Microsoft appeals UK's block on Activision deal CMA: European Commission accepted proposals that would let Redmond set terms in market 'for the next 10 years' Off-Prem25 May 2023 | 6
How to master multicloud from the ground to cloud (and back again) Commissioned Bring multicloud to your organization by design, not default, says Dell Commissioned
Snowflake and Zoom celebrate shrunken cloud bills as margins swell Analytics outfit gets there by moving customers to Amazon’s Graviton CPUs Off-Prem25 May 2023 |
Singapore on track to reach cloud migration goals – asks suppliers to re-apply Renewed SaaS push and purchase of 100,000 PCs in the offing Off-Prem25 May 2023 |
Born in the USA! Broadcom will produce American-made RF modules for Apple So what happened to Apple building its own modems? Edge + IoT23 May 2023 | 7
Managing datacenter network traffic the easy way How the SONiC open-source ecosystem is helping build a connected networking fabric from core to edge to cloud Sponsored
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder? Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 133
Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 1
Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late Dell World Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster Channel23 May 2023 |
Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate PaaS + IaaS19 May 2023 | 1
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month Updated Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises PaaS + IaaS18 May 2023 | 52
Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is The downside is complexity. The upside, if you strategize properly, is specialist services and diversity Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 13
Search the web at least once every two years or risk losing your Google account Updated inactivity policy may nix accounts, and data. Even Workspaces data and your precious pics Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 52
The rainbow bridge between two cloud worlds The path to hybrid cloud and a single management framework Webinar
Microsoft tries a deeper dive into Azure Firewall traffic If the flow slows, you need to know why Off-Prem16 May 2023 | 3
EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13
Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage? It's not just Cupertino, most status pages aren't what they claim to be Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 19
Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in Yes, there are risks. But you can address them without huge multi-cloud failover rigs Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 35
4 ways CIOs can optimize IT and boost business value One way to do more with less is to build business value using as-a-Service to optimize workload placement Commissioned
Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1
Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again
Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers
Since when did my SSD need water cooling? Feature As next-gen storage gets hotter, designs are getting wacky
That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse On Call When all seemed lost, here comes the Sun … workstation
Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up
BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him Episode 10 A developer in sales? You poor, poor creature
BlackByte ransomware crew lists city of Augusta after cyber 'incident' Mayor promises to comment on Friday
Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can Python package pile prefers protecting programmer privacy
Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together Phone-hugging code can record calls, read messages, track geolocation, access camera, other snooping
Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising Wait... what? PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 24
Uncle Sam mulls dumping monolithic software stacks for modular blocks Anyone else heard of these microservices? PaaS + IaaS08 May 2023 | 11
India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000 Channel05 May 2023 | 14
Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows NVMe storage should mean better performance for data-intensive workloads, says tech giant Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign And $70B in share repurchases didn't calm matters Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 52
AWS, Microsoft make finding important admin info less frustrating It's 2023 and tech giants have discovered email and unified dashboards Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid PaaS + IaaS03 May 2023 | 43
Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4
Cloud slowdown hits Amazon as orgs look to rein in cost Off-prem tech is 'SERIOUSLY expensive' Reg reader complains Off-Prem28 Apr 2023 | 16
Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment 'It is a tough day across our organization,' says memo from AWS boss PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 10
Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 8
Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23
Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 | 9
China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 |
Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer Off-Prem26 Apr 2023 | 10
Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2023 | 97
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
How was Google boss's 2022? He got paid $226M as stock awards kicked in Bumper payday for exec as relentless cost-cutting campaign continues Off-Prem24 Apr 2023 | 25
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9
Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22
Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting Off-Prem19 Apr 2023 | 3
European datacenters worried they can't get cheap, reliable juice UK operators are sweating about price, Nordics chill thanks to low ambient temperatures Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 58
Tencent Cloud says it's mass producing custom video chips Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 3
UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle Vows to regroup and come back stronger after failing in bid Palantir is pipped to win PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2023 | 43
Amazon CEO says AWS staff now spending ‘much of their time’ optimizing customers’ clouds Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadband Off-Prem17 Apr 2023 | 23
Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2023 | 28
Salesforce lets go of more of its towering presence in San Francisco Updated Fancy a sublease? Office digs in Silicon Valley hometown hotspot up for grabs PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 4
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 23
Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA To that we say good luck PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024 At least Redmond listens to some customers SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
Microsoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no companies Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah? Channel07 Apr 2023 | 13
Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8
Tech giants looking for ways to wriggle out of UK digital tax, watchdog warns Delays to OECD plan means interim fix could be found wanting Off-Prem05 Apr 2023 | 49
Unilever claims it's a 'cloud-only enterprise' – now with added OpenAI Funny way to describe a company that makes toilet cleaner Off-Prem04 Apr 2023 | 15
When Google cost cutting goes molecular: Staples, sticky tape, and PC sweating Staff WFH so internal cafes are baking too many muffins, says doc, while bus shuttles and yoga classes are empty Off-Prem04 Apr 2023 | 45
British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue' Earning that nickname all over again Off-Prem31 Mar 2023 | 53
Euro cloud providers react to MS potentially cutting deal on antitrust Transparency? Redmond's heard of it Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 2
Fintechs depend on cloud for business expansion But what type of off prem infrastructure suits them best? Advertorial
Google Cloud pitches 'Gen Apps' – low-code AI-based tools, not post-millennial kids We've got your summarization, your Q&A, your chatbots, your classification tasks ready to go Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 7
Oh, really? Microsoft worries multicloud complicates security and identity Coincidentally lays off techies in its identity team Spotlight on RSA29 Mar 2023 | 8
Alibaba to separate into six parts. Take that HP and IBM, with your puny two-way splits Cloud and AI bundled into an entity that’s free to seek its own funds or list Off-Prem29 Mar 2023 | 4
Rackspace racks up job cuts amid market downturn and talk of offshoring Exclusive Everything from inflation, to war in Ukraine and high interest rates 'point to recession', says CEO in memo to staff Off-Prem28 Mar 2023 | 14
Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity 'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos' Energy Efficient Datacenters28 Mar 2023 | 41
Outage rates fall, but major ones will cost more. Oh and don't bank on SLAs Not what cost-cutting companies want to hear right now. Maybe they should hang onto those engineers? Off-Prem27 Mar 2023 | 9
Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce Benioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve SaaS27 Mar 2023 | 3
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block 2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365 Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era Builds its own seat at the standards development table Off-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 8
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share Off-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 31
Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not? Add another zero or so and soon we're talking real numbers Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 10
Don't Be Evil, a gaggle of Googlers tell CEO Pichai amid mega layoffs Open letter to top brass signed by 1,400+ staff offers 5-point plan to improve redundancy process Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 26
The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need PaaS + IaaS20 Mar 2023 | 66
Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 11
Top 3 multicloud trends keeping IT leaders up at night Multicloud management remains a big obstacle for IT departments seeking to manage cloud costs without sacrificing performance Commissioned
Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off Channel16 Mar 2023 | 2
Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29
Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud ‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’ Off-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 37
Chinese biz banned from buying US tech rent it instead Clouds reportedly offering surprisingly cheap access to blockaded comrades PaaS + IaaS10 Mar 2023 | 7
Microsoft wants you to build quantum apps in Azure, the cloud that's both up and down Oh, and pay boatloads for the privilege PaaS + IaaS09 Mar 2023 | 9
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
WFH? Google Cloud's offices like a 'ghost town' before new policy Desk-sharing scheme adds more bums on seats, claims CEO PaaS + IaaS07 Mar 2023 | 41
Top 3 questions to consider when choosing a streaming platform based on your budget Key tips for choosing the right streaming platform for your needs Advertorial
US lobbyists commission report dismissing proposed EU cloud regulations But it has a point about the achievability of goal of '75%' European cloud PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2023 | 20
Hands up anyone happy with Uncle Sam's $50B IT mega-job. Anyone? Record number of gripes from suppliers vying for slice of this procurement pie Off-Prem03 Mar 2023 | 7
Zoom chops president it hired less than a year ago Vid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues Off-Prem03 Mar 2023 | 28
Cloud infrastructure spreads its wings How Huawei KooVerse brings low latency IaaS to customers everywhere Sponsored Feature
Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2023 |
Zoom: The sound of web chat biz's annual profits nosediving Fiscal 2023 'not without its challenges' as bottom line tumbles 76% Off-Prem28 Feb 2023 | 6
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
Arm has legs: VMware's Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere Customers are keen on the lower cloudy database prices available after dropping x86 PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2023 | 1
Infosys founder slams working from home, side hustles, as slowing India's growth Asia in brief PLUS: Australia to appoint cyber-coordinator; FTX Japan resumes operations; India's PC market bucks trend with growth; and more Off-Prem27 Feb 2023 | 29
HPE drops private 5G into GreenLake by acquiring Athonet Wi-Fi not? It boosts Aruba's portfolio, single wireless nets are a way off, and everything-as-a-service is hot right now Off-Prem24 Feb 2023 |
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
Phở no! Vietnam's last working submarine cable glitches out Five from five take a dive, but connections are still alive Off-Prem23 Feb 2023 | 14
Microsoft signals cloud cash grab is over as it pushes more cost-effective Azure VMs Just as everyone looks to optimize what they spend for computing services Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 2
Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans £1.1M ambition to recruit 10,000 pros 'inadequate' says committee Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 46
Like AirTags, but for cargo: Qualcomm teases SaaSy tracking service There's no way this could be abused, right? Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 2
Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point' PaaS + IaaS22 Feb 2023 | 74