IaaS

Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy

Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss

PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2024 | 16

IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem

Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years

On-Prem22 May 2024 | 4

Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion'

Updated We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us

PaaS + IaaS28 Mar 2024 | 27

European cloud providers locked in talks with Microsoft over licensing complaint

Redmond has until end of this quarter to make 'substantive progress'

Software08 Feb 2024 | 4

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

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

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

Imagine a world without egress fees or cloud software license disparities

UK regulator lists series of potential remedies for anti-competitive practices early on in probe

Public Sector20 Oct 2023 | 5

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

How TCP's congestion control saved the internet

Systems Approach We guess it's OK it did

Networks24 Sep 2023 | 49

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

Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up

It's not hip to be this Square

Personal Tech11 Sep 2023 | 8

Alibaba CEO, chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO

Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected

Cloud Infrastructure Month11 Sep 2023 | 1

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

Beware of geeks bearing gifts, so check the fine print on Cisco's latest financing deal

Buy now, even services or second-hand kit, and pay in 2024 … if you feel lucky

Networks04 May 2023 | 4

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

Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison

That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting

SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 23

Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon

Updated Pay for features like SGX through OEMs

Systems22 Nov 2022 | 50

Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses

Updated CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field

Off-Prem09 Nov 2022 | 26

Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'

Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown

Off-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 5

Lenovo thinks customers simply love IT-as-a-service

Anyone that agrees has been 'smoking dope' says one of world's largest resellers

Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 4

Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits

Headcount swelled by almost 37,000 in a year, now investors want CEO Pichai to show them the money

Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 45

Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains

Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers

Off-Prem09 Aug 2022 | 17

Infrastructure services giants still weighed down by clouds

Kyndryl and DXC Technology report declining revenues and worsening bottom line

On-Prem04 Aug 2022 |

World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before

No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts

PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2022 | 3

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Banks billions by making gear last even longer than AWS or Google

Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 24

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 3

Your top 5 liquid cooling quandaries answered, according to Omdia

Liquid cooling has its advantages, but it's not for everyone, says analyst

On-Prem13 Jul 2022 | 7

Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022

Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars

Off-Prem04 Jul 2022 | 1

HPE thinks your next GreenLake deploy will be a private cloud

Plus: IT giant expands relationship with Red Hat and SUSE, tackles hybrid data fabrics

On-Prem28 Jun 2022 |

Will Lenovo ever think beyond hardware?

Analysis Then again, why develop your own software à la HPE GreenLake when you can use someone else's?

Systems27 Jun 2022 | 2

Having trouble finding power supplies or server racks? You're not the only one

Hyperscalers hog the good stuff

On-Prem23 Jun 2022 | 1

This startup says it can glue all your networks together in the cloud

Or some approximation of that

Networks22 Jun 2022 | 9

Google recasts Anthos with hitch to AWS Outposts

If at first you don't succeed, change names and try again

On-Prem17 Jun 2022 | 1

Price hikes, cloud expansion drive record datacenter spending

High unit costs and fixed capex budgets propelling enterprises cloudwards

On-Prem16 Jun 2022 | 1

HPE Greenlake to power Taeknizon private cloud expansion in UAE

Isn't this the definition of a middle man?

Off-Prem15 Jun 2022 |

Alibaba Cloud challenges AWS with its own custom smartNIC

Who'll board the custom silicon bandwagon next?

Networks14 Jun 2022 |

Datacenter networks: You'll manage them from the cloud, eventually, claims Cisco

Nexus portfolio undergoes cloudy Software-as-a-Service revamp

Systems14 Jun 2022 | 4

Oracle cloud growth up 19% but it's still a market minnow

Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt

SaaS14 Jun 2022 | 1

Google's Dallas datacenter opens up new cloud region

Okay Google, rustle me up a Lone Star State virtual machine.

PaaS + IaaS08 Jun 2022 | 2

DigitalOcean sets sail for serverless seas with Functions feature

Might be something for those who find AWS, Azure, GCP overly complex

Devops24 May 2022 | 1

AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production

Just one instance type for now, cheaper than third-gen Xeons and Epycs

PaaS + IaaS24 May 2022 | 12

SmartNICs power the cloud, are enterprise datacenters next?

High pricing, lack of software make smartNICs a tough sell, despite offload potential

Networks20 May 2022 | 4

American Airlines decides to cruise into Azure's cloud

So that's who to blame when its IT crashes, huh?

PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 | 10

DigitalOcean tries to take sting out of price hike with $4 VM

Cloud biz says it is reacting to customer mix largely shifting from lone devs to SMBs

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 10

Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner

Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag

PaaS + IaaS20 Apr 2022 | 9

IDC: Public clouds to surpass non-cloud spending this year

So long as the economy stays healthy, and supply can catch up to demand

Off-Prem01 Apr 2022 | 2

DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft

Cloud migrations can therefore be cost-effective, even with Big Red’s nasty licenses

Databases07 Mar 2022 | 33

AWS to build 32 more small clouds around the world

Edgy, low-latency 'Local Zones' spreading from Amsterdam to Warsaw

Off-Prem17 Feb 2022 | 14

IBM Cloud to offer Z-series mainframes for first time – albeit for test and dev

z/OS VMs coming sometime in the second half of 2022

PaaS + IaaS15 Feb 2022 | 14