
Amazon's Oracle purge caused Prime Day outage
Banishing an Oracle is tricky
Amazon’s move away from Oracle software might have cost it a few delivery problems on its biggest day – Prime day.

Cloud adoption replacing crystal balls
Driven by the need for greater business insights
A pan EU survey suggests that cloud adoption is the new form of business divination tool.

Cloud depends on magnetic tape
The more things change, the more they stay the same
New cloud technology is still largely dependant on century old magnetic tape, and unfortunately, there are not the makers around that there used to be.

Samsung says ola to Zhilabs
Writes a cheque for Spanish network data analysis firm in cloud push
Samsung has bought Barcelona-based network data analysis firm Zhilabs.

IBM has surprise revenue drop
Mainframe sales slow
Big Blue has reported a bigger-than-expected drop in revenue caused by slowing software sales and wavering demand for mainframe servers.