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- by Dan RobinsonDance! Dance for me! ByteDance may not be the only company hurt by a US ban on TikTok: Oracle put a warning in its recently filed annual report that such a move could hit its revenue and profits as a provider of hosting services.…
- by Brandon VigliaroloThe strategy has changed so much that previously poor channel numbers don't count, we're told HPE's GreenLake strategy has changed so completely that the company said it's impossible to compare poor channel sales numbers just three years ago to the modern GreenLake era.…
- by Dan RobinsonNothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants? Britain's competition watchdog says it is including the public sector in its investigation into the UK cloud services market, following earlier claims that this area could be overlooked.…
- by Richard SpeedCEO tells The Reg about plumping the portfolio and AI Exclusive IT services biz Advania is buying UK IT solutions provider reseller Servium as it continues to bulk out ops.…
- by Simon SharwoodAmazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions VMware by Broadcom has made another change to its licenses – this time by disallowing on-demand use of its software in VMware Cloud on AWS.…
- by Dan RobinsonPricing, licensing, ease of switching and more under the microscope The UK’s competition watchdog says that Microsoft has a “significant degree of market power” in key software products, and that its licensing practices may therefore influence customer choice of cloud providers.…
- by Richard Speed'No agreement has been reached,' Euro cloud lobby insists Microsoft is reportedly preparing to ink a multimillion-euro deal with cloud lobbying group CISPE to make an EU antitrust complaint go away.…
- by Lindsay ClarkAnd guess who has highest margins? Some interesting findings from fresh market watchdog report Microsoft is achieving the highest margins while at the same time achieving the strongest growth in the UK cloud market, according to a working paper from the competition watchdog.…
- by Iain ThomsonOur vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build' Kettle Microsoft held its annual Build developer conference this week with that bizarre Copilot+ PC launch tacked on the side.…
- by Laura DobbersteinMore AZs in its Asian backyard also planned Alibaba Cloud announced on Wednesday it will open its first region in Mexico and expand with building new datacenters across Southeast Asia.…
- by Matthew ConnatserSubscribers in US, Europe, SEA can take silicon out for a spin for free Build Microsoft is bringing its custom-designed Arm-based Cobalt 100 processors closer to the public as it is now demoing the chips in an Azure virtual machine (VM) preview.…
- by Simon SharwoodZero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years IBM has decided the time is right to bring its Power-powered cloud on-prem.…
- by Simon SharwoodPredicts worse to come for customers as he builds AR for slot machines around Nutanix Next Gregg Lowe is feeling thoroughly chuffed about his technology buying decisions.…
- by Tobias MannAI might take your job, but you'll be toasty warm while you starve Google plans to invest €1 billion to expand its datacenter campus in Finland – a move that will both bolster its AI compute capacity and reclaim the thermal energy generated by power hungry accelerators to heat local homes.…
- by Richard SpeedIt'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local AWS is to invest €7.8 billion in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Germany and make the first AWS Region in the State of Brandenburg available to all customers by the end of 2025.…
- by Tobias MannSustained workloads need not apply Updated Amazon Web Services added another set of cost-optimized instances to its EC2 lineup on Tuesday, aimed at customers whose workloads aren't pegging the CPU 100 percent of the time.…
- by Lindsay ClarkLargest local authority in Europe expects to go live with re-implementation Birmingham City Council – Europe's largest local authority, serving over one million customers – has agreed to re-implement an Oracle Fusion system following a failed rollout that saw costs escalate by more than £100 million ($125.6 million) and the authority unable to fulfill its statutory duties.…
- by Laura DobbersteinSoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company SoftBank, once Alibaba's biggest investor, has sold its stake in the Chinese tech company, it told investors on an earnings call.…
- by Richard SpeedDuplication across geographies no defense against the 'one-of-a-kind' accidental deletion Google's Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper's Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.…
- by Laura DobbersteinIntel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore Tech giants including Intel and AWS joined Microsoft and others this week in announcing investments in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to build out infrastructure – cloud services, datacenters, and chipmaking facilities – in anticipation of growing AI demand.…
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