PaaS + IaaS
Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers
Top three no surprise but users offer some sharp comments
03 Aug 12:08 | 20
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'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google
Fewer and fewer orgs want to run their own data centre
30 Jul 17:16 | 16
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Google picked as yet another 'strategic partner' for SAP's RISE, Microsoft still lingers on the scene
German software giant's relationships are anything but exclusive
30 Jul 15:30 | 1
Comment
AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush
You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using it for some reason
29 Jul 01:11 | 3
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After staring over the precipice once before, Kent County Council considers £500m in outsourcing again
Promise of 'efficiencies' may be appealing to authority facing £100m COVID black hole
26 Jul 10:03 | 14
Updated
Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club
Lower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests
24 Jul 00:07 | 15
Updated
Rackspace literally decimates workforce: One in ten staffers let go this week
85% of those jobs will be rehired, just in cheaper countries
23 Jul 19:55 | 52
Updated
Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it
If you're wondering why some websites disappeared today
22 Jul 17:31 | 37
Opinion
AWS gave Parler a chance, won't say if it talked to NSO before axing spyware biz's backend systems
How do you feel about your cloud now?
21 Jul 06:01 | 56
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Microsoft reveals pay-to-Ping plan for advanced Azure availability testing
Does charging for Ping pong? Maybe not in this case, as Microsoft's plan covers 'Standard Ping tests' that are quite advanced
16 Jul 05:15 | 8
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IBM still spending its way to cloud relevance with BoxBoat buy
New DevOps buy to support OpenShift push
09 Jul 13:44 | 5
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Another JEDI saga that doesn't need a sequel: Oracle petitions Supreme Court over Microsoft Pentagon contract
Big Red and Amazon just can't let $10bn cloud award go
02 Jul 16:00 | 18
Sponsored
Pay as you go for your networking infrastructure? That's a NaaS idea
Just being stable isn’t enough. Here’s how to be predictable and agile
30 Jun 16:00 |
Sponsored
Get a dedicated server in five minutes
Why businesses need clouds with bare-metal systems
29 Jun 07:30 |
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What knocked out Brit cloud slinger Memset for the night? A busted fibre cable upstream of its data centre, apparently
Multi-hour outage and customers left in the dark
22 Jun 15:45 | 14
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Big Tech critic Lina Khan confirmed as FTC chairwoman
Promises to 'safeguard fair competition and protect consumers, workers, and honest businesses ... with vigor'
16 Jun 00:38 | 8
PaaS + IaaS
Would-be AWS bomber pleads guilty, faces 5 to 20 years behind bars for plot to take out government servers
FBI reveals undercover employee sold him fake explosives before arrest
10 Jun 02:05 | 10
PaaS + IaaS
IBM Cloud messes up again: Customers sent same warning email 25 times in 40 minutes
Ironically, they’re all advance notice of maintenance that's promised to improve resilience
02 Jun 23:23 | 3
Analysis
VC's paper claims cost of cloud is twice as much as running on-premises. Let's have a look at that
'You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it' - but others disagree
02 Jun 09:15 | 46
Computex
Nvidia dips its toes into IaaS with subscriptions for DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputers
They’ll be hosted by Equinix, owned by Nv, and include NetApp storage
01 Jun 06:01 | 1
Popular
In brief
Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub
Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more
Offbeat
Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration
Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool
First Look
Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month
We tried 'em on Windows, iOS and Android, and can't say they're very exciting
Security
Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses, plus network backdoors, online censorship
And said entirely with a straight face, too
PaaS + IaaS
Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers
Top three no surprise but users offer some sharp comments
Science
US govt calmly but firmly tells Blue Origin it already has a ride to the Moon's surface with SpaceX, thanks
Hit us up next time you're free, though
Networks
Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Singaporean super-app Grab says 40TB a day
Reports record Q1 sales and advances plans for SPAC-ulative IPO
Personal Tech
'Prophetic' Steve Jobs autograph telling kid to 'go change the world!' among Apple memorabilia at auction
The kid went on to work for IBM. Awks
Science
International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters
540 degrees total, not just 45, NASA tells El Reg
Devops
Stack Overflow survey: Microsoft IDEs dominate, GCP and Azure battle behind AWS
Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure
STORIES
Analysis
AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'
Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills
28 May 10:46 | 85
Build
Azure anywhere: Arc adds App Service, Function apps, Event Grid and more to on-premises Kubernetes
It will even keep working if Microsoft's cloud has an outage, honest
25 May 20:55 | 3
PaaS + IaaS
IaaS is a lousy business, says Chinese web giant Tencent: PaaS and SaaS is how we’ll make money in the cloud
Big buyers understand infrastructure economics – and aren’t afraid to screw down providers' prices
21 May 01:37 |
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Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix
One of these days we'll automate these outage articles with some kind of AI
20 May 16:57 | 29
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IBM Cloud’s biggest region hit by five-hour Severity One brownout
When we logged in for the status report, IBM was touting $25 gift vouchers to customers brave enough to review its cloud
20 May 05:00 | 5
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Microsoft bins Azure Blockchain without explanation, gives users four months to move
Says picking a replacement is your next step. Seriously, that’s Redmond's first piece of advice. Eventually it recommends Quorum
13 May 04:59 | 24
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AWS wins yet another UK public-sector contract – this time to provide £15m health data system for NHS Scotland
Amazon's cloud factory hits £300m under 'One Government' agreement
12 May 08:30 | 10
PaaS + IaaS
There may have been problems with the JEDI deal but you still wouldn't have won, Oracle told by US govt
They were not the cloud we were looking for, says DoD in brief to Supreme Court
06 May 13:31 | 18
PaaS + IaaS
Infrastructure cloud market $11bn higher than a year ago as AWS and Microsoft get fatter and fatter
Two words: Digital transformation. Stop gagging. It's about how we learned to love the cloud
30 Apr 17:46 | 1
PaaS + IaaS
The Fast and the Curious: Safety-conscious Red Hat eyes continuously certified Linux platform for motors
Can open innovation work in the automobile industry?
28 Apr 10:14 | 14
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It doesn't really matter how many of us gripe about Google, nothing can stop it printing billions of dollars
Profit, sales soar as giant seemingly scales beyond our perception of reality and scrutiny of society
27 Apr 23:56 | 10
PaaS + IaaS
UK government resists pressure to hold statutory inquiry into Post Office Horizon scandal
MPs unite behind call to hold those responsible to account, but minister says it would take too long
27 Apr 16:06 | 82
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Pssst! Wanna rent a cheap, off-the-books, third-gen Xeon Scalable? No SLA attached? We know a cloud that can help
A cloud called Azure, which appears to be previewing a Chipzilla special
27 Apr 08:02 | 3
PaaS + IaaS
Big Blue services enjoy a lie-in: IBM cloud gets the Monday blues and its customers won't have been happy either
Myriad major regions affected in latest wobble
26 Apr 12:53 | 8
Update
Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure
Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference
21 Apr 04:46 | 63
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'Unhealthy' Azure Portal instances in UK West take a little lie-down over lunchtime
A brief nap can do wonders when you're under the weather
20 Apr 14:25 | 10
