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
The Roomba approach to tidying up your AWS spend Cloud sprawl will easily become bill sprawl if you don’t take active steps to clean up Sponsored Post
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 | 58
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
Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000 And that, kids, is why we don't play the Emergency Alert System tone on TV
What is Google doing with its open source teams? Opinion Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard
User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway On-Call Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right
Twitter stiffed us on $2m bill, claim consultants in lawsuit These are the litigation specialists hired to get Musk to acquire the platform
Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down Redmond rolls back network change after cloud services dip in sympathy with profits
Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar
Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it What's allowed for Cupertino is verboten for everyone else
If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion No, it's not install Fedora Linux, sadly
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 | 75
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
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
Tencent happily parting ways with loss-making cloud customers Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |
Banks talk big cloud game but few have migrated over 30% of apps Less than half said business leaders in their bank understood 'opportunities of cloud' PaaS + IaaS18 May 2022 | 22
Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1
DigitalOcean tries to take sting out of price hike with $4 VM Cloud biz says it is reacting to customer mix largely shifting from lone devs to SMBs PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 10
Financial giant Santander: 80% of our IT infrastructure in cloud 'Most challenging element of migration likely remains' warns analyst PaaS + IaaS16 May 2022 | 10
Colocation consolidation: Analysts look at what's driving the feeding frenzy Analysis Sometimes a half-sized shipping container at the base of a cell tower is all you need PaaS + IaaS15 May 2022 | 2
Those NitroTPMs Amazon teased now really are coming to AWS EC2 Yes, give those smartNICs something to do PaaS + IaaS13 May 2022 | 1
How Intel and AMD hope to win the cloud security game Analysis Team Xeon reveals 'Trust-as-a-Service' while Google Cloud details deeper ties with Team Zen PaaS + IaaS12 May 2022 | 5
Rackspace considers selling part of business: 'Everything' on the table CEO points to two very different multi-cloud markets, says it's already spoken to potential buyer PaaS + IaaS12 May 2022 | 7
Red Hat adds more Cloud Services to support OpenShift apps Red Hat Summit Updates aim to ease complexities of building applications for a hybrid cloud environment PaaS + IaaS10 May 2022 |
OVH: The cloud should be open, reversible, interoperable Interview CEO Michel Paulin on coming back from a datacenter blaze and playing nicely with others PaaS + IaaS10 May 2022 | 11
Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon You have died of dystopia PaaS + IaaS06 May 2022 | 16