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Data centre

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Exposed AWS buckets again implicated in multiple data leaks

  A series of data leaks in the past week have once again implicated poorly secured Amazon S3 buckets, which are supposed to be private by default

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Modern telecoms has opened up Sweden’s far north

  Modern telecom infrastructures mean datacentres can be further away from users, and environmental and cost advantages are to be had in locations such as Sweden’s far north

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Davos 2020: Why IT sector must address climate issues

  Climate change is set to be top of the agenda at the World Economic Forum, with Microsoft chief Satya Nadella declaring he aims to delete the company’s emissions

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Bristol University uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to speed up smoking cessation drug discovery

  Scientists from the University of Bristol used Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to speed up research into how nicotine causes addiction by binding to specific receptors in the brain

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  AWS to request temporary halt to Microsoft’s work on $10bn JEDI cloud contract

  Amazon to file temporary restraining order with the US federal court to prevent Microsoft undertaking any substantial work relating to its delivery of US government’s JEDI cloud contract

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Equinix picks up bare metal cloud provider Packet to bolster its edge computing play

  Colocation giant Equinix hits the acquistion trail to round out its edge computing offering to enterprises

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Threat landscape grew in complexity in 2019, no respite in sight

  Check Point’s annual state of security report shares some 2019 trends and looks ahead to 2020

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  How container applications are shaping storage management

  Persistent storage, backup and recovery were not on the minds of those behind container applications, but that is starting to change

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  What is behind Stockholm’s datacentre boom?

  Datacentres are springing up in Stockholm – but what is drawing major IT companies to the Swedish capital?

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities won’t be patched until end of January

  Some vulnerabilities identified in Citrix products will not be fully patched until the end of January 2020

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  Computing at the edge

  Edge computing is currently one of the most important trends in IT that is likely to complement cloud by supporting new and emerging workloads

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Microsoft led enterprise IT pack in revenue growth terms over past decade, research shows

  In the final despatch from Synergy Research Group's look back at the IT trends that shaped the past decade, Microsoft emerges as the tech firm that managed to grow its enterprise revenue share the most throughout the 2010s

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Home Office reinforces commitment to AWS with £100m cloud hosting deal

  The Home Office’s position as one of the central government’s biggest cloud spenders shows no signs of slipping, as details emerge of four-year contract with Amazon Web Services

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  AWS finds growth in Australia amid maturing cloud market

  Edge computing, the internet of things and contact centre services are some of the key growth areas for Amazon Web Services in Australia

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Cloud adoption in ANZ gathering pace

  Australia and New Zealand have seen a four-fold increase in the amount of data moving from on-premise environments to the top public clouds, survey finds