Glitch hits kill switch on app web hosting, citing 'bad actors' and worse architecture
Fastly acquisition asks that redirects be set up before December 31
PaaS + IaaS23 May 2025 | 3
Off-Prem
CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack
Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns
Security23 May 2025 | 1
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 25
Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump
Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers
Systems22 May 2025 | 8
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts
PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 68
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers
Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom
PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America's reach
From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue
PaaS + IaaS21 May 2025 | 25
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things
Google I/O Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 25
Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them
Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster
PaaS + IaaS20 May 2025 | 3
European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent
DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2025 | 17
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry
Applications17 May 2025 | 25
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away
Applications16 May 2025 | 29
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained
SaaS16 May 2025 | 6
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers
On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'
Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 77
Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe
Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatment
Virtualization16 May 2025 | 10
Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters
Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2025 | 15
C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards
CEO Pichai slumming it on a measly $10.725M compared to lieutenants
PaaS + IaaS14 May 2025 | 7
TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade
Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more
Legal12 May 2025 | 4
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Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination
User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it
On Call For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer
US Navy sailor charged in horrific child sextortion case
Blackmailed teen allegedly scared into carving his handle onto her arm
How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30
Feature The coffee shows no signs of cooling
Ivanti makes dedicated fans of Chinese spies who just can't resist attacking its buggy kit
If it ain't broke?
BT managers' union mulls options after 'derisory or non-existent pay rise
Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend
CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack
Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns
Suspected creeps behind DanaBot malware that hit 300K+ computers revealed
And the associated fraud'n'spy botnet is about to be shut down
Feds finger Russian 'behind Qakbot malware' that hit 700K computers
Agents thought they shut this all down in 2023, but the duck quacked again
STORIES
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions
Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson
PaaS + IaaS09 May 2025 | 157
Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency
Updated Do we smell DOGE? Yup
SaaS08 May 2025 | 17
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos
Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed
Security07 May 2025 | 2
Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans
A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money
SaaS06 May 2025 | 2
Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches?
And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere
Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4
China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon
State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance
PaaS + IaaS06 May 2025 | 8
NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely
Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now
PaaS + IaaS02 May 2025 | 4
20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support
Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead
SaaS02 May 2025 | 44
Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands
Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates
Legal02 May 2025 | 7
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure
Nutanix AI solutions make it easy to tailor IT infrastructure for your AI needs, says product lead Ashwini Vasanth
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Microsoft tries to kill the 'pausing datacenter builds must be bad news for AI' trope
Sees economic strife as chance to sell even more stuff than its $70bn Q3 haul
Off-Prem01 May 2025 | 5
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love
+Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it?
AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence
Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them
PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105
Cloud doesn’t mean secure: How Intruder finds what others miss
A cloud security platform that manages the attack surface and security vulnerabilities in AWS
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AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads
What? Why? It’s an update to its Outposts racks hybrid cloud rigs aimed at bankers and telcos
On-Prem30 Apr 2025 | 2
After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade
HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports
Public Sector29 Apr 2025 | 23
Why brave the jet lag? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China have the answers
The cloud native world is evolving fast — and not just in Silicon Valley. Why your next stop should be Hong Kong
Partner content
UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks
Moscow likely to respawn elsewhere
Edge + IoT26 Apr 2025 | 49
Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build
Still plans to invest $75B in CapEx this year as unable to meet capacity demand
On-Prem25 Apr 2025 | 19
India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers
Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jitters
Channel24 Apr 2025 | 18
When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot
Comment Former Microsoft engineer calls the Windows of today 'a tool that's a bit of an adversary'
SaaS23 Apr 2025 | 57
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people
'Europe Stand Tall' campaign kicks off amid fear, uncertainty and doubt about Trump administration
PaaS + IaaS23 Apr 2025 | 69
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 10
Africa's boardless, bossless, generally troubled internet registry to hold elections in June
Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process
Off-Prem22 Apr 2025 |
Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter
Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified
CSO18 Apr 2025 | 6
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure
Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 64
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 119
Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes
Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us
Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17
In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield
Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns
Legal16 Apr 2025 | 50
Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing
Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?
SaaS16 Apr 2025 | 32
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption
When the power went out, they didn’t switch on
Off-Prem15 Apr 2025 | 29
Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months
Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy
OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68
AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary
Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots
AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts
$5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled
Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47
IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency
Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action
Software11 Apr 2025 | 8
Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes
Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports
PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2025 | 8
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs
Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure
AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'
Final update License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub
SaaS10 Apr 2025 | 87
The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast
Cyber-crime10 Apr 2025 | 28
Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in
Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5
Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons
Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2
Google's got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz
Cloud Next How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec
CSO09 Apr 2025 | 7
Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised
Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot
PaaS + IaaS08 Apr 2025 | 37
Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses
With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE
PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2025 | 10
Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption
The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides
PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2025 | 35
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud
And it can be yours for a rather steep $349
OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Comment Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure
Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 6
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend
Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment
Public Sector03 Apr 2025 | 32
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
Double-oh-sh...
CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue
PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 9
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options
£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support
PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 34
Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition
Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer
Software01 Apr 2025 | 121
Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech
Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers
PaaS + IaaS01 Apr 2025 | 7
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
1990s incident response in 2025
PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago
FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live
SaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
Congress takes another swing at Uncle Sam's software licensing mess
SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm?
Public Sector28 Mar 2025 | 21
CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades
That stands for I Probably Overestimated?
AI + ML28 Mar 2025 | 3
Tech suppliers await final grade as Trump prepares to flunk Department of Education
Vendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously
Public Sector27 Mar 2025 | 32
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache
Off-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 11
Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting
Comment Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters?
Off-Prem26 Mar 2025 | 45
There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial
Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod
Cyber-crime25 Mar 2025 | 43
Raspberry Pi Power-over-Ethernet Injector zaps life into networks lacking spark
Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA
Networks24 Mar 2025 | 10
Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data
Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale
Cyber-crime23 Mar 2025 | 29
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA
White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 72
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman
'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks
Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 39
Euro businesses flummoxed by Scope 3 emissions
Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine
On-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 14
Microsoft ducks politico questions on Copilot bundling and lack of consent
Consumer price hikes come amid interrogation of why customers have to opt out of added AI features
Applications21 Mar 2025 | 43
Accenture: DOGE's federal procurement review is hurting our sales
Share price list slides for top ten consultant to US government
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 50
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update
Updated Testing? We've heard of it
Applications20 Mar 2025 | 57
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators
Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it
AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 3
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 136
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year
'Three-year' tech support deal still running
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 18
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market
Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way
Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4
ATMs in the Amazon: Edge is crossing its tipping point, says SUSE CTO
SUSECON 2025 Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making'
Edge + IoT18 Mar 2025 | 5
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud
Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81
Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic
Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting
Software13 Mar 2025 | 3
DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs
Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'
Public Sector12 Mar 2025 | 106
Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices
Cloudy email rises like a zombie, though its digital grave still marked by big red cross
Applications11 Mar 2025 | 33
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed
Off-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more
Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime
Storage11 Mar 2025 | 21
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