IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim 'They actually replaced me with a younger employee' Channel04 Aug 2024 | 10
Microsoft's results are in, but the E7 subscription remains mythical. For now Comment Does the Windows giant's love of 365 add-ons spell doom for a super premium tier? PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2024 | 10
OpenAI might be a partner, but it's also a competitor, says Microsoft Opinion Either Sam and Satya are on the rocks, or this is just more maneuvering to avoid regulatory scrutiny AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 4
Microsoft services partly down Down Under for Kiwi users Updated Maybe time to play the cloud hokey pokey? You put your workload in. You take your workload out... PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 5
Infosys denies it owes $4B in taxes to India Taxman disagrees with the outfit that built the tax portal Off-Prem01 Aug 2024 | 5
Superclusters too big, but single servers too small? Oracle offers AI Goldilocks zone Adds L40 bare metal option to the O-Cloud, plus A100 and H100 VMs. And teases a GH200 beast PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 1
Two senior board execs leave SAP as restructuring hits the fan German vendor maintains departures follow increase in job cuts PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance' Insight Redmond disputes some claims made in Cracked Labs probe SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 33
Ridesharing makes new and unique mess in Japan's taxi industry Minister accuses cab drivers of gaming algos to score more lucrative fares SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 8
AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists On-Prem31 Jul 2024 | 1
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage Shut the Front Door! PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond? Networks30 Jul 2024 | 66
South Korea creates $445M bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors Software30 Jul 2024 | 9
Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence? SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 108
ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire But the books look good, because of real AI SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 2
Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it Is this what the kidz call a glow-up? Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1
Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs Updated Redmond comes out swinging as it files response to Competition and Markets Authority PaaS + IaaS24 Jul 2024 | 16
Google keeps the cost of AI search flat, and kids are lovin' it As the G-Cloud brings in big bucks and plentiful profit AI + ML24 Jul 2024 | 3
Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival OSes23 Jul 2024 | 6
Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer? New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends Virtualization22 Jul 2024 | 6
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?
Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so
Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority
DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all
Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder For the want of an underscore
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+ Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims
Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips Updated Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch? PaaS + IaaS19 Jul 2024 | 65
Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response SaaS19 Jul 2024 | 8
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66
What exactly did Microsoft promise CISPE in its settlement? Analysis Analysts: 'At the end of the day, the settlement is nothing' PaaS + IaaS17 Jul 2024 | 3
Fujitsu picks model-maker Cohere as its partner for the rapid LLM-development dance Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 4
TikTok's Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations Off-Prem17 Jul 2024 | 1
Yandex sells off Russian ops, remaining Euro-biz now Putin itself about as Nebius Group Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world Legal16 Jul 2024 | 21
Microsoft wasn't CISPE's only suitor – it seems Google was willing to pay for its views on cloudy licensing to prevail Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants Off-Prem16 Jul 2024 | 2
Your next datacenter could be in the middle of nowhere Feature Training AI models doesn't need low latency. It needs cheap energy – wherever it can be found Off-Prem15 Jul 2024 | 14
Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2024 | 16
Apple, Google, ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
Microsoft avoids formal antitrust EC probe over abusive licensing claims by settling case with CISPE Pays 'lump sum,' setting up new Azure Stack for hosters and more but some concerned about the private deal PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2024 | 5
Microsoft ad subsidiary Xandr accused of violating GDPR Updated Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges SaaS09 Jul 2024 | 8
Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing Who, Me? That's not an outage … that's an outage Off-Prem08 Jul 2024 | 169
China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025 From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, - and cars Off-Prem08 Jul 2024 | 2
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 38
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 19
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI Take that for ignoring robots.txt! Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 49
BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs SaaS03 Jul 2024 | 19
So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019 AI datacenters blamed for the increase, even as Chocolate Factory bets on AI to fix it Off-Prem02 Jul 2024 | 35
Salesforce investors reject plan to add extra $20M to Benioff's total pay Board to take non-binding vote at mega SaaS haus into consideration SaaS02 Jul 2024 | 8
Lambda on the hunt for 'another $800M' to fuel its GPU cloud Why sell shovels when you can rent them PaaS + IaaS01 Jul 2024 | 3
Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill Project including SAP upgrade beset by cost increases and delays Systems01 Jul 2024 | 31
Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters Prioritizing Mexico and Southeast Asia Off-Prem01 Jul 2024 | 2
Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown Updated No supply-chain attacks to see over here! Research28 Jun 2024 | 28
Microsoft blamed for million-plus patient record theft at US hospital giant Updated Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing CSO26 Jun 2024 | 20
Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits Dance! Dance for me! PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5
EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365 Statement of Objections sent to Redmond HQ following probe that began July 2023 SaaS25 Jun 2024 | 23
Alibaba Cloud unleashes thousands of Chinese AI models to the world Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk Off-Prem25 Jun 2024 |
Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13
HPE GreenLake sales on the rise as branding tweaks include more lines The strategy has changed so much that previously poor channel numbers don't count, we're told PaaS + IaaS24 Jun 2024 | 3
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license SaaS19 Jun 2024 | 12
HPE intros virtualization solution it says is totally not targeting grumpy VMware customers HPE Discover It's complementary to Virtzilla, and will eschew controverial aspects of Broadcom's licensing changes Virtualization19 Jun 2024 | 4
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2
Handling inference at the edge One way to minimise AI latency is to process ML models closer to end users and the data being ingested Sponsored Post
Unleashing the power and control of industry-specific cloud platforms Where Red Hat OpenShift fits in the ICP space Sponsored Feature
AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you ... The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey? CSO17 Jun 2024 | 17
Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act Feature Business as usual needs a real change Public Sector15 Jun 2024 | 45
Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended 'It's not our job to find the culprits – That's what we're paying you for' lawmaker scolds Brad Smith CSO14 Jun 2024 | 57
X marks the spot where Twitter's severance math doesn't add up Surely an everything app includes a working currency converter? Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 | 34
Cloud data backups made easy Fast, secure backup and restore with transparent pricing – what’s not to like? Sponsored Post
ASUS quietly built supercomputers, datacenters and an LLM. Now it's quietly selling them all together The plan is a slow build – not a breakout into enterprise tech Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 |
SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10
UK CMA says public sector will be in cloud services probe after all Nothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants? PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2024 | 1
Advania acquires Servium as part of IT services outfit expansion plans Exclusive CEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2024 |
Microsoft extends Azure into Oracle cloud to satisfy OpenAI Big Red has also cuddled up to Google's cloud and made the transition to high-growth off-prem business Off-Prem12 Jun 2024 | 3
Beijing wants more outfits like Temu teeming around the world Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad Public Sector12 Jun 2024 | 14
Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud WWDC Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry Off-Prem11 Jun 2024 | 12
Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions PaaS + IaaS10 Jun 2024 | 11
Are our IT decisions costing the planet? Issues raised in a new documentary, Clouded II, provide a template for greener thinking on IT provisioning Sponsored Feature
UK CMA early findings indicate Microsoft restricts cloud choice Pricing, licensing, ease of switching and more under the microscope PaaS + IaaS07 Jun 2024 | 6
Microsoft paid Tenable a bug bounty for an Azure flaw it says doesn't need a fix, just better documentation Let customers interfere with other tenants? That's our cloud working by design, Redmond seems to say CSO05 Jun 2024 | 9
Pentagon 'doubling down' on Microsoft despite 'massive hack,' senators complain Meanwhile Mr Smith goes to Washington to testify before Congress Public Sector04 Jun 2024 | 5
Hudson Rock yanks report fingering Snowflake employee creds snafu for mega-leak Analysis Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Cyber-crime04 Jun 2024 | 18
Microsoft could be about to write a fat check to stave off cloud antitrust complaint 'No agreement has been reached,' Euro cloud lobby insists PaaS + IaaS03 Jun 2024 | 20
Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers Updated Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 20
Singapore to offer enterprises incentives to buy greener hardware Tropical nation ends DC build hiatus and calls for energy optimization everywhere – even software Public Sector31 May 2024 | 1
Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning On-Prem30 May 2024 | 8
Salesforce expects lowest quarterly growth in two decades Allure of AI fails to inspire customers to increase software spending with CRM giant SaaS30 May 2024 | 5
In support of Internet projects Company offering cloud-based hosting, mail, SaaS, backup, CDN and other services celebrates 27th birthday Sponsored Post
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bets big on small turbines for datacenters Another endorsement for the theory that on-prem power generation trumps tapping the grid Off-Prem29 May 2024 | 41
AWS leads UK cloud market while Microsoft dominates growth and new customers And guess who has highest margins? Some interesting findings from fresh market watchdog report PaaS + IaaS28 May 2024 | 4
Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers Off-Prem28 May 2024 |
Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart Invests $350 million in Flipkart Channel27 May 2024 | 5
Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks Kettle Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build' OSes25 May 2024 | 75
EMEA enterprise folks scrutinize deals more closely – and it's hurting Workday Pesky 'macro' stuff forces SaaS biz to yank revenue forecast, share price plunges double digits SaaS24 May 2024 | 3
Latvian DEAC and Lithuanian DLC datacenters join forces Datacenter operators point to solid growth in Northern Europe and export markets’ expansion Partner Content
AWS pledges to spend €15.7B expanding Spanish operations Much of the money will go to mountainous Aragón – not mainly in the plain Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 7
Alibaba is taking its cloud to Mexico, likely following Chinese manufacturers More AZs in its Asian backyard also planned Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 3
Microsoft invites punters to test drive custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU VMs in Azure Build Subscribers in US, Europe, SEA can take silicon out for a spin for free PaaS + IaaS22 May 2024 | 2
IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years On-Prem22 May 2024 | 4
Two weeks ago, Alibaba Cloud bragged its AI was soaring. Now it's slashing prices ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down AI + ML22 May 2024 | 1
CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed Next Predicts worse to come for customers as he builds AR for slot machines around Nutanix Virtualization21 May 2024 | 43
Ohio power plants want special tariffs on datacenters to protect regional grid Server operators may need to pay up front, even for electricity they don't need yet Off-Prem21 May 2024 | 15
Google's €1B Finnish datacenter expansion to heat the local community AI might take your job, but you'll be toasty warm while you starve On-Prem21 May 2024 | 19
HMRC must grow 'intelligent client' function to sort out post-Brexit tech issues – watchdog Already delayed, IBM and Deloitte's 'Single Trade Window' presents SaaSy challenge's to tax collector Public Sector20 May 2024 | 36
Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29
AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany It'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local PaaS + IaaS17 May 2024 | 20