Workday nearly doubles losses as waves of deals pushed back
Figures disappoint analysts as SaaSy HR and finance application vendor navigates economic uncertainty
SaaS27 May 2022 | 11
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Lenovo infrastructure group and Alibaba Cloud both make first annual profits
Chinese giants' enterprise businesses do well despite lockdowns. Other segments? Strap in for a bumpy ride
Off-Prem27 May 2022 |
Huawei claims it’s halved the time needed to build a 1,000-rack datacenter
Promises modular kit gets you up and running in six to nine months, with AI-powered ops to make it efficient
Off-Prem27 May 2022 | 6
Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay
Workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability and, um, wage 'fairness' all struck down in vote
Off-Prem26 May 2022 | 83
Broadcom buying VMware could create an edge infrastructure and IoT empire
Comment Hypervisor giant too big to be kept ticking over like CA or Symantec. Instead it can wrangle net-connected kit
Edge + IoT26 May 2022 | 8
Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work
Someone got Zuck'd
PaaS + IaaS25 May 2022 | 4
ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points
Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions
SaaS25 May 2022 |
AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production
Just one instance type for now, cheaper than third-gen Xeons and Epycs
PaaS + IaaS24 May 2022 | 12
Infosys board asks boss Salil Parekh to stay another 5 years
As staff churn at 27% a year, senior execs offered lots of shares to keep growth coming
SaaS23 May 2022 | 3
Google picks business chiefs for European Advisory Board
A sign that the company is taking data sovereignty concerns more seriously
PaaS + IaaS23 May 2022 |
Fastly buys dev platform and web IDE Glitch
Updated CDN biz hopes merger will add a new way to use its edge services
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |
American Airlines decides to cruise into Azure's cloud
So that's who to blame when its IT crashes, huh?
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 | 10
Tencent happily parting ways with loss-making cloud customers
Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |
Microsoft revises software licensing, cloud policies amid EU regulator scrutiny
OVHcloud and Nextcloud lawsuits hit the spot as Windows giant admits to potential competition issues
Off-Prem18 May 2022 | 16
Banks talk big cloud game but few have migrated over 30% of apps
Less than half said business leaders in their bank understood 'opportunities of cloud'
PaaS + IaaS18 May 2022 | 22
Your digital heritage doesn’t need to be a digital dilemma
The first step to solving it? Getting things in (Micro) focus
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Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany
More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS
PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1
Telcos fear Big Tech will bleed them until they can’t afford network builds
The GSMA would say that, yet Big Tech is making it harder for carriers to turn a quid
Off-Prem17 May 2022 | 13
DigitalOcean tries to take sting out of price hike with $4 VM
Cloud biz says it is reacting to customer mix largely shifting from lone devs to SMBs
PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 10
Financial giant Santander: 80% of our IT infrastructure in cloud
'Most challenging element of migration likely remains' warns analyst
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2022 | 10
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When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer
On Call It says 'Do Not Touch,' not 'Rip Out My Guts'
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming
GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals
Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies
Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content
Even non-sysadmins may find this Linux live ISO handy
Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data
Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC?
Cheers ransomware hits VMware ESXi systems
Now we can say extortionware has jumped the shark
Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board
As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble
Declassified and released: More secret files on US govt's emergency doomsday powers
Nuke incoming? Quick break out the plans for rationing, censorship, property seizures, and more
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Voltage glitch here, glitch there, now you can fiddle with location disc's firmware
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You can keep your old ERP system, but you'll still need ServiceNow, CEO tells The Reg
Interview Bill McDermott thinks companies need workflow on top of enterprise apps, whether they replace them or not
SaaS16 May 2022 | 17
Arm CPU ran on electricity generated by algae for over six months
AA-battery-sized biological photovoltaic cell touted as ideal for IoT applications
Edge + IoT16 May 2022 | 91
Colocation consolidation: Analysts look at what's driving the feeding frenzy
Analysis Sometimes a half-sized shipping container at the base of a cell tower is all you need
PaaS + IaaS15 May 2022 | 2
Those NitroTPMs Amazon teased now really are coming to AWS EC2
Yes, give those smartNICs something to do
PaaS + IaaS13 May 2022 | 1
How Intel and AMD hope to win the cloud security game
Analysis Team Xeon reveals 'Trust-as-a-Service' while Google Cloud details deeper ties with Team Zen
PaaS + IaaS12 May 2022 | 5
Rackspace considers selling part of business: 'Everything' on the table
CEO points to two very different multi-cloud markets, says it's already spoken to potential buyer
PaaS + IaaS12 May 2022 | 7
Trying and failing to update Visual Studio? You aren't alone
The progress bar of lies reborn as a cheery 'Checking' message
SaaS11 May 2022 | 13
Intel taps Scale Computing for low-power edge platform
Intel Vision NUC NUC. Who's there?
Edge + IoT11 May 2022 |
Red Hat adds more Cloud Services to support OpenShift apps
Red Hat Summit Updates aim to ease complexities of building applications for a hybrid cloud environment
PaaS + IaaS10 May 2022 |
OVH: The cloud should be open, reversible, interoperable
Interview CEO Michel Paulin on coming back from a datacenter blaze and playing nicely with others
PaaS + IaaS10 May 2022 | 11
Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon
You have died of dystopia
PaaS + IaaS06 May 2022 | 16
Google Docs crashed when fed 'And. And. And. And. And.'
Cloud grammar police more Keystone Kops
SaaS06 May 2022 | 62
European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns
Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment
Channel06 May 2022 | 13
AWS allows a Lenovo server to play in its on-prem AI video cloud
Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster
Edge + IoT06 May 2022 | 2
Citrix spreads its Desktop as a Service across Google and Azure clouds
It's Q2 2022 – and remote/mixed access is still very much a thing
PaaS + IaaS05 May 2022 | 4
Microsoft to nudge more users toward Azure Active Directory
Love your Windows Update Compliance reports? Best learn to love Azure AD as well
Off-Prem05 May 2022 | 2
Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system
Overhauled reviews supposedly less of a headache for managers, staff
Off-Prem05 May 2022 | 42
BT signs deal with AWS with aim of speeding up digital transformation
Must ... cloudify ... internal .... apps, says giant as it continues to push modernization project
PaaS + IaaS05 May 2022 | 23
Dockershim deprecated with release of Kubernetes 1.24
Docker container runtime will no longer ship by default with K8s
SaaS04 May 2022 |
Concerned about cloud costs? Have you tried using newer virtual machines?
Study confirms AWS prices go down as you upgrade host CPU family, not up – and not so fast, GPU users
PaaS + IaaS04 May 2022 | 1
Amazon's solution to save the planet: AWS vouchers, training for more eco startups
Web giant is used to seeing green
PaaS + IaaS03 May 2022 | 2
US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails
Probe into Capitol attack must wait for appeal before data can be accessed
SaaS03 May 2022 | 62
IBM secures DWP contract worth up to £2.1m for 6 months of cloud services
UK government department extends 11-year relationship following legacy application challenges
Edge + IoT03 May 2022 | 8
Cloud costs a continuous headache? Consider continuous optimization instead
Find out how it works with this online session
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Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft
Big three’s market share now at 65 percent almost everywhere outside China
PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 4
Logging and monitoring can be a form of bullying, and make for lousy infosec
Comment Surveillance is a poor starting point for your security strategy
PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 72
Airbnb will let staff work from anywhere without a pay cut
Will they WF-other people's-H?
Off-Prem29 Apr 2022 | 15
How Aurora Serverless made the database server obsolete
Version 2 of AWS' cloud-native relational database brings signficant improvements
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Q1 cloud growth lifts AWS, Azure, and Google
34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys
PaaS + IaaS29 Apr 2022 | 2
AWS a bright spot in subdued set of Q1 results for Amazon
Cloud shrugs off woes of retail parent while advertising cash also increased
PaaS + IaaS29 Apr 2022 | 1
$10b National Security Agency contract re-awarded to AWS
Microsoft won, Amazon complained. Amazon won, Microsoft complained. Amazon won... again
PaaS + IaaS28 Apr 2022 | 10
ServiceNow shrugs off Ukraine fears with upbeat financials
Growth set to continue unabated despite headwinds, CEO says
SaaS28 Apr 2022 |
AWS fixes strange clunks in its on-prem data-crunchers
Snowball Edge devices needed annual recertification holidays and required LAN-based management
Edge + IoT28 Apr 2022 | 1
Meet Moeco, Ukrainian-led biz using IoT trackers to follow supplies into invaded land
From COVID-19 chaos to Russia's war, startup CEO opens up
Edge + IoT27 Apr 2022 | 9
MegaChips takes aim at edge AI in US with ASIC program
Japanese ASIC provider rolling out AI partner program to get around in-house expertise
Edge + IoT26 Apr 2022 |
Arm to IoT devs: Go faster with our pre-made chip subsystems
In addition to cloud service, Arm also puts out its fastest Cortex-M CPU design yet
Edge + IoT26 Apr 2022 | 5
CAST AI puts out report on extent of enterprises cloud resource overspend
Tool relies on platform getting everything right in real time, cautions analyst
PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2022 | 3
Oracle users fail to get that moving apps to cloud means business transformation – Gartner
Analyst house warns of unrealistic expectations moving Big Red’s enterprise workhorses to SaaS
SaaS22 Apr 2022 | 20
Insteon's vanishing act explained: Smart home biz insolvent, sells off assets
Acknowledgement of shutdown almost a week after backend powered off
Edge + IoT22 Apr 2022 | 60
AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions
I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud
PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2022 | 10
Yandex speaks out from front line of Western sanctions against Russia
Commercial life in Putin Land not exactly a bed of roses, warns Russia's Google
Off-Prem21 Apr 2022 | 36
Kraft Heinz signs up Microsoft to lift it into the cloud
Azure trusted with food giant's sauce code
PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2022 | 8
Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner
Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag
PaaS + IaaS20 Apr 2022 | 9
Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations
On-prem software may remain albeit without support nor maintenance
SaaS20 Apr 2022 | 33
IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb
CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile
Edge + IoT19 Apr 2022 | 81
Infosys noncompete clause sparks complaint from labor rights org
Policy in place since 2007, but increased employee attrition might have made it more visible
Off-Prem19 Apr 2022 | 17
Google's plan to win the cloud war hinges on its security aspirations
Interview VP Sunil Potti talks strategy with The Register
PaaS + IaaS19 Apr 2022 | 22
A desktop-as-a-service solution isn’t enough. You need an actual strategy
This online session shows you what that looks like
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OVHcloud raises 2022 forecast, cites growing demand for data sovereignty
Europe's great cloud hope is growing but AWS, Microsoft and Google won't be losing sleep.... yet
PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2022 |
Alibaba Cloud's homegrown Arm CPUs emerge in VM trial
Yitian 710 chip boasts 128 Armv9 cores, available to test
PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2022 | 4
Japan seeks to decentralize datacenters
Sixty percent of current facilities are near Tokyo – a risky concentration
Off-Prem13 Apr 2022 | 7
Sungard files for Chapter 11 in US, keep eye on restructure
Says its other global operations won't be affected by the process
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2022 | 3
Amazon’s cloudy desktops creep towards cloudy workstations
Adds cache-like storage currently offered for servers to speed demanding desktop workloads
Off-Prem12 Apr 2022 | 6
Volkswagen: Expect chip supply problems until 2024
However, 'structural undersupply' might ease in the next six months or so
Off-Prem11 Apr 2022 | 10
Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine
Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state
Channel11 Apr 2022 | 18
Travel tech sheds legacy baggage, heads to the cloud with Google
Feature Sabre deal with Google creates parallel data architecture to support ML-based ecommerce partnerships with airlines and hotel chains
PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2022 | 12
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears
Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer
SaaS08 Apr 2022 | 24
Google funds first sub cable to cross Pacific from Japan to Canada
Google says Topaz will lower latency, even though both nations already have shorter routes to bit barns
Off-Prem08 Apr 2022 | 4
Google focuses Lens on combined image and text searching
Want that thing, but in a different color, and don't know the name? Multisearch has your back
SaaS07 Apr 2022 | 12
Colocation firm Cyxtera may put itself up for sale
Datacenter operator with $2.3b value said to be discussing options a year after SPAC merger
Off-Prem07 Apr 2022 | 3
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims
Special report Lawsuit accuses Big Blue of cheating investors by shifting systems revenue to trendy cloud, mobile tech
SaaS07 Apr 2022 | 84
Atlassian adds Analytics, Atlas, Compass to line up
One hopes they can stay online long enough for customers to evaluate
SaaS06 Apr 2022 | 1
Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on
'Routine maintenance script' blamed for derailed service for unlucky customers
SaaS06 Apr 2022 | 34
CircleCI suffering 'degraded performance' for hours
Updated DevOps platform tells devs it is ‘continuing to work on a longer-term fix’
Off-Prem06 Apr 2022 | 2
Boeing spreads bets with AWS, Google, Microsoft trio
Points to on-prem pain with legacy systems, rising maintenance costs
Off-Prem06 Apr 2022 | 6
Microsoft inks satellite deal to push edge computing, software in orbit
Pop quiz: you've got your own edge computer in space. What do you do with it?
Edge + IoT06 Apr 2022 | 1
Microsoft, NXP unveil Arm-based Windows 10 IoT Enterprise experience
Cramming a full Windows desktop into a teeny tiny space
Edge + IoT06 Apr 2022 | 4
Huawei pays $9.65b dividend to its workers
US sanctions force company to sell Honor and x86 units, current and retired staff bask in those profits
Off-Prem05 Apr 2022 | 15
Microsoft arms Azure VMs with Ampere Altra chips
'Up to 50%' better price-performance than x86 equivalents claimed
PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2022 | 11
Google's on-prem edge gear to challenge AWS Outposts
Web giant's racks and appliances now generally available
Edge + IoT04 Apr 2022 |
European antitrust watchdogs sniff around Microsoft cloud licensing deals
Reportedly has already sent a Q&A to Microsoft cloud rivals, customers
PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2022 | 2
NTT finds partner to help accelerate datacenter builds in Europe, North America
Asset management outfit Macquarie will buy existing bit barns. But first, check out the shiny new 15.2MW bit barn in Indonesia
Off-Prem04 Apr 2022 |
IDC: Public clouds to surpass non-cloud spending this year
So long as the economy stays healthy, and supply can catch up to demand
Off-Prem01 Apr 2022 | 2
Baidu added to list of Chinese companies facing US stock exchange delisting
Vid-streamer iQIYI also earns a place
SaaS31 Mar 2022 |
Google unrolls search features to tackle misinformation
Will provide tips on spotting bad info, frontload highly cited sources
SaaS31 Mar 2022 | 22
UiPath says war in Ukraine is affecting business confidence across Europe
RPA vendor's recurring revenue for 2023 will be down by $15m after pausing Russia operations
PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2022 | 5
AWS makes auto-recovery the default for EC2 instances
Your cloudy server will not self-destruct – even if the hardware it runs on does
PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2022 | 4
Alibaba Cloud opens first South Korean datacenter
Better late than never – all its global and Chinese hyperscale rivals are already there
Off-Prem31 Mar 2022 |
OpenStack Yoga stretches to support DPUs, more storage
Open Infrastructure Foundation boasts of growth, but observers note this is mostly existing users scaling up
PaaS + IaaS30 Mar 2022 |
Russian devs plan alternative Android app store after Google Play bans paid apps
Claim NashStore will help Russians access common apps from May 9
SaaS30 Mar 2022 | 10
