Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4
Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3
Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13
40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13
Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23
Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble Paytm's bank has been locked out, edtech darling Byju's faces bankruptcy PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2024 | 18
Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex Microsoft named – again – by EU trade groups seeking to level the playing field PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2024 | 11
IBM Cloud is upgrading a datacenter and users will have to halt their Power VMs Big Blue will move two VMs in each five-hour window offered to those willing to stay PaaS + IaaS25 Jan 2024 | 8
Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2024 | 3
Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |
Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure PaaS + IaaS16 Jan 2024 | 17
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7
Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP Analysis Hint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2024 | 16
Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss Interview How the hyperscalers derailed Europe's cloud infrastructure train PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2024 | 11
Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 11
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8
Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027 PaaS + IaaS06 Dec 2023 | 43
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 23
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers
The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready? Microsoft prepares to replace an old faithful with something shiny, new, and lacking key features. Sound familiar?
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club Patch Tuesday Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets
Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations Exclusive Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives
Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months 27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup
Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC Opinion Language models are entirely happy on the desktop
Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 40
Civo CEO on free credits, egress fees, and hauling it all back on-prem Interview And why the UK cloud industry can't ape the energy sector and make it easier to swap suppliers PaaS + IaaS17 Nov 2023 | 9
Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2
Motives of multi-cloud users? Compliance and dodging vendor lock-in top the list Reasons less technical than you'd think as research respondents cite EU's DORA rules PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2023 | 1
European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2023 | 15
AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2023 | 2
AWS says it wants in on the European sovereign cloud game Appealing to growing crowd that wants data outside US jurisdiction PaaS + IaaS25 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16
Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair Opinion All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2023 | 9
Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive We hope cloud storage service is ready for this web wingman PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 49
Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 5
UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5
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
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
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
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
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 | 12
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
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 | 35
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong Updated Borked SANs, not a security SNAFU, identified as the cause. Services are back, but Linux VMs must reboot PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 23
Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate PaaS + IaaS19 May 2023 | 1
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month Updated Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises PaaS + IaaS18 May 2023 | 52
EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13
Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising Wait... what? PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 24
Uncle Sam mulls dumping monolithic software stacks for modular blocks Anyone else heard of these microservices? PaaS + IaaS08 May 2023 | 11
Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid CxO03 May 2023 | 43
Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment 'It is a tough day across our organization,' says memo from AWS boss PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 10
Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 8
Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 | 9
China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 |
Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond CxO25 Apr 2023 | 97
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9
UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle Vows to regroup and come back stronger after failing in bid Palantir is pipped to win PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2023 | 43
Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines CxO14 Apr 2023 | 28
Salesforce lets go of more of its towering presence in San Francisco Updated Fancy a sublease? Office digs in Silicon Valley hometown hotspot up for grabs PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 4
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government Public Sector12 Apr 2023 | 23
Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA To that we say good luck PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9
Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need PaaS + IaaS20 Mar 2023 | 66
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
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
Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2023 |
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
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
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