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
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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 | 8
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 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 | 23
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 | 40
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
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 Month25 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 | 184
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
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