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- by Lindsay ClarkApologizes for 'inaccuracy' Exclusive Microsoft has said one of its leading spokespeople gave testimony to the UK Parliament containing an "inaccuracy" with regard to its dealings with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to US sanctions.…
- by Simon SharwoodYour chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC Amazon Web Services has enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances.…
- by Joe FayCompetitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry The US Federal Trade Commission has sent out a raft of civil investigative demands to Microsoft's competitors as it warms up a probe into whether the cloud and software giant has an illegal monopoly across chunks of the enterprise tech […]
- by Dan RobinsonBig Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.…
- by Simon SharwoodStill supported with no death date set, but no new features planned Salesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.…
- by Lindsay ClarkGartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers Updated European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.…
- by Richard SpeedBusinesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means – and how much it matters – vary widely between organizations and sectors. While public bodies are often driven by regulation […]
- by SA Mathieson37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility The courts system in England and Wales has moved 37 applications out of two outdated datacenters, although some will use a temporary hosting facility until they are replaced, according to the senior civil servant responsible.…
- by Liam ProvenOpen source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech Open Source Policy Summit 2026 European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.…
- by Dan RobinsonService terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech Exclusive Amazon is warning users of its media services that it will not protect them against patent infringement claims relating to media codec technology supported by those services.…
- by Simon SharwoodAs analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out If you’re brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering it as a service.…
- by Tobias MannE-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in Amazon Web Services' European expansion has hit the buffers as the American cloud provider grapples with aging grid infrastructure and lengthy interconnect delays.…
- by Richard SpeedManaged Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform Microsoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting Virtual Machine management ops yesterday and a Managed Identity for Azure resources outage in East US and West US regions today.…
- by Carly PageGovernments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructure US tariffs may be squeezing Europe's trade balance, but they are also pushing governments and businesses to spend big on keeping tech closer to home.…
- by Dan RobinsonAnalyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks Countries intent on digital sovereignty will need to invest at least 1 percent of their entire gross domestic product (GDP) into AI infrastructure by 2029, according to analyst biz Gartner.…
- by Matt RosoffIt's not your fault Opinion It's not your fault Amazon hired you for a position that it no longer deems necessary – blame bad planning or unanticipated market conditions. Everybody guesses wrong sometimes, even with the power of the most sophisticated business analysis software and the smartest prognosticators one can hire.…
- by Richard SpeedBut did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users reported an outage late last week in its London region, yet despite complaints from Register readers, Big Red is staying quiet.…
- by Richard SpeedCascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time Microsoft Azure, or at least the part of it that handles the OpenAI service in the Sweden Central region, was down and out for the count yesterday, leaving users facing errors for much of the working day.…
- by Corey QuinnThe cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it For a decade, AWS's position on multi-cloud was clear: don't.…
- by Paul KunertThankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations Alaska Air's CEO says IT outages last year damaged the company on multiple fronts despite "triple redundancies" built into its disaster recovery plan.…
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