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Cloud computing services
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July 03, 2019
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Jul'19
APAC firms in developed markets warm up to cloud ERP
A majority of large enterprises in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore are planning to move their financial applications to the cloud within a year
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July 01, 2019
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Jul'19
Equinix launch $1bn joint venture to secure more European hyperscale colocation spend
Colocation giant Equinix is gunning for a larger slice of the hyperscale community's datacentre spend through formation of $1bn joint venture with Singapore wealth fund
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July 01, 2019
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Jul'19
NTT picks London for newly formed global business
NTT says unifying its various units under one umbrella and basing it in London will help it take full advantage of both its clients’ demands for joined up digital services, and the capital’s booming tech economy
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June 27, 2019
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Jun'19
Aerohive adds cloud and edge network features to Extreme portfolio
Software-defined network specialist Extreme Networks has bought Aerohive to extend its capabilities in critical areas for future networks
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June 25, 2019
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Jun'19
Australia’s demand for cloud continues to soar
Over 40% of local businesses are now using public cloud services, though the lack of cloud skills remains a key barrier to wider adoption
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June 25, 2019
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Jun'19
DBS Bank goes big on open source
Besides using a slew of open source software, DBS Bank is looking to contribute some of its own projects to the open source community in future
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June 20, 2019
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Jun'19
How APAC CIOs are driving AI projects
IT leaders at a Computer Weekly roundtable say they are grappling with compute bottlenecks and explainable artificial intelligence even as chatbots and other AI projects are being rolled out in full swing
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June 19, 2019
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Jun'19
How AirAsia streamlined its customer service
Integrating multiple customer touch points with Salesforce has enabled Asia’s leading low-cost carrier to shorten waiting time and improve customer service
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June 19, 2019
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Jun'19
NetApp ports services to NetApp HCI for multi-cloud storage
NetApp will debut multi-cloud services on its NetApp HCI hyper-converged platform, with the first being its Kubernetes orchestrator service and Cloud Volumes
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June 19, 2019
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Jun'19
University graduates to Rubrik backup appliance with Azure cloud
University of Reading could only back up 20% of its data on an ageing tape library, so it modernised with a Rubrik appliance and Azure cloud storage in a cost-neutral project
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June 17, 2019
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Jun'19
Inside F5’s cyber security playbook
F5 Networks' CISO talks up measures that the application delivery and security specialist is employing to fend off cyber attackers that come knocking on its doors
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June 16, 2019
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Jun'19
5G to drive hybrid cloud adoption in ANZ
5G networks will move computing to the edge, driving adoption of hybrid cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure, says Nutanix’s ANZ chief
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June 14, 2019
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Jun'19
IT outsourcing is increasing, but not as we know it
IT outsourcing is growing in the UK, as organisations spend more as part of their digital transformations
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June 12, 2019
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Jun'19
Apple cancels plans to build second European datacentre in Denmark
The consumer electronics giant plans to focus its efforts on expanding its soon-to-be completed datacentre in Denmark, rather than invest in standing up a second facility in the country
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June 07, 2019
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Jun'19
Edtech in the Nordics offers students alternative learning journeys
Pioneering attitude to technology innovation across business and society lends itself to adoption in education across the region
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June 05, 2019
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Jun'19
Finland’s Tieto reorganises to grab growth opportunities
Tieto is cutting costs as part of its growth plan that will see hundreds of job cuts in Finland and Sweden
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June 03, 2019
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Jun'19
How Alibaba Cloud plans to win over APAC enterprises
The Chinese cloud supplier is counting on data analytics, industry-specific offerings and its knowledge of the China market to gain a foothold in the Asia-Pacific region
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May 29, 2019
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May'19
Inside Digital Realty’s datacentre playbook
Digital Realty’s chief technology officer talks up key trends that are shaping its business and the datacentre industry, including edge computing and the impending roll-out of 5G networks
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May 28, 2019
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May'19
SAP extends Hana’s reach beyond enterprise applications
The benefits of Hana Cloud Services are clear to Asia-Pacific customers, although actual adoption will boil down to cost
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May 23, 2019
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May'19
Paul Smith looks to tailor its back-end systems with Cegid software
British tailor Paul Smith has been working with Cegid since 2015, but it is now considering upgrading to the provider's latest software to reduce costs and increase efficiency
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May 23, 2019
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May'19
VMware CEO outlines laws of hybrid cloud
Pat Gelsinger points out three laws that will make the case for the hybrid cloud future: economics, physics and data sovereignty
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May 22, 2019
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May'19
GoCardless migrates to cloud and gets Google engineering capability
Fintech has moved from an IBM infrastructure as a service to Google’s cloud platform
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May 22, 2019
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May'19
Demand for systems integration services soaring in New Zealand
Systems integration and custom application development projects contributed to the fastest-growing segment of New Zealand’s IT services market in 2018
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May 21, 2019
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May'19
UC Expo 2019: Experts talk up future tech in unified communications
Automation and AI are increasingly prevalent in unified comms, but do enterprises really need it?
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May 16, 2019
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May'19
Huawei debuts AI-powered database
Huawei is using reinforcement learning to deliver self-tuning and self-healing capabilities for the latest iteration of its GaussDB database
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May 15, 2019
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May'19
Facebook engaged in ‘calculated’ campaign to eliminate competition, claims businessman
A US businessman is seeking damages from Facebook after accusing the social media company of unfairly blocking “humorous” Facebook pages which generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising revenue
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May 15, 2019
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May'19
Stella McCartney and Google Cloud start machine learning and fashion-focused sustainability push
Stella McCartney and Google Cloud are embarking on a joint pilot project that will draw on the tech giant's machine learning and cloud-based data processing portfolio to help clean up the fashion industry's supply chains
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May 14, 2019
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May'19
Public sector outsourcing spend plummets
Private sector outsourcing dominated spending in the UK during the first quarter of 2019
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May 14, 2019
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May'19
Email firm runs millions of mailboxes with Scality object storage
Open Xchange switches from OpenStack Swift to Scality to run 13PB of storage for millions of mailboxes across two continents for telco, mobile and TV providers
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May 09, 2019
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May'19
Deutsche Börse harnesses Microsoft cloud
German stock exchange signs deal with Microsoft that will not only benefit the exchange, but other organisations in the sector that are considering cloud migration
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May 08, 2019
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May'19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux to contribute $10tn to global business
A study on the economic impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux by IDC revealed that the operating system is expected to contribute to business revenues worth 5% of the global economy
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May 08, 2019
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May'19
Finnish gaming company PAF migrates to the cloud
Move to Amazon Web Services cloud brings scalability to gaming company that gives part of its profits to good causes
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May 08, 2019
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May'19
Nasuni aims at analytics and fast migration to the cloud
Cloud NAS and object storage specialist says customers want “Lego blocks” that allow them to build for cloud workloads, and plans cloud migration tools for massive datasets
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May 07, 2019
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May'19
Red Hat CEO weighs in on hybrid cloud play
Jim Whitehurst claims Red Hat’s ability to support an entire technology stack is valuable to enterprises that want a common platform on-premise and in the cloud
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May 06, 2019
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May'19
AWS to power Australia’s 2021 online census
PwC Australia, one of two firms appointed by the government to run the next Census, will build and operate an online form and a website on Amazon Web Services
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May 02, 2019
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May'19
How APAC enterprises are using VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware’s cloud business unit CTO reveals how APAC businesses are using its hybrid cloud service to move workloads to the cloud
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May 01, 2019
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May'19
Fiat Chrysler commits to Android for connected vehicles
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has signed deals with Google and Samsung to power its connected vehicle ecosystem
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April 30, 2019
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Apr'19
HPE to launch Cloud Volumes in UK and Ireland
HPE Cloud Volumes will offer enterprise-class block storage for use with AWS and Azure compute plus a replication store for backup and disaster recovery from the end of May
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April 30, 2019
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Apr'19
How Microsoft is prepping manufacturers for Industry 4.0
Building on its manufacturing and technology knowhow, Microsoft has teamed up with industrial firms to support the growing demand for smart manufacturing capabilities
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April 29, 2019
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Apr'19
Malaysia to get its first AI park
Malaysia’s first artificial intelligence park to be developed by a trio of local and Chinese firms is expected to raise the country’s standing in the global race for AI supremacy
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April 26, 2019
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Apr'19
Facebook faces fresh privacy actions from regulators
Facebook faces legal action from Canada after it dismissed regulators’ findings that it failed to protect customer privacy. The firm has set aside $5bn to settle a privacy action in the US and faces a new investigation in Ireland
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April 26, 2019
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Apr'19
Amazon cautions against reading too much into slowdown in AWS revenue growth rate
Amazon's CFO claims slowdown in revenue growth and capital expenditure should not be interpreted as signs of distress for any of its business units, as firm shifts growth strategy to prioritise operational efficiency
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April 26, 2019
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Apr'19
Laing O’Rourke Australia chooses private cloud route
The Australian arm of global engineering firm Laing O’Rourke signs up for Nutanix to run its core applications on a private cloud
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April 25, 2019
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Apr'19
Cloud uptake drives third-quarter sales for Microsoft
Demand for Microsoft’s cloud offerings spiked again during the firm’s third quarter, reports Redmond
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April 25, 2019
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Apr'19
JEDI cloud chief quits as award date for controversial 10-year US government cloud deal nears
Chris Lynch, director of the US Defence Digital Service, has assured staff that the 10-year JEDI cloud project will proceed as he confirms his departure
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April 25, 2019
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Apr'19
Huawei sharpens AI edge in global cloud move
Chinese tech giant is honing its artificial intelligence capabilities to compete against rivals in global cloud computing markets
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April 24, 2019
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Apr'19
Challenger bank Tandem migrates to AWS in one weekend
Customer migration to Amazon Web Services demonstrates challenger banks’ agility in moving quickly to the latest technology
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April 23, 2019
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Apr'19
Apple spends upwards of $30m a month on AWS during first quarter of 2019, report claims
According to US media reports, Apple is spending upwards of $30m a month on procuring cloud services from Amazon Web Services
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April 22, 2019
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Apr'19
With Anthos, Google seeks to unify open source cloud technologies
Urs Hölzle, Google’s head of technical infrastructure, talks up efforts to deliver what he claims to be the first open source cloud stack
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April 17, 2019
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Apr'19
Construction halted at Apple datacentre in Denmark over alleged contractor dispute, report suggests
A local media report suggests construction of Apple's first non-US datacentre has halted in Denmark over a dispute over missed deadlines by the contractor tasked with delivering the build