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 | 8
Off-Prem
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 | 44
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 | 50
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 Software Development Week22 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 | 58
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Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns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 | 28
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 | 7
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
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'
Final update License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub
SaaS10 Apr 2025 | 87
The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast
Cyber-crime10 Apr 2025 | 27
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America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
Opinion The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot
RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox
Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals
This is not just any 'cyber incident' … this is an M&S 'cyber incident'
Retailer tight-lipped on details as digital hiccup disrupts customer orders
Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised
World War Fee Detail? Rationale? Timeline? Nope! It's the art of the squeal
UN says Asian scam call center epidemic expanding globally amid political heat
What used to be a serious issue mainly in Southeast Asia is now the world’s problem
Two CISA officials jump ship, both proud of pushing for Secure by Design software
As cyber-agency faces cuts, makes noises about switching up program
Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks
In effect: 'Ha ha – the government is borked and so are you'
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'
A pot of $250K is now available to ransomware researchers, but it feeds a commercial product
Security bods can earn up to $10K per report
Only 3,000 staff jump from SAP after 10,000 earmarked to be pushed
CFO says 'a cushion of several thousand employees we can play with' is a good thing in uncertain times
STORIES
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons
Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2
Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz
Cloud Next How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec
CSO09 Apr 2025 | 7
Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised
Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot
PaaS + IaaS08 Apr 2025 | 37
Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses
With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE
PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2025 | 10
Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption
The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides
PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2025 | 35
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud
And it can be yours for a rather steep $349
OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Comment Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure
Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 6
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend
Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment
Public Sector03 Apr 2025 | 32
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
Double-oh-sh...
CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue
PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 9
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options
£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support
PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 34
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer
Software01 Apr 2025 | 121
Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech
Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers
PaaS + IaaS01 Apr 2025 | 7
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
1990s incident response in 2025
PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago
FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live
SaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
Congress takes another swing at Uncle Sam's software licensing mess
SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm?
Public Sector28 Mar 2025 | 21
CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades
That stands for I Probably Overestimated?
AI + ML28 Mar 2025 | 3
Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education
Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously
Public Sector27 Mar 2025 | 32
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache
Off-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 11
Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting
Comment Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters?
Off-Prem26 Mar 2025 | 45
There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial
Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod
Cyber-crime25 Mar 2025 | 43
Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark
Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA
Networks24 Mar 2025 | 10
Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data
Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale
Cyber-crime23 Mar 2025 | 29
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA
White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 72
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman
'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks
Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 39
Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions
Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine
On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 14
Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent
Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features
Applications21 Mar 2025 | 43
Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales
Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 50
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update
Updated Testing? We've heard of it
Applications20 Mar 2025 | 57
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators
Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it
AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 3
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 136
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year
'Three-year' tech support deal still running
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 18
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market
Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way
Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4
ATMs in the Amazon: Edge is crossing its tipping point, says SUSE CTO
SUSECON 2025 Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making'
Edge + IoT18 Mar 2025 | 5
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud
Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81
Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic
Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting
Software13 Mar 2025 | 3
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs
Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'
Public Sector12 Mar 2025 | 106
Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices
Cloudy email rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross
Applications11 Mar 2025 | 33
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed
Off-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more
Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime
Storage11 Mar 2025 | 21
Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit
To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while
Edge + IoT07 Mar 2025 | 4
Oracle outage hits US Federal health records systems
Big Red pushes restart button after users locked out of apps across Veterans Affairs hospitals, other govt departments
Databases07 Mar 2025 | 16
HPE revenue outlook feels the thump of Trump tariffs
Thousands brace for layoffs as shares slide 20%
On-Prem07 Mar 2025 | 15
Still can't get to your Outlook mailbox? You aren't alone
No 'zero days without incident' sign for Microsoft thanks ongoing problems
SaaS06 Mar 2025 | 29
Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players
Global giants shouldn't be allowed to make 'committed spend' public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match
PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2025 | 9
iOS users left refreshing in vain as Microsoft Outlook woes drag on
Native mail app? More like no mail app
Applications05 Mar 2025 | 17
Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365
Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through'
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 3
Microsoft Exchange Admin Center takes extended siesta in the EU
Updated Wasn't the cloud supposed to be the cheap, reliable option?
SaaS04 Mar 2025 | 7
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes
Presumably hosted by AWS?
Disaster Recovery Week04 Mar 2025 | 23
Microsoft: So what if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google?
That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK monopoly cops
PaaS + IaaS04 Mar 2025 | 44
Microsoft blames Outlook's wobbly weekend on 'problematic code change'
And Monday's not looking that steady, either
SaaS03 Mar 2025 | 27
Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows
Some may have second thoughts about going all-in with an American vendor, no matter where their data is stored
PaaS + IaaS03 Mar 2025 | 51
How the collapse of local cloud provider caused biz continuity issues in UK government
And that was on top of a £17.5M underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud
Disaster Recovery Week03 Mar 2025 | 52
UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?
Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements
PaaS + IaaS28 Feb 2025 | 19
Payday from hell as several British banks report major outages
Many can't access online banking although customers can keep tapping away in shops
Off-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 97
IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it
Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch
Devops28 Feb 2025 | 9
Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators
Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim
AI + ML28 Feb 2025 | 3
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot
Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction
Science27 Feb 2025 | 13
No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce
Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers
Applications27 Feb 2025 | 9
How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls
Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find
PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2025 | 37
Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day
Final update Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yakkers in a flap
SaaS26 Feb 2025 | 9
Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts
CEO assures investors he'll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product
AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 21
Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight
Interview Technologist Bert Hubert tells The Reg Microsoft Outlook is a huge source of geopolitical risk
Off-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 124
IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance'
Exclusive At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign
Software24 Feb 2025 | 54
Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing
Opinion Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future
Columnists24 Feb 2025 | 21
Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that
APRICOT Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’
Networks24 Feb 2025 | 10
Oops, some of our customers' Power Pages-hosted sites were exploited, says Microsoft
Don't think this is SaaS and you can relax: Redmond wants a few of you to check your websites
Cyber-crime20 Feb 2025 | 4
Microsoft Azure faceplants in Norway, taking government services with it
Locals see red as public cloud's service health dashboard shows green
PaaS + IaaS20 Feb 2025 | 15
Kelsey Hightower on dodging AI and the need for a glossary of IT terms
Interview The science of the appliance and opening the lid of the black box to find... it's just software
Software18 Feb 2025 | 28
Avaya hangs up on users with fewer than 200 SaaSy contact center seats
Customers told to pay up, quit, or wait for promised alternative ‘innovation’ coming real soon now
SaaS18 Feb 2025 | 26
Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot
Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say
Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4
AWS vacates its board seat at European cloud crew CISPE
... weeks after US titan was outvoted by other members to let Microsoft join the Euro cloud trade association
PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2025 | 1
Have I Been Pwned likely to ban resellers from buying subs, citing 'sh*tty behavior' and onerous support requests
'What are customers actually getting from resellers other than massive price markups?' asks Troy Hunt
Channel13 Feb 2025 | 33
After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected
Not all bad news for Redmond as Australian agency also found strong ROI and some unexpected upsides
AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 54
Oracle makes Fusion apps available on EU Sovereign Cloud
GDPR-compliant service pitched for public sector orgs who can't pipe data offsite
PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 3
Euro cloud crew says we-won't-sue deal with Microsoft is 'off-track'
Overseas pals urge US tech giant to 'rapidly' work on Azure Local project to make things right – sans licenses
PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 2
NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts
'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon
Off-Prem11 Feb 2025 | 38
Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build
Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age
AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 4
Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet
Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear
Science06 Feb 2025 | 9
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