Ellison cuddles up to federal wallets

Oracle is slashing prices for its software and cloud services to please the Trump administration, offering what it calls a “substantial” discount on its cloudy wares and 75 per cent off on licence-based database and analytics products.

Flogging a full-stack IoT dream, not just chips

Nordic Semiconductor has decided it’s had enough of being just another silicon pusher and snapped up its long-time partner Memfault, the cloud outfit best known for keeping IoT devices from going tits-up.

AI threats and zero-trust mandates are driving a $26bn boom

Beancounters working for the Dell’Oro Group have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that while everyone is banking on about hardware cybersecurity, particularly of the cloudy sort, is where the cash is.

Elon, Altman and Huang trot out for Redmond’s power play

Software King of the World, Microsoft flexed its cloud muscle this week, wheeling out its AI mates and fresh software toys in a pitch to dominate the artificial intelligence land grab.

Azure finally stops underachieving

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street gave the software king of the world Microsoft a standing ovation on 1 May after the company finally managed to deliver what it had been teasing for months—decent cloud growth with an AI cherry on top.

Dell’Oro pegs $12bn market by 2029

Dell’Oro Group analysts have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and come up with a bullish picture for the Public Cloud-Managed LAN and Campus Network-as-a-Service (CNaaS) sectors.

Joining rival Microsoft in a conservative approach

Amazon Web Services has started dragging its heels on some data centre leases, particularly internationally, signalling that even the cloud titans are feeling the pinch as economic headwinds and tariff chatter rattles the tech sector.

SSO breach pretty obvious

Oracle is in full-blown damage control mode after hacker “rose87168” claimed to breach its Oracle Cloud login servers.

Cybersecurity plays catch-up

Cloud Engineers are the new AI overlords, leaving everyone else to squabble over second place, according to a new report.

Don't trust Musk and Trump 

The Dutch want to reduce their dependence on Big US tech companies.