Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture
Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned
PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 1
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Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite
Updated Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers
PaaS + IaaS09 Feb 2026 | 8
Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern
Interview Businesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems
PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2026 | 2
UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog
37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility
On-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 37
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech
Software04 Feb 2026 | 150
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking
Exclusive Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech
PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2026 | 22
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out
PaaS + IaaS04 Feb 2026 | 1
Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years
E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in
PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2026 | 20
Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services
Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform
PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2026 | 25
Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US
Governments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructure
On-Prem03 Feb 2026 | 75
Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please
Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks
On-Prem30 Jan 2026 | 27
If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this
Opinion It's not your fault
PaaS + IaaS29 Jan 2026 | 95
Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week
But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud
PaaS + IaaS28 Jan 2026 | 7
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden
Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time
AI + ML28 Jan 2026 | 6
AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen
The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it
PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2026 | 40
Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy
Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations
PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2026 | 14
Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra
Down to 364.5 already: Redmond's crappy 2026 continues
PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2026 | 66
Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor
GSA trumpets 64% discounts on Broadcom's VMware portfolio, core vSphere platform mysteriously absent from agreement
PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2026 | 7
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings
AI + ML20 Jan 2026 | 79
England's Department of Health and Social Care offering £285k for new tech director
Fancy it? As national health tech boss, you'd be one of the highest paid in the team
Public Sector20 Jan 2026 | 8
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Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
FOSDEM 2026 One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler
AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers
UK's pay-to-watch license fee gets inflation-linked hike amid funding debate
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
FOSDEM 2026 Security devs forced to hide Boolean logic from overeager optimizer
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
By default, the bot listens on all network interfaces, and many users never change it
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon
Systems Approach Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
Who, Me? You can fix all sorts of things with a paperclip, but not gullibility
Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise
Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adult
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere
Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt
Chaos-inciting fake news right this way
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Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack
Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that
Software19 Jan 2026 | 127
Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die
ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment
Software15 Jan 2026 | 2
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands
PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2026 | 79
Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar
Analysts say cheap energy and storage make sense for bit barns despite policy headwinds
On-Prem13 Jan 2026 | 45
2026 brings a bumper crop of Microsoft tech funerals
A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins
Software12 Jan 2026 | 9
Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals
New nuclear capacity won’t show up until around 2030
PaaS + IaaS09 Jan 2026 | 13
Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins
One wants customers next door, the other wants cheap power
On-Prem08 Jan 2026 | 4
Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025
Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year
On-Prem07 Jan 2026 | 9
UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow
Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure
PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2026 | 77
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter
PaaS + IaaS05 Jan 2026 | 17
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them
US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes
Legal05 Jan 2026 | 33
Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age
Feature Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground
PaaS + IaaS29 Dec 2025 | 60
AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor
VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options
Virtualization24 Dec 2025 | 1
Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming
The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI
PaaS + IaaS23 Dec 2025 | 24
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech
Feature Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty
PaaS + IaaS22 Dec 2025 | 114
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Exclusive Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution
PaaS + IaaS19 Dec 2025 | 76
Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide
Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”
PaaS + IaaS18 Dec 2025 | 10
NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential
Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war
Security17 Dec 2025 | 19
Oracle isn't done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores
Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week
PaaS + IaaS15 Dec 2025 | 4
Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move
Security12 Dec 2025 | 6
Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements
Off-Prem12 Dec 2025 | 10
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial
SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 19
Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion
DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia
Science11 Dec 2025 | 16
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15
DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote
But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for
AWS Re:invent08 Dec 2025 | 3
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact
Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants
Public Sector08 Dec 2025 | 21
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens
Security28 Nov 2025 | 52
Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty
Updated OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access
PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2025 | 90
AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles
60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen
PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2025 | 24
Rent-a-GPU neoclouds need to adapt or die as the AI market evolves
McKinsey points out the quandary facing companies like CoreWeave
PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2025 | 6
Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell
Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake
PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2025 | 43
AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market
Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base
AWS Re:invent20 Nov 2025 | 9
SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script
B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 10
Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown
European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act
AWS Re:invent18 Nov 2025 | 4
Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit
Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out
PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 17
Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap
Brussels reviewing proposal as Mountain View insists it will appeal antitrust ruling
PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 1
Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants
Getting by with a meager $2 billion quarterly capex – vastly less than rivals, but still cashing in on AI
PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2025 | 4
Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving
Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’
Security14 Nov 2025 | 32
Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud
Majority of customers plan to favor domestic providers as sovereignty fears rise
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 13
Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them
Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 15
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan
'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Databases12 Nov 2025 | 54
EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'
Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations
Legal11 Nov 2025 | 38
Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!
Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU
PaaS + IaaS07 Nov 2025 | 47
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
PaaS + IaaS06 Nov 2025 | 29
Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'
Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs
PaaS + IaaS05 Nov 2025 | 21
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'
Off-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 55
Alaska Air phones a friend to find out what caused massive October outage
Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure
PaaS + IaaS03 Nov 2025 | 13
Resilience, not sovereignty, defines OpenStack's next chapter
OpenInfra Summit Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives
PaaS + IaaS31 Oct 2025 |
Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe
Time to put eggs in more than one basket?
PaaS + IaaS30 Oct 2025 | 66
Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown
Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services
PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 35
UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity
60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds
PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 17
UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO
Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess
Public Sector29 Oct 2025 | 58
Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted
UPDATED Internal dependencies again prove problematic
Off-Prem29 Oct 2025 | 51
Cloudflare Q3 report shows the internet still breaks for the strangest reasons
From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity
Networks28 Oct 2025 | 4
Amazon axes 14,000 desk jobs in AI-powered slimming plan
Layoffs are part of an efficiency drive, not a sign of struggle, says HR exec
AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 36
UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B
Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope
Public Sector28 Oct 2025 | 10
Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks they’ll run in
House of the Snapdragon promises – without much detail – this kit will enable coolly efficient inferencing
The Future of the Datacenter28 Oct 2025 | 1
Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice'
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 33
EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants
Brussels' framework muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 11
Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong
Column AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 56
The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse
Opinion When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 27
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours
PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2025 | 115
With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator
We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys
Off-Prem23 Oct 2025 | 20
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue
PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2025 | 28
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists
Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2025 | 148
Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2025 | 188
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Amazon reports DNS issues hitting DynamoDB, leaving services from Roblox to McDonald's struggling
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2025 | 223
Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit
NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype
PaaS + IaaS17 Oct 2025 | 3
Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America
Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption
PaaS + IaaS10 Oct 2025 | 19
Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike
Exclusive Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair
PaaS + IaaS02 Oct 2025 | 7
Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures
Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining
Software02 Oct 2025 | 52
OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions
Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt
PaaS + IaaS01 Oct 2025 |
Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up
Analysis Chinese giant maps out datacenters across Europe and beyond, yet US chip curbs cast a long shadow
AI + ML27 Sep 2025 | 1
Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later
Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in
Software25 Sep 2025 | 11
Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble
Ballooning leverage and shaky customer funding could strain Big Red's balance sheet
PaaS + IaaS25 Sep 2025 | 17
US Navy: I can't quit you, Azure
AWS, Google, and Oracle admitted they can't support current setup
PaaS + IaaS24 Sep 2025 | 33
Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump
President to announce details on Big Red’s storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week
PaaS + IaaS23 Sep 2025 | 19
Moody's raises Big Red flag over Oracle's AI datacenter buildout blueprint
Ratings agency points out there's a risk of relying on a small number of buyers
AI + ML22 Sep 2025 | 6
UK telco Colt’s recovery from August cyberattack pushes into November
Pentesters confirm key system is safe but core products remain unavailable
Cyber-crime17 Sep 2025 | 3
Users in SAP's heartland call for greater license transparency
DSAG players grappling with cloud migration want more consistency with commercial models
PaaS + IaaS16 Sep 2025 |
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