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UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Exclusive After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position

Public Sector04 Apr 2024 | 99

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

Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon

Looking for feedback before pressing the production button

PaaS + IaaS26 Mar 2024 | 4

Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs

Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least

AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8

Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints

Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup

PaaS + IaaS12 Mar 2024 | 4

Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS

Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage

PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds

PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13

40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud

Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred

PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13

Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders

Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech

PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41

Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army

The bounty payouts may be high, but Project Jengo doesn't miss

Networks12 Feb 2024 | 23

Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble

Paytm's bank has been locked out, edtech darling Byju's faces bankruptcy

PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2024 | 18

Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex

Microsoft named – again – by EU trade groups seeking to level the playing field

PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2024 | 11

IBM Cloud is upgrading a datacenter and users will have to halt their Power VMs

Big Blue will move two VMs in each five-hour window offered to those willing to stay

PaaS + IaaS25 Jan 2024 | 8

Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages

Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers

PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2024 | 3

Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment

Land of the rising profit?

PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |

Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs

AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure

PaaS + IaaS16 Jan 2024 | 17

Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized

If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher

PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7

Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP

Analysis Hint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt

PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2024 | 16

Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss

Interview How the hyperscalers derailed Europe's cloud infrastructure train

PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2024 | 11

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

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

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UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door

AWS severs connection with several hundred staff

French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies

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

Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon

Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs

Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints

Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud

Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders

Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army

Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble

Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex

IBM Cloud is upgrading a datacenter and users will have to halt their Power VMs

Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages

Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment

Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs

Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized

Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP

Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss

Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files

AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms

Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project

AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'

Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator

AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office

Civo CEO on free credits, egress fees, and hauling it all back on-prem

Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions

Motives of multi-cloud users? Compliance and dodging vendor lock-in top the list

European Commission loves Oracle enough to sign six-year cloud deal

AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types

AWS says it wants in on the European sovereign cloud game

Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe

Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair

Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed

Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive

Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview

UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon

AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon

Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure

AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure

Out with Tech Services 3 and in with Tech Services 4 – UK govt's £12B shopping spree

Gartner says hold onto your wallets as SAP's cloud pitch trades control for convenience

Price rises yet to hit customers, says Salesforce as it raises forecasts

Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under

Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358M

Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps

S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds

AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server

Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'

AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market

Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris

LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm

Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog

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