AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops
re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps
Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 21
Off-Prem
Black Friday? More like Blackout Friday for HSBC's online and mobile banking
Updated Think of all the crap discounted things you won't need to buy now
Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 39
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist
Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all
Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 24
India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years
Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends
Off-Prem22 Nov 2023 | 3
Microsoft adds FPGA-powered network accelerator to Azure
'Azure Boost' vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types
Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 6
Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch
That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48
Civo CEO on free credits, egress fees, and hauling it all back on-prem
Interview And why the UK cloud industry can't ape the energy sector and make it easier to swap suppliers
PaaS + IaaS17 Nov 2023 | 9
Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter
Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass?
SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6
Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions
Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down
PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2
Motives of multi-cloud users? Compliance and dodging vendor lock-in top the list
Reasons less technical than you'd think as research respondents cite EU's DORA rules
PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2023 | 1
China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com
5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile
Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6
Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god
Opinion At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever
Off-Prem10 Nov 2023 | 60
Alibaba takes more of Salesforce behind the great firewall
Asia in brief PLUS: China's taikonauts return from space, India approves PC licenses, and Foxconn founder presidential campaign investigated for bribes
Off-Prem06 Nov 2023 | 2
Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats
Updated Small businesses need not apply
SaaS03 Nov 2023 | 15
Cloudflare dashboard, API service feeling poorly due to datacenter power snafu
Right on time for results day
Off-Prem02 Nov 2023 | 8
European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal
Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it
PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2023 | 15
Fujitsu public cloud to be absorbed into main biz, then refreshed
Asia In Brief PLUS: Hikvision accused of targeting minorities; Australia's 'cyber-shield'; Huawei's superchip source revealed?
Off-Prem30 Oct 2023 | 5
AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types
Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2023 | 2
AWS says it wants in on the European sovereign cloud game
Appealing to growing crowd that wants data outside US jurisdiction
PaaS + IaaS25 Oct 2023 | 11
It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI
Had to kiss Nvidia's ring to make its vision real
Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 16
Popular
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files
Updated The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license
The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS
IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups
Who, Me? Kid escaped from the executive suite without screwing things up
Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough?
Opinion Unique institutions need unique security. Instead, they're fobbed off with the same old, same old
DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked
Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer
Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release
Updated Earlier and later versions may be affected – worth your while reading the advisories
Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz
Updated Sparks fly as Elon's Musketeers sue for license plate liberation
Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet 'unmasked' by Russian state media
Infosec in Brief Also: NXP China attack, Australia can't deliver on ransom payment ban (yet), and Justin Sun's very bad month
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops
re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps
Videoconferencing fatigue is real, study finds
Your brain and heart do not enjoy Zooming, Teamsing, or Webexing
STORIES
Google Cloud misses revenue estimates – and it's your fault, wanting smaller bills
Keeping old servers alive is more lucrative than the G-Cloud
Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 15
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe
Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes
PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16
Smart choices for modern cloud application strategies
Let Google Cloud and The Register help you make decisions that make a difference
Sponsored Post
Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds
Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won't
Off-Prem23 Oct 2023 | 2
Helping enterprises maximise the value of data clouds
Google Cloud and El Reg team up to deliver unique resource centre providing research, practical advice and white papers
Sponsored Post
Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment
India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successes
Channel20 Oct 2023 | 11
Resource guide for digital transformation
A new collaboration between The Register and Google delivers a host of tools and info
Sponsored Post
Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite
Over a million licenses for office software to be used by corporate and frontline workers
SaaS18 Oct 2023 | 19
Down and out: Barclays Bank takes unplanned digital detox, customers not invited
Account holders reach for telephone as mobile and web services crash
Off-Prem17 Oct 2023 | 33
$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe
Cites 'increased operational costs' but whatever they are US gamers aren't impacted
Off-Prem17 Oct 2023 | 10
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off
Epic redundancies all round
SaaS17 Oct 2023 | 45
Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion
Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation
SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25
Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst
One has the talent, one has the money – both want more tech
Channel12 Oct 2023 | 17
Power tools: turning sustainable IT into a business catalyst
How new monitoring and management tools can help datacenters root-out infrastructure inefficiencies
Sponsored Feature
Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair
Opinion All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please
PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2023 | 9
China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge, storage, memory, and … Blu-ray?
Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity
Off-Prem09 Oct 2023 | 9
Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed
Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs
PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges'
Updated Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now
Channel05 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive
We hope cloud storage service is ready for this web wingman
PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 49
Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview
Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources
PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 5
Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters
At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore
Off-Prem04 Oct 2023 | 45
UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon
Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing
PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5
Game on: FTC tries again to block Microsoft Activision merger
Redmond says the deal is still on
Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1
Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?
Analysis Three words: Cheap, reliable, power
Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 71
Alibaba Cloud to bring its AI PaaS out from behind the Great Firewall
Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm
Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1
Bermuda, your data, Google's gonna take your US data
Updated Search giant's latest subsea cable will feed your YouTube addiction
Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 14
Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says
In measure of fakery, Musk's social media biz has highest noise-to-signal ratio
Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 96
Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy
Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap'
Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 35
Fujitsu to quit Tokyo HQ
ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more
Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 2
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust
You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy
SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today
Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA
SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon
Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini
PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2023 | 10
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure
At least it was the weekend
PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit
Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel's portfolio
Off-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 3
Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months
Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says
SaaS15 Sep 2023 | 27
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that
Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs
Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Activist investor to GoDaddy: Cut costs, improve sales, or sell
Starboard Blue LLC says management failed to create shareholder goodness, 'change needed'
Off-Prem14 Sep 2023 | 26
Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters
Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now
Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 30
US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance
We're just better, says Big G
Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 29
Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas
What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone?
Off-Prem06 Sep 2023 | 2
Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU
Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policy
Channel06 Sep 2023 | 17
IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent
All PaaS, including OpenShift, gets a three-point bump. IaaS users outside the US get the nastiest numbers
Off-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 20
AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure
The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more
PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2023 | 1
Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API
One more reason to keep them short and sweet
SaaS04 Sep 2023 | 23
Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree
Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year
PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2023 | 7
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage
Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind
Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32
Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience
Updated Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they're buying
PaaS + IaaS01 Sep 2023 | 1
Price rises yet to hit customers, says Salesforce as it raises forecasts
CRM vendor might find itself pushed to the margins to keep investors happy
PaaS + IaaS31 Aug 2023 | 5
Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe
Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings
SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19
Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under
Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up
PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2023 | 12
Five steps to mastering multicloud management
Cloud-native apps, containers and data storage are complicating multicloud management - these tips can help mitigate the challenges
Commissioned
Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M
Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement
PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2023 | 26
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA
Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed
Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge
PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58
Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps
Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out
PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40
CEO Zooms through the bad news on Q2 earnings call
Alienating FOSS community and some employees? Web-based collaboration biz delights shareholders
Off-Prem22 Aug 2023 | 5
Cisco's Duo Security suffers major authentication outage
Updated Provides complete security by not letting anyone login
Off-Prem21 Aug 2023 | 12
Rising labor and component costs lead to UK product and service price hike at IBM
Big Blue looks back at 2022 in Britain, one of the world's economies 'hit hardest' by pandemic
Off-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 5
Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash
Reports police called to control ATM frenzy after €1,000 added to accounts, by leprechauns maybe
Off-Prem16 Aug 2023 | 79
Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers'
Meanwhile, in China, electric auto outfit emphasizes local bit barn for storage
Off-Prem15 Aug 2023 | 19
Co-founder of Yandex – Russia's Google clone – denounces war on Ukraine
Arkady Volozh is working with refugee engineers, of which there are plenty
Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 16
Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits
What? How?
Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 4
Epic snub by Supreme Court in battle to escape Apple App Store payment prison
This fight over IAP is getting, dare we say, unreal
Edge + IoT10 Aug 2023 | 7
Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform
Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape'
SaaS09 Aug 2023 | 26
S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds
Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart
PaaS + IaaS08 Aug 2023 | 35
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers
And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week
SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries
Unmanned aircraft trial will skip delays caused by boat-battering weather
Edge + IoT03 Aug 2023 | 51
AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server
Updated Amid all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla
PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2023 | 15
Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'
Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers
PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6
It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365
Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws
SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42
Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues
Come back Teams, all is forgiven
SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 14
World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems
Opinion What do you call an air-gapped Googler? Anything you like, they can't hear you
Off-Prem24 Jul 2023 | 63
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes
Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3
SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market
China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei
PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2
Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office
Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app
SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44
Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris
'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too
PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 |
LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions
Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware
PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 | 183
Investors give Salesforce a 4% slap on back for raising prices
Just think of the margins
SaaS12 Jul 2023 | 1
Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform
If it walks like a duck...
PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2023 | 62
Microsoft's 10,000 job cuts didn't quite do the trick
Redmond confirms new round of layoffs in WARN notice
Off-Prem11 Jul 2023 | 36
Biting the hand that feeds IT
