
European chip lobby seeks more government cash and policy clout Last year's €43B was a nice snack. Now for a feast of regulatory capture Public Sector04 Sep 2024 | 14
DoJ reportedly advances Nvidia antitrust probe Updated Uncle Sam apparently worried GPU giant may be punishing customers who shop around AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5
White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP Better late than never Networks03 Sep 2024 | 26
Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index 50% dive in market cap during 2024 forcing CEO Pat Gelsinger to revisit strategy Channel03 Sep 2024 | 22
Cloud computing hits the nuclear button amid energy crisis Analysis Other options considered too as the power draw on electricity grids continues unabated Cloud Infrastructure Month03 Sep 2024 | 9
Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2
Black horse down: Lloyds online banking services go dark Updated Customers report inability to view transactions Off-Prem02 Sep 2024 | 27
Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats Benioff sees 'very high margin opportunity' in bid to 'monetize' productivity gains SaaS29 Aug 2024 | 5
DataVita declares sovereignty with 'National Cloud' for UK Scottish provider promises no hidden fees, full control, and safe haven for data PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2024 | 11
Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan VMware Explore Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 8
Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025 Windows giant continues march away from on-prem and into a cloudy future SaaS28 Aug 2024 | 30
Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy Not so much when trying to convert coding veterans
FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them Some brick devices they'd rather not support, kill apps that drive functions, or add post-sale subscriptions
Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI Carbon capture outfits could be making up to $45B, say analysts
Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete Makes cabling a bit less onerous, says WaveCore maker
Dutch government takes ASML export measures off Uncle Sam's hands Photolithography giant assures customers it is under no new restrictions
What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked' Feature Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco
Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm In-depth Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail
Qualcomm reportedly eyeing Intel's PC design biz and more Chipzilla hasn't collapsed yet but the vultures are circling
Cisco merch shoppers stung in Magecart attack The 'security issue' was caused by a 9.8-rated Magento flaw Adobe patched back in June
Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium
Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD VMware Explore While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’ Off-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 18
Netherlands fines Uber €290M for improper EU-US driver data transfers The ride-sharing provider insists it broke no rules during the three-year legal gap Off-Prem26 Aug 2024 | 17
Zoom profits up despite CEO's doubts about remote working And CFO is off, maybe to find a role where she doesn't have to come into the office Off-Prem22 Aug 2024 | 2
Choose Your Own Adventure with Microsoft 365 You awake to find yourself in a dark room... with an empty wallet SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 39
Walmart clears out its shares of Chinese e-tailer JD.com That’s one way to mark the end of an eight-year partnership SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 1
China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 21
LG Electronics aims to become a datacenter cooling player, with aircon and immersion tech 2030 vision also calls for its appliances and televisions to turn you into a subscription cash cow Cloud Infrastructure Month22 Aug 2024 | 4
When it comes to cloud, it's China against the world Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the west, but the Middle Kingdom plays by its own rules Off-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 6
Cloudflare calls for regulatory harmonization amid rising internet challenges Interview Removing security services not always the best way to tackle problematic content Off-Prem20 Aug 2024 | 11
Alibaba and Tencent clouds see demand for CPUs level off, GPUs accelerate Lenovo also cashes in on AI demand, without being able to turn it into profit Off-Prem20 Aug 2024 |
B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident Company continues to investigate root cause VMware Explore19 Aug 2024 | 8
From windfarms to Amazon Prime, UK plans to long range test six drone services BVLOS operations to modernize airspace Edge + IoT16 Aug 2024 | 48
Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning Eric Schmidt blamed WFH and work-life balance policies for Google's stumbles in AI race Off-Prem15 Aug 2024 | 118
Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 | 281
Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 |
Supermicro CEO teases service to build or upgrade datacenters in six months Doubles annual revenue, but warns repeating that will be hard while waiting until March for Nvidia Blackwell Cloud Infrastructure Month07 Aug 2024 | 2
Nvidia's subscription software empire is taking shape Comment $4,500 per GPU per year adds up pretty quick – even faster when you pay by the hour Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 23
What AI bubble? Groq rakes in $640M to grow inference cloud In the gold rush, be the one handing out the shovels Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3
IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim 'They actually replaced me with a younger employee' Channel04 Aug 2024 | 34
Microsoft's results are in, but the E7 subscription remains mythical. For now Comment Does the Windows giant's love of 365 add-ons spell doom for a super premium tier? PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2024 | 13
OpenAI might be a partner, but it's also a competitor, says Microsoft Opinion Either Sam and Satya are on the rocks, or this is just more maneuvering to avoid regulatory scrutiny AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 4
Microsoft services partly down Down Under for Kiwi users Updated Maybe time to play the cloud hokey pokey? You put your workload in. You take your workload out... PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 5
Infosys denies it owes $4B in taxes to India Taxman disagrees with the outfit that built the tax portal Off-Prem01 Aug 2024 | 6
Superclusters too big, but single servers too small? Oracle offers AI Goldilocks zone Adds L40 bare metal option to the O-Cloud, plus A100 and H100 VMs. And teases a GH200 beast PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 1
Two senior board execs leave SAP as restructuring hits the fan German vendor maintains departures follow increase in job cuts PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance' Insight Redmond disputes some claims made in Cracked Labs probe SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 36
Ridesharing makes new and unique mess in Japan's taxi industry Minister accuses cab drivers of gaming algos to score more lucrative fares SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 9
AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists On-Prem31 Jul 2024 | 1
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage Shut the Front Door! PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond? Networks30 Jul 2024 | 66
South Korea creates $445M bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors Software30 Jul 2024 | 9
Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence? SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 113
ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire But the books look good, because of real AI SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it Is this what the kidz call a glow-up? Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1
Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs Updated Redmond comes out swinging as it files response to Competition and Markets Authority PaaS + IaaS24 Jul 2024 | 16
Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin' it As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit AI + ML24 Jul 2024 | 3
Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival OSes23 Jul 2024 | 6
Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer? New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends VMware Explore22 Jul 2024 | 6
Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips Updated Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch? PaaS + IaaS19 Jul 2024 | 65
Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response SaaS19 Jul 2024 | 8
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66
What exactly did Microsoft promise CISPE in its settlement? Analysis Analysts: 'At the end of the day, the settlement is nothing' PaaS + IaaS17 Jul 2024 | 3
Fujitsu picks model-maker Cohere as its partner for the rapid LLM-development dance Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 4
TikTok's Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations Off-Prem17 Jul 2024 | 1
Yandex sells off Russian ops, remaining Euro-biz now Putin itself about as Nebius Group Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world Legal16 Jul 2024 | 21
Microsoft wasn't CISPE's only suitor – it seems Google was willing to pay for its views on cloudy licensing to prevail Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants Off-Prem16 Jul 2024 | 2
Your next datacenter could be in the middle of nowhere Feature Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found Off-Prem15 Jul 2024 | 14
Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2024 | 16
Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
Microsoft avoids formal antitrust EC probe over abusive licensing claims by settling case with CISPE Pays 'lump sum,' setting up new Azure Stack for hosters and more but some concerned about the private deal PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2024 | 5
Microsoft ad subsidiary Xandr accused of violating GDPR Updated Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges SaaS09 Jul 2024 | 8
Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing Who, Me? That's not an outage … that's an outage Off-Prem08 Jul 2024 | 171
China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025 From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, - and cars Off-Prem08 Jul 2024 | 2
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 38
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 19
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI Take that for ignoring robots.txt! Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 49
BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs SaaS03 Jul 2024 | 19
So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019 AI datacenters blamed for the increase, even as Chocolate Factory bets on AI to fix it Off-Prem02 Jul 2024 | 35
Salesforce investors reject plan to add extra $20M to Benioff's total pay Board to take non-binding vote at mega SaaS haus into consideration SaaS02 Jul 2024 | 8
Lambda on the hunt for 'another $800M' to fuel its GPU cloud Why sell shovels when you can rent them PaaS + IaaS01 Jul 2024 | 3
Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill Project including SAP upgrade beset by cost increases and delays Systems01 Jul 2024 | 31
Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters Prioritizing Mexico and Southeast Asia Off-Prem01 Jul 2024 | 2
Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown Updated No supply-chain attacks to see over here! Research28 Jun 2024 | 28
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing CSO26 Jun 2024 | 20
Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits Dance! Dance for me! PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5
EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365 Statement of Objections sent to Redmond HQ following probe that began July 2023 SaaS25 Jun 2024 | 23
Alibaba Cloud unleashes thousands of Chinese AI models to the world Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk Off-Prem25 Jun 2024 |
Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13
HPE GreenLake sales on the rise as branding tweaks include more lines The strategy has changed so much that previously poor channel numbers don't count, we're told PaaS + IaaS24 Jun 2024 | 3
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license SaaS19 Jun 2024 | 12
HPE intros virtualization solution it says is totally not targeting grumpy VMware customers HPE Discover It's complementary to Virtzilla, and will eschew controverial aspects of Broadcom's licensing changes Virtualization19 Jun 2024 | 4
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2
Handling inference at the edge One way to minimise AI latency is to process ML models closer to end users and the data being ingested Sponsored Post
Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space Sponsored Feature
AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you ... The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey? CSO17 Jun 2024 | 17
Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act Feature Business as usual needs a real change Public Sector15 Jun 2024 | 45
Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended 'It's not our job to find the culprits – That's what we're paying you for' lawmaker scolds Brad Smith CSO14 Jun 2024 | 57
X marks the spot where Twitter's severance math doesn't add up Surely an everything app includes a working currency converter? Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 34