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
Off-Prem
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
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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
Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747
'Black side down,' Lego style
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
American coders are most likely to use AI
Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming
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
New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers
Welcome to bill shock, AI style
STORIES
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
Unhappy with the cloud costs? You're not alone
And it's all your fault
PaaS + IaaS28 May 2025 | 38
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
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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
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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
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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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
