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'Goodbye' in several languages on a wall at Hong Kong airport

Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture

Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned

Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings

As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out

Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell

Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake

Illustration of a data lake with numbers superimposed over a lake

Edge processing revolution: Rethinking AI data infrastructures

F5 iRules, programmability delivering speed, consistency, and TCO benefits

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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

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

Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft

El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive

Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026

Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers

Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator

Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps

Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data

Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members

Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint

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

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

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

Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?

£75 million in the offing in government tender

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

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

European cloud providers locked in talks with Microsoft over licensing complaint

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

AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office

Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers

Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god

At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever

Andy Jassy during AWS reinvent 2020 keynote

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

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

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

All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please

Alibaba Cloud to bring its AI PaaS out from behind the Great Firewall

Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm

Busy freeway filled with cars bumper to bumper

How TCP's congestion control saved the internet

We guess it's OK it did

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

Someone paying for a coffee in a cafe using a Square terminal

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

It's not hip to be this Square

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

Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected

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

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

Someone in an office looking irritated by invoices and bills

Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue

To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast

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

That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting

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Composition of three illustrations of Intel Sapphire Rapids dies

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

Pay for features like SGX through OEMs

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

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

Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'

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

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People visit Lenovo, a Chinese multinational technology company booth during CEE 2017, the largest electronics trade show of Ukraine

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

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

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

Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier

Move over, GitLab, this purge begins in October

Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains

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

Infrastructure services giants still weighed down by clouds

Kyndryl and DXC Technology report declining revenues and worsening bottom line

Abstract illustration of data flowing through a data center

World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before

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

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

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

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

Your top 5 liquid cooling quandaries answered, according to Omdia

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

Illustration of dollar symbols hanging over clouds

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

Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars

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

Will Lenovo ever think beyond hardware?

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

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

Hyperscalers hog the good stuff

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

Or some approximation of that

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduces Anthos as the Cloud Next event

Google recasts Anthos with hitch to AWS Outposts

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

Price hikes, cloud expansion drive record datacenter spending

High unit costs and fixed capex budgets propelling enterprises cloudwards

HPE Greenlake to power Taeknizon private cloud expansion in UAE

Isn't this the definition of a middle man?

Alibaba Cloud challenges AWS with its own custom smartNIC

Who'll board the custom silicon bandwagon next?

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

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

Team Oracle 8 ailerons custom built plane flies in front of the Chicago skyline

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

Cowboy silhouette on a horse during sunset

Google's Dallas datacenter opens up new cloud region

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

DigitalOcean sets sail for serverless seas with Functions feature

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

AWS SVP Peter De Santis presents Graviton 3

AWS puts latest homebrew Graviton3 Arm processor in production

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

Cloud server room. Photo by Shutterstock

SmartNICs power the cloud, are enterprise datacenters next?

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

American Airlines decides to cruise into Azure's cloud

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

Tencent happily parting ways with loss-making cloud customers

Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China

Someone trying to use a tablet computer under water

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

Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner

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

An abstract illustration of a flexible network

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

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

Tencent Cloud ends pursuit of 'revenue growth at all costs'

Plans more SaaS and PaaS, and to stop selling IaaS at a loss

Illustration of racks of servers and storage systems in the cloud

DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft

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

AWS to build 32 more small clouds around the world

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

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

Diagnosis confirmed: Oracle has a case of healthcare cravings, bought Cerner for $28.3bn as the cure

Deal will see Cerner's systems shifted to the Big Red Cloud and medicos given hands-free voice interface

AI to be bigger than IaaS and PaaS combined by 2025

$500bn a year to be spent on electro-brain and supporting tech vs $400bn on cloud infrastructure

IaaS is a lousy business, says Chinese web giant Tencent: PaaS and SaaS is how we’ll make money in the cloud

Big buyers understand infrastructure economics – and aren’t afraid to screw down providers' prices

printing press making UK GBP 20 pound notes

UK government puts £750m on the table as it looks to deal directly with cloud providers

Plan is to get public sector buying services straight from suppliers