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• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Remote working world reveals cloud/SaaS security concerns

  Research reveals pivotal moment when the cloud is playing a more important role than ever to support mass remote working, with CISO concerns over cloud security remaining stubbornly high

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  Swiss ISP opts for Scality object storage for backup service

  Move to object storage allows Lake Solutions to cut customer backup costs by 66% while providing new S3-based bucket storage for customers based on Scality on HPE

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  8x8 accelerates remote contact centre deployment for Sefton Council

  Governing body for Merseyside council increases multi-channel communication to speed up first-call resolution and create a richer citizen experience with remote workers

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Patch grows data capabilities with Snowflake

  A Snowflake data warehouse pulls in data from various SaaS systems to provide master data for management reports for horticulture retailer Patch

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  DBS taps AI and data analytics in intelligent banking move

  Singaporean bank has started using artificial intelligence and analytics to provide customers with hyper-personalised insights and recommendations, to win more market share

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Alibaba Cloud unveils ‘cloud computer’, delivery robot

  At its annual Apsara conference, Alibaba Cloud debuts a thin-client computer and a logistics robot that can carry 50 packages in one go

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Western Australia government goes all-in on Microsoft

  State agencies in Western Australia will be able to tap Azure cloud services and cloud applications through a new Microsoft agreement

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Risky development practice leaves company access keys exposed

  Database stores, cloud storage and myriad other services are being put at risk by the accidental exposure of company access keys during development

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  TikTok-Oracle partnership moves forward for consideration

  Joint venture proposal could create thousands of jobs and secure TikTok’s future outside China

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Nutanix bolsters Kubernetes playbook with managed service

  Karbon Platform Services claims to ease container deployments in public and hybrid cloud environments in the emerging Kubernetes platform war

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  NTT taps data analytics and cloud for Tour de France

  NTT’s analytics and cloud capabilities stood up to the test amid crashes and poor weather conditions during the first stage of this year’s Tour de France

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  HotelBeds uses API management platform to reduce cost

  HotelBeds has switched from its legacy suppler to a licensed service in an effort to reduce API management costs after traffic doubles

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  How Citi is democratising access to data

  Global financial institution Citi puts people at the centre of its data analytics initiatives and collaborates with users to drive adoption and success

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Salesforce Q2 2020: Benioff says crisis will speed growth

  Salesforce announces 29% year-on-year revenue growth for the second quarter, and grieves for Dreamforce 2020

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  CIO interview: Steve Otto, chief technology officer, The R&A

  When the coronavirus pandemic caused The Open to be cancelled, The R&A’s tech team took the UK’s flagship golf tournament online

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  MongoDB grows Asian footprint through Alibaba Cloud

  MongoDB teams up with Alibaba Cloud to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific as it prepares to release a serverless variant of the open-source database

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  Coronavirus fails to dim digital transformation ambitions of enterprise IT leaders, research shows

  Research from managed service provider 2nd Watch highlights cloud challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, and how enterprises are responding to them

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Vodafone builds smart enterprise on SAP S/4 Hana

  Holger Grewe, group head of corporate transformation, and Ignacio Garcia, CIO corporate systems, at Vodafone, convey how SAP S/4 Hana has been purposely implemented as part of an ongoing smart enterprise transformation

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Veeam to add CDP, plus Google cloud as a target

  Backup giant set to add continuous data protection for the most critical workloads, plus Google cloud as a target – all on the back of a storming quarter during the pandemic

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Oracle takes aim at hyperscalers, eyes VMware workloads

  Oracle claims it is addressing the limitations of competing services by offering better security controls, consolidated billing and global availability

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  Comms startup Element helps support secure communications during pandemic

  With the huge increase in remote working, Element is using an open, decentralised network to give organisations more control over their communications

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Bayer taps Verizon for global network infrastructure

  Pharmaceutical giant chooses Verizon to provide software-defined infrastructure to support its future cloud-based business needs

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Singapore firms struggle with RPA roll-outs

  Almost three-quarters of Singapore business leaders say their organisations are facing difficulties in scaling up their implementations of robotic process automation

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Pure and Cohesity launch FlashRecover for flash-speed restores

  Flash market pioneer links up with scale-out backup product maker to provide bundled backup plus super-fast recovery based around Pure FlashBlade storage arrays

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  PCCW Global and Sure Universal team up for home-based medical IoT

  Leading IoT software and platform developer teams with Hong Kong telco to offer global network of connected solutions for medical care from home, providing a customisable platform and interface to deliver global connectivity, simplify device ...

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix launches Clusters in AWS for hybrid cloud hyper-converged infrastructure

  HCI pioneers launches Nutanix Clusters, which will provide hyper-converged deployments across customer datacentres and the Amazon cloud, but only in Acropolis and on AWS for now

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix Clusters on AWS debuts in 20 cloud regions

  In technical preview since 2019, Nutanix Clusters on AWS will enable unified operations across private and public clouds

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Gartner flags continued growth in global IaaS spend as enterprise demand for public cloud soars

  Global spend on IaaS continues to surge, with a growing competitive threat posed by Chinese providers

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS

  Session border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no disruptions to network performance

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Edge server shipments set to double by 2024

  As business gets close to the edge, analyst predicts a ‘supercharged’ edge server market over the next five years driven by an associated boom in cloud services

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Labour Party is latest victim of Blackbaud ransomware attack

  Widening Blackbaud data breach ensnares the Labour Party as the cloud software firm continues to duck questions about its behaviour

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Amazon reports Q2 profit and revenue surge as Covid-19-induced uptick in online sales continues

  Amazon sees profit and revenue surge in the wake of the coronavirus, but growth of its cloud business slows as IT buyers re-prioritise investments because of pandemic

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Agile adoption still in early stages

  Less than a quarter of organisations made it past the step of defining their agile approach while more than half are just getting started, study finds

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Amazon to create 1,000 skilled tech roles in Ireland

  Retail giant Amazon will be adding several skilled tech roles to its locations in Ireland over the next two years

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  IBM joins Google, Microsoft and Oracle in signing preferential cloud pricing deal with UK government

  Public sector organisations set to reap the benefits of CCS's latest preferential pricing deal, in support of its push to accelerate the adoption of cloud across central government and the NHS

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Firms face remote working challenges as IT teams express concern about infrastructure

  Post-lockdown survey finds UK-based IT leaders lack confidence in their organisation’s plan to withstand an unanticipated crisis as Covid-19 dramatically accelerates cloud adoption

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

  Backblaze offers free transfer to its S3-based cloud storage – which it claims costs a fraction of AWS et al – as long as it’s more than 50TB and you commit to at least 12 months

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

  IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Vector and AWS team up on ‘new energy platform’

  New Zealand-based energy supplier Vector partners AWS to develop an IoT and analytics platform to speed up processing of smart meter data and to tailor products and pricing for customers

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Hany Choueiri, chief data officer, Aldermore Bank

  Digital transformation, cloud and data science are central to the specialist bank's response to the coronavirus pandemic

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  APAC firms in early stages of digital transformation

  More than three-quarters of APAC firms struggle to revise their financial plans amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with many still lacking agile systems and processes, a new study finds

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

  Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  BNP Paribas joins IBM financial services cloud project

  IBM’s financial services cloud is gathering steam as more banks join its public cloud ecosystem of finance firms and developers

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

  Businesses will have to conduct legal assessments to ensure they can transfer data from the EU to the US and other countries, following a European Court of Justice ruling

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  Manchester City Council deploys 8x8 to maintain remote services

  One of the UK’s largest local government authorities implements cloud-based communications system to keep critical services running while keeping agents safe during UK lockdown

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Covid-19 accelerates UK digital transformation efforts by over five years

  Over a third of UK business decision-makers believe changes in operations since Covid-19 have increased digital transformation budgets “dramatically”

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

  HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  European court to decide legality of EU-US data sharing in dispute between Schrems and Facebook

  A ruling by the European Court of Justice will have ramifications for hundreds of thousands of companies that share data with the US. The case aims to balance US surveillance laws with the rights of EU citizens to keep their data private