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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

Deploying disaster-proof apps may be easier than you think

Interview When the next cloud datacenter fails, will your software go with it?

PaaS + IaaS22 Jul 2022 | 12

Microsoft closes unfilled job openings in cloud and security

Despite growth and strong demand in these areas, Redmond keeps trimming investment

PaaS + IaaS21 Jul 2022 | 2

Microsoft previews next Azure Stack HCI release

Also: Marketplace and Remote Support, for when you'd like an engineer to peer at your infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS21 Jul 2022 |

Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud

Larry gets your database, while Satya will take your apps

PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 15

Microsoft harnesses third-gen AMD Epyc processors for locked-down VMs

Blockchain-based Azure Confidential Ledger rounds out latest additions to confidential computing

PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 2

Microsoft floats Cloud for Sovereignty

More transparency or just the cost of doing business? For customers whose data must remain

PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 4

Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace

Comment Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch

PaaS + IaaS14 Jul 2022 |

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 3

OpenShift engineering guru Matt Hicks becomes Red Hat's CEO

Cormier moves into chairman seat after over 2 years of giving 'em RHEL

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 2

Oracle planning sovereign cloud regions for the EU

Specialized infrastructure for the political bloc will help users deal with GDPR data laws

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 5

Will CXL spell the end for boutique composable infrastructure vendors?

Regardless, we're looking forward to a shake-up in server architecture

PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2022 | 4

AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis

They're cheaper than cloudy x86 Apples, but not entirely tempting

PaaS + IaaS08 Jul 2022 | 3

Microsoft cloud exec accused of verbal attack on staff exits

Tom Keane helped Redmond win JEDI deal, respond to GDPR, and ran Azure datacenter infrastructure worldwide

PaaS + IaaS07 Jul 2022 | 28

Supply chain blamed amid claims of Azure capacity issues

Microsoft says it'll move to 'restrict trials and internal workloads to prioritize growth of existing customers'

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 37

Alibaba joins rivals in offering tool for those under pressure to reduce carbon emissions

Microsoft, Amazon and Google all have products showing the damage you do and now so does Softbank offshoot

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 4

UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England

NHS App role expanded following perceived COVID-era success

PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2022 | 62

Welsh council extends contract for Oracle EBS 12.1 as it waits for Fusion

Delays risk accounting and government compliance, documents reveal

PaaS + IaaS29 Jun 2022 | 1

IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch this week

It’s not IaaS, it's reserved for test and dev – and will feed the golden goose that is the z/OS ecosystem

PaaS + IaaS29 Jun 2022 | 8

Oracle lands London council deal for £12m ERP project

Evosys bags £2m in bid to replace SAP at Borough of Waltham Forest

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 4

Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive

Opinion Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 23

Small in Japan: Hitachi creates its own (modest) cloud

Updated VMware-powered sovereign cloud not going to challenge hyperscalers, and won't be repeated beyond Japan

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 1

ZTE intros 'cloud laptop' that draws just five watts of power

The catch: It hooks up to desktop-as-a-service and runs Android – so while it looks like a laptop ...

PaaS + IaaS24 Jun 2022 | 30

HashiCorp tool sniffs out configuration drift

HashiConf OK, which of those engineers tweaked the settings? When infrastructure shifts away from state defined by original code

PaaS + IaaS21 Jun 2022 | 3

D-Wave opens up access to small-scale Advantage2 quantum computer

Via a cloud subscription, natch – this is the 2020s

PaaS + IaaS16 Jun 2022 | 5

OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects

OpenInfra Berlin Notes rise of 'pay to play' where companies try to buy way into governance – and says this is not that

PaaS + IaaS14 Jun 2022 |

Governments opt for XaaS, dump datacenters in droves

Outsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner

PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2022 | 4

Google's Dallas datacenter opens up new cloud region

Okay Google, rustle me up a Lone Star State virtual machine.

PaaS + IaaS08 Jun 2022 | 2

Digital sovereignty gives European cloud a 'window of opportunity'

OpenInfra Summit And US hyperscalers want to shut it ASAP, we're told

PaaS + IaaS07 Jun 2022 | 2

The Register talks to Microsoft's European cloud rivals about getting a fair deal

What do we want? Open standards, just licensing and a level playing field, say OVHcloud, Scaleway and others

PaaS + IaaS06 Jun 2022 | 14

Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work

Someone got Zuck'd

PaaS + IaaS25 May 2022 | 4

AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production

Just one instance type for now, cheaper than third-gen Xeons and Epycs

PaaS + IaaS24 May 2022 | 12

Google picks business chiefs for European Advisory Board

A sign that the company is taking data sovereignty concerns more seriously

PaaS + IaaS23 May 2022 |

Fastly buys dev platform and web IDE Glitch

Updated CDN biz hopes merger will add a new way to use its edge services

PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |

American Airlines decides to cruise into Azure's cloud

So that's who to blame when its IT crashes, huh?

PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 | 10

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Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year

Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps

Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession

Google wants to copy-paste your mainframe applications into its cloud

Google Cloud to accept cryptocurrencies as payment

Google Cloud is super keen to keep certain customers on pricey Intel VMs

Digital Ocean won't let new customers create resources in four DCs, won't say why

UK launches competition probe into cloud giants in digital services

Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data

You didn't ask for it but Nvidia's gonna get you a metaverse-as-a-service cloud

Oracle floats its HeatWave system into Amazon's cloud

Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned

SoftIron to start selling 'fully turnkey' cloud platform

Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site

Big cloud rivals hit back over Microsoft licensing changes

Ubuntu Linux 18.04 systemd security patch breaks DNS in Microsoft Azure

Official: Arm-based VMs available on Microsoft Azure

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

ServiceNow: Customers 'struggling to understand the value of ELAs', says Gartner

OVH to hike prices, blames 'l'inflation'

Quantum computing startup IonQ lands on Microsoft's Azure

Cloud and datacenters start to feel the slowdown amid spiking energy costs

More datacenters coming to Ireland, despite energy concerns

World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before

AWS still growing amid talk of global economic woes

Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error

Deploying disaster-proof apps may be easier than you think

Microsoft closes unfilled job openings in cloud and security

Microsoft previews next Azure Stack HCI release

Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud

Microsoft harnesses third-gen AMD Epyc processors for locked-down VMs

Microsoft floats Cloud for Sovereignty

Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

OpenShift engineering guru Matt Hicks becomes Red Hat's CEO

Oracle planning sovereign cloud regions for the EU

Will CXL spell the end for boutique composable infrastructure vendors?

AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis

Microsoft cloud exec accused of verbal attack on staff exits

Supply chain blamed amid claims of Azure capacity issues

Alibaba joins rivals in offering tool for those under pressure to reduce carbon emissions

UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England

Welsh council extends contract for Oracle EBS 12.1 as it waits for Fusion

IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch this week

Oracle lands London council deal for £12m ERP project

Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive

Small in Japan: Hitachi creates its own (modest) cloud

ZTE intros 'cloud laptop' that draws just five watts of power

HashiCorp tool sniffs out configuration drift

D-Wave opens up access to small-scale Advantage2 quantum computer

OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects

Governments opt for XaaS, dump datacenters in droves

Google's Dallas datacenter opens up new cloud region

Digital sovereignty gives European cloud a 'window of opportunity'

The Register talks to Microsoft's European cloud rivals about getting a fair deal

Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work

AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production

Google picks business chiefs for European Advisory Board

Fastly buys dev platform and web IDE Glitch

American Airlines decides to cruise into Azure's cloud

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