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
Healthcare moves forward in the cloud Sponsored Feature How global healthcare and life sciences organizations can derive benefits working with AWS Partners on cloud projects Sponsored Feature
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
IBM bets $4.6 billion that cloud bills and IT sprawl will be enduring problems Acquires Apptio and plans 'virtual command center' for multicloud Off-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 10
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
Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this? SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 21
Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud Updated Fight! Fight! Fight! SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 21
Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
Alibaba boss steps down to become boss of Alibaba Cloud Near-flop of China shopping fest suggests cloud and AI are the priority growth engines Off-Prem21 Jun 2023 | 1
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14
Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout' Channel16 Jun 2023 | 70
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
AWS experiment with Lambda in cloudless configuration fails to impress Service took a long nap in the notorious EAST-1 region Off-Prem14 Jun 2023 | 9
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
WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation Opportunistic Atlassian highlights problems in wake of move by Meta, Dell, Google and others Off-Prem12 Jun 2023 | 64
JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Singapore's government writes a standard for datacenter ops in the tropics Turning up the heat can turn down cooling bills, even as 30°C and 84 percent humidity prevail Off-Prem12 Jun 2023 | 7
Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week 'There's just no substitute for coming together in person' Off-Prem08 Jun 2023 | 84
Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
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
Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36
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
CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1
Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax' Exclusive Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg Off-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 53
Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click Ingest, integrate... and imprison SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 5
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
Microsoft appeals UK's block on Activision deal CMA: European Commission accepted proposals that would let Redmond set terms in market 'for the next 10 years' Off-Prem25 May 2023 | 7
How to master multicloud from the ground to cloud (and back again) Bring multicloud to your organization by design, not default, says Dell Commissioned
Snowflake and Zoom celebrate shrunken cloud bills as margins swell Analytics outfit gets there by moving customers to Amazon’s Graviton CPUs Off-Prem25 May 2023 |
Singapore on track to reach cloud migration goals – asks suppliers to re-apply Renewed SaaS push and purchase of 100,000 PCs in the offing Off-Prem25 May 2023 |
Born in the USA! Broadcom will produce American-made RF modules for Apple So what happened to Apple building its own modems? Edge + IoT23 May 2023 | 7
Managing datacenter network traffic the easy way How the SONiC open-source ecosystem is helping build a connected networking fabric from core to edge to cloud Sponsored
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder? Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 138
Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 1
Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late Dell World Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster Channel23 May 2023 |
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 | 54
Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is The downside is complexity. The upside, if you strategize properly, is specialist services and diversity Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 13
Search the web at least once every two years or risk losing your Google account Updated inactivity policy may nix accounts, and data. Even Workspaces data and your precious pics Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 53
Microsoft tries a deeper dive into Azure Firewall traffic If the flow slows, you need to know why Off-Prem16 May 2023 | 3
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
Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage? It's not just Cupertino, most status pages aren't what they claim to be Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 19
Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in Yes, there are risks. But you can address them without huge multi-cloud failover rigs Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 35
4 ways CIOs can optimize IT and boost business value One way to do more with less is to build business value using as-a-Service to optimize workload placement Commissioned
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
India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000 Channel05 May 2023 | 15
Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows NVMe storage should mean better performance for data-intensive workloads, says tech giant Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign And $70B in share repurchases didn't calm matters Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 52
AWS, Microsoft make finding important admin info less frustrating It's 2023 and tech giants have discovered email and unified dashboards Off-Prem04 May 2023 | 3
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
Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4
Cloud slowdown hits Amazon as orgs look to rein in cost Off-prem tech is 'SERIOUSLY expensive' Reg reader complains Off-Prem28 Apr 2023 | 16
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
Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23
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 |
Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer Off-Prem26 Apr 2023 | 9
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
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
How was Google boss's 2022? He got paid $226M as stock awards kicked in Bumper payday for exec as relentless cost-cutting campaign continues Off-Prem24 Apr 2023 | 25
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9
Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22
Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting Off-Prem19 Apr 2023 | 3
European datacenters worried they can't get cheap, reliable juice UK operators are sweating about price, Nordics chill thanks to low ambient temperatures Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 58
Tencent Cloud says it's mass producing custom video chips Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs Off-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 3
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
Amazon CEO says AWS staff now spending ‘much of their time’ optimizing customers’ clouds Annual shareholder letter warns of ‘softening’ growth for cloud biz, likely lift-off for Kuiper satellite broadband Off-Prem17 Apr 2023 | 23
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
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024 At least Redmond listens to some customers SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
Microsoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no companies Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah? Channel07 Apr 2023 | 13
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
Tech giants looking for ways to wriggle out of UK digital tax, watchdog warns Delays to OECD plan means interim fix could be found wanting Off-Prem05 Apr 2023 | 49
Unilever claims it's a 'cloud-only enterprise' – now with added OpenAI Funny way to describe a company that makes toilet cleaner Off-Prem04 Apr 2023 | 15
When Google cost cutting goes molecular: Staples, sticky tape, and PC sweating Staff WFH so internal cafes are baking too many muffins, says doc, while bus shuttles and yoga classes are empty Off-Prem04 Apr 2023 | 45
British govt tech supplier Capita crippled by 'IT issue' Earning that nickname all over again Off-Prem31 Mar 2023 | 53
Euro cloud providers react to MS potentially cutting deal on antitrust Transparency? Redmond's heard of it Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 2
Google Cloud pitches 'Gen Apps' – low-code AI-based tools, not post-millennial kids We've got your summarization, your Q&A, your chatbots, your classification tasks ready to go Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 7
Oh, really? Microsoft worries multicloud complicates security and identity Coincidentally lays off techies in its identity team Spotlight on RSA29 Mar 2023 | 8
Alibaba to separate into six parts. Take that HP and IBM, with your puny two-way splits Cloud and AI bundled into an entity that’s free to seek its own funds or list Off-Prem29 Mar 2023 | 4
Rackspace racks up job cuts amid market downturn and talk of offshoring Exclusive Everything from inflation, to war in Ukraine and high interest rates 'point to recession', says CEO in memo to staff Off-Prem28 Mar 2023 | 15
Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity 'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos' Energy Efficient Datacenters28 Mar 2023 | 41
Outage rates fall, but major ones will cost more. Oh and don't bank on SLAs Not what cost-cutting companies want to hear right now. Maybe they should hang onto those engineers? Off-Prem27 Mar 2023 | 9
Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce Benioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve SaaS27 Mar 2023 | 3
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block 2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365 Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era Builds its own seat at the standards development table Off-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 8
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share Off-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 31