News

Cloud computing services

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  AWS on course to become $6bn business, as sales soar during Q2

  Cloud giant's second quarter success prompts speculation about what Amazon might do next with the business division

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Rackspace and Intel outline plans to increase enterprise appeal of OpenStack

  Managed cloud company and chip maker are creating an innovation centre in Texas to accelerate maturity of OpenStack

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Notion Capital unveils $120m investment fund for European cloud startups

  Venture capital firm hopes to increase fund size to $150m by the time it reaches final close later this year

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Scottish government denies "cloud-washing" mobile device procurement framework

  Scottish government's National Framework for Cloud Computing and Proprietary Devices risks confusing suppliers, claim analysts

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  AirBnB, LinkedIn, Spotify & Twitter sign up for Box cloud storage

  As enterprise file sync and share supplier announces latest customers wins, but competitor flags data sovereignty limitations of Box's operations

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  GCHQ unlawfully intercepting parliamentary communications, tribunal hears

  Tribunal hears claims that GCHQ is unlawfully intercepting MPs' and peers' communications

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

  Chinese cloud firm makes data protection promises, as it gears up for overseas expansion

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Cisco quits set-top boxes and reshuffles IoT and cloud organisation

  Cisco sells off the set-top box business it acquired in 2005 and restructures its cloud and IoT businesses

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

  Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Worldwide public cloud spend tipped to hit $70bn in 2015

  Latest IDC cloud spending data highlights growing appetite for public cloud services across several vertical markets

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  GE to move 300,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365

  Microsoft announces one of its biggest Office 365 deals to date, after securing a contract to provide 300,000 GE staff with online productivity tools

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  HP Cloud 28+ on course to go live in December 2015 with 200 members

  HP's push to create a one-stop-shop for European Union cloud users is on course, claims Europe, Middle-East and Africa vice-president

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Cloud maturity still rare in Nordic organisations

  Nordic companies are early pioneers of cloud computing services, but few are using the technology beyond cost cutting

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Google sponsors OpenStack hybrid interoperability

  Google becomes a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack open-source private cloud platform, aiming to deliver container management and cloud-native apps

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  The obstacles to software-as-a-service adoption in banking

  Security tops the reasons why banks don't use software as a service for banking-specific applications

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  European IaaS adoption set to soar as more IT infrastructure moves off-premise

  The economics of using cloud-based storage and compute makes better financial sense for many enterprises, claims research

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Fujitsu calls up Memset to deliver infrastructure services to HMRC

  Surrey-based datacentre provider to provide infrastructure hosting services to HMRC

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  AWS to build wind farm in North Carolina to power its cloud datacentres

  AWS follows up earlier renewable energy pledge by setting out plans to build 208MW wind farm

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Rackspace brings public cloud managed support to Microsoft Azure

  Managed cloud provider Rackspace strikes a support partnership deal with Microsoft to monitor and control the firm's Azure public cloud service

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Facebook builds wind-powered datacentre in Texas

  Social networking giant Facebook adds momentum to green datacentre trend with plans to power a datacentre in Texas with a 17,000-acre wind farm

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  BA opens up API on flight information

  British Airways offers an open application programming interface (API) for flight information to encourage developers to create value-added travel applications

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Rolls-Royce signs up to supercomputing on-demand from HPC Midlands

  Rolls-Royce is the first company to sign up to a supercomputing brokerage scheme, giving it access to £60m worth of high-performance computing

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  WWF UK wants more cloud after successful storage project

  WWF UK wants to increase its use of cloud services after a storage as a service project reaps multiple benefits

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

  The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Sales of cloud-enabling infrastructure grew 25% in Q1, finds IDC

  IDC cloud infrastructure tracker suggests enterprises are coming round to the idea of hybrid IT

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  How Deutsche Telekom plans to challenge AWS and Google in the cloud

  German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to evolve into the public cloud and plans to beat sector giants such as Amazon and Google at their own game

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Swedish cloud provider gets Solidfire all-flash storage for OpenStack

  Stockholm-based Elastx uses Solidfire all-flash arrays to support as-a-service provision on OpenStack with easy API connections to Cinder

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Accenture uses Avanade cloud for NHSmail

  Accenture to deploy a cloud-based email system for NHS staff using a combination of Microsoft software and Avanade cloud technology

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Coalition achieved its goal of smaller IT deals, research reveals

  Previous coalition government managed to reduce the average size of public sector IT services and IT outsourcing contracts, shows an ISG study

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Post Office signs IBM for IT overhaul

  MP James Bridgen reveals the Post Office intends to outsource an IT transformation to IBM as part of its drive to serve customers using modern technology

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  CipherCloud and CSA lead calls for cloud security open APIs

  The pair have teamed up to create a working group that will guide the industry on how to make the cloud more secure, but in an open way

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

  The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  European enterprises deploy one new cloud service a day, research shows

  Skyhigh Networks' European cloud adoption report flags concerns about how much insight IT has into what employees do in the cloud

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Microsoft in the dark after Parliamentary email disrupted for three days

  After a week of investigations, Microsoft has been unable to provide an explanation for failure of the Microsoft 365 cloud-based email service used by Parliament

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Windows Server 2003 end of support: Five options to choose from

  Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ends in July. Should you upgrade to a newer version of the operating system or choose an alternative?

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Google builds energy-efficient datacentre in US coal power plant

  Internet giant Google has said it intends to use a decommissioned coal power plant's infrastructure to deliver renewable energy to its next US datacentre

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  British Gas to power more of its business using public cloud from 2017

  Energy supplier says public cloud move will boost its business agility while cutting costs

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Box ties up with IBM to boost enterprise credibility and global reach

  IBM and Box have forged a global partnership to integrate their existing products and services, and develop new ones for secure collaboration

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  European Parliament negotiators finalise talks on EU data protection regulation

  The European Parliament, Council and Commission finalise negotiations to enact the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Google scolds businesses for citing security as a reason not to use cloud

  Search giant reckons on-premise data is more likely to be breached than information stored in the cloud

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Oracle goes after AWS and Hana with cloud add-ons

  Oracle has extended its cloud platform with a set of features it hopes will entice existing customers to migrate to the cloud

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Interview: Christina Page explains how Yahoo keeps its datacentres green and clean

  Yahoo's global director for sustainability explains why cloud providers need to get clued up on renewable energy

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  Oracle sets sights on cloud cash cow in shift from perpetual licensing

  Oracle reports Q4 operating income of $4bn on revenues of $10.7bn as it turns from software licensing towards 'stunningly profitable' cloud business

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Dropbox users can now accept files from non-subscribers to the cloud storage platform

  Dropbox File Requests let users collect files from people who aren't signed up to the cloud storage service for the first time

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Datacentre operators warned off prioritising on-site security over cyber threat protection

  Too many datacentre operators prioritise physical security over protection from cyber attacks, it is claimed

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Uefa extends ICT outsourcing deal with telecoms supplier Interoute

  European football governing body Uefa extends its managed ICT services deal with provider Interoute with more systems planned for hosted private cloud

• June 12, 2015 12 Jun'15

  Supplier concerns over government procurement rules cause G-Cloud event rethink

  A G-Cloud ‘masterclass’ promising attendees a ‘significant and unfair advantage’ in securing business through the framework prompts supplier concerns

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Greenpeace ranks world's most popular websites on renewable energy use

  Campaign group releases Chrome browser extension that gives web users at-a-glance information on the clean energy habits of internet sites