Dynatrace goes multi-cloud with serverless monitoring Easier observability for when you have eggs in many baskets Off-Prem10 Feb 2022 |
Microsoft adds Azure AD Join to Windows 365 Cloud PC Pick a language, any language (from a list of 38) Off-Prem10 Feb 2022 | 5
Azure Site Recovery points now live for 15 days in case undetonated ransomware lurks Memories are made of this Off-Prem08 Feb 2022 | 3
Do you trust your provider farther than you can throw them? Cloud priorities shifting in post-COVID world – IDC Companies focus on 'broader' ecosystem Off-Prem07 Feb 2022 | 7
Google Cloud takes a gap year. It may come back with very different ideas Opinion Twelve months without refreshment can break an addiction PaaS + IaaS07 Feb 2022 | 12
EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X hands out ID tech contracts Swiss, German and Indian companies ready the blockchain for Self-Sovereign Identity Off-Prem04 Feb 2022 | 12
Cloud spending hit $50bn in Q4 2021 as business recovers Most lucrative quarter ever for compute sellers, say analysts PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2022 |
Amazon stretches working life of its servers an extra year, for AWS and its own ops Updated Cloud colossus accounts for lion's share of Amazonian profits Off-Prem04 Feb 2022 | 44
OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks Open-source, full-stack edge and industrial IoT software moves to Linux kernel 5.10 Edge + IoT03 Feb 2022 | 2
Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal Updated Redmond's quality control shines once more Off-Prem03 Feb 2022 | 53
Grab some tissues: Meta's share price tanks after Facebook emits latest figures Blame it on the metaverse, Apple, TikTok, inflation, and higher data charges in India Off-Prem03 Feb 2022 | 71
Telecoms consulting outfit Sentaca disappears inside IBM's Hybrid Cloud Services Big Blue wants to 'bring edge and 5G to life for enterprises' PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2022 |
Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions Parent company Alphabet hails first year of revenue above $250B PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2022 | 46
Google dips into India Digitization Fund for telco Bharti Airtel Pledges work on 'mutually agreed commercial initiatives' – such as figuring out how to use 5G Off-Prem31 Jan 2022 |
ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion Time to get out ISO 22300:2021, Security and resilience – Vocabulary Off-Prem28 Jan 2022 | 19
Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO Channel28 Jan 2022 | 1
January edition of Azure Sphere OS cancelled after Microsoft actually listens to customer's complaint Wait – is this the same company that gave us Windows? Edge + IoT27 Jan 2022 | 6
ServiceNow CEO says mergers and acquisitions are off the table – too messy It's as if Bill McDermott's SAP tenure never happened SaaS27 Jan 2022 | 11
Regulations and compliance are 'a curate's egg' for digital transformation, say IT pros in finance, telecoms and public sector Hurdle or driver for modernisation? A bit of both, apparently Off-Prem27 Jan 2022 | 7
Shooting for the cloud? Make sure you're squeezing the right trigger Here are the new rules for data centre consolidation Paid Feature
Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job What happened to loosening stranglehold of major tech firms on the public sector? Off-Prem26 Jan 2022 | 25
Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers Large disparities in views from bosses vs workers on 'talent transformation initiatives,' says survey Off-Prem25 Jan 2022 | 26
Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals Channel25 Jan 2022 | 11
Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up Analysis 'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg SaaS22 Jan 2022 | 38
UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses Updated Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2022 | 21
Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee on privacy, data sharing, and the web's future 'Ensure that code you write works with these open standards' Off-Prem20 Jan 2022 | 31
Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee Updated Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away SaaS20 Jan 2022 | 109
Indian IT services biz HCL sees boom in business – and staff attrition Company pauses bonus clawbacks amid controversies and drop in share price Off-Prem18 Jan 2022 | 1
Cloud spending back to business as usual at end of 2021: Slight slowdown was a blip due to overprovisioning IDC figures suggest providers had extra inventory to shift after pandemic panic PaaS + IaaS17 Jan 2022 |
Email blocklisting: A Christmas gift from Microsoft that Linode can't seem to return Sorry, that IP address is on the naughty step Off-Prem17 Jan 2022 | 80
Edge computing set for growth – that is, when we can agree what it is Analyst predicts double-digit percentage uptick in '22 Edge + IoT17 Jan 2022 | 13
Google splurging cash on UK offices to lure staffers back from the kitchen table Covered outdoor workspaces can be so... bracing Off-Prem14 Jan 2022 | 30
Wipro, Infosys and TCS feel pain of staff attrition as the Great Resignation continues Indian IT consultancies say biz is booming as more customers consider cloud Off-Prem13 Jan 2022 | 7
Insurance giant Lloyd's hires DXC to migrate org off legacy mainframes to AWS cloud 300-year-old institution to be dragged into the 21st century Off-Prem13 Jan 2022 | 29
Pony Ma tells employees Tencent is ordinary and replaceable in company meeting The golden days of unbridled growth in Chinese tech companies is over Off-Prem13 Jan 2022 | 16
Microsoft tweaks Teams and Viva to help bridge gap between frontline workers and their managers, among other things Want a pay rise and paid leave? Can't help you there. Need better workplace tech? Walk this way... Off-Prem12 Jan 2022 | 21
UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2022 | 17
French tech giant Atos issues second profit warning in 7 months Week 2 for new CEO, forced to report sliding sales, delayed projects to investors PaaS + IaaS10 Jan 2022 | 3
How's 2022 going for you so far? Hopefully better than it is for IBM Cloud Christmas is gone and so, it seems, was a chunk of Big Blue's services this morning Off-Prem06 Jan 2022 | 11
Planning on buying a new motor? Chip shortages set to hit UK carmakers this year and next Here in my car, I feel safest of all... Edge + IoT06 Jan 2022 | 13
Tencent unexpectedly offloads stake in fellow Chinese giant JD.com Surprise dividend for shareholders may also yield approval from monopoly-wary Beijing Off-Prem23 Dec 2021 | 3
AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances Some servers and EBS volumes won’t make it back PaaS + IaaS22 Dec 2021 | 67
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage Alternative route will skip the Suez Canal and other tricky spots Off-Prem21 Dec 2021 | 58
Nottingham University awards cloud finance and HR deal in £29.75m deal 2.5 years after Unit4 upgrade Updated Meanwhile, search for service partner stalls after early engagement over possible £80m contract PaaS + IaaS21 Dec 2021 | 14
TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings Other Chinese properties also doing very well Off-Prem21 Dec 2021 | 8
Sage to acquire remaining stake in ecommerce platform Brightpearl for £225m Plans afoot to integrate financial management with retail SaaS20 Dec 2021 | 5
Veeam to productise in-house Salesforce backup tools - private beta already under way Major update has passed quality control and will catch up to platform and app updates Off-Prem20 Dec 2021 |
US Government Accountability Office explains why it sustained Microsoft's protests over $10bn NSA contract Not so much JEDI lightsabers, more magic WANDS Off-Prem15 Dec 2021 | 6
Oh no, here we go again, groans the internet as AWS runs into IT problems. Briefly this time If you're wondering why you couldn't access a website, app, or service for about 30 minutes today, this may be it PaaS + IaaS15 Dec 2021 | 7
Study says SEC 10-K not fit for purpose when it comes to Big Tech, and the companies are using that to their advantage Regulatory body needs method to account for business models that monetize free services Off-Prem14 Dec 2021 | 9
West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product SaaS14 Dec 2021 | 22
AWS flicks the switch on an Indonesian region Does the cloud belong in a city that's literally sinking? Rent some servers and find out Off-Prem14 Dec 2021 | 1
HCL accused of wage theft, underpaying H-1B workers by at least $95m a year US think tank reckons services giant abuses spirit of skilled migrant system Off-Prem14 Dec 2021 | 13
AWS postmortem: Internal ops teams' own monitoring tools went down, had to comb through logs OK, it wasn't DNS, but it was hanging around the scene looking shifty PaaS + IaaS13 Dec 2021 | 11
ZOE COVID Study app starts the week with a lockdown of its own Symptom tracker suffers Monday morning borkage Off-Prem13 Dec 2021 | 9
Better CEO is 'taking time off' after firing 900 staff on Zoom CFO now ruling the roost as mortgage biz reportedly delays SPAC sale Off-Prem10 Dec 2021 | 44
Cloud darling Hashicorp's IPO raises $1.22bn amid modest gains from a $80 start Not great, not terrible Off-Prem10 Dec 2021 | 4
WTF is a 'software-defined community cloud'? Basically a slice of public cloud with better isolation and governance – just like our cloud, says Google Off-Prem10 Dec 2021 | 5
The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed Re:invent Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more PaaS + IaaS09 Dec 2021 | 3
Big Tech's private networks and protocols threaten the 'net, say internet registries APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking Off-Prem09 Dec 2021 | 5