Paul Kunert

London, United Kingdom

UK Editor at The Register

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Articles

Google and AWS: Linux too hard, so customers move to Azure

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

When moving to the cloud, companies with significant investments in Microsoft infrastructure wares simply can't afford to rewrite everything for Linux, so they end up migrating to Azure to dodge the markups Redmond charges for running its server software in competitors' clouds. Or so say both Amazon and Google in their latest submissions to the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into the health of the UK cloud market.
Law biz appeals £60K ICO fine over 32 GB digital burglary

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its systems. DPP Law Ltd, based in Merseyside, North West England, was attacked in June 2022. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says a third-party consultancy determined that the criminal used brute-force tactics to gain entry to an infrequently used administrator's account that lacked multi-factor authentication.
AWS: Customers would flee Azure if licensing costs were fair

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a competitive deterrent. This claim is made in the latest submission by AWS to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) Cloud Services Market Investigation.
What goes up must come down? AI datacenter spending inflates

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Interview Those who ignore history are destined to repeat mistakes of the past and, with signs of an inflating bit barn spending bubble, comparisons are being made with the infamous dotcom bust a quarter of a century ago. Rather more recently, Synergy Research Group said in January that mergers and acquisitions of datacenter businesses throughout 2024 swelled to record highs of $73 billion, and yet more investors are lining up for a piece of the action.
Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy in 2024 compensation

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Amazon exec chairman Jeff Bezos may not have a daily operational role at the cloud and e-commerce megacorp he founded, but he still got a bigger compensation package than the person currently pulling the strings from the chief executive's office.
Southern Water gives Capita £92M to handle customer quibbles

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Scandal struck UK utility company Southern Water is extending a long-running managed services contract with Capita, everyone's favorite outsourcing badass, for up to five years at an estimated cost of £92.4 million ($121 million). The renewal kicks off in from July next year and comprises £56.3 million ($74 million) for an initial three years of the agreement and then £36.1 million ($47 million) for an optional two more years. The contract was already extended in 2019.
Tech CEO: 4-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Interview Civo shifted its workforce to a four-day working week and while it hasn't changed productivity much at the cloud biz, it has helped attract "new talent" and retain existing staff, CEO Mark Boost says. While Microsoft and Dell would prefer to keep quiet about work-life balance programs embarked upon during 2019 and 2022 respectively, others in the tech industry – albeit of a different scale – are embracing change.
Legal spat over alleged Microsoft license abuses may reopen

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Microsoft has weeks to produce a multi-tenant hybrid cloud for service providers in Europe – a failure to do this or to even out alleged anti-competitive pricing for its software licenses could again put it in a legal dogfight with smaller rivals. In mid-July, Microsoft signed a Memorandum of Understanding with trade group CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers of Europe) to settle a dispute over, among other things, the higher cost of running Windows Server outside of Azure.
4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer

1 month ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

A four-day working week pilot programme is being squarely aimed at the UK tech sector with the final results to be assessed by academics. The post-pandemic world of work has changed, with many employees demanding more flexibility in their labor location and the hours they put in, amid a tension that many corporations would prefer to revert back to more traditional styles.
2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

1 month ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Two in five techies quit in the past year because their employer didn't offer requisite flexibility with respect to hours, location and the "intensity of work."The findings come from a survey of 26,000 plus staff that operate in 35 markets, including 2,548 respondents in tech, and fly in the face of more and more corporations issuing return to office mandates and demanding long working hours.