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Cloud

119 new AWS services and features in 30 words each

A one-stop-shop of new AWS services with pictures of adorable animals for your sanity

Cybersecurity

2022's last Patch Tuesday brings Citrix, VMware, MSFT zero days

Critical Citrix, VMware, Microsoft vulnerabilities all need patching

CEO

The Big Interview: Can new Atos CEO Nourdine Bihmane fix the troubled outsourcer?

He joined The Stack to talk fighting the cloud, excessive centralisation and more...

Cloud

Microsoft buys 4% of London Stock Exchange; LSEG to spend $2.8bn on cloud

Two will co-develop new analytics services, migrate data infrastructre to Azure

Enterprise IT

US Army officially world's biggest Teams user as legacy email killed off

Army 365 migration completed

Enterprise IT

Manchester United's CEO of Digital Products & Experiences, Phil Lynch, on fans, data, partners

Phil Lynch on using data to improve the fan experience, and working with DXC Technology

Cybersecurity

Rackspace confirms ransomware attack on $30m biz; 200k affected

Rackspace has confirmed that it was hit by ransomware. The incident on December 2 affected its hosted Microsoft Exchange offering, leaving hundreds of thousands of customer email inboxes inaccessible. The scale of the attack is significant. Rackspace said its Hosted Exchange business generates $30 million in annual revenue – but has

Enterprise IT

One single HMG department is running 600+ unsupported apps

Defra legacy IT issues mean department is running some 2,000 applications, 30% of them unsupported. The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is running 600+ applications that are end of life (EOL), or no longer supported with software updates by their suppliers; a severe potential

Cybersecurity

The slow demise of the VPN: 5 lessons from DoD's Zero Trust framework

From culture to SASE, DevSecOps to network segmentation

Enterprise IT

Salesforce loses 3 CEOs in a week: “Don’t think you’ll get out of this alive”

Three Salesforce CEOs have quit in a week. Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield has followed Tableau CEO Mark Nelson and Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor out of the door, as shares at the software firm slid. Salesforce announced the abrupt departure of co-CEO Bret Taylor on November 30. Tableau CEO

Cybersecurity

Rackspace hacked: Hosted Exchange Servers down as it warns of “extended outage”

Here's a free migration to the cloud, nevermind your old emails...

Cloud

AWS Application Composer brings low-code to serverless app builds

Today's top trio of AWS releases

Featured

AWS’s CEO missed an open goal on cost fears. It didn't go unnoticed

Adam Selipsky misses the chance for a Destiny's Child moment...

Cybersecurity

UK to expand NIS Regulations, bring MSPs, data centres in scope

It's going to cost suppliers too under proposed new cost recovery rules...

Featured

How Ukrainian, AWS officials scrambled to save government data

On the day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine – February 24 — AWS officials met with representatives of Ukraine’s government in their London embassy to discuss how they could help save the government’s data. As AWS’s Liam Maxwell, Director of Government Transformation put it on November 30: “We sketched

Cloud

AWS’s re:Invent is back with a bang in Vegas and all about the “p” word

Neither profit, nor the other p-word; read on...

Cloud

AWS touts a "zero-ETL" future but has more than a little work to do

Aurora + Redshift + Spark...

Enterprise IT

Crisis' Christmas campaign gets an IT overhaul

If you’ve been on the London Underground recently, you’ll no doubt have seen the large billboard posters advertising Crisis’ annual Christmas appeal to help the homeless, writes Simon Clark, CEO, Aimar Foundation. Since 1967, the charity has been supporting the most disadvantaged in society at Christmas, helping to

Cloud

Neither inferno, nor price hikes quell OVHcloud, as EU sovereignty focus drives business

Analysts expecting European cloud provider OVHcloud to haemorrhage customers in the wake of a devastating 2021 data centre fire or recent price hikes look away: The company reported a net revenue retention rate of 114% for its fiscal 2022 and has now clinched a €200 million credit facility from the

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Tough market forces tech startups to make a hard pivot on customers

"He knows his whole back's to these ropes/it don't matter/he's dope/he knows that/but he's broke" - Eminem

Featured

Microsoft's CTO touts S2C2F: IT leaders, pay heed to this one

A highly practical framework to boost the security of open source consumption

Cybersecurity

There's a howling gap in offshore oil and gas cybersecurity oversight

A federal watchdog is not pulling punches

Featured

Cisco backlogs still "far exceed historical levels" says executives

Cisco takes a $600m hit on layoffs, restructuring

Cybersecurity

Infosys leak: IT firm left “god mode” AWS S3 key exposed on PyPi

"Our infrastructure has not been impacted by this incident and there is no loss of data."

Policy

Searching for search: UK Gov wants to dump GOV.UK Elasticsearch

"We would also like to reduce the long term maintenance work..."