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• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  Uptime Institute predicts slower pace of public cloud migrations in 2023

  Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Institute claims cost pressures and unmet expectations around cloud benefits may lead some enterprises to pause or slow down their migration plans this year

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  StarHub to undertake major network transformation

  Singapore telco StarHub is deploying a hybrid cloud architecture that will enable it to launch sovereign cloud services, among other capabilities

• January 16, 2023 16 Jan'23

  How India is driving the use of open government data

  India’s Open Government Data platform has paved the way for new applications and services, but concerns around data quality and privacy remain

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  AWS opens first Australian Local Zone in Perth

  AWS’s first Local Zone in Australia will bring low-latency performance to companies such as Woodside Energy and Nearmaps

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  How to identify a strategic technology platform

  A strategic platform has to be broad enough to support a range of business functions while being open, extensible and modular at the same time, according to Forrester

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  How cloud technology is supporting space missions

  Cloud-based machine learning and other services are finding their way into space to analyse satellite imagery and monitor space debris, among other space applications

• January 04, 2023 04 Jan'23

  How Tencent Cloud is cracking ASEAN’s cloud market

  The Chinese cloud supplier is playing to its strengths in platform services, media streaming and communications to grow its business in Southeast Asia

• December 27, 2022 27 Dec'22

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2022

  Despite the challenges over the past year, ASEAN businesses have taken things in stride as they press on with digital transformation, whether it is empowering citizen developers or building cloud-native applications

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2022

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2021

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

  There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers

  Artificial intelligence will enable developers to learn at their own pace and become more productive rather than take over their jobs, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Google Cloud lands five-year deal with DIY specialist retailer Kingfisher

  The owner of the B&Q and Screwfix brands has enlisted the help of Google Cloud to overhaul its digital proposition for customers

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS CEO urges enterprises to do more in the cloud in the face of economic uncertainty

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky says enterprises should be looking to do more, not less, in the cloud during times of economic uncertainty

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  AWS commits to becoming the ‘cleanest’ cloud to run enterprise workloads

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky used the opening keynote at this year’s Re:Invent partner and customer conference in Las Vegas to outline the company’s commitment to becoming the greenest place for enterprises to run their IT and applications

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  MoD signs three-year deal with AWS to bolster defence sector’s digital skills

  UK Ministry of Defence is joining forces with Amazon Web Services to boost the defence sector’s cloud capabilities

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  AWS doubles down on data management

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services declares a bold vision to eliminate the need to extract, transform and load data alongside other efforts to address business problems in domains like cyber security and logistics

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  AWS eyes mission-critical workloads in ASEAN

  Cloud giant AWS is eyeing more business from mission-critical workloads and the financial services industry in Southeast Asia as it readies itself for the next phase of growth

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Google signs wind power purchase agreement in pursuit of UK carbon-free energy pledge

  Google claims power purchase agreement with French utility firm will bring it a step closer to being able to power its entire UK operations with carbon-free energy by 2030

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  Oracle’s Steve Miranda on the value of turning inside out

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s opening out and its intensification of an industry cloud approach, signally with healthcare

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’

  Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  G-Cloud 13 launch hits shaky start as suppliers complain about missing framework functionality

  After the start date was pushed back two months, the roll-out of the G-Cloud 13 procurement framework has been beset with a technical glitch that prevents non-buyers from seeing the services on offer

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Renault confirms Google as preferred cloud partner

  French motor manufacturer is extending the reach of its long-standing technology collaboration with Google by naming the firm as its preferred cloud partner

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Crown Hosting Data Centres secures £250m government colocation deal

  Cabinet Office joint venture with Ark Data Centres secures a second term providing colocation services to the government

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Why technology change is slow at larger firms

  Firms that commit to a single cloud provider and a lack of investment in improving developer productivity can drive up costs and slow down the pace of change, technology leaders say

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Microsoft claims summer heatwave led to no excess water use by its datacentres

  Software giant stokes scandal with befuddling statements about water use, despite eco-transparency pledge

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Alibaba Cloud debuts cloud-powered laptop

  Alibaba Cloud launches a cloud-powered laptop that will enable mobile workers to crunch compute-intensive workloads without the need for more powerful machines

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Gartner warns of 'inflationary pressure' risk to global public cloud spending

  Market watcher Gartner is predicting strong overall growth for the worldwide public cloud market, but warns that any tightening of overall IT budgets could hit its forecast

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  SoftIron’s HyperCloud to ease private cloud deployments

  SoftIron claims its technology stack fully automates the provisioning of storage, compute, networking and infrastructure services, providing a fully functioning, multi-tenant cloud

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  AWS revenue growth rate falls as enterprise customers seek to cut costs

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported its slowest year-on-year rate of revenue growth since 2014 as enterprises seek to cut costs as economic uncertainty hits

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  UKCloud in liquidation: Troubled public sector cloud provider hit with winding up order

  Public sector sovereign cloud provider served with winding-up order nine months after an acquisition that was intended to address a £30m funding shortfall at the firm

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  Google Cloud in 2022: What’s in it for the enterprise?

  Google Cloud has seen its market share and revenue soar in recent quarters as enterprises flock to its platform, but profitability continues to elude the firm

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  AWS to open cloud region in Thailand

  Amazon Web Services is planning to launch a Bangkok region, following the debut of CloudFront Edge locations and Outposts in the past two years

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  HSBC chooses Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer service to underpin digital

  Bank selects Oracle’s Cloud@Customer service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems as part of its digital transformation

• October 21, 2022 21 Oct'22

  Microsoft slams external researchers over its own data leak

  Microsoft inadvertently leaked customer data after misconfiguring an Azure Blob, but has hit out at the organisation that discovered its error, claiming it is exaggerating the scope of the issue

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Oracle: We’re punching above our category

  Oracle claims to have debunked the misnomer that Oracle Cloud is only good for Oracle workloads and that its efforts to support and interoperate with other platforms has been driving growth

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Gartner: Hero CIOs are needed again to save businesses

  During the pandemic, IT enabled businesses to remain operational. As the economic crisis worsens, business executives are once again reaching out to CIOs

• October 19, 2022 19 Oct'22

  Oracle CloudWorld 2022: Ellison vaunts centrality of healthcare to mission

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison put the company’s healthcare initiatives front and centre of its vision during his keynote at Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Oracle expands cloud infrastructure portfolio, eyes partner cloud market

  Oracle Alloy will enable partners such as systems integrators, telcos and other service providers to offer a full set of cloud services that can be tailored to the needs of specific markets and industries

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Vodafone starts sizeable three-year SAP systems migration to Google Cloud

  Telco giant claims project will be one of the largest and most complex SAP migrations ever embarked upon in Europe

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Union claims Google datacentre contractors in US face repercussions for demanding 'basic benefits'

  The Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America claims contractors working in several of Google's US datacentres have been punished for demanding ‘basic’ workplace benefits

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Google Cloud fleshes out sovereign cloud capabilities for European enterprises

  Google Cloud uses the first day of its user conference to provide an update on how its efforts to meet the data sovereignty needs of European enterprises are progressing

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Wayfair shutters datacentres and ends hybrid cloud strategy with Google Cloud move

  Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair has completed a 16-month datacentre shutdown project that has seen it migrate all its applications and workloads to the Google Cloud

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play

  Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Natural History Museum partners with AWS for biodiversity research push

  The Natural History Museum is teaming up with public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster its biodiversity research capabilities

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How AWS is tapping the groundswell in cloud adoption

  Phil Davis, managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific and Japan, talks up the company’s growth strategy and how it is retaining customers amid rivals nipping at its heels

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  Microsoft Azure UK region to host data of five million healthcare research scheme volunteers

  The Microsoft public cloud platform, Azure, has been selected to host the data belonging to a healthcare research project that is being billed as the largest ever undertaken in the UK

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  How Great Eastern is transforming its IT organisation

  Singapore-based insurer Great Eastern made painstaking efforts to rid itself of legacy systems and transformed its IT organisation to become nimbler by building up its cloud and DevOps capabilities

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Ofcom turns its attention to the hyperscalers

  The regulator sees its role expanding into emerging areas of communications technologies and public cloud services