PaaS + IaaS
T-Systems and Google Cloud building 'sovereign cloud services' for Germany
Sovereign according to Google's definition, that is
10 Sep 13:01 | 11
PaaS + IaaS
PaaS + IaaS
Canonical scales down Anbox Cloud to an appliance on AWS
How many Android apps can you fit on an EC2 instance?
07 Sep 16:10 |
On Call
Oh! A surprise tour of the data centre! You shouldn't have. No, you really shouldn't have
Getting hot and steamy in London's Docklands
03 Sep 07:38 | 119
Interview
This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained
Plus: We find out why VMware gave up on running Tanzu Application Service on Kubernetes
02 Sep 16:29 |
PaaS + IaaS
IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise
When is a contract not a contract? When it's an incentive plan letter
31 Aug 21:11 | 44
PaaS + IaaS
UK government names suppliers on £3.5bn contact centre, shared services, and outsourcing framework
The usual suspects
26 Aug 08:28 | 20
PaaS + IaaS
UK's Defra dangles £10m as it fishes for help with upgrading Data Services Platform
Suppliers need to support bathing water widgets, among other things
20 Aug 12:58 | 2
PaaS + IaaS
UK's United Utilities water company to splash a possible £270m on analytics, control and monitoring platforms
'Ethical insight and competitive advantage' in the pipes if project goes to plan
13 Aug 13:29 | 4
Updated
Workday makes Google preferred partner for public cloud weeks after demise of Amazon project revealed
SaaSy HR firm gets around a bit
12 Aug 16:37 | 3
PaaS + IaaS
Where's the nearest exit? ServiceNow continues on acquisition spree with interior mapping startup Mapwize
PostgreSQL acceleration outfit Swarm64 also nabbed
12 Aug 13:04 | 2
Webcast
Now that your VMs are in the cloud, the hard stuff starts
Want to rewrite your tech future? Chapter 2 starts here
12 Aug 07:30 |
PaaS + IaaS
Looks like NSA now stands for Not Selecting Azure: US spy agency picks AWS over Microsoft
Déjà vu time as $10bn contract award attracts the inevitable bid protest
11 Aug 17:07 | 13
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
PaaS + IaaS
'$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 | 18
PaaS + IaaS
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
PaaS + IaaS
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
Popular
Science
Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter
In terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine
Updated
Apple emergency patches fix zero-click iMessage bug used to inject NSO spyware
Separate flaw in WebKit also under attack squashed, too – and two zero-days in Chrome, as well
Security
ExpressVPN bought for $1bn by Brit biz with an intriguing history in adware
'Kape has moved on from those times'
Software
Java 17 arrives with long-term support: What's new, and is it falling behind Kotlin?
Text blocks, sealed classes, switch expressions, records, and more
Security
How a glitch in the Matrix led to apps potentially exposing encrypted chats
Forget Agent Smith, we want to see Neo fighting implementation bugs
Legal
Australia gave police power to compel sysadmins into assisting account takeovers – so they plan to use it
Soon, authorities intend to flush out CSAM and the creeps who share it. After that … privacy types are worried
Patch Tuesday
Microsoft's end-of-summer software security cleanse crushes more than 80 bugs
Hole in Azure Linux guest agent, MSHTML exploit tackled, and much more – Plus: Adobe and SAP issue updates
Personal Tech
Apple debuts iPhone 13 with 1TB option, two iPad models, Series 7 Watch
Come for superlatives and executive enthusiasm, stay for the photographic enhancements
Security
Brits open doors for tech-enabled fraudsters because they 'don't want to seem rude'
Impersonation scams and smishing rocket, say UK Finance and Which?
Bootnotes
NYC subway SNAFU probably caused by someone turning it off accidentally, say reports
OK, so you're halfway there. Now have you tried switching the network back on again?
STORIES
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
PaaS + IaaS
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
PaaS + IaaS
IBM still spending its way to cloud relevance with BoxBoat buy
New DevOps buy to support OpenShift push
09 Jul 13:44 | 5
PaaS + IaaS
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 |
Updated
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
PaaS + IaaS
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
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 |
Updated
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
