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- by Paul KunertTech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution Exclusive Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider.…
- by O'Ryan JohnsonCustomers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.” Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a “major outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when ingesting files, and receiving error messages for 13 hours, the company wrote in […]
- by Joe FayBuild a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war NATO is in an existential race to develop sovereign cloud-based technologies to underpin its mission, the alliance's Assistant Secretary General for Cyber and Digital Transformation told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) last week.…
- by Tobias MannBig Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week Oracle last week announced that it had divested from Ampere Computing. But while Big Red may no longer own part of the Arm CPU maker, it's not ready to stop using the chips just yet.…
- by Connor JonesCritical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move Microsoft is overhauling its bug bounty program to reward exploit hunters for finding vulnerabilities across all its products and services, even those without established bounty schemes.…
- by Connor JonesJustice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements The US is suing a former senior manager at Accenture for allegedly misleading the government about the security of an Army cloud platform.…
- by Richard SpeedCompetition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial Stop us if you've heard this one before. Microsoft is in court regarding allegedly sharp software licensing practices.…
- by Dan RobinsonDOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia President Trump's "Genesis Mission" is taking shape with the award of more than $320 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to advance AI in scientific research.…
- by Thomas ClaburnBut if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming Oracle expects its FY 2026 capital expenditures will be $15 billion higher that previously predicted, as the cloudy database biz invests to accommodate AI workloads.…
- by Corey QuinnBut the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for AWS CEO Matt Garman's annual re:Invent keynote was the best kind of keynote, in that you could have slept in for nearly all of it and still been thrilled to pieces, provided you caught the last ten minutes. He […]
- by Lindsay ClarkKendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants The UK tech minister has promised more whole-government deals with industry giants following its £9 billion agreement with Microsoft, and is seeking to target cloud service providers.…
- by Richard SpeedProject cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy.…
- by Richard SpeedOVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access A Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections.…
- by Simon Sharwood60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.…
- by Dan RobinsonMcKinsey points out the quandary facing companies like CoreWeave So-called neocloud companies are facing a dilemma: They need to move up the AI stack to avoid being commoditized, but they risk competing against their big hyperscale customers if they do.…
- by Simon SharwoodFour-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has revealed it’s spent four years trying to reduce dangerous internal dependencies, and while it has rebuilt its PaaS, it still has issues – but thinks they’re now manageable.…
- by Dan RobinsonGoogle and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base The big three cloud companies are all growing thanks to an expanding market, but Amazon is under increasing pressure from Microsoft and Google, while newcomers are on the rise.…
- by Lindsay ClarkB&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain In 2020, SAP's CFO told investors that its plans for customer upgrades, cloud migration, and a move to SaaS would give the German software vendor a greater "share of wallet."…
- by Lindsay ClarkEuropean Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.…
- by Richard SpeedStarlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out Amazon has rebranded its satellite broadband plan from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. And no, Leo doesn't stand for "Late Entrants Only," even though the project is years behind Starlink and still not ready for anyone to use.…
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