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Thinking of building a Terraform provider? Here’s one Rubrik made earlier

Learn how to make infrastructure-as-code work for you

Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk

Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies

03 Dec 16:56 | 8

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When it comes to renting tech kit, things can get personal, very quickly

Is hardware by subscription bad for customers? Readers have their say

03 Dec 14:02 | 17

AWS adds another Arm CPU to its cloud: Apple's M1

Updates bare metal Macs-a-service and claims up to 60 per cent better price performance vs cloudy x86 Macs

03 Dec 08:01 | 2

Where in-memory caching makes sense

AWS hails strong performance

ByteDance launches a public cloud that offers TTaaS (TikTok as a service)

Volcano Engine also offers all the IaaS and SaaS you'd expect from a hyperscaler

03 Dec 04:16 | 2

Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now

03 Dec 02:20 | 11

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Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves

And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it?

02 Dec 10:45 | 54

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

It's the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage

02 Dec 10:00 | 21

Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch

All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

Also: Custom SQL Server service, free SageMaker ML, and experts on hand to label data

02 Dec 02:01 | 2

Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas

01 Dec 20:01 | 23

So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years

01 Dec 16:19 | 1

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Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have

Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants

01 Dec 10:45 | 10

Everything else comes as a service these days, why not end-user hardware?

Here’s how DaaS can mean happier users, and much happier techies

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers

01 Dec 00:09 | 5

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The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers

From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution

30 Nov 10:45 | 79

Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds

Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem'

30 Nov 06:16 | 32

Nextcloud and cloud chums fire off competition complaint to the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows

No, it isn't the limited levels of storage that have irked European businesses

29 Nov 15:35 | 31

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Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers

We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing

29 Nov 10:45 | 53

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Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

Parachute snagged on ship's bows

It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer

Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting

All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out

When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?'

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation

At the same time, will overrule court decision that traditional publishers are liable for comments on social media

Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments

Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017

You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case

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Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that

IoT still needs its lightbulb moment

29 Nov 09:15 | 84

Indian government warns locals not to use Starlink's internet services

If you are going to sell satellite internet subscriptions in India, you Musk get a license, says regulator

29 Nov 05:25 | 37

AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up

The cloudy concern is a prodigy, but early promise is no guarantee of dominance

29 Nov 03:58 | 11

Device-as-a-service is the next pandemic-accelerated trend

This is a good thing. Lenovo explains why

Singapore's DBS bank suffers digital fail – yes, regulatory bodies have noticed

Might want to rethink that 'digital to the core' slogan

26 Nov 12:33 | 1

AWS chops data transfer fees by massive extension of free tier – 2 months after rival previewed R2 Storage

Customer: 'I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks'

25 Nov 13:29 | 6

Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture

24 Nov 19:08 | 13

A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see

23 Nov 14:21 | 14

Economy class: AWS points set-your-own-cap Fleets service at cloudy desktop apps

Do users dream of Elastic fleets?

23 Nov 11:45 | 2

Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

What could possibly go wrong?

22 Nov 19:01 | 5

UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

NHSX also doomed in shake-up of 'odd' tech leadership structure

22 Nov 16:15 | 55

US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle deemed worthy

19 Nov 22:30 | 12

Workday subscription revenue forecasts leave investors cold, wiping 9% off company value

SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition

19 Nov 18:59 | 8

EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X opens its summit with the departure of Scaleway

French hosting outfit not keen on status quo, leaving to spend more time with its servers

19 Nov 16:32 | 15

Alibaba profits plunge as Beijing's bans – and beefy competitors – bite

Investors are going to have to put up with growth of merely 22 per cent, not the promised 29 or more

19 Nov 06:57 | 5

British Airways Executive Club frequent flyers have their airmiles grounded

Lengthy 'improvements' turn into a TITSUP* for Club members - though you can still book a flight

18 Nov 18:25 | 30

Future of the three NHS bodies managing health tech in doubt after £2.1bn cash injection

Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards

18 Nov 14:45 | 39

CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers

What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere!

18 Nov 10:15 | 4

Open Infrastructure Foundation adopts cross-cloud resource manager Taibai

China-based FiberHome donated code after consultation – didn't just "throw it over the wall"

AWS adds Linux app streaming alongside Windows to 'greatly lower' cost

Savings are exaggerated, but there is more to this than price

17 Nov 15:30 | 4

OVHcloud to share its OpenStack automation for use in on-prem clouds

Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia

17 Nov 06:07 | 2

Ready, player anyone? China's gaming ban left cloud providers looking for someone to play with

Canalys CEO reckons up to 30 per cent of big Chinese clouds' infrastructure is under-used, new datacentre builds deferred

17 Nov 03:35 | 3

Google Cloud partially fixes load balancer SNAFU that hit Discord, Spotify, others today

If your favorite site was acting up, this might be why

16 Nov 19:42 | 3

Veeam reveals cloud storage use patterns: Azure and AWS for bulk, IBM has ardent fans, Google has … not much

Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB

16 Nov 04:29 | 4

Phone jammers made my model plane smash into parked lorry, fumes hobbyist

Illegal irritant raises its head again after drone investigation

15 Nov 14:02 | 92

BT's Plusnet shows Google how it's done as email woes enter their third day

Call that an outage? Now this is an outage

12 Nov 16:07 | 49

Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service

Prolonged outage in Europe and beyond dampens productivity

12 Nov 12:11 | 16

WTF is 'Computing First Networking'? Think load balancers for the age of edge

The 'pre-process data on the edge' idea turns out not to be that simple

12 Nov 07:14 | 18

Satellite of love: Space broadband outfit Viasat acquires rival Inmarsat

Promises to keep Inmarsat's commitments to build more stuff in Blighty

10 Nov 04:01 | 7

Oh, Comcast. An Xfinity customer and working from home? Maybe not this morning

Where were you during the Great Comcast Outage?

09 Nov 17:14 | 15

Cisco uses its ThousandEyes to build internet outages map

Telemetry from CDNs and data centres presented alongside a thousand promos to irritate your eyes

09 Nov 16:01 | 5

Oracle flicks the switch on new Singapore cloud region

Big Red's 33rd region to mitigate Southeast Asia demand

Tencent Cloud boasts it's made the world's best AI silicon and SmartNIC

Offers scant details to back assertions, won't say where chips have been deployed

08 Nov 03:56 | 1

Kyndryl spins out of IBM, stock starts trading on NYSE – and shares tumble

We're sure everything will be OK, its revenues have only fallen 37 per cent in the past decade

04 Nov 21:56 | 13

Teams has a mute button all of its own in taskbar of latest Windows 11 preview build

Another way to make sure the yawns don't get through

04 Nov 18:56 | 9

JEDI mind tricks: Google said Pentagon contract didn't align with company values. Now it's chasing another defence gig

Don't Be Evil... unless...

04 Nov 17:38 | 12

Feeling the pinch? How about a 160% hike in your data centre fees

Energy price rises trigger bigger bills at cloud and network provider M247

04 Nov 11:30 | 21

Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI – for those who want cloudy remote desktops hosted on-prem

We drill into what's available in this public preview

UK's newly merged Foreign Office puts £40m on table for hardware, software, services

Deloitte already has the deal to guide organisational structure and strategy

02 Nov 09:15 | 7

Microsoft wins JEDI contract, Amazon complains. Amazon wins NSA contract, watchdog says Microsoft right to moan

US Government Audit Office upholds Redmond's protest

01 Nov 16:17 | 12

Don't super-size me – China defines rules for 'super-large' platforms

Creates category to control what we call a superapp for antitrust behavior and more

01 Nov 10:15 | 6

AWS still growing like a weed but Amazon's retail empire hit by soaring labour, supply chain costs

CFO warns of $4bn in extra costs in the Christmas quarter

29 Oct 12:29 | 2

ServiceNow's king of understatement quietly goes about his business of changing the world, one workflow at a time

Bzz. Bzz. This digital bingo BS game won't stop buzzing, can someone mute Bill McDermott?

28 Oct 15:29 | 5

Behold, Eclipse's open-source software defined vehicle project

Microsoft is involved. What could possibly go wrong?

28 Oct 13:31 | 17

Renewal chasing as-a-service is now a thing – and vendors love it

Third parties get some data, use it to send mails as if they were your reseller, and – phew! – you don't get calls from sales people

28 Oct 06:04 | 21

AWS has started upgrading the software behind S3 storage cloud

Sharding system coded in 40,000+ lines of Rust is changing the way cloud colossus ensures data durability

28 Oct 02:59 | 5

Googlebusters: Cloud biz jumps 45% in Q3 but misses Wall St consensus, operating losses almost halved

Advertising engine still revving amid pandemic

Microsoft: Cloud and Windows OEM sales up, but Surface? No, not even during WFH boom

Water's wet, sky's blue, and Redmond's revenues grew in Q1 2022

27 Oct 12:30 | 9

How business makes streaming faster and cheaper with CDN and HESP support

Ensure a high video streaming transmission rate

Japan picks AWS and Google for first gov cloud push

Local players passed over for Digital Agency’s first project

Ever wondered where the 'cloud' was in Adobe Creative Cloud? Here it is in beta form

In-browser editing previewed for Photoshop and Illustrator

26 Oct 14:33 | 22

EU digital rules must consider anti-competitive licensing terms, say cloud sellers

*cough* Microsoft and Oracle *cough*

26 Oct 12:59 | 3

Doing better with less in the UK public sector

IT-as-a-Service can resolve many issues, says HPE

Facebook's greatest misses: The five nastiest bits from recent leaks

Zuck says criticism is unfair and – look over here at our huge revenue growth, billions for future holo-conferences, and pivot to young adults

26 Oct 05:15 | 66

US drops tariff threat against nations who dished out digital taxes to American tech giants as OECD members hash out new deal

15% tax minimum to hit tech firms

22 Oct 14:37 | 6

Alibaba Cloud drops all-in-one client device, on-prem cloud-native DB

Claims shared memory speed breakthrough in new server, plans to enter South Korea and Thailand, and more

22 Oct 04:32 | 4

Executive exodus from Intel depth and tracking tech arm RealSense continues

Former CTO leaves for car tech biz

India's big four services giants wrestle with staff attrition amid COVID-19 pandemic

With high enough vax rates, HCL, Infosys and Wipro say hybrid work environment is the way of the future, while TCS is going to want you to come right on in.

20 Oct 03:04 | 6

JumpCloud hooks investment from Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund for $225m total funding round

Cloud directory start-up valued at $2.65bn

WTF? Value of Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven jumps $1.2bn in 7 months

Cloud data market heats up as company lures $60m in Series C funding

19 Oct 12:52 | 7

It's one thing to have the world in your hands – what are you going to do with it?

Google won the patent battle against ART+COM, but we were left with little more than a toy

19 Oct 08:30 | 18

Why Cloud First should not have to mean Cloud Everywhere

HPE urges 'consciously hybrid' strategy for UK public sector

Alibaba Cloud unveils home-spun 128-core Arm-compatible server processor

Also plans to open-source current XuanTie RISC-V cores and future designs

19 Oct 04:02 | 3

Learn how to modernize your applications in just a day? No. Five hours should do it.

Check in to AWS Application Modernization Day

Arm puts virtual hardware in the cloud so you won't have to wait for the actual chips

Developers, start your engines

18 Oct 15:00 | 1

Canalys Forum 2021

Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January

Things not likely to improve until 2023

15 Oct 11:26 | 3

Azure Emissions Dashboard shows how you and Microsoft are slowly killing the planet with your cloud workloads

Here's an even cheerier thought – it requires a Power BI Pro subscription

14 Oct 15:15 | 9

As UK-based Civo's Kubernetes service goes live, boss claims the big cloud rivals are overpriced

'There's a misconception in the industry that hyperscalers are cheap'

14 Oct 10:01 | 1

Amazon CEO: Directors and team leaders will determine return to work policy for white collar workers

And warehouse staff, datacentre engineers, retail staffers? 'Thanks for your dedication' but no flexible work for you

12 Oct 14:32 | 5

Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment

Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team

12 Oct 12:14 | 7

Jamstack research: Typescript and serverless are the winners

Figma dominating Adobe XD in UIs

11 Oct 19:15 | 8

Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement

'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue'

09 Oct 15:11 | 46

Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds

Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all?

08 Oct 08:32 | 40

Cloud Foundry insists Kubernetes transition still alive despite VMware's retreat

That is merely a 'failure of a single effort' says foundation

07 Oct 12:44 | 1

Surrey County Council faces £700k additional SAP support fees as £30m Unit4 ERP set to miss go-live target

Which doesn't help when there's a £47.1m hole in the budget

07 Oct 08:33 | 14

Raspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini computer there as easy as Pi

High shipping costs barrier to access for many of continent’s inhabitants

06 Oct 15:25 | 17

Celonis and Software AG target IoT and streaming process mining as firms grapple with data overload

Newcomer specialist and elderly data integration generalist make their pitches

Brit builders merchant Travis Perkins opts for Oracle after ERP disaster with Infor

'Technology has been a source of pain,' CIO admits to investors

06 Oct 09:28 | 32

Google to build cut of its cloud operated by France’s Thales, for French government clients

Sovereign cloud meets hyperscale

06 Oct 06:29 | 3

Singtel outlines ambitions to become an ASEAN data centre power player

Strategy shift to double down on Asia's continued digital economy boom nets a cool $1.38B from AustralianSuper

05 Oct 06:16 | 1

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