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Can you imagine Slack letting people DM strangers in another org? Think of the abuse. Oh wait, it did do that

Updated Chat app that was supposed to save us from unsolicited email warms to unsolicited messaging. Now it's kinda walked that back

24 Mar 2021 | 19

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 2021 | 18

Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services

Updated Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond

23 Mar 2021 | 4

SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses

Python still welcome, though

18 Mar 2021 | 33

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 2021 | 9

Your customers went digital in 2020. How do you hold onto them in 2021?

Promo Learn how to balance customer experience, transformation, and clients' changing needs

Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed

Updated Redmond says gremlin identified tho rollback is taking longer than expected

15 Mar 2021 | 77

Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie

Video Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other

13 Mar 2021 | 39

Dropbox absorbs DocSend to add analytics, secure links to document sharing

Cloud biz pays $165m to create full file workflow system

09 Mar 2021 | 3

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 2021 | 3

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 2021 | 14

Customer comment and contributions no more as Microsoft pulls the plug on Office 365 UserVoice forum

No obvious replacement yet either

08 Mar 2021 | 35

Remember that day in 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – by tomorrow?

Covid Logfile 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 2021 | 84

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 2021 | 4

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 2021 | 8

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 2021 | 7

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 2021 | 16

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 2021 | 6

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 2021 | 29

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 2021 | 40

macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs

AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes

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

UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift

Updated Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs

23 Feb 2021 | 27

Cloud Direct stung for £80k in constructive dismissal lawsuit after director's 'insincere' evidence to tribunal

'Shambolic', 'unfair', 'wholly incorrect'... all because they wanted rid of their sales manager

22 Feb 2021 | 29

AWS tops up the Bezos rocket fund thanks to more money from Brit tax collection agency

A 48-month, £41m hyperscale cloud service deal done with HMRC

19 Feb 2021 | 8

Fancy a £130k director of technology role with the UK's Ministry of Justice? All you need to do is 'fix the basics'

Miserly? No, they'll throw in a loan for a season train ticket too

19 Feb 2021 | 24

Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance?

Poll Little love for a return to the five-days-on-campus week, Blind survey shows

19 Feb 2021 | 96

New York AG sues Amazon for putting 'profit over people' when it comes to COVID-19

State legal filing answers Amazon's preemptive federal lawsuit last week

17 Feb 2021 | 8

Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger

Hold up, just a few more questions...

17 Feb 2021 | 4

Your users and apps may be in the cloud, but where is your data exactly?

Sponsored Let’s back up, and talk about data protection

Amazon sues NY Attorney General in preemptive strike: Web giant faces claim it did not fully protect workers in COVID-19 pandemic

Subsidize public bus service and slow down production? No thanks, says Bezos Bunch

13 Feb 2021 | 41

New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website

Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared

12 Feb 2021 | 24

Better buckle up: Volkswagen puts Microsoft in driver's seat to deliver 'automated' platform

German car giant looks to Azure for AI smarts as Ford opts for Google's cloud

11 Feb 2021 | 52

After first trying to use federal COVID-19 relief aid, State of Iowa comes up with funds to pay for Workday project

And the cost of hitching their HR and finance system to the cloud? $52.5m over half a decade

10 Feb 2021 | 8

Salesforce: Forget the ping-pong and snacks, the 9-to-5 working day is just so 2019, it's over and done with

54k staffers can WFH permanently, come in 1-3 days a week for meetings - or if they must - use vendor's 'immersive workspaces'

10 Feb 2021 | 41

What the heck is FinOps? It's controlling cloud spend – and new report says it ain't easy

Too much money wasted on on-demand pricing

10 Feb 2021 | 22

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