Kubernetes adoption is only driving up cloud costs further
Kubernetes adoption is raising cloud costs even more than before for most organisations. More employees should be aware of their expenses, respondents to a survey by the CNCF claim.
Nearly half (49 percent) of respondents say they are spending more money on cloud services since adopting Kubernet... Read more
What is serverless? Is it simple, scalable and cheap?
Serverless computing promises great things for businesses and developers. Whereas the rise of the cloud made the running of on-prem computing optional, a serverless approach offers the chance to never have to maintain servers again on top of that. However, some issues tend to throw a spanner in the... Read more
EU law will require aviation and banks to handle cloud services more securely
The EU wants to extend the scope of rules for cyber security certificates to a wider range of sectors. With the expansion, airlines and financial institutions will only be allowed to store data with certified cloud providers. Although the rules do not exactly match the term sovereign cloud, non-Eur... Read more
X slashes its bills with on-prem adoption: is a wider ‘cloud exit’ imminent?
A little over a year ago, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion. A lot of PR turbulence followed, including a rebrand, ever-shifting revenue models, the platform's API getting fenced off and free speech-related controversies. Regardless, there's one decision that appears to have paid off in sp... Read more
Google constructs giant undersea internet cable between U.S. and Europe
Google has announced a new undersea Internet cable project. Project Nuvem is to connect the US state of South Carolina to Bermuda and Portugal. This should allow more users to use Google's cloud services.
Google has been investing in building undersea Internet connections for several years. Acco... Read more
Google’s new Pricing API should keep cloud costs manageable
Google has unveiled a new API that maps out costs for cloud services. An improvement on the existing Billing Catalog API, the new option with outlining prices should take more account of the specific situation of the company in question. Pricing API is available in public preview form to any custom... Read more
InfluxData could still recover data from Belgian customers after ‘sudden’ departure
Alarm bells went off for several Belgian organizations at the end of June when they discovered that all their data had been deleted from the InfluxData platform. The company investigated the possibility of recovering the data after many complainted on the company's forum. The company told us the da... Read more
DigitalOcean buys AI startup Paperspace for $111 million
DigitalOcean is acquiring cloud infrastructure player Paperspace for $111 million (102 million euros). With this, DigitalOcean aims to provide its public cloud platform with more support for AI workloads.
DigitalOcean provides a public cloud platform for SMBs. With the acquisition of the startup... Read more
IBM to discontinue Cloud for Education environment at the end of 2023
IBM will discontinue its Education Cloud environment as of Nov. 30. Cloud for Education had been available for two years, offering users of academic institutions cloud-based infrastructure and services for their computing needs.
The product consisted of offering cloud-based vm's for research. T... Read more
Google accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive practices in the cloud
Google has filed a complaint to the U.S. FTC about Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive practices in the cloud. By allowing its own Windows Server and Office services to run in Azure without additional payment, Microsoft is allegedly discouraging customers from choosing a cloud competitor.
Curre... Read more