Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022 Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars Off-Prem04 Jul 2022 | 1
Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds Software27 Jun 2022 | 10
Adobe apologizes for repeated outages of its Creative Cloud video collaboration service Frame.io admits it was 'slow to scale as demand rose Off-Prem15 Jun 2022 | 12
Datacenter networks: You'll manage them from the cloud, eventually, claims Cisco Nexus portfolio undergoes cloudy Software-as-a-Service revamp Systems14 Jun 2022 | 4
Oracle cloud growth up 19% but it's still a market minnow Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt SaaS14 Jun 2022 | 1
Governments opt for XaaS, dump datacenters in droves Outsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2022 | 4
Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360 Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 1
UK Home Office awards Oracle a deal extension worth tens of millions Fellow travelers in the Whitehall shared services journey await their SaaS move SaaS07 Jun 2022 | 5
Salesforce shrugs off economic uncertainty with upbeat Q1 results CEO admits integration of mega-mergers remains an ongoing project Applications01 Jun 2022 |
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming Virtualization27 May 2022 | 45
ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions SaaS25 May 2022 |
Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag PaaS + IaaS20 Apr 2022 | 9
Block claims ex-employee downloaded customer data after leaving firm Leak highlights worker offboarding policies as SaaS use grows Security06 Apr 2022 | 10
Sophos fixes critical hijack flaw in firewall offering Authentication bypass followed by remote-code execution at the network boundary Security28 Mar 2022 |
Okta acknowledges 'mistake' in handling of Lapsus$ attack Changes story again to say customers weren't in danger, admits it waited for incident report instead of asking tough questions Security28 Mar 2022 | 11
ServiceNow jumps into RPA with imminent 'San Diego' release Will bring bots to workflow users, perhaps not with the same precision RPA specialists muster Software24 Mar 2022 | 1
Tencent Cloud ends pursuit of 'revenue growth at all costs' Plans more SaaS and PaaS, and to stop selling IaaS at a loss PaaS + IaaS24 Mar 2022 | 2
Alphabet spins off quantum AI 'Sandbox' Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt sticks his own cash into startup and rules as chairman AI + ML22 Mar 2022 | 3
Northwest England councils in £31m SaaS HR system tender Procurement comes as Manchester City Council looks for SAP next steps Databases18 Mar 2022 | 5
Salesforce sued in attempt to block release of Capitol riot info CRM giant pleased to be named yet again on World's Most Ethical Companies list SaaS16 Mar 2022 | 51
MongoDB to terminate Russian SaaS accounts No service for NoSQL users contrasts with continuous clouds from other players Databases15 Mar 2022 | 11
Intel eyes subscriptions to grow software sales from 2021's $100m Analysis SaaS-y x86 goliath dreams of recurring revenue SaaS11 Mar 2022 | 17
CommVault merges Asian region into EMEA – four months after SaaS launch Won't say why world's fastest-growing region doesn't deserve its own management nor detail impact on customers Storage10 Feb 2022 | 3
All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021 Databases06 Jan 2022 | 5
Diagnosis confirmed: Oracle has a case of healthcare cravings, bought Cerner for $28.3bn as the cure Deal will see Cerner's systems shifted to the Big Red Cloud and medicos given hands-free voice interface Applications21 Dec 2021 | 11
Veeam to productise in-house Salesforce backup tools - private beta already under way Major update has passed quality control and will catch up to platform and app updates Off-Prem20 Dec 2021 |
Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour Updated Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now SaaS03 Dec 2021 | 11
Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning Software01 Dec 2021 |
Xero says accounting software users were locked out by login glitch, not nefarious deeds Issue has been resolved and your data is 'secure', claims SaaS outfit SaaS28 Jul 2021 | 1
'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls Accountancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills SaaS27 Jul 2021 | 32
IaaS is a lousy business, says Chinese web giant Tencent: PaaS and SaaS is how we’ll make money in the cloud Big buyers understand infrastructure economics – and aren’t afraid to screw down providers' prices PaaS + IaaS21 May 2021 |
Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise Once again, the cloud makes it rain SaaS22 Apr 2021 | 7
State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns Also: SaaS provider completes acquisition of employee feedback platform Peakon SaaS09 Mar 2021 | 14
UK.gov's centralised buying agency wafts £1.2bn of taxpayer cash in return for a bevy of back-office software Software subscriptions and licence support a must for bidding businesses Software16 Nov 2020 |
Softly-as-a-service: IBM whispers plan for security SaaS based on a Cloud Pak Appears to cook a new way to shift containerised wares and get you onto OpenShift Security14 Oct 2020 |
VMware drops hints that ESXi on Arm is about to become a proper product Also looks to have security and SaaS news in store for next week’s VMworld Virtualization24 Sep 2020 | 4
Oracle customers caught in the cross-hairs of Larry’s 'interesting dynamic' But playboy CTO and Big Red plays to Wall Street types with slick sales patter SaaS11 Sep 2020 | 3
What does Workday think gives it the edge in COVID crisis? 'We're not an ERP vendor,' says CEO Bhusri Firm not the only SaaS-y outfit to enjoy bumper results during pandemic SaaS28 Aug 2020 |
Cloud now bigger than Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco combined $233bn revenue in 2019, says IDC, with the top five creaming a third of it SaaS19 Aug 2020 | 10
UK's Ministry of Justice puts out feelers for SaaS ERP with up to £100m on the table Can't go worse than that time it bought 2.3 million Oracle licences. Right? On-Prem16 Jul 2020 | 3
CIOs will force SaaS vendors to limber up and get more flexible about contracts in the post-pandemic world No more paying for non-existent employees, users, page views, or transactions, says Forrester SaaS30 Jun 2020 | 7
Uber turns SaaS vendor with deal that bakes public transport authority into its app Given the scoundrels in the world of software, could Uber be worse? Software18 Jun 2020 | 2
SAP proves, yet again, that Excel is utterly unkillable It built a perfectly good analytics cloud yet has added a Microsoft spreadsheet plugin because that’s what punters want Software19 May 2020 | 76
Contact-tracing is basically CRM so we think we've got it sorted, says Salesforce Coming real soon now as-a-service. Details on data collection and price? Coming soon, promise Software05 May 2020 | 3
Cabinet Office dangles £15m for help ditching its Single Operating Platform for cloud-based ERP system Project 'SOP2SaaS'... it just rolls off the tongue SaaS03 Apr 2020 | 6
It has been 15 years, and we're still reporting homograph attacks – web domains that stealthily use non-Latin characters to appear legit More than a dozen dodgy websites spotted masquerading as the real deal, HTTPS certs and all Security04 Mar 2020 | 34
Sage still waiting for cloudy investments to make it rain as operating profit tumbles 10.5% Revenue growth lags as biz makes subscription transition SaaS20 Nov 2019 | 6
We sense a great disturbance in the Salesforce: File-slinging feature breaks down for more than 12 hours It felt as if millions of SaaS customers suddenly cried out in frustration, then headed off for the weekend early SaaS20 Sep 2019 | 6
Late with your financial paperwork? Here's a handy excuse: Malware smacked your bean-counter cloud offline Accountancy SaaS CCH falls over, thanks to nasty infection SaaS08 May 2019 | 21
White-listing Azure cloud connections to grease your Office 365 wheels? About that... Dev fears sub-domain abuse – Plus, unofficial patches for trio of Windows zero-days Security23 Jan 2019 | 8
Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce 'Encouraging' numbers as it switches from licensing to subs push Software17 Jan 2019 | 4
Cohesity's Helios tool tells you when your cluster's in a fluster SaaS kit compares users' setups to reveal best practices Storage23 Aug 2018 |
Oracle? A strategic priority for CIOs? Nope, says Goldman Sachs Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors SaaS10 Jul 2018 | 11
Microsoft slows Dynamics 365 update cadence Twice-annual tweaks is slower than Salesforce and Oracle, faster than other SaaS rivals Software09 Jul 2018 | 3
Oracle says migrating on-prem ERP to cloud now easier than upgrade Reveals cloud servers have CPU just for security, migration times cut to five months. Maybe SaaS07 Jun 2018 | 10
SaaSy HR outfit PageUp reports ‘unauthorised activity’ and data breach Supermarket chain warns job-seekers from last 18 months. Bank, telco also worry Security06 Jun 2018 | 2
Cisco board adds SaaS-man to help it suss subscriptions Former Adobe CFO Mark Garrett also sits on board of subs-happy Pure Storage On-Prem13 Apr 2018 |
SAP Anywhere is gonna be absolutely nowhere: We're 'sunsetting' this service, biz tells punters Exclusive Updated Have a refund... if you agree not to sue SaaS27 Mar 2018 | 29
Cloudflare pushes Workers out the door – without layoffs Runs JavaScript on the edge, rather than make users schlep all the way to your server Devops14 Mar 2018 | 1
Want cheaper analytics? Snub SaaS: Ye olde ELAs might do the job And don't forget to negotiate when vendors are most desperate for cash Software27 Feb 2018 | 4
Citrix swallows Cedexis to give NetScaler more multi-cloud cred Nobody wants slow SaaS or cross-cloud comms, but Citrix wants you to cough up to stop it Networks14 Feb 2018 |
You're the IT worker in charge of securing the cloud for your company. Welcome to Hell How'd data leave country? Yep, control-V'd into a rando app the user set up SaaS05 Feb 2018 | 52