Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point' PaaS + IaaS22 Feb 2023 | 75
Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2023 | 2
DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff Exclusive The layoffs will continue until morale improves PaaS + IaaS15 Feb 2023 | 19
Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7
Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 1
Euronext says non, nein to US cloud providers services as rivals sign up Data sovereignty and compliance gives CEO pause for thought as Deutsche Börse AG jumps in bed with Google PaaS + IaaS10 Feb 2023 | 6
Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google? As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13
VMwhat? Dell snaps up Cloudify for multi-cloud orchestration Intriguing move – just look at the software companies it has ditched... PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 |
Broadcom's $61b VMWare merger faces another hurdle: UK's competition watchdog Nobody expects the British Inquisition. (Except everybody. Everybody expected it) PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2023 | 5
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29
Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality Bit factory giants see sales slimming in economically challenged times, party still far from over PaaS + IaaS19 Jan 2023 | 27
Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15
NHS England Palantir contract extension could result in further legal threats After promising to return Covid-era data to NHS, UK govt ploughs on with extension, expansion PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 35
Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO It doesn't work for SAP and Salesforce but does work for Workday. For now PaaS + IaaS21 Dec 2022 | 2
AWS wins 5-year, $700m+ contract for cloud services to US Navy Much money for Amazon, that is. Bezos heads to dockside after doomed JEDI deal PaaS + IaaS20 Dec 2022 | 3
Microsoft to buy 4% of London Stock Exchange in 10-year platform deal US tech giant's data analytics and cloud products for a slice of Brit market action PaaS + IaaS12 Dec 2022 | 30
Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7
Cloud customers are wasting money by overprovisioning resources And all that energy feeding those humming servers isn't free either PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2022 | 7
AWS opens up preview access to instances run on Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 |
AWS intros homebrew Graviton CPU tuned for HPC, network stack tuned to updated Nitro system 'Scalable Reliable Datagram' uses multi-path topography to smoke TCP PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 | 1
AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030 That basically means more H2O returned to the environment than is supplied PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2022 | 25
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win' PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 57
Google and Microsoft add more renewable energy for datacenters Both announce green power purchase agreements for UK and Irish DCs as European worries over power continue PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2022 | 11
University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures PaaS + IaaS23 Nov 2022 | 47
Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 2
AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 4
NHS tech chief dismisses concerns over loss of statutory power to protect patient data Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2022 | 37
Microsoft gives away '$400m in cloud support' to Ukraine Freedom isn't free PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 12
Alibaba Cloud plans for a fifth of its servers to use homebrew Arm CPUs by 2025 Sanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 4
Google, Oracle’s Ampere VMs get Arm’s SystemReady seal of approval So that means everything just works now, right? PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 |
The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale Comment You're paying too much for too much, and the providers know it PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 | 76
Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11
Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41
UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 10
Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34
Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7
Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending' PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 12
Google wants to copy-paste your mainframe applications into its cloud GCN Preview service claims to eliminate risks of migrating mission-critical workloads PaaS + IaaS12 Oct 2022 | 5
Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment GCN Plus: AI services, security tools and more from Google Cloud Next this week PaaS + IaaS11 Oct 2022 | 11
Google Cloud is super keen to keep certain customers on pricey Intel VMs Unless your app really needs AVX 512, AMD and Ampere's cores may be a cheaper, better bet PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 6
Digital Ocean won't let new customers create resources in four DCs, won't say why Can't even spin up the compute necessary to reply PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 14
UK launches competition probe into cloud giants in digital services All right, what's all this, then? Three of you, are there? PaaS + IaaS22 Sep 2022 | 9
Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data chmod a+rw at hyperscale PaaS + IaaS21 Sep 2022 | 5
You didn't ask for it but Nvidia's gonna get you a metaverse-as-a-service cloud GTC Sorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2022 | 4
Oracle floats its HeatWave system into Amazon's cloud Avoiding data movement saves $$$ but rivals have own approaches to doing analytics, transactions on same data PaaS + IaaS13 Sep 2022 | 1
Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned Anyone fancy renting some office space? PaaS + IaaS08 Sep 2022 | 2
SoftIron to start selling 'fully turnkey' cloud platform Hypercloud will be facing some stiff competition in the hyperconverged infrastructure space, say analysts PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2022 |
Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site Escalation of targeted threats is an 'emergency' that required 'dangerous' decision 'we are not comfortable with,' says CEO PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2022 | 156
Big cloud rivals hit back over Microsoft licensing changes Customers should be able to 'move freely' says Google cloud veep as AWS brands move 'unfair' PaaS + IaaS31 Aug 2022 | 25
Ubuntu Linux 18.04 systemd security patch breaks DNS in Microsoft Azure Snafu disrupts VMs as cloud giant offers workarounds PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2022 | 44
Official: Arm-based VMs available on Microsoft Azure Going live in 10 regions, running Ampere Altra silicon PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2022 | 4
UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008 PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2022 | 24
ServiceNow: Customers 'struggling to understand the value of ELAs', says Gartner Updated Enterprise agreements can increase pricing, marring an overall positive assessment from the analyst PaaS + IaaS24 Aug 2022 | 11
OVH to hike prices, blames 'l'inflation' Energy costs are up 40 percent and OVH isn't going to eat that without sharing some pain PaaS + IaaS23 Aug 2022 | 29
Quantum computing startup IonQ lands on Microsoft's Azure Yep, that’s the same company a short-seller is alleging is a ‘useless toy’ PaaS + IaaS18 Aug 2022 | 3
Cloud and datacenters start to feel the slowdown amid spiking energy costs While enterprises are spending more on infrastructure than ever before, what goes up must come down PaaS + IaaS17 Aug 2022 | 5
More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns South Dublin County Council ban on buildouts set to be overturned by government PaaS + IaaS15 Aug 2022 | 34
World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2022 | 3
AWS still growing amid talk of global economic woes No stopping the cloud computing division but losses mount on retail side as consumers catch a cold PaaS + IaaS29 Jul 2022 |
Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer) PaaS + IaaS25 Jul 2022 | 5