Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation Exclusive Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before August PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2025 | 2
Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod Up to 25 instances for free, but only to play with PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2025 | 16
Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff Channel10 Jul 2025 | 95
Outlook takes another sick day updated Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed Applications10 Jul 2025 | 48
Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detail Public Sector09 Jul 2025 | 19
Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings Cyber-crime09 Jul 2025 | 1
Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet Edge + IoT08 Jul 2025 | 75
SUSE launching region-locked support for the sovereignty-conscious Move targets European orgs wary of cross-border data exposure Software08 Jul 2025 | 12
Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is PaaS + IaaS08 Jul 2025 | 12
TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions Comment Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't Legal07 Jul 2025 | 7
VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust Virtualization07 Jul 2025 | 10
Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage Updated SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors Cyber-crime06 Jul 2025 | 18
14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders Exclusive Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down Channel04 Jul 2025 | 44
Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs 'JFC, again?' Software04 Jul 2025 | 106
How ZTE turns green goals into climate action that works It's not easy being green, but comms giant walks the walk Sponsored feature
UK charity bank CAF branded a 'disaster' after platform migration goes wrong Customers booted from system and technical integration missing from upgrade Off-Prem03 Jul 2025 | 34
Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers ‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damage Off-Prem03 Jul 2025 | 1
Microsoft kicks off new fiscal year with more layoffs Reports of 9,000 staff cut Software02 Jul 2025 | 20
Impact of Microsoft taking over Enterprise Account renewals starts to 'bite' Cutting out middle man dents coffers of larger service providers, helps Redmond offset AI investments SaaS02 Jul 2025 | 18
Amazon's latest Graviton 4 EC2 instances pack dual 300Gbps NICs And no, that's not a typo PaaS + IaaS02 Jul 2025 | 2
AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag
ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election As allegations fly regarding fraudulent powers of attorney, one member wants to wind up AFRINIC and start again
Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds
Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs 'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected'
Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine Rare earth metals are vital to electronics, and most of them are mined in China
British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42 obituary A controversial and polarizing figure, but also widely hailed
The price of software freedom is eternal politics Comment Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too
More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year
Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video video An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration
CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn Intruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack - rookie errors kept damage minimal
Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups Up to $150K tier shelved, perks folded into two-track system PaaS + IaaS01 Jul 2025 | 8
Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028 Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration Databases01 Jul 2025 | 5
Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal The AI boom needs power, and startup The Nuclear Company aims to help build SaaS27 Jun 2025 | 5
What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency Comment Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond Security26 Jun 2025 | 116
Microsoft nuke power deal for Three Mile Island appears to be ahead of schedule 837 megawatt reactor now expected in 2027, energy CEO says Off-Prem26 Jun 2025 | 5
Gridlocked: AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns On-Prem26 Jun 2025 | 55
Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations Interview Business data is fragmented and change management is hard AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 61
Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft AI + ML25 Jun 2025 | 9
Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 4
Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure Interview 'Things will break,' Aviatrix CPO tells El Reg Datacenter Networking Nexus24 Jun 2025 | 28
Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules CMA roadmap outlines potential restrictions on how ad slinger operates in the country Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 6
Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning Public Sector23 Jun 2025 | 26
OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commission ... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 9
Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO Virtualization20 Jun 2025 | 39
SAP ECC 6.0 lives to fight another decade under Rimini Street Third-party provider pledges to support legacy ERP until 2040 PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 3
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears ‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee Virtualization19 Jun 2025 | 35
Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 48
Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6% Little agents everywhere SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 21
Taiwan thumbs its nose at Beijing by blocking chip exports to SMIC and Huawei A symbolic political move Channel17 Jun 2025 | 7
Microsoft patches the patch that can brick Surface Hub v1 screens Out-of-band getting out of hand PaaS + IaaS17 Jun 2025 | 14
A classic crash from Classic Outlook when opening or creating emails Forms Library blamed for issues experienced by some users SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 23
Doomed UK smartphone maker Bullitt Group finally liquidated Preferred and secured creditors walk away with nothing Personal Tech17 Jun 2025 | 20
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users Software17 Jun 2025 | 41
Alt cloud platform Railway forced to pause lowest tiers after onrush of GCP customers A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going away PaaS + IaaS16 Jun 2025 | 5
Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes Off-Prem16 Jun 2025 | 26
Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers Please insert another million dollars to continue PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2025 | 9
Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduled Off-Prem13 Jun 2025 | 1
Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs Baby got Blackwell GPUs PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 2
Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it UPDATED Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 55
Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU – that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 3
UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before Opinion How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027 Public Sector11 Jun 2025 | 13
Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs Plus: AWS launches second Secret-level cloud region AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
Google outfoxed by crafty squatters in $1B London HQ's rooftop garden Vulpes vulpes has run of five-story park before staffers move in Offbeat10 Jun 2025 | 97
ChatGPT users wake to find it's even more wrong, slower than usual Updated Oh, great – now who'll do my thinking for me? AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 20
Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser Majority of exposures located in the US, including datacenters, healthcare facilities, factories, and more Research10 Jun 2025 | 59
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers On-Prem09 Jun 2025 | 63
As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries Interview The world has changed. EU hosting CTO says not considering alternatives is 'negligent' PaaS + IaaS06 Jun 2025 | 36
Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending Concerns over lack of commercial expertise with big tech suppliers as country implements digital 'Blueprint' Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 33
Toshiba realises it can build, power, and maintain datacenters – so builds a team to do it all Show us another company that builds power plants, semiconductors, and hard disks Off-Prem06 Jun 2025 | 5
Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators Networks05 Jun 2025 | 7
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password Off-Prem05 Jun 2025 | 8
HPE working on Plan B if DoJ nixes the Juniper deal it rates as shareholders' rocket to riches AI sales are a little 'lumpy' but all things hybrid cloud are going well - including job cuts PaaS + IaaS04 Jun 2025 | 4
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0 Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025 PaaS + IaaS03 Jun 2025 | 48
Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says SaaS03 Jun 2025 | 16
Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye Software03 Jun 2025 | 12
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’ Off-Prem03 Jun 2025 | 9
CoreWeave signs megalease at Applied Digital's not-so-little house on the prairie A big win for North Dakota PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2025 | 2
Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial pace $100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles SaaS02 Jun 2025 | 7
VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware Virtualization01 Jun 2025 | 22
UK's answer to Darpa invests £23.3M in touchy-feely robots Latest project gets the green light although Brexit-era brainchild faces spending review Public Sector30 May 2025 | 6
European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up CxO29 May 2025 | 31
Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch PaaS + IaaS28 May 2025 | 11
Salesforce takeover of Informatica is on for $8 billion Marc Benioff eyes up all those lovely data tools for AI push PaaS + IaaS27 May 2025 | 10
Reasons to attend the 2025 AI Infra Summit Hear some of the world’s biggest companies offer insight into AI-fuelled transformation Sponsored post
Glitch hits kill switch on app web hosting, citing 'bad actors' and worse architecture Fastly acquisition asks that redirects be set up before December 31 PaaS + IaaS23 May 2025 | 9
CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns Security23 May 2025 | 2
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail AI + ML23 May 2025 | 33
Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Systems22 May 2025 | 12
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts European Supercomputing22 May 2025 | 95
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America's reach From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue PaaS + IaaS21 May 2025 | 25
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things Google I/O Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too AI + ML20 May 2025 | 25
Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster PaaS + IaaS20 May 2025 | 3
European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours PaaS + IaaS19 May 2025 | 17
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry Applications17 May 2025 | 25
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away Applications16 May 2025 | 31
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained SaaS16 May 2025 | 7
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world' Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims Public Sector16 May 2025 | 81
Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatment Virtualization16 May 2025 | 11
Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show PaaS + IaaS16 May 2025 | 15
C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards CEO Pichai slumming it on a measly $10.725M compared to lieutenants PaaS + IaaS14 May 2025 | 7
TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more Legal12 May 2025 | 4
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson The State of Storage09 May 2025 | 157
Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency Updated Do we smell DOGE? Yup SaaS08 May 2025 | 17
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed Security07 May 2025 | 2
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money SaaS06 May 2025 | 2
Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches? And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4