Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff
As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?'
SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 37
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Microsoft unboxes Exchange Online certification in bid to push customers off-prem
More support engineers needed to keep the email flowing, it seems
SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 7
AWS sent edgy appliance to the ISS and it worked – just like all the other computers up there
Congrats, AWS, you’ve boldly gone where the Raspberry Pi has already been
Edge + IoT24 Jun 2022 | 8
ZTE intros 'cloud laptop' that draws just five watts of power
The catch: It hooks up to desktop-as-a-service and runs Android – so while it looks like a laptop ...
PaaS + IaaS24 Jun 2022 | 29
£11.5b in 10 years: UK's government cloud services unit G-Cloud
50% of public sector tech budgets in the cloud by 2015? Well that didn't happen!
SaaS23 Jun 2022 | 5
Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet
'Network engineers walked over each other's changes'
Off-Prem21 Jun 2022 | 57
HashiCorp tool sniffs out configuration drift
HashiConf OK, which of those engineers tweaked the settings? When infrastructure shifts away from state defined by original code
PaaS + IaaS21 Jun 2022 | 3
What happens when the cloud reaches all the way to the manager’s dug out?
Find out how Southgate and co are tapping Google Cloud for analytics and machine learning
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End of the road for biz living off free G Suite legacy edition
Firms accustomed to freebies miffed that web giant's largess doesn't last
SaaS21 Jun 2022 | 47
Tencent completes 50 million core migration of its own apps to its own clouds
Pockets plenty of savings and illustrates success with the cutest cartoon sysadmin ever
Off-Prem17 Jun 2022 | 8
D-Wave opens up access to small-scale Advantage2 quantum computer
Via a cloud subscription, natch – this is the 2020s
PaaS + IaaS16 Jun 2022 | 5
Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone
GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch
Edge + IoT16 Jun 2022 | 39
HPE Greenlake to power Taeknizon private cloud expansion in UAE
Isn't this the definition of a middle man?
Off-Prem15 Jun 2022 |
Adobe apologizes for repeated outages of its Creative Cloud video collaboration service
Frame.io admits it was 'slow to scale as demand rose
Off-Prem15 Jun 2022 | 12
Lenovo to form venture with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW
Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines
Channel15 Jun 2022 | 2
DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly
Boffin agency seeks help to shoot 100kW through the air with lasers, but contributors don't have long to deliver
Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 24
Oracle cloud growth up 19% but it's still a market minnow
Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt
SaaS14 Jun 2022 | 1
Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion
'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost
Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3
OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects
OpenInfra Berlin Notes rise of 'pay to play' where companies try to buy way into governance – and says this is not that
PaaS + IaaS14 Jun 2022 |
Giant outsourcer keeps work from home, loses tax breaks. Government says 'good riddance'
Philippines says subsidies inflate profits, not local economy
Off-Prem14 Jun 2022 | 16
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The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups
On Call And we would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling geeks!
Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left this weird double crater
Pic NASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk
NSO claims 'more than 5' EU states use Pegasus spyware
And it's like, what ... 12, 13,000 total targets a year max, exec says
Google: How we tackled this iPhone, Android spyware
Watching people's every move and collecting their info – not on our watch, says web ads giant
AWS sent edgy appliance to the ISS and it worked – just like all the other computers up there
Congrats, AWS, you’ve boldly gone where the Raspberry Pi has already been
BOFH: HR's gold mine gambit – they get the gold and we get the shaft
Episode 12 If you step outside, you'll find the unicycle for the practical test
We're now truly in the era of ransomware as pure extortion without the encryption
Feature Why screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough
More than $100m in cryptocurrency stolen from blockchain biz
'A humbling and unfortunate reminder' that monsters lurk under bridges
Beijing-backed attackers use ransomware as a decoy while they conduct espionage
They're not lying when they say 'We stole your data' – the lie is about which data they lifted
It's a crime to use Google Analytics, watchdog tells Italian website
Because data flows into the United States, not because of that user interface
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Governments opt for XaaS, dump datacenters in droves
Outsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner
PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2022 | 4
Microsoft pledges neutrality on unions for Activision staff
Now can we just buy them, please?
Off-Prem13 Jun 2022 | 3
Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever
LibreOffice, Collabora, KDE Gear all updated their Microsoft alternatives – whatever your OS
SaaS13 Jun 2022 | 67
OVHcloud datacenter fire last year possibly due to water leak
French investigative report draws no conclusion but hints at inverter malfunction
Off-Prem10 Jun 2022 | 27
Microsoft forgot to renew the certificate for its Windows Insider subdomain
Visitors to insider.windows.com met with safety warning - how reassuring
Channel10 Jun 2022 | 37
EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035
Analysis Automakers concerned as to whether there is enough infrastructure and battery capacity for all electric car future
Off-Prem10 Jun 2022 | 280
Futurist Keynote: Professor Sue Black, 14th June
Register today to hear Professor Black’s inspirational story and learn how technology can be a force for good in your life too
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AWS says it will cloudify your mainframe workloads
Buyer beware, say analysts, technical debt will catch up with you eventually
Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 10
Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360
Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens
SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 1
Salesforce faces diversity audit from activist investors
CRM slinger set to be challenged on lack of progress at investor meeting
SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 3
Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits
Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server
Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 119
Google's Dallas datacenter opens up new cloud region
Okay Google, rustle me up a Lone Star State virtual machine.
PaaS + IaaS08 Jun 2022 | 2
Alibaba continues international expansion – adds two datacenters and a bank
Bit barns in Saudi Arabia, all-digital bank in Singapore
Off-Prem08 Jun 2022 |
Digital sovereignty gives European cloud a 'window of opportunity'
OpenInfra Summit And US hyperscalers want to shut it ASAP, we're told
PaaS + IaaS07 Jun 2022 | 2
UK Home Office awards Oracle a deal extension worth tens of millions
Fellow travelers in the Whitehall shared services journey await their SaaS move
SaaS07 Jun 2022 | 5
AI-driven HR startup snapped up as companies fight to retain employees
Remember when ServiceNow said 'no acquisitions? Someone should tell Hitch Works
SaaS06 Jun 2022 | 5
The Register talks to Microsoft's European cloud rivals about getting a fair deal
What do we want? Open standards, just licensing and a level playing field, say OVHcloud, Scaleway and others
PaaS + IaaS06 Jun 2022 | 14
Datacenter boom going bust over labor, materials shortages
Two years on and there's still not enough stuff to go around--or people
Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 9
AWS launches fresh challenges to on-prem hardware vendors
Offers alternative to vanilla servers and recruits world's biggest tech distributors to push hybrid storage appliance
Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 4
Smart homes are hackable homes if not equipped with updated, supported tech
People forget IoT gadgets aren't dumb appliances. gear needs to be fed security, bug fixes
Edge + IoT01 Jun 2022 | 111
Azure Active Directory logs are lagging, alerts may be wrong or missing
Updated We have questions: Who's logged in lately? How would you know? Ain't it grand that Microsoft wants you in Azure AD?
Off-Prem01 Jun 2022 | 25
Renegotiating a Salesforce software agreement? It could take up to two years
Salesforce complexity can be 'difficult and expensive to govern', especially for multicloud, warns Gartner
SaaS31 May 2022 | 8
Salesforce staff back an end to its relationship with NRA
Texas school shooting should prompt a rethink in commercial ties with powerful gun-lobby group, workers urge management
SaaS30 May 2022 | 134
Dutch public sector gets green light to use Google Workspace
Data Protection Impact Assessment merely a 'standard step'
SaaS30 May 2022 | 25
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 | 17
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 | 7
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 | 89
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 | 9
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 | 17
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
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 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
