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Cloud computing services

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  HPE makes further divestments with Micro Focus tie-up to target software-defined market

  British software company Micro Focus becomes an enterprise software powerhouse as HPE offloads enterprise software infrastructure products

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Managed services could be key to connecting up siloed IT in Middle East organisations

  Organisations in the Middle East will increasingly look for managed services to connect up their IT as they embark on digital transformation

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework

• September 05, 2016 05 Sep'16

  Microsoft gets wide support in fight against US gagging orders

  Microsoft wins support from a wide range of US organisations in its push back against the secrecy of US government data access requests

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cheshire councils face complaints over proposed 12-year ERP contracts

  The Crown Commercial Service confirms two complaints about a proposed joint council IT procurement framework – offering contracts up to 12 years in length – have been raised

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Cloud collaboration boosts Cumbria County Council's disaster response abilities

  How Cumbria County Council tackled the unsanctioned use of cloud services within its organisation and improved the robustness of its disaster response in face of December 2015's Storm Desmond

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  Lessons from the Dropbox breach

  Dropbox is the latest major company to confirm a data breach, albeit four years old, but – as with all recent data breaches by cloud-based services – it highlights some key security lessons

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Cloud firm Backbone relegates X-IO SAN with Atlantis tiered storage

  London-based Backbone uses Atlantis USX as storage virtualisation layer on top of PCIe flash and X-IO and as a stepping stone to hyper-converged infrastructures

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware to help enterprises manage AWS, Azure and Google cloud deployments

  Virtualisation giant VMware offers enterprises a helping hand with managing multi-cloud environments, spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  VMware makes case for IT's involvement in line of business cloud purchases

  Cloud software company VMware claims IT departments should not fear the shift in technology buying power to line of business units, as their skills and experience will be in high demand

• August 26, 2016 26 Aug'16

  Rackspace sold to private equity house Apollo Global for $4.3bn

  After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer

• August 25, 2016 25 Aug'16

  Forum to drive cloud adoption in the Philippines

  An online forum has been set-up in the Philippines to promote cloud take-up in the country

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space

  CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

• August 18, 2016 18 Aug'16

  Cisco confirms 5,500 lay-offs amid restructuring

  Networking giant has confirmed it will cut more than 5,500 jobs in an effort to trim the fat in low-growth business areas and enhance its performance elsewhere

• August 15, 2016 15 Aug'16

  Cloudian makes HyperStore object storage available from AWS

  System available with storage tiers on-site and in the Amazon cloud monitored and billed from the AWS interface

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  Security pros split on government access to cloud data, survey shows

  Despite rapid cloud services adoption, security and compliance concerns revolving around inappropriate use or access of sensitive cloud data continue to loom large, a survey has revealed

• August 11, 2016 11 Aug'16

  IDC: Global public cloud spend set to double by 2020

  Market watcher predicts use of public cloud will soar over the next five years, with IaaS and PaaS leading the way

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Johan Tömmervik, SKF

  Johan Tömmervik, CIO of Swedish-founded bearing and seal manufacturer SKF, tells Computer Weekly about the challenge of creating services for a diverse customer base

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Rackspace divests Cloud Sites as managed cloud services take off

  Rackspace offloads ‘non-core’ Cloud Sites business as speculation about its future as a public company continues

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  Microsoft hails cloud security breakthrough with encrypted data

  Microsoft researchers talk up cloud security breakthrough that allows encrypted data to be processed without prior decryption

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  Global infosec spending to reach £63bn in 2016, says Gartner

  Although security spending is moving to detection and response, Gartner expects preventive security to continue strong growth

• August 08, 2016 08 Aug'16

  CIO interview: Omid Shiraji, interim CIO, Camden Council

  Camden Council’s interim CIO talks cloud migration, partnerships and digital leadership in local government

• August 05, 2016 05 Aug'16

  Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report

  Reports suggest managed cloud company could be sold in a matter of days, ending its time as a publicly listed company

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Singapore’s DBS Bank signs up to Amazon cloud

  The latest move in the cloud journey of DBS bank in Singapore is an agreement with Amazon Web Services

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Gap between biggest and smallest cloud infrastructure firms is growing

  Synergy Research Group's second-quarter cloud infrastructure services tracker reveals that the gap between the market's biggest and smallest players is getting wider

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  White House efficiency reforms will limit new datacentre investments from January 2017

  US government CIO Tony Scott outlines the next wave of reforms designed to curtail datacentre use by public sector agencies and departments

• August 01, 2016 01 Aug'16

  Canadian government reveals ‘right cloud’ adoption strategy for public sector organisations

  Government plans G-Cloud-like resource to help public sector CIOs procure cloud services more easily

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up

  With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Amazon rides high on sales growth, especially in cloud services

  Amazon's share price climbed 2% on news of strong second-quarter sales growth boosted by a 58% year-on-year rise in sales of cloud services

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Mobile and video pay off for Google’s parent company Alphabet

  Alphabet ascribes strong second quarter financial results to long-term investments in mobile and video as demand for advertising through these channels increases

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Most cloud applications not GDPR-ready, report reveals

  Just 2% of more than 15,000 enterprise cloud application analysed are GDPR-ready, according to a cloud risk report

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Privacy Shield good to go for at least a year, say EU regulators

  Transatlantic data transfer framework approved, but will need more fine-tuning in the first joint review in a year’s time

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Apple highlights services revenue and future bets as iPhone sales decline

  Apple share price up on strong performance in services and investments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, despite 27% year-on-year decline in quarterly profit

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Cloud adoption still outpacing security capability, study finds

  Many companies are still not applying the best technologies, policies and procedures to ensure sensitive data is protected in the cloud

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Ofcom and BT set out separate plans to increase Openreach independence

  BT Group’s plans to give Openreach greater independence share some common ground with Ofcom’s recommendations, but will this be enough to ease its rivals’ anti-competitive concerns?

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Skills shortage and poor IT infrastructure hinder tech adoption by Asean governments

  EIU report highlights governments’ desire for better use of data, including cloud access

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Estonia seeks UK datacentre to protect citizens' personal data from hackers - report

  The Baltic state is reportedly in early stage talks with the UK and Luxembourg governments about setting up a backup site in either country to protect citizens’ data from risk of hackers

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Almost half of UK's largest councils lack cloud strategy, Eduserv FOI study reveals

  Eduserv study into cloud take-up inside local authorities suggests council CIOs are still over-invested in on-premise technology

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Gartner offers insights into how cloud is disrupting traditional IT spending habits

  Market watcher shines a light on how the adoption of off-premise technologies is shaking up enterprise IT spending trends

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  IT outsourcing falls steeply in second quarter but IT as a service sees strong growth

  Sales of IT as a service growth in Europe helped offset a huge fall in the total value of traditional IT and business process outsourcing contracts

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Aster Group to implement ServiceNow

  Housing developer to use cloud-based service across multiple business functions following succesful implementation for IT service desk

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  UK falls behind most European countries in safe data storage rankings

  A report based on independent data ranks the UK behind most major European countries as a safe location for storing data

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Insurance firm frees itself from legacy shackles

  Insurance intermediary is moving its IT infrastructure into the cloud in a 12-month project that also sees it update its end-user computing technologies

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Microsoft reports strong quarter driven by cloud

  Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $3.12bn, largely driven by the success of its focus on cloud services

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  US government joins legal challenge of EU-US data transfers

  Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, is asking the European Court of Justice to rule on the legality of EU-US data transfers, post-Safe Harbour, in a landmark legal challenge

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  IBM’s growth in strategic areas helps beat revenue expectations

  IBM continues to bet on strategic businesses such as cloud, which delivered 30% growth in the second quarter despite an overall revenue decline for the period of 3% compared with 2015

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  Middle East airlines must continue to invest in IT

  Airlines in the Middle East are investing heavily in IT as the industry faces increasing demand for more efficient services

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  French public sector’s never-ending struggle with the cloud

  The French government has more hurdles to overcome than many of its European neighbours when it comes to adopting cloud computing services

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Oracle targets cloud sales at Asia Pacific’s mid-sized firms

  Software giant aims to hire 1,000 professionals to drive mid-market growth in Apac region

• July 15, 2016 15 Jul'16

  Chef bangs the drum for greater diversity in DevOps teams

  More diversity in DevOps teams could expand the total addressable market for the products and services they create, says Chef

• July 15, 2016 15 Jul'16

  Tech industry welcomes Microsoft victory in data access case

  Tech firms, civil liberties groups and trade bodies welcome what could be a landmark ruling by a US court in protecting the privacy of cloud services

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Chef CTO urges action to prevent DevOps staff burnout

  Chef CTO Adam Jacob has called on enterprises to cultivate a supportive working culture to protect DevOps staff from burnout

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  DevOps skills shortages hit enterprise digital transformation efforts

  Enterprises face challenges when recruiting and retaining experienced DevOps practitioners as demand for agile experts soars

• July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16

  IT professionals urged to dial-down tech talk to win CIO approval for DevOps projects

  Chef CEO Barry Crist claims senior management are not interested in the tech side of DevOps, so IT professionals should lead on the business benefits

• July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16

  UK retail banks could get Google-like legacy IT replacement

  Former Google engineers apply their experience to solving the huge handicap that core legacy systems place on the banking industry

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  Singapore bank moves closer to the cloud with Office 365 adoption

  DBS says Microsoft productivity tools will help its staff become more responsive to customer needs

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  UK cloud firm majors on Tintri hybrid flash for virtualisation

  Wokingham-based We Are Cloud rejects EMC and hyper-converged options as it deploys Tintri VM-native hybrid flash storage to support rollout of cloud services

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Case study: Odeon goes to hybrid cloud for digital transformation

  Odeon cinema chain reveals how it is using hybrid cloud to power its digital transformation and tackle competitive threats

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Microsoft unveils cloud platform to power business apps

  AppSource exposes Microsoft Graph data from Office 365 and Dynamics 365 to create business insights

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  McLaren-Honda rebuilds network platform on NTT foundations

  McLaren-Honda Formula 1 team embarks on three-year technology partnership with NTT Communications

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Brexit: AWS reinforces commitment to UK datacentre builds

  Cloud services giant claims outcome of EU referendum vote has no bearing on its willingness to invest in the UK or Europe

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Amazon.com CTO cautions enterprises against underestimating value of test and development

  Speaking at the AWS Summit in London, Amazon.com CTO hits out at legacy suppliers and urges enterprises to get experimental to protect themselves against competitive threats

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Saudi Telecom Company leads nation’s transformation agenda

  Saudi Telecom Company and its technology partners support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s drive into digital public services

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Australian real estate company goes all in on public cloud

  Australian real estate marketing company moves systems into the cloud to help it compete during a property boom

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Iceland tops list of low-risk datacentre locations

  Europe nabs six out of the top 10 spots in Cushman & Wakefield's list of low-risk locations to build or buy up datacentre capacity

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  IDC predicts slowdown in public cloud infrastructure spend will be short-lived

  IDC claims prospect of overseas datacentre builds and growing enterprise demand for off-premise services should ensure sales of IT infrastructure increase through 2016

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Lufthansa IT services arm transforms to meet customer demands

  IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Tore Burheim, University of Bergen

  IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud

  Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

• July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16

  The Services Family bank outsources IT to Sopra Steria

  The Services Family, a bank set up to serve military personnel, has outsourced technology services to Sopra Steria

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Brexit: Cloud community mulls over implications for data protection regulation reform

  TechUK fears Brexit could see the UK lose its power to influence cloud regulations, while others say it could free the market from having to toe the EU line so closely

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Brexit: Datacentre investments set to slow as economic stability concerns hit CIOs

  As the economic uncertainty around Brexit continues, CIOs may put new datacentre investments on hiatus, warns analyst

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  IT services sector faces freeze amid Brexit wrangling

  The IT services sector across the globe will be hit by the uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU, but a spending freeze will eventually thaw

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Facebook data case raises US national security issues

  Dublin court case on the legality of Facebook’s data transfers to the US raises issues that affect US national security, claims US Department of Justice

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  BT to offer secure, private network connection into Oracle Cloud

  Telco plans to roll out BT Connect service to Oracle Cloud customers during final quarter of 2016

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Post-Brexit price hikes hit cloud and datacentre community, as currency fluctuations bite

  Cloud and datacentre analysts claim IT buyers are already feeling the pinch from the outcome of the EU referendum, but past performance suggests demand for colocation space will rise in the event of recession

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  High-performing DevOps teams create better quality code, research suggests

  The 2016 State of DevOps report makes the case for incorporating security checks into every stage of the software development cycle

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Amazon cloud crash forced Australian enterprises to take heads out of sand

  Enterprises in Australia need to rethink their cloud backup strategies following the recent AWS outage in Sydney

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Work in progress: How Jisc’s shared datacentre vision is shaking up the education sector

  Computer Weekly gets a progress report from the Jisc shared services datacentre team in Slough about how the education sector is making use of the site

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  EU workers trust EU countries most with cloud data

  Survey reveals European workers trust EU countries much more than the US with their work data in the cloud

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  AWS clinches cloud deal with Colorado law enforcement agencies

  US State of Colorado signs AWS cloud deal, paving way for law enforcers to make greater use of digital technologies during criminal investigations

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Hays Recruitment service desk project is all gain and no pain

  The firm was attracted by the many benefits of a cloud-based service desk, but chief among them was the low risk involved in implementation

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Scality upgrades for enterprise adoption of object storage and S3

  Object storage specialist Scality recognises de facto supremacy of Amazon S3 and includes directory features to allow enterprise production use of object-based private and public cloud storage

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Gulf Air tinkers with Oracle suite and explores hybrid cloud models

  Bahraini airline Gulf Air is looking to make productivity gains across its enterprise resource planning system

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Australian datacentre investments rocket due to latest enterprise IT trends

  The increased use of big data, analytics, cloud and mobile technologies in Australian enterprises is driving spending in datacentre services

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Interoute launches virtual datacentre zone in Singapore

  Interoute’s second Asian cloud zone, after Hong Kong, increases its networked cloud coverage to 16 zones globally

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Technology key to supporting World Expo 2020 in Dubai

  Businesses in Dubai need to get ready for the expected boost in demand that will come with the World Expo exhibition to be held in the city in 2020

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  BT wins pan-London ICT framework contract worth up to £200m

  BT will be the sole supplier for a pan-London procurement framework for ICT services, set up by three London councils

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  Middle East virtualisation strategies mature

  CIOs in the Middle East are formulating their virtualisation strategies as the region warms to the benefits of cloud computing

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Cloud firm adds Cloudian object storage to satisfy S3 demand

  Calligo puts Cloudian object storage on Lenovo hardware to add a tier of storage for customers that want Amazon S3-compatible cloud services, but not from Amazon

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Save the Children swaps on-premise migration plan for public cloud

  International charity Save the Children explains why it abandoned plans to shift core IT systems back on-premise to embrace public cloud computing technology

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Swedish bank Sparbanken Syd expands IT outsourcing to trading

  Swedish bank Sparbanken Syd outsources the IT that runs its trading business to Finland's Tieto supplier, to cut costs and improve the quality of its services

• June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16

  Rio 2016 Olympics passes final IT test

  IT services firm Atos completes its 200,000 hours of testing the IT systems for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  LogMeIn customers complain over price hikes and contract renewals

  Remote management supplier denies not notifying customers about impending price rises and renewal dates, as end-user complaints mount

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

  Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  Safe Harbour confusion fuels rise in demand for European datacentre space, CBRE claims

  User demand for locally hosted cloud services prompts cloud firms and infrastructure providers to rapidly take-up datacentre space in Europe, CBRE research shows

• May 27, 2016 27 May'16

  Government competition chiefs demand fairer use terms for cloud storage customers

  LiveDrive, JustCloud and Dixons Carphone commit to fairer usage terms for cloud customers, but Microsoft and Google are conspicuous by their absence

• May 27, 2016 27 May'16

  Bristol Water outsources IT as business model transforms

  Bristol Water outsources IT to Wipro to support it through a period of transformation to its operating model

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  UK challenger bank OakNorth puts its core systems in AWS cloud

  UK challenger bank OakNorth is putting core banking systems in the Amazon Web Services cloud

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  Salesforce to run more of its services from the AWS public cloud

  Cloud CRM giant Salesforce names Amazon Web Services as preferred public cloud provider, as it sets out plans to expand use of its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings