New release of Cloud Pak coming soon, but VMware and Micro Focus are way out in front In October 2020, IBM bet the business on hybrid cloud. But analyst firm Forrester has just rated Big Blue a mere “Contender” for hybrid cloud management, well behi…
Lees meerNathan Simington not qualified, they claim, and installed to create deadlock Two leading Democratic senators and a range of advocacy groups have condemned a partisan effort to force through confirmation of a new FCC commissioner.…
Lees meerAgrees to acquire UK outfit IMImobile for $730m US networking giant Cisco has agreed to buy London-based cloud comms business IMImobile in a $730m (roughly £550m) all-cash deal.…
Lees meerDeferred prosecution agreement offered to Meng Wanzhou US prosecutors have reportedly offered Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou a deferred prosecution agreement. If accepted, the deal will have charges deferred and eventually dismissed, but will require Meng …
Lees meerPlan is to get public sector buying services straight from suppliers The UK government has launched a £750m procurement looking for platform and infrastructure services direct from public cloud providers - the latest in a bewildering array of UK.gov…
Lees meerDigging into the tech and strategy with compute services veep Deepak Singh Interview At its virtual re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced Amazon EKS and ECS Anywhere, a move Canonical said enables EKS to run "anywhere you can…
Lees meerPanto season arrives at Vulture Central On Call Welcome back to On Call, this week with some pantomime-like japes. 'Tis the season after all.…
Lees meerServices spend lands on your AWS bill. Is that enough to get you buying with a click? Amazon Web Services has added the chance to purchase third-party professional services to its online software Marketplace.…
Lees meerUndereaction a sign of investor 'confidence/insanity' in the Snowflake sales engine, says analyst Snowflake has reported its first financials since becoming a multi-billion dollar stock market darling, showing triple digit but slowing revenue growth…
Lees meerAn event we will never forget, says dreamweaver-in-chief Marc Benioff Wishing "happy holidays" to any of those sharing his winter-wonderland stage, Marc Benioff presented an outwardly jolly figure as he rattled through the world-domination plan of S…
Lees meerAlternative networks have Ofcom on speed-dial BT-owned Openreach has slapped a "massive" price increase on connections used by alternative networks for FTTP aggregation, with critics claiming it will "revert the country to a BT monopoly".…
Lees meerHas the TLD debacle forced ISOC back to its roots? Maybe The Internet Society has agreed to place the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on a firmer footing with a six-year funding commitment.…
Lees meerWhile also making it harder to label dedicated and skilled sysadmins as recalcitrant box-huggers COMMENT Amazon Web Services poured out a deluge of news yesterday, but the most significant announcement could be an unusual and, I think, very signifi…
Lees meerTelecoms regulator now firmly a part of the burnt partisan landscape Analysis Although the Trump administration is in its final days, the destructive partisan politics it has persistently fanned are still in full effect at the FCC.…
Lees meerAnd HPE is the one to do it, yeah? Better late than never, right? HPE CEO Antonio Neri has at last congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US election, taking the opportunity to urge his administration to focus on digital transformation.…
Lees meerAWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises' Databases are moving to the cloud but Azure is expensive, Google has suspect support, and AWS is blinkered about multicloud, Gartner has observed in its …
Lees meerGawd bless us, every one! TalkTalk Business customers (at least those using the talktalkbusiness.net email domain) opened the second door of their advent calendars this morning and were rewarded with... an extension to the switch-off date.…
Lees meerWith Trump on the way out, 2021 is going to be digital levy a-go-go time Like it or not, tech giants are all going to face sizable tax bills starting next year. Probably.…
Lees meerOther Mac hosts are rather cheaper. And Azure has had cloudy Macs for months. But AWS still has a play here If you plan to use one of Amazon Web Services’ new bare-metal Mac instances in its cloud for more than 77 days a year, you may be better off …
Lees meerNew customs software that digitises internal trade was just the beginning The European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trading bloc have vowed to intensify their digital trade and connectivity links in ways that could ri…
Lees meerOpen source emulator wishes you a merry VM every day between now and Christmas Open source type 2 hypervisor QEMU has brought back its advent calendar.…
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