Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle
Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn
SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 3
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VMwhat? Dell snaps up Cloudify for multi-cloud orchestration
Intriguing move – just look at the software companies it has ditched...
PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 |
Broadcom's $61b VMWare merger faces another hurdle: UK's competition watchdog
Nobody expects the British Inquisition. (Except everybody. Everybody expected it)
PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 | 5
Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health
Human Capital leaves the building
Off-Prem26 Jan 2023 | 20
Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs
TCI Fund run by Brit billionaire Chris Hohn also wants ad biz to slash salaries
Off-Prem25 Jan 2023 | 53
Google's Pichai tells underlings exec bonuses will be clipped
Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts
Off-Prem24 Jan 2023 | 12
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice
It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it
SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue
Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast
PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29
AWS expands footprint at site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region
Virginia welcomes $35 billion investment plan with $140 million grant to help things along
Off-Prem23 Jan 2023 | 3
Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe
You can work from home today – to process the news
Off-Prem20 Jan 2023 | 55
Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality
Bit factory giants see sales slimming in economically challenged times, party still far from over
PaaS + IaaS19 Jan 2023 | 27
What's driving multicloud? War, regulation, plague, says Acronis CEO
All y'all want data near you, but that doesn't mean you're going back on prem
Off-Prem19 Jan 2023 | 2
The Roomba approach to tidying up your AWS spend
Cloud sprawl will easily become bill sprawl if you don’t take active steps to clean up
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IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales
Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded
SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 36
I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of COVID, says fired engineer
Infrastructure company retorts that it is an 'essential' business and cites lack of medical records
Off-Prem17 Jan 2023 | 50
India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings
Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings
Channel17 Jan 2023 | 3
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud
Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further
Off-Prem16 Jan 2023 | 98
Microsoft applies coat of Rust to Azure Sphere IoT platform
The hope? To grease the security skids for internet-connected devices – and they need all the help they can get
Edge + IoT13 Jan 2023 | 9
Twitter's Singapore landlord says avian network still a tenant, despite eviction reports
This time last year the plan was for lots more hires. Then came Elon
Off-Prem13 Jan 2023 | 10
Security tech chief quits Salesforce as list of top-table departures grows
CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund
SaaS12 Jan 2023 | 2
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So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer
Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?
Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud
'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that'
Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine
in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR
Who, Me? Thankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment
Did Pathfinder get lost in Intel's sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis
Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater
Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator
MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery
Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter
Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban
But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans
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Hong Kong ups its SEO game to stop Google playing a protest song as its national anthem
It's not the anthem – it's the algorithm
Off-Prem12 Jan 2023 | 9
What does it really take to be a leader when it comes to cloud databases?
Here’s what the AWS customer obsession means to you
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Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut
Opinion SaaS CRM slinger blamed the pandemic for 10% workforce cull, but scattergun M&A strategy hasn't helped
SaaS10 Jan 2023 | 23
Microsoft boosts Azure networking, storage with composable infra grab
Slurps ‘Fungible’, a manufacturer of DPUs and fabrics that will join Redmond’s engineering gang
Off-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 2
Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data
Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort
PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15
NHS England Palantir contract extension could result in further legal threats
After promising to return Covid-era data to NHS, UK govt ploughs on with extension, expansion
PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 35
Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost
Look forward to being 'simplified,' staff told in CEO missive
Off-Prem05 Jan 2023 | 46
Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint
CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry
SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6
The era of cloud colonialism has begun
Opinion Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires
Off-Prem28 Dec 2022 | 40
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
Opinion Users may be the product, but we come with a hell of a price tag
Off-Prem26 Dec 2022 | 215
Hybrid multi-cloud is a mess to clean up, not an innovation to excite
Opinion We really should have known better than to end up with siloed applications on different platforms
Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 11
Tencent CEO Pony Ma reportedly bemoans internal corruption, inefficiency
This has the ring of truth to it because Chinese giant has disclosed similar worries on earnings calls
Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 9
Paperwork decision scraps Google's $600m Minnesota datacenter project
We don't have the power
Off-Prem22 Dec 2022 | 6
Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO
It doesn't work for SAP and Salesforce but does work for Workday. For now
PaaS + IaaS21 Dec 2022 | 2
AWS wins 5-year, $700m+ contract for cloud services to US Navy
Much money for Amazon, that is. Bezos heads to dockside after doomed JEDI deal
PaaS + IaaS20 Dec 2022 | 3
British Airways flights grounded due to glitch in flight planning app
Flight computers down for 2 hours worldwide 'and no BA plane can file a flight plan? Seems not ideal'
SaaS20 Dec 2022 | 16
Refrigeration failure at Hong Kong datacenter takes out Alibaba Cloud and others
Unlike Oracle and Google, this time there's no heatwave to blame
Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 1
Meta freezes development of $1.5B Alabama datacenter pending redesign
More AI is the answer to all our woes, Meta CTO says
Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 5
Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff
Founder and bossman asks if WFH freedoms to blame
SaaS19 Dec 2022 | 34
Green tech to the rescue
Startups building sustainable solutions can get a helping hand from Google
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Tech supply chains brace for impact as China shifts from zero-COVID to rampant COVID
Hundreds of millions of cases expected to bring new waves of disruption
Off-Prem19 Dec 2022 | 32
Adobe confirms UK looking into its $20b Figma deal, EU probe 'expected'
Options? Customers have heard of them. Software giant reports record $17b+ revs, with biggest growth in ... PDFs?
SaaS16 Dec 2022 | 10
Boosting the bootstrapped formula for success
Market domination may take time, but there are Google IT resources that startups can access right now
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Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure
Cancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month
Off-Prem16 Dec 2022 | 14
Everything as a service – with a smile
How Lenovo 360 helps its partners diversify their revenue streams
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To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services
Updated Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers
Off-Prem15 Dec 2022 | 51
Amazon graduate hires told they can't start work until next December
'Challenging economic conditions' blamed for delays, but here's $13,000 for your troubles
Off-Prem14 Dec 2022 | 13
Where are EU going with that Teams antitrust probe? Microsoft wants a word
Updated Software behemoth reportedly wants a chat with the regulators – on the other side of the pond this time
SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 25
Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison
That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting
SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 23
Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal
US tech giant's data analytics and cloud products for a slice of Brit market action
PaaS + IaaS12 Dec 2022 | 30
It’s 2022 and a Korean web giant only now decided to write a DR plan
Kakao discovers the importance of resilience after fire wiped out its services
Off-Prem08 Dec 2022 | 5
Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle
Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has
PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7
Cloud customers are wasting money by overprovisioning resources
And all that energy feeding those humming servers isn't free either
PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2022 | 7
Yandex signs up Putin ally to help with restructuring
Alexei Kudrin, former head of Russia's Audit Chamber, to advise on corporate development
Off-Prem05 Dec 2022 | 6
Salesforce calls some workers back to the office amid slowing sales
Months after CEO Benioff said return to office mandates don't work, a bunch told to come in three days a week, take half customer calls in-person
SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 9
US commerce bosses view EU rules as threat to its clouds
Rules haven't been decided yet but others are already kicking up a stink
Off-Prem02 Dec 2022 | 139
Nutanix buyout may be on the cards with HPE sniffing around
A GreenLake future could reportedly be more cloudy
Off-Prem02 Dec 2022 | 1
Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself
Updated Legacy process overwhelmed infrastructure, brought ten hours of trouble
SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 34
Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter, blames the accountants
Cash flow is king, even in the cloud
SaaS01 Dec 2022 | 14
Salesforce ends CEO job share – again. Marc Benioff back as sole boss
Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter
SaaS01 Dec 2022 |
Amazon unfreezes some hiring to expand its datacenter footprint
No matter what, the cloud must grow
Off-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 1
As recession looms, Workday warns that legacy HR systems need updating
Company hopes future will be 'nearly impossible to navigate' without its wares
SaaS30 Nov 2022 | 15
'Russian missiles can't destroy the cloud': Ukraine leader describes emergency migration
Re:Invent Urgent digital transformation in a war-torn country
Off-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 29
Fortinet's cloud firewall ditches custom ASICs for Amazon's Graviton CPUs
You might say they've Arm-ed their security suite for battle
Off-Prem29 Nov 2022 |
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky promises 'Zero ETL' future in re:Invent keynote
RE:INVENT Move towards applications could bring cloud giant further into competition with its customers
Off-Prem29 Nov 2022 | 16
AWS opens up preview access to instances run on Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors
Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation
PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 |
AWS intros homebrew Graviton CPU tuned for HPC, network stack tuned to updated Nitro system
'Scalable Reliable Datagram' uses multi-path topography to smoke TCP
PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 | 1
AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030
That basically means more H2O returned to the environment than is supplied
PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2022 | 25
Singapore branches out onto internet of trees
LiDAR, AI and sensors manage millions of plants, and have greatly reduced accidents
Edge + IoT28 Nov 2022 | 15
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info
Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win'
PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 58
Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users
Updated 'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice'
SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39
Google and Microsoft add more renewable energy for datacenters
Both announce green power purchase agreements for UK and Irish DCs as European worries over power continue
PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2022 | 11
University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster
Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures
PaaS + IaaS23 Nov 2022 | 47
Juggling hundreds and thousands of MySQL databases? Throw them into the cloud
Time to wake up to Amazon Aurora
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Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region
Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth
PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 2
AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline
Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware
PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 4
It would take a 'catastrophic' recession to stop tech spend growth, says IBM boss
Tells Economic Club of New York no one he knows is trimming IT budgets
Off-Prem18 Nov 2022 | 21
OpenStack thriving, survey says, but growth comes from a few big users
New markets harder to convince, says analyst
Off-Prem18 Nov 2022 | 3
Investor tells Google: Cut costs now and stop paying staff so much
Also wants Alphabet to slash losses in Waymo division, buy back shares, lots of them
Off-Prem16 Nov 2022 | 70
tsoHost pulls plug on Gridhost service with just 45 days' notice
Exclusive Company claims to have emailed customers repeatedly, but many say they didn't receive any
Off-Prem16 Nov 2022 | 40
NHS tech chief dismisses concerns over loss of statutory power to protect patient data
Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership
PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2022 | 37
IBM to fire Watson IoT Platform from its cloud
Exclusive Big Blue follows in footsteps of Google in pulling plug on services
Edge + IoT15 Nov 2022 | 19
US Department of the Interior seeks $1b single-vendor cloud contract
Plan is to consolidate DCs, cut costs and carbon under one-CSP-to-rule-it-all deal
Off-Prem14 Nov 2022 | 6
Alibaba hides 11.11 shopping festival sales figures for the first time
PLUS: US/Singapore CBDC trial; Digital Ocean down under; Boeing's Indonesian touchdown; and more
Off-Prem13 Nov 2022 | 3
Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns
The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end
SaaS09 Nov 2022 | 2
Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses
Updated CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field
Off-Prem09 Nov 2022 | 26
Google cut contractors off from online 'Share My Salary' spreadsheet, union claims
Alphabet Workers Union says it's an illegal block of workers' right to discuss pay
Off-Prem04 Nov 2022 | 16
Microsoft gives away '$400m in cloud support' to Ukraine
Freedom isn't free
PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 12
You fire 'em, we'll hire 'em: Atlassian sees tech layoffs as HR heaven
But investors aren't impressed by losses and unpleasant outlook
Off-Prem04 Nov 2022 | 12
Alibaba Cloud plans for a fifth of its servers to use homebrew Arm CPUs by 2025
Sanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures
PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 4
Amazon freezes corporate hiring amid worsening economic outlook
The decision comes as the e-commerce giant stuggles with soaring energy prices and cash-strapped customers
Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 7
Alibaba Cloud goes even more serverless as it tries to become a utility
Laptop-shaped thin client tied to DaaS also illustrates the concept, and its downsides
Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 2
China reminds world shock and ore can hurt tech supply chains
Nice chip and EV factories you're building there. Would be a shame if they couldn't get any rare earths to work with
Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 55
Google, Oracle’s Ampere VMs get Arm’s SystemReady seal of approval
So that means everything just works now, right?
PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 |
The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale
Comment You're paying too much for too much, and the providers know it
PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 | 75
Is it any surprise that 'permacrisis' is the word of the year?
It's enough to make you want to sploot
Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 33
Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral
AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry
Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7
Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'
Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown
Off-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 5
Keep on RTOS running
It’s not just performance and safety that matters, according to the results of our reader poll
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Microsoft boss Nadella's compensation pack swells 10% to $55m
Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma, the median? Ratio to Redmond's average employee pay is 289 to 1
Off-Prem28 Oct 2022 | 21
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