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• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  CNCF wants to make Kubernetes ‘boring’

  CNCF is about to kick off its its Copenhagen conference. The organisation wants to make containers less exciting and more straightforward

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Elastifile adds NAS file access storage to Google Cloud Launcher

  Israeli startup Elastifile launches NFS file access service in the Google cloud to provide hybrid cloud distributed file system functionality with the speed of flash

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Singtel, VMware to set up hybrid cloud sandbox

  The hybrid cloud sandbox environment will let companies test their cloud workloads and software-defined networks

• April 13, 2018 13 Apr'18

  Companies must take a share of cloud security responsibility

  The cloud is seen as highly secure and more and more critical data is being held in public clouds, but organisations need to adapt their internal security processes

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  Machine learning is the new normal: AWS

  Cloud supplier AWS wants to put machine learning capabilities into the hands of more people in the nascent market for cloud-based AI services

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  PepsiCo hires robots to interview job candidates

  The food and drinks multinational is using artificial intelligence software, known as Robot Vera, to phone and interview candidates as it seeks to fill vacancies for factory, sales workers and drivers in Russia

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  IaaS emerges as fastest-growing sector of the global public cloud market

  Gartner's public cloud spending forecast suggests enterprise demand for IaaS and SaaS deployments will continue to intensify between now and 2021

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  IT transformation seen as essential for digital business projects

  Businesses that have modernised their IT are in a far better position to make the most of digital transformation initiatives

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Why Lufthansa went back to the drawing board with its HR IT project

  Aviation group says it is confident of landing a company-wide IT project following a sometimes turbulent journey

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Microsoft plans to invest $5bn to boost IoT business

  Its vision involves sensor data from IoT devices being processed across a distributed computing infrastructure from the edge to Azure

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  AWS expands edge computing service to Singapore

  Amazon’s Snowball Edge strengthens its support for hybrid use cases in a fast-growing market for the internet of things and hybrid IT

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  Oracle expands availability of cloud services from UK datacentre region

  Database giant claims expansion of UK datacentre region shows its commitment to customers

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Capgemini turns to tech startup to identify ‘most engaged’ teams

  Technology and consulting services firm Capgemini is using technology from a startup company to poll its employees’ views and provide feedback from managers every week. It is discovering what it takes to create “engaged teams”

• March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18

  Telefonica cuts HR running costs by 40% as it replaces hundreds of ageing IT systems

  Multinational telecoms group Telefonica is on the verge of completing a project to replace 175 incompatible HR IT systems with a cloud service covering more than 40 countries

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Salesforce buys into API economy with $6bn Mulesoft deal

  Cloud CRM giant’s acquisition will give it a step up in the API management space, enabling internal users and external partners to connect to applications