Showing posts with label Cloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cloud. Show all posts

Monday, 12 October 2020

Amazon-like megacorps dominating various online sectors could become norm for pandemic-stricken planet

Certain business models work better than others when most people avoid human contact

Shifts in consumer behaviour could see a handful of companies come to dominate the online food, education and leisure industries, as Amazon has in e-commerce, according to research.…



via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/12/rsa_covid_19_work_automation/

Comms API merchant Twilio spanks $3.2bn in stock to gobble data slurper Segment

Spending spree continues in the 'customer engagement' space as online sales segment grows and grows

Cloud communications outfit Twilio has found a way to spend some of its lockdown money, snapping up "customer data" specialist Segment in a cash-free deal worth approximately $3.2bn.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/12/twilio_segment/

AWS makes its own Arm CPUs the default for ElastiCache in-memory data store service

Bills home-brewed silicon as the upgrade path to better Redis or memcached

Amazon Web Services has made its home-brewed Arm-powered Graviton2 CPUs the default for its ElastiCache service.…



via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/12/aws_makes_graviton2_default_for_elasticache/

Friday, 9 October 2020

Google contractor HCL America accused of retaliating against unionized techies by shifting US jobs to Poland

Pittsburgh workforce erosion, punitive policies cited in labor complaint

The US National Labor Relations Board has bundled a series of complaints alleging labor law violations against IT services firm HCL America (HCL Technologies), which supplies contract workers like data analysts to a Google office in Pittsburgh, into a case to be heard in February.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/09/hcl_union_challenge/

How’s everyone else managing their data amid all this upheaval? Find out here…

Stay home, log into Druva’s DxP virtual summit – and still get the t-shirt

Promo  A lot has changed over the past six months, but one thing hasn’t: your company’s data is still its most important asset, and protecting it is crucial.…



via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/09/data_management_druva/

Thursday, 8 October 2020

Tableau continues to pursue monogamish marriage a year after Salesforce nuptials

Sure, Salesforce is our main squeeze but we're open to suggestions

Analysis  Entering a marriage, it might be tough to keep old flames alive but that's what Tableau is trying to do as it gets closer to Salesforce, the enterprise application company which announced a $15.7m merger in June last year.…



via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/08/tableau_salesforce_plans/

Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Yes, it's down again: Microsoft's Office 365 takes yet another mid-week tumble off the edge of the internet

Come back, Word 97, all is forgiven

Microsoft says it is working on figuring out why its cloud-based unproductivity suite Office 365 is down yet again for unlucky subscribers.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/07/office_365_outage/

A freshly formed English council waves £18m at UK tech industry, asks: Can somebody design and run pretty much everything for us?

The IT services wish list is about what you'd expect from an 18-month-old

Barely 18 months old, newly formed Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council has offered £18m to private sector IT and consultancy firms, asking if they can take on, well, almost everything.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/07/bcp_council_18m_tender_notice/

DigitalOcean decides to head rivals off at the PaaS, floats App Platform to deploy, run code without juggling servers

If you fear you'll drown in AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, maybe this is a wave you'd like to catch

Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider DigitalOcean dipped its toes into the Platform-as-a-Service waters on Tuesday with the launch of App Platform.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/07/digitalocean_paas_app_platform/

Big Tech faces its Ma Bell moment: US House Dems' report demands break-up of internet 'monopolists'

'These once scrappy, underdog startups have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons'

A long-awaited congressional report into Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google has been published – and it concludes the online giants are monopolists that need to be broken up.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/06/tech_giants_antitrust/

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

New Workspace for your WFH office? Nah, it's just Google shooting G Suite with the rebrandogun

Microsoft isn't the only company to fiddle with its iconography

Google has fired a rebrandogun loaded with fresh icons at its G Suite platform. Prepare to relinquish the suite life and put nose to the grindstone in Google's "Workspace".…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/06/google_workspace/

Yorkshire authority seeks £3m 'modern, cloud-based, future-proof ERP solution' in as few products as possible

No pressure

West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) is on the hunt for a new £3m ERP system amid an IT services revamp.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/06/yorkshire_authority_seeks_3m_erp/

Monday, 5 October 2020

Fujitsu gets ready to eat its own dogfood as company-wide digital transformation project kicks off

Project 'Fujitra' includes One ERP project to rule 'em all: What could go wrong?

Japanese computing veteran Fujitsu is embarking on a company-wide digital transformation, including a particularly complex-sounding piece of work to standardise operations using a single system for business processes, data, and IT.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/fujitsu_project_fujitra_transformation/

TalkTalk marches OneTel users into a brave new email world

You will be upgraded, whether you want to be or not

The UK's favourite* telecoms outfit, TalkTalk, has continued its impressive track record of delighting customers with a forced upgrade of legacy OneTel.com users to the shiny new TalkTalk Mail.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/talktalk_onetel/

Friday, 2 October 2020

Microsoft says bug, sorry, 'a latent defect' in Safe Deployment Process system downed Azure Active Directory

We're taking steps to prevent this from happening again, says Redmond

Microsoft has blamed a software bug for the service disruption on Monday and Tuesday that affected customers using Azure Active Directory-dependent applications.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/02/microsoft_azure_bug/

Thursday, 1 October 2020

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Not one to be outdone by Microsoft, Apple's cloud fell over too. Unlike Microsoft, it hasn't said what happened

Apple TV, iCloud Mail, iWork for iCloud, App Store and more go TITSUP*

The rivalry between Apple and Microsoft continued last night as the fruity firm's cloud services took a tumble a mere day after Azure crapped itself.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/09/30/apple_services_down/

Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users, skyrocketing numbers, and the spectre of Microsoft

Get to 100 million customers, 1% pays $100 a year, and bam! $100m business

Microsoft unveiled its latest crack at getting customers organised last month with Project Moca, but Redmond's scattergun approach to planning tools has left many a little confused. The Register spoke to Trello co-founder Michael Pryor about keeping things simple.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/09/30/trello_pryor/

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft

Does Redmond have a reliability problem?

Comment  Microsoft has fixed an issue with its OneDrive and SharePoint services where users were unable to sign in, caused by a faulty remediation for the earlier Azure Active Directory outage.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/09/29/onedrive_azure_active_directory_outage/

Wanna get all those PST files off your network and into the cloud? We can help

Join us and Quadrotech on September 30 and learn how to finally escape the 1990s

Webcast  Aging file formats are always a pain, but how often do you consider the implications of the seemingly innocuous PST files that may be spread around your organization.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/09/29/get_pst_off_your_network/