
Nvidia prepares its metaverse cloud
Software-as-a-service is getting everywhere
Nvidia has become the latest company to start prepaing for the metaverse with a newly-announced Omniverse Cloud and jumping on the bandwagon of every other software company which does not want users to own their own software.

NHS puts pathology on the cloud
We don't need hard copies of your pathologies any more
Two NHS trusts in England will collaborate with Sectra to put digital pathology services onto a cloud

HPE announces new cloud-native server
Uses Ampere chips
Former maker of expensive printer ink Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced today that it will offer a new cloud-native server in Q3 of 2022 using Ampere chips.

Google cloud breaks Pi record
And didn't get eaten by the tiger
Google Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao and her colleagues say they've calculated Pi to 100 trillion digital decimal places.

Europe working on a Russian cloud ban
New sanctions
The European Union is working on a possible ban on the provision of cloud services to Russia as part of new sanctions against the Kremlin for the invasion of Ukraine.

Microsoft backs down on cloud business terms
Does not want to anger Brussels
Software King of the World Microsoft is attempting to avoid a full anti-trust inquiry in Europe by changing the terms and conditions of its cloud business.

Cloudy windows get upgrade
Virtual machines go to 11
Software King of the World Microsoft has upgraded its PCs in the cloud to Windows 11.

Russia will run out of data storage in two months
Putin told to get off our cloud
As Tsar Putin invaded Ukraine and started to carpet bomb its cities, he apparently did not figure on running out of cloud space.

IBM puts Z mainframe on the cloud
z/OS as-a-service
Biggish Blue celebrated its 111-year-old birthday by offering the Z mainframe platform on the IBM Cloud, by offering virtual machines running z/OS as-a-service.

European watchdogs unit to investigate public sector cloud use
Worried about privacy
European privacy watchdog is launching a joint investigation with 22 national regulators into the use of cloud-based services by the public sector to check if they comply with its privacy safeguards.