OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commision ... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 5
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 | 22
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 | 34
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 | 40
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 | 24
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 | 27
Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it On Call Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember'
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
Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development Comment X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be
China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance
Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it 'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO
Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft
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 | 57
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 | 11
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 | 26
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 | 10
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
China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance PaaS + IaaS06 May 2025 | 8
NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now PaaS + IaaS02 May 2025 | 4
20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead SaaS02 May 2025 | 44
Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates Legal02 May 2025 | 7
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure Nutanix AI solutions make it easy to tailor IT infrastructure for your AI needs, says product lead Ashwini Vasanth Sponsored post
Microsoft tries to kill the 'pausing datacenter builds must be bad news for AI' trope Sees economic strife as chance to sell even more stuff than its $70bn Q3 haul Off-Prem01 May 2025 | 5
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love +Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it? AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105
Cloud doesn’t mean secure: How Intruder finds what others miss A cloud security platform that manages the attack surface and security vulnerabilities in AWS Sponsored post
AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads What? Why? It’s an update to its Outposts racks hybrid cloud rigs aimed at bankers and telcos On-Prem30 Apr 2025 | 2
After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports Public Sector29 Apr 2025 | 23
Why brave the jet lag? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China have the answers The cloud native world is evolving fast — and not just in Silicon Valley. Why your next stop should be Hong Kong Partner content
UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks Moscow likely to respawn elsewhere Edge + IoT26 Apr 2025 | 49
Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build Still plans to invest $75B in CapEx this year as unable to meet capacity demand On-Prem25 Apr 2025 | 19
India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jitters Channel24 Apr 2025 | 18
When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot Comment Former Microsoft engineer calls the Windows of today 'a tool that's a bit of an adversary' SaaS23 Apr 2025 | 57
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people 'Europe Stand Tall' campaign kicks off amid fear, uncertainty and doubt about Trump administration PaaS + IaaS23 Apr 2025 | 69
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 10
Africa's boardless, bossless, generally troubled internet registry to hold elections in June Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process Off-Prem22 Apr 2025 |
Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified CSO18 Apr 2025 | 6
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 64
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers 'It's amazing how fast the change has been' PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 119
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first? SaaS16 Apr 2025 | 32
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption When the power went out, they didn’t switch on Off-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 29
Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts $5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47
IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action Software11 Apr 2025 | 8
Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2025 | 8
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18