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
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In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50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
America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside Opinion The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot
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
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