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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 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 2021 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 2021 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 2021 12:29 | 27

SaaS

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 10:28 | 29

Off-Prem

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 11:30 | 8

SaaS

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 09:30 | 24

Poll

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

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

19 Feb 2021 07:04 | 96

SaaS

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 21:27 | 8

SaaS

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

Hold up, just a few more questions...

17 Feb 2021 13:33 | 4

SaaS

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 01:01 | 41

Off-Prem

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 19:49 | 24

Off-Prem

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 17:12 | 52

SaaS

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 17:43 | 8

SaaS

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 14:01 | 41

SaaS

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 10:15 | 22

Off-Prem

Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares

Dodging lock-in good for the career as well as the soul

10 Feb 2021 08:25 | 20

SaaS

Salesforce likes to play the diversity nice guy in public – Black ex-employee claims the reality is quite different

Resignation letter posted to LinkedIn accuses cloudy CRM biz of 'countless micro-aggressions and inequity'

09 Feb 2021 16:15 | 47

Exclusive

Linode ponders adding Windows servers to its fluffy clouds of Linux-only boxen

Customers are asking and so spreadsheets are being compiled

09 Feb 2021 01:43 | 4

Column

Windows' cloudy future: That Chrome OS advantage is Google's to lose

The locked-down world and their Chromebook would like a word...

08 Feb 2021 09:55 | 76

SaaS

UK bus and rail giant FirstGroup looks to replace decade-old Cyborg system in £8m HR and payroll contract

Plus a mangle of other applications on track to be switched for cloud platform

05 Feb 2021 11:09 | 6

SaaS

Alphabet Workers Union hits Google data center contractor with labor complaint: We were banned from discussing wages, say staff

Modis also accused of suspending techie for criticizing working conditions

05 Feb 2021 01:09 | 13

SaaS

Brit IBM veteran wins unfair dismissal case after 2018's Global Technology Services redundancy bloodbath

Represented himself – but judge denies last-minute attempt to make it an age discrimination claim

04 Feb 2021 10:25 | 56

Off-Prem

Just four titans share almost two thirds of global cloud infrastructure spend, with AWS and Microsoft dominant

Google and Alibaba playing catchup

04 Feb 2021 08:29 | 3

SaaS

Project Bicep: Microsoft muscles in on Terraform's territory to manage Azure resources with code

'We are using the word experimental right now'

03 Feb 2021 17:17 | 5

Analysis

Same old complexity beneath Windows 10 Cloud Config means it's unlikely to compete with the likes of Chrome OS

Modernisation that happens to be an upsell to premium cloudy plans

03 Feb 2021 14:05 | 15

Analysis

So Jeff Bezos is stepping back from Amazon to play with his space rockets. Who's this Andy Jassy chap?

Cloud supremo to become CEO of one of Earth's biggest super-corps

03 Feb 2021 08:56 | 3

SaaS

Google's cloud services lost $14.6bn over three years – and CEO Sundar Pichai likes that trajectory

Sees businesses signing up for long deals, confident the black ink will come

03 Feb 2021 05:57 | 19

SaaS

Judging from all those packages y'all ordered, this shouldn't be a surprise: Amazon passes $100bn in quarterly sales for first time

Maybe we should start an online bookstore sometime

03 Feb 2021 03:23 | 6

SaaS

Alibaba Cloud turns its first-ever profit, shows its sales are a fifth of that of Amazon Web Services

Signals analytics, not IaaS, is the opportunity it wants to chase

03 Feb 2021 01:01 |

SaaS

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this summer, AWS boss Andy Jassy to step up

Multibillionaire founder channels Bill Gates, will become exec chairman of cloud giant with gift shop on the side

02 Feb 2021 22:01 | 33

SaaS

Microsoft's Azure Quantum hits preview: Not so much quantum computing as it is quantum-inspired computing

You'll have to go to one of Redmond's partners for something less simulated

02 Feb 2021 18:02 | 10

SaaS

There's no 'I' in Teams so Microsoft issues 6-month warning for laggards still on Skype for Business Online

The axeman cometh

02 Feb 2021 14:48 | 39

SaaS

Slack fingers AWS auto-scaling failure in January outage postmortem

'We attempted to add 1,200 servers to our web tier' – but with a saturated network it did no good

02 Feb 2021 12:51 | 3

SaaS

IBM cloud tries to subvert subscriptions with pricing plan that stretches some discounts

May be a decent AWS alternative - if sudden 106 percent cloudy DB2 price hike doesn’t scare you off

01 Feb 2021 07:30 | 8

SaaS

Workflow biz ServiceNow ServiceWows itself by beating Q4 guidance and posting hefty top line growth of 31% for FY2020

'It's all about people, empathy at mass scale,' says Big McD

28 Jan 2021 12:23 | 7

SaaS

SAP: Come to the cloud with us, we promise there's total accountability and lower TCO with lift-and-shift ERP package

SaaS pick 'n' mix might appeal more than standard processes for S/4HANA upgrade, though

28 Jan 2021 08:27 | 10

Databases

Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness

It was a first mover for graph DBs, but cloud is full of rivals

27 Jan 2021 18:43 | 1

SaaS

BeyondCorp Enterprise: Google's Chrome-shaped approach to 'cloud-native zero trust computing'

New security features in Chrome but can businesses do everything they need through the browser?

27 Jan 2021 08:29 | 10

SaaS

Microsoft smashes Wall Street's expectations with $43bn sales bonanza

FY21 Q2 results buoyed by cloud demand, pandemic-driven IT focus

27 Jan 2021 00:32 | 2

SaaS

No cards, thanks, we're contactless-less: UK supermarket giants hit by card payment TITSUP*

Money talks in Morrisons and Co-Op

26 Jan 2021 14:15 | 48

SaaS

UKFast ex-boss Lawrence Jones appears in court to face rape and sexual assault charges

Multi-millionaire granted unconditional bail, case moving to Manchester Crown Court

26 Jan 2021 12:56 |

SaaS

East London council breaks off 20-year Oracle relationship to shack up with cloud ERP nobodies by year's end

From one of the world's largest software suppliers to... who?

26 Jan 2021 12:03 | 18

Updated

UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force

Or maybe it's that no one wants to touch this complex SaaS migration

25 Jan 2021 11:01 | 5

SaaS

As the world turns to big names in cloud and IT to get through the pandemic, IBM still manages to shrink

Red Hat and off-prem see growth while revenue, profit down overall

22 Jan 2021 02:12 | 13

SaaS

And just like that, Amazon Web Services forked Elasticsearch, Kibana. Was that part of the plan, Elastic?

Fork that noise, says cloud giant amid licensing drama

22 Jan 2021 00:50 | 46

SaaS

Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts

Deplatformed again, huh? Maybe take the hint

21 Jan 2021 23:39 | 147

SaaS

On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers

Know-your-client demand may just be ignored by incoming Biden admin

20 Jan 2021 21:58 | 45

SaaS

Google's cloud pulls out in front for best performance overall, while AWS remains most cost-efficient – report

Azure wins on Ultra Disk storage but it's expensive, says Cockroach Labs

20 Jan 2021 10:15 | 7

SaaS

Citrix must Wrike what it sees because it's buying project management outfit for $2.25bn

No longer a corpo behemoth holdout

19 Jan 2021 17:45 |

SaaS

Euro cloud slingers fight for niches on their own doorstep as AWS, Microsoft and Google inhale market share

Just 16% of cloud spending in Q3 went to local tech services shops, says analyst

18 Jan 2021 15:31 | 22

SaaS

Epic Games files competition lawsuit against Google in the UK over Fortnite's ejection from Play Store

Epic by name, epic (lawsuit) by nature

15 Jan 2021 17:19 | 45

SaaS

IBM still spending its way to cloud relevance with Taos purchase

Hybrid? Multi-cloud? Big Blue has a consultant for that

15 Jan 2021 13:10 | 6

SaaS

Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience

Torrent search engine is still up after years of whack-a-mole with copyright cops

14 Jan 2021 05:57 | 82

SaaS

Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'

CEO says he is 'truly sorry for painful but necessary' cuts

13 Jan 2021 19:54 | 65

SaaS

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

They signed our terms of service and broke them, notes hosting behemoth

13 Jan 2021 18:25 | 106

SaaS

Oracle and AWS trumpeted how their clouds helped Zoom scale. But it turns out Zoom fears its cloud bills and uses co-located kit

Zooming also needs some Azure and costs so much to run the biz is selling $1.5bn more shares

13 Jan 2021 06:58 | 10

SaaS

Salesforce relieves Republican National Committee of its tools citing 'risk of politically incited violence' across the US

See that horse disappearing over the horizon? Time to close the stable door

12 Jan 2021 18:05 | 125

Updated

Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

And no, Parler wasn't hacked either. Its public posts were simply scraped

11 Jan 2021 22:03 | 141

PaaS + IaaS

Upgrade now to avoid a cluster-suck: Microsoft wields the breaking change stick over Azure Service Fabric laggards

Running an unsupported version? Make a move or face possible outage. You have 11 days to comply

08 Jan 2021 13:15 | 9

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SaaS

UK minister tries to intervene after Government Digital Service migration mangles Ministry of Justice webpages

macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs

Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares

Salesforce likes to play the diversity nice guy in public – Black ex-employee claims the reality is quite different

Linode ponders adding Windows servers to its fluffy clouds of Linux-only boxen

Windows' cloudy future: That Chrome OS advantage is Google's to lose

UK bus and rail giant FirstGroup looks to replace decade-old Cyborg system in £8m HR and payroll contract

Alphabet Workers Union hits Google data center contractor with labor complaint: We were banned from discussing wages, say staff

Brit IBM veteran wins unfair dismissal case after 2018's Global Technology Services redundancy bloodbath

Just four titans share almost two thirds of global cloud infrastructure spend, with AWS and Microsoft dominant

Project Bicep: Microsoft muscles in on Terraform's territory to manage Azure resources with code

Same old complexity beneath Windows 10 Cloud Config means it's unlikely to compete with the likes of Chrome OS

So Jeff Bezos is stepping back from Amazon to play with his space rockets. Who's this Andy Jassy chap?

Google's cloud services lost $14.6bn over three years – and CEO Sundar Pichai likes that trajectory

Judging from all those packages y'all ordered, this shouldn't be a surprise: Amazon passes $100bn in quarterly sales for first time

Alibaba Cloud turns its first-ever profit, shows its sales are a fifth of that of Amazon Web Services

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this summer, AWS boss Andy Jassy to step up

Microsoft's Azure Quantum hits preview: Not so much quantum computing as it is quantum-inspired computing

There's no 'I' in Teams so Microsoft issues 6-month warning for laggards still on Skype for Business Online

Slack fingers AWS auto-scaling failure in January outage postmortem

IBM cloud tries to subvert subscriptions with pricing plan that stretches some discounts

Workflow biz ServiceNow ServiceWows itself by beating Q4 guidance and posting hefty top line growth of 31% for FY2020

SAP: Come to the cloud with us, we promise there's total accountability and lower TCO with lift-and-shift ERP package

Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness

BeyondCorp Enterprise: Google's Chrome-shaped approach to 'cloud-native zero trust computing'

Microsoft smashes Wall Street's expectations with $43bn sales bonanza

No cards, thanks, we're contactless-less: UK supermarket giants hit by card payment TITSUP*

UKFast ex-boss Lawrence Jones appears in court to face rape and sexual assault charges

East London council breaks off 20-year Oracle relationship to shack up with cloud ERP nobodies by year's end

UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force

As the world turns to big names in cloud and IT to get through the pandemic, IBM still manages to shrink

And just like that, Amazon Web Services forked Elasticsearch, Kibana. Was that part of the plan, Elastic?

Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts

On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers

Google's cloud pulls out in front for best performance overall, while AWS remains most cost-efficient – report

Citrix must Wrike what it sees because it's buying project management outfit for $2.25bn

Euro cloud slingers fight for niches on their own doorstep as AWS, Microsoft and Google inhale market share

Epic Games files competition lawsuit against Google in the UK over Fortnite's ejection from Play Store

IBM still spending its way to cloud relevance with Taos purchase

Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience

Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble'

We didn't collude with Twitter to throw Parler off our servers, says AWS in court filing

Oracle and AWS trumpeted how their clouds helped Zoom scale. But it turns out Zoom fears its cloud bills and uses co-located kit

Salesforce relieves Republican National Committee of its tools citing 'risk of politically incited violence' across the US

Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting

Upgrade now to avoid a cluster-suck: Microsoft wields the breaking change stick over Azure Service Fabric laggards

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