Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot OSes08 Dec 2023 | 27
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 | 11
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully Security07 Dec 2023 | 21
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 | 43
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 | 36
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
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Public Sector30 Nov 2023 | 12
Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region Updated Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems Storage30 Nov 2023 | 25
AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you? Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1
Server shipments to fall 20% this year, but AI means vendors still raking it in Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 1
Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1
Microsoft pushes Azure Government Cloud as homefront defender All your national security are belong to us! Public Sector20 Nov 2023 | 5
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
Amazon bankrolling industry lobbying against Microsoft Azure should surprise no one Updated Coalitions battling Windows giant's software licensing are funded by AWS, report indicates Public Sector17 Nov 2023 | 11
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
AMD SEV OMG: Trusted execution in VMs undone by bad hypervisors' cache meddling Let's do the CacheWarp again Research14 Nov 2023 | 7
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
As the Top500 celebrates its 30th year, with a $5 VM you too can get into the top 10 ... of 1993 SC23 But if you really care about performance, there are better options out there, natch HPC14 Nov 2023 | 24
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
Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption Storage02 Nov 2023 | 2
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
Desperately seeking GPUs? AWS will let you reserve instances in advance – no refunds Better make sure you really need it on the day. Paid upfront and no modifications to orders allowed AI + ML01 Nov 2023 | 1
India's AI vision calls for 80 exaFLOPS of infrastructure Or about half of China's recent compute upgrade plan On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 1
Generative AI slashes cloud migration hassles, says McKinsey partner Bhargs Srivathsan also urges enterprises to ditch the tech Lamborghinis for efficient ride AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 19
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
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
Infosys launches aviation cloud it claims can halve lost luggage Also optimizes routes and tames crowds, but can't stop that person who just reclined into your knees Software29 Sep 2023 | 24
If the Linux Foundation was a software company, it'd be the biggest in the world Kubecon The Kubernetes circus hits Shanghai and ponders how to connect engineers Software28 Sep 2023 | 13
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
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI Big Brother wants to watch your big data AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 7
Amazon to sink $4B into AI dev Anthropic, become its cloud provider One way to get preferential access to OpenAI rival's tech AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 2
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
Cryptojackers spread their nets to capture more than just EC2 AMBERSQUID operation takes AWS's paths less travelled in search of compute Research18 Sep 2023 | 3
37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 53
There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here's what to consider Feature Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 2
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
The Pentagon has no idea how to deal with bad cloud contracts, say auditors Terrible IT practices at the DoD? You don't say Cloud Infrastructure Week14 Sep 2023 | 9
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
Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 | 7
Despite the hype, generative AI is not a significant chunk of enterprise cloud spend Not to be a buzzkill, but let's take a deep dive into the disparity Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 3
Automating cloud infrastructure: Do you want APIs with that? Interview Flipping the script to a control plane Cloud Infrastructure Week12 Sep 2023 | 2
D2iQ's AI Navigator ready to answer your deepest cloud concerns Kubernetes configuration laid bare by chatbot, customer context next on roadmap Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 |
Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost Feature 'Hyperscalers made it sound like it was all self-service, in reality it was not' Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 26
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 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
2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones Special Projects Bureau Revisited Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Offbeat04 Sep 2023 | 15
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
The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on Opinion A queue gone mad leads to surprising results for 3D printing – but still no regulation Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 32
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this Storage24 Aug 2023 | 80
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom Opinion So those 218,000 enterprise customers are wrong to hold meetings on web? Offbeat24 Aug 2023 | 106
Why these cloud-connected 3D printers started making junk all by themselves Message brokering software blamed for dumping backed-up print jobs on idle devices Devops24 Aug 2023 | 68
Now NetApp sued by its own veep over claims of broken sales commission promises I was screwed out my cut, alleges exec in fraud, discrimination lawsuit Storage23 Aug 2023 | 11
Tencent predicts big profits from lock-in to cloudy AI Asia In Brief PLUS: Lucasfilm quits Singapore ‘Sandcrawler’; China criticizes India’s tech push; Red Apple celebrates 30 years in China AI + ML21 Aug 2023 |
Oracle shrinks its on-prem cloud into a single rack Big Red rigs start at 552 fourth-gen EPYC cores and 150TB storage, can scale to 6,624 cores and 3.4PB On-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 1
Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits What? How? Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 4
Another thing you can blame AI for: Cloud grows but server shipments are down Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW? Systems07 Aug 2023 | 1
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