UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 1
Meeting the migration challenge head on Webinar Moving applications from on-premises to the AWS Cloud calls for the best in infrastructure tools Webinar
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 | 68
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
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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
The right tools for the right job The need for trusted infrastructure when moving applications from on-prem to the AWS Cloud Webinar
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
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Security researchers believe mass exploitation attempts against WS_FTP have begun Early signs emerge after Progress Software said there were no active attempts last week
Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight! Who, me? Tech's second day on the job nearly saw his high-flying career grounded
What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers predict Broadcom's moves Consensus is cuts and spin-offs are coming, whether they'll help is another matter
Now MOVEit maker Progress patches holes in WS_FTP Infosec in brief Plus: Johnson Controls hit by IT 'incident', Exim and Chrome security updates, and more
Yes, Singapore immigration plans to scan your face instead of your passport No, that does not mean you can leave it at home just yet
ASUS's Zenbook S 13 is light, fast, and immediately impressive Desktop Tourism Taiwanese brand is a portability and productivity contender
Lyft driver takes off with cat, global search ensues Updated Ride-share app originally told man they’d charge him $20 for Tux’s return
AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage Interview Security exec Mark Ryland spills the tea on hush-hush threat intel tool
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 | 28
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 | 16
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 | 11
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
Optionality: The key to navigating a multicloud world The public cloud has earned plaudits for agility and innovation. Yet in today’s multicloud world, IT leaders are seeking alternative locations for their software workloads Commissioned
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 | 34
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
Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 15
Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog Ofcom takes quick glance, says: It's off to the CMA with you PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 6
Microsoft drops out of top three for UK software and IT services AWS now biggest supplier in Britain, according to TechMarketView PaaS + IaaS06 Jul 2023 | 8
Two top execs quit Infosys mere months after its president skipped CISO and head of HR depart as services market tightens Channel06 Jul 2023 | 3
Washington plans to block Chinese access to AI cloud services Can't buy advanced GPUs... and might be blocked from renting them soon PaaS + IaaS05 Jul 2023 | 6
IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years Boffins given five months to migrate, with vanilla DaaS suggested as the alternative PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2023 | 7
VMware, AMD, Samsung and RISC-V push for confidential computing standards Working with industry 'critical' for boosting adoption, say chipmakers PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2023 | 7
AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B Still the most profitable arm of Bezos's biz PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
Server shipments fall ... just as AI drives demand for costlier kit Conflicting feedback makes 2023 an especially difficult year to predict PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run Indian firm nabs 10-year contract, taking pensions wins to £1.73B PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 12
IBM bets $4.6 billion that cloud bills and IT sprawl will be enduring problems Acquires Apptio and plans 'virtual command center' for multicloud Off-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 10
Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors UK officials argue NHS patient details will only be available locally PaaS + IaaS23 Jun 2023 | 30
Vultr Cloud Alliance rises to take on cloud Goliaths David's got a marketplace where users can mix and match services PaaS + IaaS22 Jun 2023 | 1
Without competition, TCS wins back UK pensions body in £1.5B mega-deal In what could be a 28-year relationship, UK Nest takes TCS back after sacking off France’s Atos from admin work PaaS + IaaS22 Jun 2023 | 15
Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this? SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22
Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud Updated Fight! Fight! Fight! SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24
Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
Alibaba boss steps down to become boss of Alibaba Cloud Near-flop of China shopping fest suggests cloud and AI are the priority growth engines Off-Prem21 Jun 2023 | 1
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14
Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout' Channel16 Jun 2023 | 70
Amazon isn’t sold on AMD’s tiny Zen 4c cores in manycore Bergamo processors Or Ampere's Arm cores for that matter PaaS + IaaS15 Jun 2023 | 1
AWS experiment with Lambda in cloudless configuration fails to impress Service took a long nap in the notorious EAST-1 region Off-Prem14 Jun 2023 | 9
Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure Telemetry revealed 'anomalous spike in HTTP requests' says post-incident report PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2023 | 6
WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation Opportunistic Atlassian highlights problems in wake of move by Meta, Dell, Google and others Off-Prem12 Jun 2023 | 64
Singapore's government writes a standard for datacenter ops in the tropics Turning up the heat can turn down cooling bills, even as 30°C and 84 percent humidity prevail Off-Prem12 Jun 2023 | 7
Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week 'There's just no substitute for coming together in person' Off-Prem08 Jun 2023 | 84
Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Sweden’s Evroc going full Viking with Euro cloud to raid US providers Ikea just messes up your weekend – this could cause a serious storm PaaS + IaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36
Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 | 1
CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1
Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax' Exclusive Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg Off-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 53
Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click Ingest, integrate... and imprison SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6
Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases PaaS + IaaS31 May 2023 | 11
Top cloud players reject Microsoft's attempt to settle EU licensing complaint Exclusive Offer described by trade group as 'pretty paltry' – it wants more before negotiations begin PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 17