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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 | 14

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 | 80

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

Yes, you can bring your legacy apps to the cloud, but don’t bring their technical debt, too

Find out how OutSystems and AWS can help you clean up your legacy

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

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Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms

Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

On the other hand he was fine

21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable 'full remote unauthenticated code execution', millions of boxes at risk

Nearly 4 million to be exact, say researchers

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

30% of employees reportedly walked out following sudden rule change

Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500

Which is a lot of money for this crap

Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook claims

Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words

Geek's Guide to Britain

The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different

Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits

Covid Logfile II

Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways

Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic

What not to expect when you're expecting: Fertility apps may be selling intimate health secrets

Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices

Microsoft reassures Teams freebie fans: We're not going to delete all your data, honest

The bug: IF Tier = Free THEN PRINT "Can we offer you an upgrade?"

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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

Upgrade now to avoid a cluster-suck: Microsoft wields the breaking change stick over Azure Service Fabric laggards

Running an unsupported version? Make a move or face possible outage. You have 11 days to comply

08 Jan 13:15 | 9

Two English councils sign up to Azure for six years in £35m reseller deal as ERP project faces delays, ballooning costs

Local authorities' shared Unit4 system is late, overbudget, and only works on Microsoft's cloud

07 Jan 12:30 | 12

Storage on AWS: What's new, is it too complicated? Can it help defend against ransomware?

Just after re:Invent, we talk with storage VP Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about the intricacies and future of the AWS storage platform

06 Jan 10:02 | 7

Nutanix, VMware are fighting again – yet it's just a sideshow. Why? Look at the giant predators circling

It won't settle anything in the hybrid cloud market

UK Oracle users are all of us: They care more about Brexit and the pandemic than, say, cloud transitions

On the other hand, they're not going anywhere, so it's win-win for Big Red

07 Dec 10:31 | 4

China's clouds boom but they're collectively earning less than Azure alone

Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier

27 Nov 01:58 | 8

DigitalOcean decides to head rivals off at the PaaS, floats App Platform to deploy, run code without juggling servers

If you fear you'll drown in AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, maybe this is a wave you'd like to catch

07 Oct 12:22 | 3

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