Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience
Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft
PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 1
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Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising
Wait... what?
PaaS + IaaS10 May 2023 | 24
Uncle Sam mulls dumping monolithic software stacks for modular blocks
Anyone else heard of these microservices?
PaaS + IaaS08 May 2023 | 11
Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster
Updated Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid
PaaS + IaaS03 May 2023 | 43
Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment
'It is a tough day across our organization,' says memo from AWS boss
PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 10
Another cloud provider runs to shelter from Microsoft's licensing practices
First British biz joins Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers
PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2023 | 8
Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire
Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA
PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 | 9
China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers
Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO
PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 |
Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat
First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond
PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2023 | 97
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes
LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud
PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9
UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle
Vows to regroup and come back stronger after failing in bid Palantir is pipped to win
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2023 | 43
Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration
Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines
PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2023 | 28
Salesforce lets go of more of its towering presence in San Francisco
Updated Fancy a sublease? Office digs in Silicon Valley hometown hotspot up for grabs
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 4
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects
Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 23
Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA
To that we say good luck
PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9
Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market
As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which
PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change
Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened
PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud
Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need
PaaS + IaaS20 Mar 2023 | 66
Chinese biz banned from buying US tech rent it instead
Clouds reportedly offering surprisingly cheap access to blockaded comrades
PaaS + IaaS10 Mar 2023 | 7
Microsoft wants you to build quantum apps in Azure, the cloud that's both up and down
Oh, and pay boatloads for the privilege
PaaS + IaaS09 Mar 2023 | 9
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Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week
Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z
Microsoft disarms push notification bombers with number matching in Authenticator
Mandatory measure against attackers who spam MFA folks into submission
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
Building a wall... of code
Two Microsoft Windows bugs under attack, one in Secure Boot with a manual fix
Patch Tuesday On the plus side, this month's update batch is a bit smaller than usual
FBI-led Op Medusa slays NATO-bothering Russian military malware network
Perseus to the rescue as Snake eats itself
The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault
Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right?
Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight
To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled
Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced?
Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe
EU proposes spyware Tech Lab to keep Big Brother governments in check
Potential roles for IT pros and lawyers, European city location included
Nutanix de-converges by allowing dedicated nodes for compute and storage
This could be the way to get HCI out of its ghetto
STORIES
WFH? Google Cloud's offices like a 'ghost town' before new policy
Desk-sharing scheme adds more bums on seats, claims CEO
PaaS + IaaS07 Mar 2023 | 41
US lobbyists commission report dismissing proposed EU cloud regulations
But it has a point about the achievability of goal of '75%' European cloud
PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2023 | 20
Cloud infrastructure spreads its wings
How Huawei KooVerse brings low latency IaaS to customers everywhere
Sponsored Feature
Civo, Intel stuff Kubernetes inside a secure enclave
All part of the cloud provider's Confidential Computing push
PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2023 |
Arm has legs: VMware's Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere
Customers are keen on the lower cloudy database prices available after dropping x86
PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2023 | 1
Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson
Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point'
PaaS + IaaS22 Feb 2023 | 74
On cloud nine
Delivering the optimal platform for ‘cloudified’ critical applications
Webinar
Airbus in talks to buy 30% chunk of Atos's breakaway cybersecurity biz
Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty
PaaS + IaaS16 Feb 2023 | 2
DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff
Exclusive The layoffs will continue until morale improves
PaaS + IaaS15 Feb 2023 | 19
Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence
Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer
PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7
Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it
Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices
PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 1
Euronext says non, nein to US cloud providers services as rivals sign up
Data sovereignty and compliance gives CEO pause for thought as Deutsche Börse AG jumps in bed with Google
PaaS + IaaS10 Feb 2023 | 6
Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google?
As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services
PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13
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
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 | 57
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
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 | 76
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
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