Cloud-giant-with-a-gift-shop gearing up for the long game Amazon today reported $75.5bn in revenue for the first quarter of 2020, higher than expected though eroded by exceptional expenses. And it told investors to get used to its free spending ways…
Lees meerInsists: It was the supply chain! We'll get the sales back later this year Nokia Oyj told the market this morning that it estimates the novel coronavirus has "had an approximately €200m negative impact" on its Q1 2020 sales, mostly due to "supply ch…
Lees meerManaged databases that feel like they're caressed in cloud Wipro and Nutanix have bonded over managing databases after the Indian services company has created a new range of “Digital Database Services” based on the hyperconverged upstart’s tooling.…
Lees meerOnly in China ‘for the moment’ which leaves the world to conquer VMware’s partnership with Alibaba has borne fruit behind the Great Firewall…
Lees meerThe Social Network™ is predictably busy but says that won't last Facebook will defer $3bn of spending on infrastructure because it's hard to build data centres while working from home.…
Lees meerThe spice must flow seems to be the gist of it, along with JD's cloudy ambitions Cloudflare, which has often taken a stance on freedom of speech issues, has now vastly extended its reach into China – where the government routinely censors its citize…
Lees meerCOVID-19 had 'minimal net impact' on sales, Windows giant claims Microsoft on Wednesday revealed its financial figures for the past three virus-addled months – and there was some up, and some down.…
Lees meerMillions to go to lawyers after legal brouhaha ends in settlement Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by folks upset that the iGiant broke FaceTime overnight on their iPhones. The settlement amounts to about five bucks a device…
Lees meerOh goody. Yet another tech support channel for relatives to abuse Google is making its Meet video-chat service free to anyone who wants it, as long as you have a Google account.…
Lees meerPhil Davis ups sticks, takes new job that lets him emigrate to family in Australia In a seemingly abrupt departure, HPE has confirmed that Phil Davis, who runs its Hybrid IT division and the ultimately the global sales team, is leaving at the end of…
Lees meerNew dump of tracing data and pair of papers reveal plenty about ad giant’s internal operations Google has published a huge trove of new data describing the performance of the "Borg" clusters that deliver its services and the antecedent to Kubernetes…
Lees meerChip challenger announces 40 percent Q1 growth, but lowers guidance Chip challenger AMD has posted a strong set of Q1 results, and made the now-rare decision to provide guidance for the remainder of the year – but also lowered its guidance for that …
Lees meerAfter 18 months, they can just fall over. The fix is asking Borgzilla for a new one Resistors, which cost a few cents apiece, are bricking pricey Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASAs).…
Lees meerDoes anything really matter when you have $100bn in the bank and pocketing nearly $7bn a quarter in profit? Google parent Alphabet’s financial figures for its first quarter of 2020 were a mixed bag. Two months of business as usual, if not better tha…
Lees meerNo wonder Larry Ellison went on YouTube to heap praise on the web-conferencing upstart A few weeks ago a baseball-capped Larry Ellison stuck a short video on YouTube praising Zoom to the skies, calling it "an essential service." Now we have an idea …
Lees meer'Not caused by a spike in usage or a lack of network capacity,' says Brit ISP Broadband outages have soared since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, per data from US network intelligence firm ThousandEyes. Among the most recent victims is Virgin Me…
Lees meerAlso: Java 8 support? Linux? Ah yes – that would be the new Microsoft Microsoft has slung a Kafka Extension for Azure Functions out to preview as well as sneaking in Java 8 support for Linux hosting.…
Lees meerGoogle shores up security for biz users Google has upped security for business customers using its G Suite package, including Windows 10 administration, data loss prevention rules, and access rules based on where you are and what device you are usin…
Lees meerGood option for locals and lowest latency for Austria, Bulgaria and Greece too AWS has opened a new region in Milan, Italy.…
Lees meerAs Azure adds Intel's much-probed SGX to its confidential zone Google’s decided UEFI the right to secure cloud VMs, by making its Shielded VMs the default option in its cloud.…
Lees meerIt's pin-everything-on-China season America's communications watchdog will ban four Chinese telcos from operating in the Land of the Free from next month, citing a vague national security threat.…
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