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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 | 10

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

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

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

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 | 43

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hubble Space Telescope sails serenely on in safe mode after efforts to switch to backup memory modules fail

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin

Let's just check BTC-USD, oh yeah, waaay down

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

From point release to pointless release

Register Debate

VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come

No more managing operating systems and monolithic apps? Where do I sign!

US Air Force announces plan to assassinate molluscs with hypersonic missile

No word on whether top brass considered just shelling them into submission

Updating in production, like a boss

The pain in Spain comes mainly from a lack of training

Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated

Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors

South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group

Think tank says inconsistencies in story were not a cover-up — just a mistake from “working-level staff”

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign

Memory is not the only thing leaking from Windows

'Lots of failed startups came out of Campus': Google axes London hub because startup scene 'doesn't need' another 7 floors of workspace

It needs 'resources, mentors, and programs ... at scale, anywhere'

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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

With the cloud, letting your emotions run over may mean the costs do too

Time to take things cool and slow

'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

Vintage? Good for vinyl records, bad for systems of record

Emulation could make more sense than migration. Here’s why…

KPMG wins Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council's £18m everything-and-the-kitchen-sink IT deal

From org design to developing operations, consulting-outsourcing giant carries the can

09 Apr 15:00 | 8

Oracle dangles new cloud lift-and-shift service in the wake of SAP RISE

It's all about driving down costs on OCI... so it can compete with AWS, claims analyst

31 Mar 17:32 | 1

Cloudflare reheats network-as-a-service buffet with WAN plan

Try, try, try to understand, it's a Magic WAN

22 Mar 13:15 | 2

Cloud builders hoover up 60% of ALL servers sold in 2020 as enterprise bit barns left to sweat

Are we at the tipping point? Does anyone care?

19 Mar 17:11 | 2

Informatica hopes to unclog your data pipelines with help from Nvidia in accelerating Spark-based ML operations

Any significant improvement in processing times will be a boon to productivity, say analysts

AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type

Claims Graviton2 thrashes x86 on price/performance, touts lowest-priced memory on the Amazonian cloud

17 Mar 06:01 | 2

Of course Linode would say Linode is a cloud-hosting hotshot, but it also says its AMD hardware beats Intel's

[Insert benchmark disclaimer here] but the tl;dr is 'shop around'

Microsoft goes large with fifth Azure region in China

Will go live in 2022 and ‘effectively double’ capacity in the Middle Kingdom

08 Mar 03:02 | 3

Shelter for internet outcasts Parler slaps Amazon with fresh lawsuit after abandoning first attempt

Far-right sanctuary sues cloud giant for breach of contract after plug pulled on its server hosting

04 Mar 01:55 | 32

Azure and AWS expand their cloudy Asian boot-prints

Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait

IBM Cloud Satellite now available, 'rooted in Red Hat OpenShift,' says CTO

Big Blue extends its cloud to run anywhere – including competing public clouds

01 Mar 15:15 | 3

Red Hat snaps up Kubernetes security specialist StackRox

Onward to OpenShift

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