Microsoft invites punters to test drive custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU VMs in Azure
Build Subscribers in US, Europe, SEA can take silicon out for a spin for free
PaaS + IaaS22 May 2024 | 2
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IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem
Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years
On-Prem22 May 2024 | 4
CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed
Next Predicts worse to come for customers as he builds AR for slot machines around Nutanix
Virtualization21 May 2024 | 43
Google's €1B Finnish datacenter expansion to heat the local community
AI might take your job, but you'll be toasty warm while you starve
On-Prem21 May 2024 | 19
AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany
It'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local
PaaS + IaaS17 May 2024 | 20
Amazon's latest 'flex' VMs promise savings for your burstiest apps
Updated Sustained workloads need not apply
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2024 | 3
Ellison's exemplar SAP-to-Oracle region rules out ditching Oracle
Largest local authority in Europe expects to go live with re-implementation
PaaS + IaaS14 May 2024 | 23
Once Alibaba’s main investor, SoftBank sheds remaining stake
SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company
PaaS + IaaS14 May 2024 | 1
UniSuper Google Cloud outage caused by an unfortunate series of events
Duplication across geographies no defense against the 'one-of-a-kind' accidental deletion
PaaS + IaaS09 May 2024 | 17
From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC
Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore
PaaS + IaaS09 May 2024 | 1
Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week
That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again
PaaS + IaaS08 May 2024 | 11
VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins
Updated Customers brace for bumpy ride
PaaS + IaaS07 May 2024 | 2
Spanish startups say 'no más' to Microsoft cloud dominance
Updated Group alleges anticompetitive behavior
PaaS + IaaS07 May 2024 | 4
AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service
Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing
PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 | 6
Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21%
Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022
PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 |
Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host
Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs
Off-Prem02 May 2024 | 3
Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
Analysis Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samples
AI + ML01 May 2024 | 42
Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns
Talk about going round the (South) Bend
PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 | 4
Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City
Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison
PaaS + IaaS24 Apr 2024 | 17
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud
But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems
Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road
Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan
Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13
Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix
Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages
Off-Prem17 Apr 2024 | 2
UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch
Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15
GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes
And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way
Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15
Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?
£75 million in the offing in government tender
PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2024 | 109
US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss
It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts
PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2024 | 4
Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing
Cloud Next We're on a highway to ML
PaaS + IaaS09 Apr 2024 | 6
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips
Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year
Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
What happened to agility and new business models? Cloud benefits have all gone to IT
Orgs are missing a trick when it comes to the white fluffy stuff, survey says
PaaS + IaaS08 Apr 2024 | 30
Lambda borrows half a billion bucks to grow its GPU cloud
Will buy tens of thousands of Nvidia's prized accelerators, which will be collateral for the loan
PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2024 | 8
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in
Exclusive After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position
Public Sector04 Apr 2024 | 99
OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door
'Caracal' improves AI capabilities and is pitched as an alternative to VMware
Software04 Apr 2024 | 3
AWS severs connection with several hundred staff
'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately
PaaS + IaaS03 Apr 2024 | 13
French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies
Action gathers steam in the EU, US and UK as anti-trust teams collate market feedback
PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2024 | 6
Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion'
Updated We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us
PaaS + IaaS28 Mar 2024 | 27
Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon
Looking for feedback before pressing the production button
PaaS + IaaS26 Mar 2024 | 4
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
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
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