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
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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
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
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
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
Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions
Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down
PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2
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
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
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
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe
Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes
PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16
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
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 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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market
China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei
PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2
Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris
'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too
PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 |
LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions
Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware
PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 | 183
Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform
If it walks like a duck...
PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2023 | 62
Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm
Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank
PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 15
Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog
Ofcom takes quick glance, says: It's off to the CMA with you
PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 6
Microsoft drops out of top three for UK software and IT services
AWS now biggest supplier in Britain, according to TechMarketView
PaaS + IaaS06 Jul 2023 | 8
Washington plans to block Chinese access to AI cloud services
Can't buy advanced GPUs... and might be blocked from renting them soon
PaaS + IaaS05 Jul 2023 | 6
IBM kills its Education Cloud after just two-and-a-bit years
Boffins given five months to migrate, with vanilla DaaS suggested as the alternative
PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2023 | 7
VMware, AMD, Samsung and RISC-V push for confidential computing standards
Working with industry 'critical' for boosting adoption, say chipmakers
PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2023 | 7
AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B
Still the most profitable arm of Bezos's biz
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
Server shipments fall ... just as AI drives demand for costlier kit
Conflicting feedback makes 2023 an especially difficult year to predict
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run
Indian firm nabs 10-year contract, taking pensions wins to £1.73B
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 12
Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors
UK officials argue NHS patient details will only be available locally
PaaS + IaaS23 Jun 2023 | 30
Vultr Cloud Alliance rises to take on cloud Goliaths
David's got a marketplace where users can mix and match services
PaaS + IaaS22 Jun 2023 | 1
Without competition, TCS wins back UK pensions body in £1.5B mega-deal
In what could be a 28-year relationship, UK Nest takes TCS back after sacking off France’s Atos from admin work
PaaS + IaaS22 Jun 2023 | 15
Amazon isn’t sold on AMD’s tiny Zen 4c cores in manycore Bergamo processors
Or Ampere's Arm cores for that matter
PaaS + IaaS15 Jun 2023 | 1
Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure
Telemetry revealed 'anomalous spike in HTTP requests' says post-incident report
PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2023 | 6
Sweden’s Evroc going full Viking with Euro cloud to raid US providers
Ikea just messes up your weekend – this could cause a serious storm
PaaS + IaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship
You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out
PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 | 1
Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans
Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases
PaaS + IaaS31 May 2023 | 11
Top cloud players reject Microsoft's attempt to settle EU licensing complaint
Exclusive Offer described by trade group as 'pretty paltry' – it wants more before negotiations begin
PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 17
Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong
Updated Borked SANs, not a security SNAFU, identified as the cause. Services are back, but Linux VMs must reboot
PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 23
Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months
Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2023 | 1
NHS England spends £8M to extend Microsoft deals by a month
Updated Good day at the Office for Windows giant as nurses still fight for pay raises
PaaS + IaaS18 May 2023 | 52
EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure
Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13
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
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
CxO03 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
CxO25 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
CxO14 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
Public Sector12 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
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
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
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
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