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Cloud computing services
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August 17, 2018
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Aug'18
Home Office preps for migration of police IT systems to AWS cloud
Digital Marketplace tender document reveals the Home Office is on the hunt for an IT supplier to support its work in migrating core police IT systems from an on-premise datacentre to the AWS cloud
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August 17, 2018
17
Aug'18
Office 365 outage: Sign-in issues blight users across Europe and the US
Microsoft claims to have resolved a “subscription activation” issue that left Office 365 users unable to access its services yesterday
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August 17, 2018
17
Aug'18
CIOs being welcomed back to marketing
The role of CIOs in shaping the technology buying decisions of marketers is being reinstated as more marketers realise the importance of integrating their services with IT systems
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August 15, 2018
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Aug'18
Alibaba eyes retail sector with new cloud offerings
Chinese cloud supplier says retailers will be able to use its machine learning platform to understand consumer preferences, among a slew of services it is making available globally for the first time
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August 07, 2018
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Aug'18
How Indonesia’s Go-Jek scales the heights with cloud
The unicorn’s microservices-based application architecture on the cloud has been key in supporting its growth in Indonesia – and now Southeast Asia
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August 06, 2018
06
Aug'18
Alibaba Cloud makes deeper inroads into Malaysia
The Chinese cloud supplier’s second availability zone and upcoming DDoS scrubbing centre in Malaysia comes on the heels of growing investments in the Southeast Asian nation
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August 03, 2018
03
Aug'18
CIO interview: Alex von Schirmeister, CDTIO, RS Components
The electronics distributor’s chief digital, technology and innovation officer (CDTIO) on putting in place a new IT infrastructure, creating a digital business and accepting risk
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August 03, 2018
03
Aug'18
Google to alert firms of state-sponsored attacks on G Suite users
As cyber security increasingly becomes a market differentiator, Google has announced that businesses using G Suite cloud-based software can opt in to cyber attack alerts
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August 01, 2018
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Aug'18
Google to build third datacentre in Singapore
The facility will increase Google’s datacentre investments in the city-state to $850m, and follows the launch of Southeast Asia’s first Google Cloud Platform region in 2017
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August 01, 2018
01
Aug'18
AWS revenue growth slows as competition in the global IaaS market heats up
Gartner's latest look at the global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market shines a light on how the great and good of the public cloud supplier community are fairing
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July 31, 2018
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Jul'18
Utilita Energy supplier uses cloud to rapidly scale IT service desk
Energy provider Utilita Energy puts its IT service management in the cloud to support its rapid growth
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July 31, 2018
31
Jul'18
Briton ran pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign that helped Trump deny Russian links
A British IT manager and former hacker from Darlington ran a disinformation campaign that duped former US intelligence agents and provided Donald Trump with manufactured “evidence” to deny that Russia interfered with the US election
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July 27, 2018
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Jul'18
AWS’s sales up almost 50% year-on-year in second quarter
Cloud giant’s quarterly sales hit $6.1bn in third consecutive year-on-year rise as Ryanair, Major League Baseball and 21st Century Fox join its list of customers
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July 26, 2018
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Jul'18
Large organisations less confident over cloud security compared to smaller businesses
A study has found larger enterprises are not as confident as smaller businesses about the security of their data in the public cloud
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July 25, 2018
25
Jul'18
Google Cloud gaining ground in APAC
The cloud supplier claims substantial growth in Asia-Pacific, and is upping the ante on partnerships and infrastructure investments across the region