Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off Channel16 Mar 2023 | 2
Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29
Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud ‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’ Off-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 37
Chinese biz banned from buying US tech rent it instead Clouds reportedly offering surprisingly cheap access to blockaded comrades PaaS + IaaS10 Mar 2023 | 7
Microsoft wants you to build quantum apps in Azure, the cloud that's both up and down Oh, and pay boatloads for the privilege PaaS + IaaS09 Mar 2023 | 9
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
WFH? Google Cloud's offices like a 'ghost town' before new policy Desk-sharing scheme adds more bums on seats, claims CEO PaaS + IaaS07 Mar 2023 | 41
US lobbyists commission report dismissing proposed EU cloud regulations But it has a point about the achievability of goal of '75%' European cloud PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2023 | 20
Hands up anyone happy with Uncle Sam's $50B IT mega-job. Anyone? Record number of gripes from suppliers vying for slice of this procurement pie Off-Prem03 Mar 2023 | 7
Zoom chops president it hired less than a year ago Vid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues Off-Prem03 Mar 2023 | 28
Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2023 |
Zoom: The sound of web chat biz's annual profits nosediving Fiscal 2023 'not without its challenges' as bottom line tumbles 76% Off-Prem28 Feb 2023 | 6
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
Arm has legs: VMware's Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere Customers are keen on the lower cloudy database prices available after dropping x86 PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2023 | 3
Infosys founder slams working from home, side hustles, as slowing India's growth Asia in brief PLUS: Australia to appoint cyber-coordinator; FTX Japan resumes operations; India's PC market bucks trend with growth; and more Off-Prem27 Feb 2023 | 29
HPE drops private 5G into GreenLake by acquiring Athonet Wi-Fi not? It boosts Aruba's portfolio, single wireless nets are a way off, and everything-as-a-service is hot right now Off-Prem24 Feb 2023 |
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
Phở no! Vietnam's last working submarine cable glitches out Five from five take a dive, but connections are still alive Off-Prem23 Feb 2023 | 14
Microsoft signals cloud cash grab is over as it pushes more cost-effective Azure VMs Just as everyone looks to optimize what they spend for computing services Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 2
Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans £1.1M ambition to recruit 10,000 pros 'inadequate' says committee Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 45
Like AirTags, but for cargo: Qualcomm teases SaaSy tracking service There's no way this could be abused, right? Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 2
Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point' PaaS + IaaS22 Feb 2023 | 75
Google's APAC outpost joins the global job cuts club Almost 200 staff let go with emails that landed late at night Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 2
Microsoft's Outlook: Cloudy with a chance of junk-mail-stuffed inboxes Redmond fixed the spam filtering problem, but it was a wild day-long ride for some Off-Prem21 Feb 2023 | 9
Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2023 | 2
DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff Exclusive The layoffs will continue until morale improves PaaS + IaaS15 Feb 2023 | 19
Oracle NetSuite datacenter plunges offline for a day, customers warned of data loss Updated Anything could happen in a half hour Off-Prem15 Feb 2023 | 10
Salesforce woes continue as Twitter slashes spending with SaaS supermonster Performance improvement plans and prompt exit packages in the offing SaaS15 Feb 2023 | 9
Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7
Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 1
Google miscalculates severance payments for some Googlers Double counting share units led to mistake, 'we have corrected' the error, says ad search titan Off-Prem13 Feb 2023 | 6
Euronext says non, nein to US cloud providers services as rivals sign up Data sovereignty and compliance gives CEO pause for thought as Deutsche Börse AG jumps in bed with Google PaaS + IaaS10 Feb 2023 | 6
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp SaaS10 Feb 2023 | 40
Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website – with traffic throttle Updated Those who think Big Tech has its thumb on the scales are going to love this Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 25
The Twitpocalypse may have begun, as datacenter migration reportedly founders Glitches hit Elon’s social media mess, as it announces 4,000-character tweets for paying customers Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 74
Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google? As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13
No, you cannot safely run a network operations center from a corridor On Call Rack full of kit predictably became a network disruption center Off-Prem03 Feb 2023 | 83
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide SaaS02 Feb 2023 | 61
Google opens arms to VMware in the cloud and Microsoft 365 on ChromeOS From the Department of Improbable Alliances Off-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 9
Meta trims datacenter build bills by $4 billion with new 'phased' design Zuck declares 2023 the 'year of efficiency' - code for breaking leases and firing thousands Off-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 6
Microsoft warns some Azure usage notifications – including abnormalities – are broken There's a lot of manual work to do from now to March to make sure you don't break the cloud bank Off-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 13
Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing SaaS provider Workday also among those laying off employees Off-Prem01 Feb 2023 | 39
Microsoft Office 365 Cloud has a secret lining Hardened versions of apps and services can handle classified information for government Off-Prem31 Jan 2023 | 21
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
VMwhat? Dell snaps up Cloudify for multi-cloud orchestration Intriguing move – just look at the software companies it has ditched... PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 |
Broadcom's $61b VMWare merger faces another hurdle: UK's competition watchdog Nobody expects the British Inquisition. (Except everybody. Everybody expected it) PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 | 5
Tech job bloodbath comes to IBM, CFO links layoffs to Kyndryl, Watson Health Human Capital leaves the building Off-Prem26 Jan 2023 | 20
Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs TCI Fund run by Brit billionaire Chris Hohn also wants ad biz to slash salaries Off-Prem25 Jan 2023 | 53
Google's Pichai tells underlings exec bonuses will be clipped Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts Off-Prem24 Jan 2023 | 12
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29
AWS expands footprint at site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region Virginia welcomes $35 billion investment plan with $140 million grant to help things along Off-Prem23 Jan 2023 | 3
Google dumps 12,000 employees after project probe You can work from home today – to process the news Off-Prem20 Jan 2023 | 55
Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality Bit factory giants see sales slimming in economically challenged times, party still far from over PaaS + IaaS19 Jan 2023 | 27
What's driving multicloud? War, regulation, plague, says Acronis CEO All y'all want data near you, but that doesn't mean you're going back on prem Off-Prem19 Jan 2023 | 2
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 38
I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of COVID, says fired engineer Infrastructure company retorts that it is an 'essential' business and cites lack of medical records Off-Prem17 Jan 2023 | 50
India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings Channel17 Jan 2023 | 3
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further Off-Prem16 Jan 2023 | 99