Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate
If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony
Off-Prem18 Dec 2024 | 70
Cloud Computing
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them
Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20
$800 'AI' robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker
Comment - Updated Moxie maker Embodied is going under, teaching important lessons about cloud services
AI + ML16 Dec 2024 | 103
AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling
Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory
Systems10 Dec 2024 | 10
Chinese clouds target small and medium enterprises in APAC in search of growth
Canalys Forums APAC Smaller buyers see deep discounts and suddenly worry less about regulatory issues
Off-Prem05 Dec 2024 |
£1B lawsuit targets Microsoft for allegedly overcharging Windows customers on other clouds
Yes, we've been over this before - several times, in fact
Legal04 Dec 2024 | 9
NARROWER TOPICS
AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows
re:Invent Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speed
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 36
UK government spends another £1B on cloud migration and services
New framework set to help public sector orgs move on amid lock-in fears
PaaS + IaaS03 Dec 2024 | 24
Cloudy with a chance of GPU bills: AI's energy appetite has CIOs sweating
Canalys Forums EMEA Public cloud expenses have businesses scrambling for alternatives that won't melt the budget
AI + ML29 Nov 2024 | 11
Cloudflare broke its logging-as-a-service service, causing customer data loss
Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up
Off-Prem27 Nov 2024 | 5
Alibaba Cloud brings chatty SaaS products out of China and into more markets
Teams-like DingTalk gets an enterprise edition, and virtual Androids unleashed
SaaS25 Nov 2024 |
Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business
Special report IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts
On-Prem20 Nov 2024 | 19
Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026
Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers
Off-Prem18 Nov 2024 | 3
CISPE framework aids EU Data Act compliance, cloud switching
'It helps Euro organizations to avoid lock-in and design the cloud strategy they want'
PaaS + IaaS08 Nov 2024 |
Amazon to cough $75B on capex in 2024, more next year
Despite extending server lifespans, AI's power demands drive more datacenter builds
PaaS + IaaS01 Nov 2024 | 9
Dropbox to shed another 500 staff, CEO takes 'full responsibility'
Cloudy concern has also spent over $500M buying back its own shares amid multiple rounds of layoffs
SaaS31 Oct 2024 | 65
Microsoft accused of 'greenwashing' as AI used in fossil fuel exploration
Activists press Redmond to come clean on ‘material reputational, legal, and operational risks’
AI + ML31 Oct 2024 | 42
Cloud repatriation officially a trend... for specific workloads
It's not a mass exodus, say analysts, but biz bods are bringing things down to earth
PaaS + IaaS30 Oct 2024 | 24
Just how private is Apple's Private Cloud Compute? You can test it to find out
Also updates bug bounty program with $1M payout
Security25 Oct 2024 | 15
Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region
Loose juice led to cooling issue in one zone, but the pain was widespread
Off-Prem25 Oct 2024 | 26
Huawei releases data detailing serverless secrets
Reveals why your functions start slowly on its cloud and maybe others too
Systems24 Oct 2024 | 4
Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS
Carriers consume less than half the cloud they committed to use
PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2024 | 17
Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free
37signals CTO claims cost of new hardware was 'entirely recouped' as contracts expired after AWS exit
On-Prem21 Oct 2024 | 59
Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU now live and powering Azure VMs
For general-purpose and memory-optimized workloads
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2024 | 5
Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive
Big emphasis on photos in mobile app
Storage09 Oct 2024 | 15
Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands
Special report Underutilized staff get sent to the 'bench' – and seldom return
On-Prem01 Oct 2024 | 39
Cloud threats have execs the most freaked out because they're not prepared
Ransomware? More like 'we don't care' for everyone but CISOs
Research30 Sep 2024 | 3
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways
Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation
Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6
AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-prem
See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator
PaaS + IaaS17 Sep 2024 | 73
Keen to bring it on home? Private cloud appliance pitched at compliance-conscious
Service with endless scalability, at least that's the plan
PaaS + IaaS11 Sep 2024 | 5
Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps
Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data
Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome
VMware Explore But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly
VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 32
The elusive dream of cloud portability: Why migrating workloads isn't so simple
Analysis Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor
Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2024 | 18
China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions
Orgs are accessing restricted tech, raising concerns about more potential loopholes
AI + ML23 Aug 2024 | 6
HPE nabs long-time ally Morpheus Data
The CMP boasts to be the orchestration platform behind GreenLake since 2022
Software15 Aug 2024 |
If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be... Northern Virginia
If you guessed Beijing, sorry – but it is number 2, according to Synergy Research figures
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2024 | 10
Cloud growth puts hyperscalers on track to take up 60% of datacenter capacity by 2029
Enterprises used to spend more on own kit than cloud infra services... now it's the other way around
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2024 |
Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip
Sigcomm 2024 Focus on physical ports helped spot issues across 100,000 switches and a million servers
Networks07 Aug 2024 | 5
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS
Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination
HPC07 Aug 2024 | 6
Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo
Sigcomm 2024 That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 25
Enterprise spend on cloud up sharply as world biz splashes $80B in Q2
Plus: Oracle nudges to top of second tier providers
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 |
Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency
Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs
Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3
AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure
Analysis Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades
Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2024 | 2
Amazon: Our cloud growth just sped up. Did you know we are also quite a big retailer?
Reveals Kuiper broadband sats to fly later this year and solid Q2 sales
Cloud Infrastructure Month02 Aug 2024 | 9
Superclusters too big, but single servers too small? Oracle offers AI Goldilocks zone
Adds L40 bare metal option to the O-Cloud, plus A100 and H100 VMs. And teases a GH200 beast
PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 1
'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea
Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play
Public Sector24 Jul 2024 | 2
VMware sends vSphere 7 into extra time by extending support for six months
A nice surprise, but some other vAdmins have an August 1 deadline to sort out subscriptions
VMware Explore24 Jul 2024 | 9
Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon
Another sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival
OSes23 Jul 2024 | 6
Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members
Exclusive Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint
Software22 Jul 2024 | 7
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved
Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble
Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66
What exactly did Microsoft promise CISPE in its settlement?
Analysis Analysts: 'At the end of the day, the settlement is nothing'
PaaS + IaaS17 Jul 2024 | 3
Microsoft wasn't CISPE's only suitor – it seems Google was willing to pay for its views on cloudy licensing to prevail
Euro trade body tires of being a pawn in the war of the tech giants
Off-Prem16 Jul 2024 | 2
Google reportedly in talks to buy infosec outfit Wiz for $23B
The security industry has never had a clear leader – could it be the Chocolate Factory?
Security15 Jul 2024 | 17
Microsoft 365's Chinese host uses just four percent renewable energy: Greenpeace
Red clouds are in no rush to go green
On-Prem12 Jul 2024 | 6
Apple, Google ease cross-cloud data transfers, perhaps with costly catch
The joy of cloudy interoperability may be dampened by differently-sized free storage tiers
Off-Prem11 Jul 2024 | 7
Microsoft avoids formal antitrust EC probe over abusive licensing claims by settling case with CISPE
Pays 'lump sum,' setting up new Azure Stack for hosters and more but some concerned about the private deal
PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2024 | 5
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users
Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 19
Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters
Prioritizing Mexico and Southeast Asia
Off-Prem01 Jul 2024 | 2
Anthropic tries 'to enable beneficial uses' of AI by government agencies
Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking
AI + ML27 Jun 2024 | 3
Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits
Dance! Dance for me!
PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5
SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud
But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says
Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1
Alibaba Cloud unleashes thousands of Chinese AI models to the world
Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk
Off-Prem25 Jun 2024 |
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