Cloud Stories for 2018

Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment 117
Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS 253
Cloudflare Under Fire For Allegedly Providing DDoS Protection For Terrorist Websites 98
Kubernetes' First Major Security Hole Discovered 90
Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? 84
Is Linux Taking Over The World? 243
Amazon Is Launching Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Computing In Space 30
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
Amazon Unveils Elastic Inference, FSx for Windows File Server, Inferentia, Self-driving Racing League DeepRacer, SageMaker Ground Truth, and Outposts 13
Amazon Web Services Introduces its Own Custom-Designed ARM Server Processor, Promises 45 Percent Lower Costs For Some Workloads 65
Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication Service Goes Down For Second Week in a Row 101
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Robotics Testing Platform 19
Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down 82
Amazon's Consumer Business Has Turned Off Its Oracle Data Warehouse 134
Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano 59
Amazon's Move Off Oracle Caused Prime Day Outage in One of its Biggest Warehouses, Internal Report Says 130
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story 111
The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape 164
MongoDB Switches Up Its Open-Source License 141
Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition 103
Microsoft Announces Project Xcloud For Streaming Games To PCs, Consoles, and Mobile Devices 80
D-Wave Launches Free 'Leap' Quantum Computing Service 33
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Cloudflare Partners With Microsoft, Google and Others To Reduce Bandwidth Costs 43
Microsoft To Bring Multi-User Virtualization To Windows, Office With Windows Virtual Desktop Service 83
Nintendo Switch Cloud Save Data Disappears If You Cancel Subscription 71
Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space 204
Plex To Shut Down Its Cloud Service 42
Quantum Computing Is Almost Ready For Business, Startup Says 41
Nintendo's Promised Cloud Saves On Switch Won't Work For Every Game 34
Microsoft Azure's Southern US Data Center Goes Down For Hours, Impacting Office365 and Active Directory Customers 86
Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes 308
Oracle Trying Hard To Make Sure Pentagon Knows Amazon Isn't the Only Cloud Around 72
Is Amazon Rigging the Bidding For Massive Government Contracts? 128
'This is Not Your Father's Microsoft': CEO Satya Nadella On Helping a Faded Legend Find a 'Sense of Purpose' 175
Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel 83
Oracle Accused of Defrauding Investors On Cloud Sales Growth 65
Oracle Challenges Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Computing Contract 101
Google Is in China Cloud Talks With Tencent, Others, Report Says 22
Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 138
Amazon Is Finally Profitable, Earns $2.5 Billion Over the Last Three Months 75
How Many Computers Does the World Need? 103
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming 127
ReactOS 0.4.9 Is Entirely Self-Hosting, Fixes FastFAT Crashes 200
Lawmakers Call On Amazon and Google To Reconsider Ban On Domain Fronting 44
Walmart Teams Up With Microsoft To Fight Amazon, Netflix 75
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Popular Websites Add New Features So Sparingly? 190
'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' 508
Massive New 'Salesforce Tower' Light Sculpture: AI, Ubuntu, Fog, and a MacBook 63
Happy Birthday Alan Turing! How Modern Technology Could Win WWII In 13 Minutes 107
EA, Touting 'Profound Impact' of Streaming and Subscription, Announces Origin Access Premier 73
Ubisoft CEO: Cloud Gaming Will Replace Consoles After the Next Generation 144
Microsoft Is Now More Valuable Than Alphabet 126
Nvidia Debuts Cloud Server Platform To Unify AI and High-Performance Computing 15
Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers 232
Microsoft Wins A Big Cloud Deal With America's Intelligence Community 45
Google Will Make Its Paid Storage Plans Cheaper 69
Nintendo Switch Online Service Will Launch With 20 NES Games, Cloud Saves, More 51
Edge Computing: Explained 159
Microsoft Is Moving Kinect to the Cloud 37
Google Releases Open Source Framework For Building 'Enclaved' Apps For Cloud 21
Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service 199
The Supreme Court Fight Over Microsoft's Foreign Servers Is Over 94
Microsoft: We'll Help Customers Create Patents But We Get a License To Use Them 52
Move Over Moore's Law, Make Way For Huang's Law 55
Microsoft Email Privacy Case No Longer Needed, Says The US 84
Microsoft Is 'Demoting' Windows for the Cloud, Says CNN 127
Google Launches More Realistic Text-To-Speech Service Powered By DeepMind's AI 34
Dropbox IPOs. Its Founders Are Now Billionaires 69
US Spending Bill Contains CLOUD Act, a Win For Tech and Law Enforcement 116
New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police 248
China's Alibaba is Investing Huge Sums in AI Research and Resources -- and It Is Building Tools To Challenge Google and Amazon 30
Microsoft To Offer Governments Local Version of Azure Cloud Service 28
Apple Confirms It Uses Google's Cloud For iCloud Services 46
Office 365 Growth Opportunity 'a Lot Bigger Than Anything We've Achieved', Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says 153
Dropbox Files To Go Public 41
Amazon Is Designing Custom AI Chips For Alexa 70
Crowdfunding Campaign Seeks a Fully Open Source Alternative to Citrix XenServer 66
Microsoft's Cloud Bet Continues To Pay Off In Latest Earnings 63
UK Hospitals Can Now Store Confidential Patient Records In the Public Cloud 81
Google Has Made It Simple For Anyone To Tap Into Its Image Recognition AI 42
Amazon Won't Say If It Hands Your Echo Data To the Government 105
20 Years Later, Has Open Source Changed the World? 220
Apple's China iCloud Data Migration Sweeps Up International User Accounts 45
TiVo Sues Comcast Again, Alleging Operator's X1 Infringes Eight Patents 58
Dropbox Files Confidentially For IPO 20
Apple To Transfer Chinese iCloud Operations To Chinese Firm 72
Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor 160
New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data 71
Google Says CPU Patches Cause 'Negligible Impact On Performance' With New 'Retpoline' Technique 120
New Year's Resolutions For Linux Admins: Automate More, Learn New Languages 139