SaaS
Adobe shareholders sign-off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise
Once again, the cloud makes it rain
22 Apr 17:00 | 1
SaaS
SaaS
Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller
Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021
21 Apr 10:30 | 5
Exclusive
Element rolls out bridge for Microsoft Teams to cross into Matrix's encrypted comms land
For a small fee, of course – and no video or voice yet
14 Apr 11:30 | 1
SaaS
State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade
It takes two to tango, says SaaS vendor
14 Apr 10:49 | 21
SaaS
Salesforce's get-back-to-work strategy starts with 'Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts' on designated floors
Sounds kind of like a vaccination passport for California offices
13 Apr 12:32 | 12
SaaS
State of Iowa approves $17m in budget for Workday project after bid to use coronavirus relief funds was denied
Questions raised about procurement process but, gosh, they badly need a replacement HR system
09 Apr 19:52 | 5
SaaS
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce
09 Apr 02:54 | 16
SaaS
Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'
'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising
08 Apr 15:09 | 30
SaaS
UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running
Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'
08 Apr 08:29 | 9
SaaS
AWS straps Python support to its automated CodeGuru tool, slashes prices – just don't go over 100,000 lines
Or the cost triples, which is one way to encourage concise programming
07 Apr 19:06 | 9
SaaS
Think tank report names and shames 'stakeholder capitalist' Salesforce for paying no corporate income tax in the US
'Improving the state of the world'... by not paying the government
06 Apr 18:58 | 36
Updated
If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage
It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS
01 Apr 22:58 | 37
SaaS
State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation
Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement'
31 Mar 14:05 | 40
SaaS
Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media'
Cloud giant manages to dismiss only part of lawsuit brought against it
26 Mar 21:46 | 19
SaaS
Microsoft 365 tries again at filtering swearing, bad behavior: Classifiers for seven languages offered
Meanwhile, Outlook on Windows gets magical email completion powers
26 Mar 03:58 | 64
Updated
Can you imagine Slack letting people DM strangers in another org? Think of the abuse. Oh wait, it did do that
Chat app that was supposed to save us from unsolicited email warms to unsolicited messaging. Now it's kinda walked that back
24 Mar 19:58 | 19
SaaS
Workday bets big on staff coming back to the office by splurging $172.5m on HQ and five more Bay Area buildings
This from the CEO who says 'five days is too much family time'
24 Mar 13:47 | 18
Updated
Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services
Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond
23 Mar 10:15 | 4
SaaS
SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses
Python still welcome, though
18 Mar 04:58 | 33
SaaS
Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API
Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you
17 Mar 23:58 | 9
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Updated
University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired
'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman
Science
China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft
Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress
PaaS + IaaS
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
Personal Tech
We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple
Is there a back button for reality?
Science
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world
Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed
Devops
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'
CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack
Security
China broke into govt, defense, finance networks via zero-day in Pulse Secure VPN gateways? No way
Crucial flaw won't be fixed until next month
Security
UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch
IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream
Updated
Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file
More a declaration of war than turning the tables
Offbeat
Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity
The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set
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Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed
Redmond says gremlin identified tho rollback is taking longer than expected
15 Mar 21:19 | 77
Video
Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie
Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other
13 Mar 01:04 | 39
SaaS
Dropbox absorbs DocSend to add analytics, secure links to document sharing
Cloud biz pays $165m to create full file workflow system
09 Mar 20:52 | 3
SaaS
Spotted in the wild: Rare Microsoft 365 price cut for frontline workers
There are caveats but deal perfect for the ten Surface Go users out there
09 Mar 20:01 | 3
SaaS
State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns
Also: SaaS provider completes acquisition of employee feedback platform Peakon
09 Mar 16:36 | 14
SaaS
Customer comment and contributions no more as Microsoft pulls the plug on Office 365 UserVoice forum
No obvious replacement yet either
08 Mar 17:02 | 35
Covid Logfile
Remember that day in 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – by tomorrow?
IT pros from orgs large and small tell The Reg the tech delivered, mostly, tho couriers, home Wi-Fi suddenly became their problem
08 Mar 11:46 | 84
SaaS
SAP tells investors it plans to make €5bn RISE up into its clouds with lift and shift push
You may be interested in tech, but backers want to know about revenue 'multipliers'
02 Mar 15:32 | 4
SaaS
Chin up, weary key workers: Google's pushing out a Workspace for frontliners
But the Chocolate Factory has workers' privacy at heart. No, really
01 Mar 19:15 | 8
SaaS
Rude awakening for SaaS giants Salesforce, Workday as both find 20% growth isn't good enough for market
Yeah, you did great, but you should have done better
26 Feb 16:18 | 7
SaaS
Digital trust-busting time? US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook
Remedies to gatekeepers range from nothing to an antitrust breakup
25 Feb 22:10 | 16
SaaS
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Microsoft to lure users with industry-specific solutions in the cloud
Redmond taking a leaf out of the enterprise app makers' book
25 Feb 19:24 | 6
SaaS
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you
More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use
25 Feb 17:30 | 29
SaaS
UK minister tries to intervene after Government Digital Service migration mangles Ministry of Justice webpages
Public outcry over access – all because £450m agency doesn't have school-grade web skills
25 Feb 09:02 | 40
OSes
macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs
AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes
24 Feb 07:32 |
SaaS
Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean
Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud
24 Feb 04:58 |
Updated
UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift
Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs
23 Feb 12:29 | 27
Sponsored
El Monumental changes to bring joy to thousands of Argentinean football fans
Huawei's CloudCampus 2.0 injects new life into iconic stadium
22 Feb 22:30 |
