PaaS + IaaS AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper
SaaS Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks
PaaS + IaaS VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock
Off-Prem Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away
Off-Prem UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it
SaaS ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'
Off-Prem ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts
Off-Prem AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job
SaaS Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party
Off-Prem Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs AI is driving more searches and ads
Off-Prem Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand
SaaS Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change' Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users
PaaS + IaaS Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos
PaaS + IaaS Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up
SaaS Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees
PaaS + IaaS UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure
PaaS + IaaS One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders
PaaS + IaaS Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform
SaaS Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier
PaaS + IaaS Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit
Edge + IoT Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems
SaaS How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough 'AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,' SVP John Aisien told us
Edge + IoT UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad
PaaS + IaaS Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies
SaaS How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents
SaaS Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access With access to great data comes great responsibility
PaaS + IaaS Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise
PaaS + IaaS Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel
SaaS Minnesota State payroll problems grew after Workday launch, auditors say Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platform
PaaS + IaaS Yahoo! Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack
PaaS + IaaS Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people
SaaS Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services
PaaS + IaaS 'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed
Off-Prem UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms
SaaS ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp The 13-year sales vet closed two deals worth $27 million, but ServiceNow has “nullified” his compensation saying he “overachieved” his quota.
PaaS + IaaS AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.
PaaS + IaaS Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push
Off-Prem Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift
SaaS Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economics
SaaS Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI Customers are 'excited' says one solution provider
Edge + IoT The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware
SaaS Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce Just the team, not the tech
Channel 'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'
Off-Prem Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog
SaaS Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price
Off-Prem Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party
SaaS Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for now
PaaS + IaaS Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing' 24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement
PaaS + IaaS Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34%, blames hardware costs and AI demand Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own silicon
Off-Prem AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart
Off-Prem BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead
SaaS Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066 'We want to use our capital correctly, and I think debt is a great way to do that,' says CEO Benioff
Off-Prem AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint
SaaS Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job
SaaS Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI Company is ‘reshaping our skill mix’ amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers
SaaS Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the job
SaaS Oracle says AI coding tools are helping it dodge the SaaSpocalypse Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books
Edge + IoT Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks
SaaS Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027 Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up
Edge + IoT UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal
Off-Prem Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war
SaaS Okta CEO ‘paranoid’ as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears It’s ok, Todd. You’re only paranoid if you’re wrong.
PaaS + IaaS AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover
PaaS + IaaS Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again
PaaS + IaaS Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft
SaaS Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code
Channel Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst
PaaS + IaaS AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery
Off-Prem AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!
SaaS SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle
SaaS Half of German-speaking SAP users set to blow past 2027 ECC support deadline Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030
Off-Prem NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link fun
PaaS + IaaS Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do
Channel OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up.
PaaS + IaaS Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid
Off-Prem Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth clouds
SaaS Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise
SaaS Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive
PaaS + IaaS Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'
PaaS + IaaS Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort
SaaS Palantir spent $25M on CEO flights so Alex Karp could do all the talking A hundred days a year in the air doesn't come cheap
Channel As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered HPE and Cisco are adjusting terms and conditions
SaaS Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle Apologizes for 'inaccuracy'
Off-Prem X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load 'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise
PaaS + IaaS FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry
SaaS ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.”
SaaS Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions
Edge + IoT Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum' Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections
Off-Prem Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud! Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game
PaaS + IaaS Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned
Off-Prem It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year
PaaS + IaaS Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra
PaaS + IaaS AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles
SaaS Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit
Off-Prem Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted
PaaS + IaaS Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
