Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 4
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 5
Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027 PaaS + IaaS06 Dec 2023 | 41
Citrix pulls the plug on its User Group Community To be replaced by virtual community and ‘in-person event experience’ hosted by vendor Off-Prem05 Dec 2023 | 6
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 22
China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 2
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 42
Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 35
You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 9
Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet Take that, Elon Off-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 1
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 28
Black Friday? More like Blackout Friday for HSBC's online and mobile banking Updated Think of all the crap discounted things you won't need to buy now Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 40
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 24
India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends Off-Prem22 Nov 2023 | 3
Microsoft adds FPGA-powered network accelerator to Azure 'Azure Boost' vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 6
Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48
Civo CEO on free credits, egress fees, and hauling it all back on-prem Interview And why the UK cloud industry can't ape the energy sector and make it easier to swap suppliers PaaS + IaaS17 Nov 2023 | 9
Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass? SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6
Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2
Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security Limited options will be available into 2028, for an undisclosed price
Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code
Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in 'He can't just make his own rules,' Danish labor leader says of Musk
Motives of multi-cloud users? Compliance and dodging vendor lock-in top the list Reasons less technical than you'd think as research respondents cite EU's DORA rules PaaS + IaaS14 Nov 2023 | 1
China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com 5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6
Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god Opinion At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever Off-Prem10 Nov 2023 | 60
Alibaba takes more of Salesforce behind the great firewall Asia in brief PLUS: China's taikonauts return from space, India approves PC licenses, and Foxconn founder presidential campaign investigated for bribes Off-Prem06 Nov 2023 | 2
Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats Updated Small businesses need not apply SaaS03 Nov 2023 | 15
Cloudflare dashboard, API service feeling poorly due to datacenter power snafu Right on time for results day Off-Prem02 Nov 2023 | 8
European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal Larry promised Brussels 'less risk and cost' and they believed it PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2023 | 15
Fujitsu public cloud to be absorbed into main biz, then refreshed Asia In Brief PLUS: Hikvision accused of targeting minorities; Australia's 'cyber-shield'; Huawei's superchip source revealed? Off-Prem30 Oct 2023 | 5
AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2023 | 2
AWS says it wants in on the European sovereign cloud game Appealing to growing crowd that wants data outside US jurisdiction PaaS + IaaS25 Oct 2023 | 11
It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI Had to kiss Nvidia's ring to make its vision real Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 16
Google Cloud misses revenue estimates – and it's your fault, wanting smaller bills Keeping old servers alive is more lucrative than the G-Cloud Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 15
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16
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Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won't Off-Prem23 Oct 2023 | 2
Helping enterprises maximise the value of data clouds Google Cloud and El Reg team up to deliver unique resource centre providing research, practical advice and white papers Sponsored Post
Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successes Channel20 Oct 2023 | 11
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Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite Over a million licenses for office software to be used by corporate and frontline workers SaaS18 Oct 2023 | 19
Down and out: Barclays Bank takes unplanned digital detox, customers not invited Account holders reach for telephone as mobile and web services crash Off-Prem17 Oct 2023 | 33
$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe Cites 'increased operational costs' but whatever they are US gamers aren't impacted Off-Prem17 Oct 2023 | 10
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off Epic redundancies all round SaaS17 Oct 2023 | 45
Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25
Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst One has the talent, one has the money – both want more tech Channel12 Oct 2023 | 17
Power tools: turning sustainable IT into a business catalyst How new monitoring and management tools can help datacenters root-out infrastructure inefficiencies Sponsored Feature
Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair Opinion All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2023 | 9
China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge, storage, memory, and … Blu-ray? Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity Off-Prem09 Oct 2023 | 10
Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5
Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges' Updated Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now Channel05 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive We hope cloud storage service is ready for this web wingman PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 49
Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 5
Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore Off-Prem04 Oct 2023 | 45
UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5
Game on: FTC tries again to block Microsoft Activision merger Redmond says the deal is still on Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1
Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power? Analysis Three words: Cheap, reliable, power Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 71
Alibaba Cloud to bring its AI PaaS out from behind the Great Firewall Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1
Bermuda, your data, Google's gonna take your US data Updated Search giant's latest subsea cable will feed your YouTube addiction Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 14
Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says In measure of fakery, Musk's social media biz has highest noise-to-signal ratio Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 96
Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap' Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 35
Fujitsu to quit Tokyo HQ ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 2
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2023 | 10
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure At least it was the weekend PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel's portfolio Off-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 3
Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says SaaS15 Sep 2023 | 27
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Activist investor to GoDaddy: Cut costs, improve sales, or sell Starboard Blue LLC says management failed to create shareholder goodness, 'change needed' Off-Prem14 Sep 2023 | 26
Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 30
US Department of Justice claims Google bought its way to web search dominance We're just better, says Big G Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 29
Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone? Off-Prem06 Sep 2023 | 2
Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policy Channel06 Sep 2023 | 17
IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent All PaaS, including OpenShift, gets a three-point bump. IaaS users outside the US get the nastiest numbers Off-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 20
AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2023 | 1
Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API One more reason to keep them short and sweet SaaS04 Sep 2023 | 23
Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree Could be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2023 | 7
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32
Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience Updated Analyst firm warns that users need to understand what it is they're buying PaaS + IaaS01 Sep 2023 | 1
Price rises yet to hit customers, says Salesforce as it raises forecasts CRM vendor might find itself pushed to the margins to keep investors happy PaaS + IaaS31 Aug 2023 | 5
Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19
Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2023 | 12
Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2023 | 26
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed Argument that Mountain View is politically biased against RNC 'pure speculation,' says judge PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 58
Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40
CEO Zooms through the bad news on Q2 earnings call Alienating FOSS community and some employees? Web-based collaboration biz delights shareholders Off-Prem22 Aug 2023 | 5
Cisco's Duo Security suffers major authentication outage Updated Provides complete security by not letting anyone login Off-Prem21 Aug 2023 | 12
Rising labor and component costs lead to UK product and service price hike at IBM Big Blue looks back at 2022 in Britain, one of the world's economies 'hit hardest' by pandemic Off-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 5
Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash Reports police called to control ATM frenzy after €1,000 added to accounts, by leprechauns maybe Off-Prem16 Aug 2023 | 79
Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers' Meanwhile, in China, electric auto outfit emphasizes local bit barn for storage Off-Prem15 Aug 2023 | 19
Co-founder of Yandex – Russia's Google clone – denounces war on Ukraine Arkady Volozh is working with refugee engineers, of which there are plenty Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 16
Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits What? How? Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 4
Epic snub by Supreme Court in battle to escape Apple App Store payment prison This fight over IAP is getting, dare we say, unreal Edge + IoT10 Aug 2023 | 7
Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape' SaaS09 Aug 2023 | 26
S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart PaaS + IaaS08 Aug 2023 | 35
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries Unmanned aircraft trial will skip delays caused by boat-battering weather Edge + IoT03 Aug 2023 | 51
AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server Updated Amid all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2023 | 15
Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy' Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6
It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365 Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42