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Watching Microsoft 365 spread through your enterprise? So are the cyber-criminals

What should protection for your 365 data really look like?

ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion

Time to get out ISO 22300:2021, Security and resilience – Vocabulary

28 Jan 14:16 | 9

Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m

Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO

28 Jan 13:45 | 1

January edition of Azure Sphere OS cancelled after Microsoft actually listens to customer's complaint

Wait – is this the same company that gave us Windows?

27 Jan 14:05 | 6

ServiceNow CEO says mergers and acquisitions are off the table – too messy

It's as if Bill McDermott's SAP tenure never happened

27 Jan 13:18 | 11

Regulations and compliance are 'a curate's egg' for digital transformation, say IT pros in finance, telecoms and public sector

Hurdle or driver for modernisation? A bit of both, apparently

27 Jan 09:30 | 7

Shooting for the cloud? Make sure you're squeezing the right trigger

Here are the new rules for data centre consolidation

Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job

What happened to loosening stranglehold of major tech firms on the public sector?

26 Jan 10:15 | 25

Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers

Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey

25 Jan 11:47 | 26

Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies

Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals

25 Jan 03:01 | 11

Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up

'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg

22 Jan 07:30 | 36

UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger

21 Jan 12:43 | 21

Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee on privacy, data sharing, and the web's future

'Ensure that code you write works with these open standards'

20 Jan 09:30 | 31

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away

20 Jan 02:11 | 105

Indian IT services biz HCL sees boom in business – and staff attrition

Company pauses bonus clawbacks amid controversies and drop in share price

18 Jan 12:21 | 1

Cloud spending back to business as usual at end of 2021: Slight slowdown was a blip due to overprovisioning

IDC figures suggest providers had extra inventory to shift after pandemic panic

Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return

Sorry, that IP address is on the naughty step

17 Jan 12:24 | 80

Edge computing set for growth – that is, when we can agree what it is

Analyst predicts double-digit percentage uptick in '22

17 Jan 10:28 | 12

Google splurging cash on UK offices to lure staffers back from the kitchen table

Covered outdoor workspaces can be so... bracing

14 Jan 17:28 | 30

Wipro, Infosys and TCS feel pain of staff attrition as the Great Resignation continues

Indian IT consultancies say biz is booming as more customers consider cloud

13 Jan 19:00 | 7

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Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days

Relatively small number of certs issued using verification method that doesn't comply with policy

Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations

Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement

Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe

With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console

5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments focuses on 45nm+ analog, embedded electronics – and makes bank

Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after all

Imagination GPU cleared for RISC-V CPU compatibility, licensed to chip designers

We love it when a plan comes together

For first time in nearly 17 years, stable Linux kernel version has over 999 commits – but not everyone heard about it

'Script was adding the cc: to msg.000 not msg.0000'

Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique

While creators were stripping away annoying styling, users started to make Geminispace a bunker, says engineer

Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info

'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways'

Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs

1.4 billion devices running Redmond's OS, Android apps coming, and more

In a first, FTC extracts millions of dollars from online store accused of blocking bad reviews on its website

Glad rags merchandiser denies wrongdoing, says it coughed up $4.2m to 'avoid distraction'

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Insurance giant Lloyd's hires DXC to migrate org off legacy mainframes to AWS cloud

300-year-old institution to be dragged into the 21st century

13 Jan 14:03 | 29

Pony Ma tells employees Tencent is ordinary and replaceable in company meeting

The golden days of unbridled growth in Chinese tech companies is over

13 Jan 12:32 | 16

Microsoft tweaks Teams and Viva to help bridge gap between frontline workers and their managers, among other things

Want a pay rise and paid leave? Can't help you there. Need better workplace tech? Walk this way...

12 Jan 14:01 | 21

Migrating to the cloud can still be a gamble. How can you be sure it pays off?

A long-term partner can help you shorten the odds

UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff

Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks

11 Jan 16:15 | 16

French tech giant Atos issues second profit warning in 7 months

Week 2 for new CEO, forced to report sliding sales, delayed projects to investors

10 Jan 16:16 | 3

How's 2022 going for you so far? Hopefully better than it is for IBM Cloud

Christmas is gone and so, it seems, was a chunk of Big Blue's services this morning

06 Jan 15:13 | 11

Planning on buying a new motor? Chip shortages set to hit UK carmakers this year and next

Here in my car, I feel safest of all...

06 Jan 14:08 | 13

Location, location, location: how the cloud handles geospatial data

Using spatial data with AWS Redshift

Tencent unexpectedly offloads stake in fellow Chinese giant JD.com

Surprise dividend for shareholders may also yield approval from monopoly-wary Beijing

23 Dec 15:55 | 3

AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances

Some servers and EBS volumes won’t make it back

22 Dec 23:58 | 67

New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage

Alternative route will skip the Suez Canal and other tricky spots

21 Dec 23:30 | 58

Nottingham University awards cloud finance and HR deal in £29.75m deal 2.5 years after Unit4 upgrade

Meanwhile, search for service partner stalls after early engagement over possible £80m contract

21 Dec 09:42 | 14

TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings

Other Chinese properties also doing very well

21 Dec 02:31 | 8

Sage to acquire remaining stake in ecommerce platform Brightpearl for £225m

Plans afoot to integrate financial management with retail

20 Dec 17:07 | 5

Veeam to productise in-house Salesforce backup tools - private beta already under way

Major update has passed quality control and will catch up to platform and app updates

End user computing strategy stuck in the past? Here’s how to fast forward to the future

Just hit play on this on-demand webinar

US Government Accountability Office explains why it sustained Microsoft's protests over $10bn NSA contract

Not so much JEDI lightsabers, more magic WANDS

15 Dec 20:57 | 6

Oh no, here we go again, groans the internet as AWS runs into IT problems. Briefly this time

If you're wondering why you couldn't access a website, app, or service for about 30 minutes today, this may be it

15 Dec 17:32 | 7

Study says SEC 10-K not fit for purpose when it comes to Big Tech, and the companies are using that to their advantage

Regulatory body needs method to account for business models that monetize free services

14 Dec 14:02 | 9

West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle

Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product

14 Dec 10:27 | 22

AWS flicks the switch on an Indonesian region

Does the cloud belong in a city that's literally sinking? Rent some servers and find out

14 Dec 06:32 | 1

HCL accused of wage theft, underpaying H-1B workers by at least $95m a year

US think tank reckons services giant abuses spirit of skilled migrant system

14 Dec 00:59 | 13

AWS postmortem: Internal ops teams' own monitoring tools went down, had to comb through logs

OK, it wasn't DNS, but it was hanging around the scene looking shifty

13 Dec 19:40 | 11

ZOE COVID Study app starts the week with a lockdown of its own

Symptom tracker suffers Monday morning borkage

13 Dec 12:38 | 9

Better CEO is 'taking time off' after firing 900 staff on Zoom

CFO now ruling the roost as mortgage biz reportedly delays SPAC sale

10 Dec 20:53 | 44

Cloud darling Hashicorp's IPO raises $1.22bn amid modest gains from a $80 start

Not great, not terrible

10 Dec 20:07 | 4

WTF is a 'software-defined community cloud'?

Basically a slice of public cloud with better isolation and governance – just like our cloud, says Google

10 Dec 03:16 | 5

The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed

Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more

09 Dec 12:17 | 3

Big Tech's private networks and protocols threaten the 'net, say internet registries

APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking

09 Dec 07:04 | 5

Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon

Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand

Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya

Donated $110K to Democrats in recent years

09 Dec 01:45 | 72

South Korea sets site reliability engineering standards for Big Tech

Wants Google, Meta, Netflix and locals to work harder on uptime, warn locals of outages in Korean

08 Dec 05:58 | 5

AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages

'We have identified the root cause and we are actively working towards recovery' - which now appears almost complete

07 Dec 18:05 | 54

Thought NHS Digital's wind-down meant it would stop writing cheques? Silly you. It's gone on an IT buying spree

£37m signed up for soon-to-be-defunct non-dept public body

07 Dec 11:30 | 34

Blogfight! Blogfight! Blogfight! Fastly flames Cloudflare's serverless stats

We're faster than you. No you're not. Are too. No way! Yes way … can someone take this pair to the principal's office?

Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim

'The last time I did this, I cried' says Better.com CEO Vishal Garg

07 Dec 06:44 | 118

Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops

Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance'

06 Dec 06:01 | 6

Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk

Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies

03 Dec 16:56 | 11

Register Debate

When it comes to renting tech kit, things can get personal, very quickly

Is hardware by subscription bad for customers? Readers have their say

03 Dec 14:02 | 21

AWS adds another Arm CPU to its cloud: Apple's M1

Updates bare metal Macs-a-service and claims up to 60 per cent better price performance vs cloudy x86 Macs

03 Dec 08:01 | 2

Where in-memory caching makes sense

AWS hails strong performance

ByteDance launches a raft of public cloud services

Volcano Engine adds plenty of the IaaS and SaaS you'd expect from a hyperscaler

03 Dec 04:16 | 2

Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now

03 Dec 02:20 | 11

Register Debate

Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves

And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it?

02 Dec 10:45 | 54

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

It's the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage

02 Dec 10:00 | 22

Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch

All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

Also: Custom SQL Server service, free SageMaker ML, and experts on hand to label data

02 Dec 02:01 | 2

Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas

01 Dec 20:01 | 23

So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years

01 Dec 16:19 | 1

Register Debate

Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have

Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants

01 Dec 10:45 | 10

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers

01 Dec 00:09 | 5

Register Debate

The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers

From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution

30 Nov 10:45 | 81

Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds

Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem'

30 Nov 06:16 | 32

Nextcloud and cloud chums fire off competition complaint to the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows

No, it isn't the limited levels of storage that have irked European businesses

29 Nov 15:35 | 31

Register Debate

Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers

We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing

29 Nov 10:45 | 53

Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that

IoT still needs its lightbulb moment

29 Nov 09:15 | 84

Indian government warns locals not to use Starlink's internet services

If you are going to sell satellite internet subscriptions in India, you Musk get a license, says regulator

29 Nov 05:25 | 38

AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up

The cloudy concern is a prodigy, but early promise is no guarantee of dominance

29 Nov 03:58 | 11

Device-as-a-service is the next pandemic-accelerated trend

This is a good thing. Lenovo explains why

Singapore's DBS bank suffers digital fail – yes, regulatory bodies have noticed

Might want to rethink that 'digital to the core' slogan

26 Nov 12:33 | 1

AWS chops data transfer fees by massive extension of free tier – 2 months after rival previewed R2 Storage

Customer: 'I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks'

25 Nov 13:29 | 7

Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture

24 Nov 19:08 | 13

A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see

23 Nov 14:21 | 17

Economy class: AWS points set-your-own-cap Fleets service at cloudy desktop apps

Do users dream of Elastic fleets?

23 Nov 11:45 | 2

Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

What could possibly go wrong?

22 Nov 19:01 | 5

UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

NHSX also doomed in shake-up of 'odd' tech leadership structure

22 Nov 16:15 | 55

US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle deemed worthy

19 Nov 22:30 | 12

Workday subscription revenue forecasts leave investors cold, wiping 9% off company value

SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition

19 Nov 18:59 | 8

EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X opens its summit with the departure of Scaleway

French hosting outfit not keen on status quo, leaving to spend more time with its servers

19 Nov 16:32 | 15

Alibaba profits plunge as Beijing's bans – and beefy competitors – bite

Investors are going to have to put up with growth of merely 22 per cent, not the promised 29 or more

19 Nov 06:57 | 5

British Airways Executive Club frequent flyers have their airmiles grounded

Lengthy 'improvements' turn into a TITSUP* for Club members - though you can still book a flight

18 Nov 18:25 | 30

Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection

Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards

18 Nov 14:45 | 39

CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers

What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere!

18 Nov 10:15 | 4

Open Infrastructure Foundation adopts cross-cloud resource manager Taibai

China-based FiberHome donated code after consultation – didn't just "throw it over the wall"

AWS adds Linux app streaming alongside Windows to 'greatly lower' cost

Savings are exaggerated, but there is more to this than price

17 Nov 15:30 | 4

OVHcloud to share its OpenStack automation for use in on-prem clouds

Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia

17 Nov 06:07 | 2

Ready, player anyone? China's gaming ban left cloud providers looking for someone to play with

Canalys CEO reckons up to 30 per cent of big Chinese clouds' infrastructure is under-used, new datacentre builds deferred

17 Nov 03:35 | 3

Google Cloud partially fixes load balancer SNAFU that hit Discord, Spotify, others today

If your favorite site was acting up, this might be why

16 Nov 19:42 | 3

Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much

Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB

16 Nov 04:29 | 4

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