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• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Asean businesses fall behind in cloud business agility

  Businesses in Asean countries are slower to harness cloud computing than in other regions – but could overtake them, with much less legacy IT to deal with

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Datacentre consolidation drive saves US federal agencies $2bn

  IT reforms pushed through by White House spending watchdog generate $3.6bn in overall savings

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  HP reinforces commitment to open, hybrid cloud vision as business split looms

  Meg Whitman restates firm's stance on enterprise appeal of hybrid cloud, as latest version of HP Helion CloudSystem goes on general release

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Stewart Bromley, Atom Bank

  Atom bank's chief operating officer Stewart Bromley talks about the advantage of starting from scratch with all services available through an app

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Accenture buys Cloud Sherpas for SaaS applications push

  Accenture sets out plans to acquire Salesforce consultancy business and give enterprises a helping hand with moving to the cloud

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Haircare firm GHD rehomes hybrid cloud infrastructure in new Rackspace datacentre

  Haircare product maker shifts hybrid website infrastructure to Rackspace's Crawley datacentre in preparation for Christmas rush

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  HP topples Cisco to become cloud infrastructure equipment market leader

  Hardware giant overtakes rival in the cloud infrastructure market as demand for servers, storage and private cloud-enabling kit soars

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Tennis governing body ATP outsources digital development

  The men's world tennis governing body, the ATP, signs Infosys to help it use digital technology to better engage fans and players

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  UK CIOs lament lack of IT support for cloud services

  Research from ElasticHosts suggests most cloud users are unhappy with the level of tech support they receive from their providers

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Microsoft makes fresh legal bid to protect emails stored in Irish datacentre from US government

  Software giant's ongoing battle to protect emails stored in overseas datacentre from US government enters new phase

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service builds in-house PaaS to host government services

  Industry watchers query why the Government Digital Service (GDS) decided to build its own cloud platform, when many commercially available options exist

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

  Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Equinix buys Japanese datacentre firm Bit-isle to tap into Asia-Pacific cloud demand

  Datacentre giant Equinix reveals details of its latest acquisition target, Japanese firm Bit-isle, to meet demand for cloud and hosting services in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Philippines' roadmap aims for 500 startups by 2020

  The government of the Philippines is eager to emulate its success in BPO in the IT startup sector

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  School kids would rather study coding than a foreign language, says Ocado

  A year since computer science was added to the school curriculum Ocado discovers kids would rather learn to code than to speak another language

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Myanmar internet gets boost with content delivery network

  Myanmar internet users will start benefiting from changes in the law that encourages foreign direct investment in communications infrastructures

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Case study: How Ebury took a cloud-first approach to delivering financial services

  Financial services firm outlines how it is helping customers expand their businesses internationally with the help of cloud

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Cloud users speak out about day-to-day SaaS frustrations

  New research highlights problems users encounter when using cloud and suggests some might be planning to go back on-premise

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Islington and Camden Councils set out shared IT services plans

  London councils want to tackle the government's austerity measures through adopting shared IT services model by April 2016

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Four in five G-Cloud buyers fail to share savings data with government, FOI response reveals

  FOI response reveals four in five G-Cloud buyers are failing to share details of the savings they have made through using the framework

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  The US Federal Aviation Administration's hybrid cloud plans take flight with help from CSC

  US aerospace agency sets out plans to wind down its datacentre investments and move more of its IT to the cloud

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Office 365 overtakes Google Apps as business users' preferred cloud productivity suite

  Use of Microsoft cloud suite has risen steeply over the past 12 months, leaving Google Apps trailing, research shows

• August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15

  Research highlights security risk posed by cloud "super" users

  CloudLock's third quarter report into cloud security trends reveals 1% of users create 75% of the risk in off-premise environments

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  Singapore hosts Aliyun's new Asean-based cloud data center

  Alibaba's cloud computing arm is opening a data center in Singapore, which is good news for Asean businesses looking for more cloud options

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Dell creates datacentre-focused business unit to help telcos and cloud providers scale

  Hardware giant wants to make it easier for telcos and cloud providers to rapidly respond to growing demand for datacentre space

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Norwegian mountain houses Europe's biggest datacentre

  Lefdal Mine Datacenter sets out plans to build an underground facility spanning six floors in a Norwegian mountain

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Amazon Web Services opens up machine learning service to European developers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims running service out of Dublin datacentre will reduce latency for European developers using predictive services

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Intel and Goldman Sachs invest in Mirantis to boost OpenStack enterprise adoption

  Chipmaker is one of a number of investors that have pledged to help Mirantis increase the enterprise appeal of open source OpenStack clouds

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Hybrid cloud two to five years off hitting mainstream adoption, claims Gartner

  Hybrid IT approach is still some way off reaching mainstream levels of enterprise adoption, according to market watcher Gartner

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Cloud storage service Wuala to close in November

  Seagate-owned cloud storage player confirms its closure and gives users three months' notice to remove their data from its servers

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  IaaS providers pin hopes on spending cut reprieve for G-Cloud 7

  G-Cloud suppliers are calling on the government to step up, rather than scale back, investment in the framework as spending cuts loom

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments

  Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud

  Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Met Police seeks MSPs as digital forensic investigations move closer to the frontline

  Metropolitan Police Force wants to make it easier for frontline staff to embark on forensic investigations involving digital devices with the help of MSPs

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Gloucester City Homes embarks on VDI-led tech transformation with Exponential-e

  Social housing firm taps into Exponential-e's Ethernet capabilities to make it easier for its staff to work flexibly

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  FOI response reveals G-Cloud suppliers escape fines for missing MISO sales data deadlines

  Freedom of Information response suggests Cabinet Office is taking a softly-softly approach to clamping down on non-compliant G-Cloud suppliers

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Case study: How Finnish Saas provider LeadDesk cut its testing time in half

  Finland-based call centre software maker LeadDesk has cut software development times and improved processes through automation software

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Peer-to-peer lenders galore apply for regulatory approval

  The number of companies applying to become authorised peer-to-peer lenders goes beyond expectations as the appetite for non-bank lenders increases

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Emerson Network Power makes case for datacentre PUE calculation overhaul

  Datacentre power expert makes case for the amount of water a facility consumes to be included in PUE calculations from now on

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  EMC reportedly mulling over selling up to VMware

  Storage giant is said to be considering a sale to its virtualisation subsidiary, as investor pressure on the company grows

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Gartner warns of IoT threat to corporate data stored in personal clouds

  Market watcher cautions IT managers to beware the risk IoT and virtual personal assistants pose to corporate data stored in 'personal clouds'

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  Whitehall devolution threat means IT suppliers "must improve" at selling cloud to local councils

  Public sector IT suppliers must swot up on selling services to local councils, as Whitehall proposes devolving more power to them

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  SME G-Cloud deal volumes could be "under-reported", claim suppliers

  Cabinet Office is reviewing how SMEs report G-Cloud sales data, as reports suggest some are shunning existing online reporting process

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Huawei supplier ecosystem to help financial industry emulate internet giants

  Huawei targets the European finance sector, with a focus on the UK, through an ecosystem of niche IT suppliers

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  IaaS mega-framework tender raises hopes of Europe-wide G-cloud launch

  Géant publishes contract notice seeking providers for IaaS frameworks, which will serve 50 million across Europe

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Ark Data Centres to underpin delivery of BT's managed cloud services

  BT signs multi-year deal with datacentre provider to support its push into the cloud integrator market

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

  Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs

• 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 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mark Dixon, Standard Life

  Insurance company Standard Life is looking at new digital projects as work needed to meet regulatory changes is completed

• 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

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

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

• 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

  Puppet Labs hails importance of IT managers in winning over DevOps sceptics in the enterprise

  Automation supplier's fourth annual DevOps research report highlights the important role IT managers play in ensuring enterprise-wide adoption

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Specialist clothing brand Musto deploys Cybertill point of sale system

  Luxury sailing brand Musto signs payments company Cybertill to redesign its point of sale (POS) system for its multichannel operation

• 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 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 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans

  Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre

• 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

  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 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Challenger finance firms taunt banks over legacy IT at SAP services conference

  Challenger finance companies presented at a SAP financial services event to inject some urgency into the banking sector

• 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 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Choose Digital CTO makes case for "NoOps" software delivery approach

  Allowing developers to create, test and deploy updates alone lets companies take risks and innovate with greater ease, argues Mario Cruz

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• 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 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Nordic companies drive the future of the smartcar industry

  Nordic companies are pioneering the smartcar industry as businesses and consumers turn to software to improve efficiency and safety

• 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 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Facebook confirms plans to build second European datacentre in Ireland

  Social networking giant Facebook puts paid to weeks of speculation by confirming plans to open new datacentre in Ireland

• 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

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  Pressure grows on AWS to power more datacentres with green energy

  Public cloud giant is being called on again to be more transparent about its use of renewable energy, this time by Green America

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft

  The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Iomart builds out hybrid cloud play with £12.5m SystemsUp acquisition

  Hosting company buys public cloud consultancy to capitalise on enterprise appetites for hybrid IT models

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Public cloud emerges as Europe's least popular off-premise IT deployment method

  Easynet research investigating European IT decision-maker buying trends suggests private cloud rules the roost

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Peer demands action over ‘illegal’ Prism programme

  US technology companies are operating illegally by accessing data on UK citizens, Lord Laird tells the House of Lords

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  European Commission calls for cloud data protection law reforms

  The Commission claims fragmented data protection laws area holding up the development of a single digital marketplace in Europe

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  City of Groningen to create smart city infrastructure

  Groningen in the Netherlands signs a memorandum of understanding with Huawei to develop a smart city infrastructure

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Equinix bought TelecityGroup for datacentre connectivity locations, says vice-president Eric Schwarz

  Datacentre operator Equinix admits £2.3bn deal to buy TelecityGroup could spark a flurry of merger and acquisition activity elsewhere in the market