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• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Microsoft Ignite: Revamped Teams and Azure options in offing to ease enterprises through Covid-19

  Microsoft is rolling out a series of additions to its cloud infrastructure and productivity portfolio, geared towards supporting enterprises as they adjust their digital transformation plans to accommodate coronavirus challenges

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Unilever partners with Google Cloud to bolster supply chain sustainability

  Consumer goods giant Unilever is drawing on Google's cloud technologies to help it achieve its goal of finding sustainable sources of palm oil, and reduce the risk of its operations leading to deforestation

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Big questions to be answered over TikTok and WeChat reprieve

  TikTok and WeChat seem to have received a stay of execution, but big questions and contradictions remain

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Alibaba Cloud unveils ‘cloud computer’, delivery robot

  At its annual Apsara conference, Alibaba Cloud debuts a thin-client computer and a logistics robot that can carry 50 packages in one go

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Pure flashes the cash, paying $370m for Portworx

  Flash storage pioneer believes container storage is the next frontier and pays big money for container persistent storage software provider Portworx in deal set to close this month

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Global datacentre hub analysis reveals 65% of global colocation revenue originates from 25 cities

  Latest quarterly report into global colocation market trends from Synergy Research Group shows hyperscale demand for datacentre capacity remains concentrated within major cities, despite push for more edge sites

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  IBM targets Goldeneye to keep its qubits chilled

  IBM has ambitions to build a million-plus quantum computer. To get there, it is building a fridge bigger than anything commercially available

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Deutsche Bӧrse tackles VMware application migration with Google Cloud

  German financial exchange firm provides an update on its progress in its move to embrace a hybrid IT and multicloud future

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Western Australia government goes all-in on Microsoft

  State agencies in Western Australia will be able to tap Azure cloud services and cloud applications through a new Microsoft agreement

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Microsoft hails heightened reliability of servers run in sub-sea datacentres

  Microsoft concludes multi-year research project into practicalities of running underwater datacentres with positive findings about the sustainability and reliability of sub-sea server farms

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  BP and Microsoft extend cloud deal with clean energy agreement

  Companies aim to join forces to provide clean energy for Azure datacentres, smart cities and other energy consumers

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Nutanix bolsters Kubernetes playbook with managed service

  Karbon Platform Services claims to ease container deployments in public and hybrid cloud environments in the emerging Kubernetes platform war

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  Google commits to sustainability and erasing its carbon footprint

  Tech giant Google will develop tools to help datacentre managers measure and reduce the company’s carbon footprint

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  BlackBerry rolls out AtHoc crisis communications system to European datacentres

  BlackBerry seeks to capitalise on growing demand for its AtHoc crisis communications system by rolling out locally hosted instances to European datacentres

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Global spending on enterprise datacentres continues to dampen in face of Covid-19

  Synergy Research Group hails continued, growing demand for datacentre hardware and software from hyperscalers for keeping market buoyant during pandemic

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Interxion expands into Southeast Europe with Croatian colocation provider buyout

  Digital Realty-owned European colocation player Interxion is expanding into Southeast Europe with the acquisition of Croatian services provider Altus IT, and is also expanding its presence in Spain

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Datacentre firm Equinix investigating ransomware attack

  A number of internal systems at cloud and datacentre firm Equinix have been affected by a ransomware attack

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  AWS hits out as US Department of Defense reaffirms JEDI contract award to Microsoft

  The US Department of Defense claims its re-evaluation of the controversial JEDI contract award confirms it was right to award the deal to Microsoft, but Amazon Web Services continues to disagree

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Amazon to recruit 7,000 permanent workers in UK during 2020 hiring spree

  The online retail giant’s UK workforce looks set to expand to 40,000 employees by the end of 2020, as its network of fulfilment centres continues to grow

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Guernsey to revamp digital local service delivery following double datacentre build-out

  The State of Guernsey’s ongoing push to revamp how it delivers digital services to its citizens continues apace with the completion of two new datacentres on the island

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Weta Digital goes all-in on AWS

  New Zealand visual effects studio plans to migrate most of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services and tap machine learning and analytics to deliver projects more quickly

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  UBS streamlines software product development with GitLab

  The bank hopes to double the speed of software development, testing and deployment to support applications for clients

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  HPE sees IT spending increase – expect server prices to rise

  Organisations are buying more tech to keep operations running, but DRAM shortages will lead to server price increases

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  Microsoft wins on public cloud trust

  IT spending set to grow in 2021, with many organisations buying more public cloud services. Security and trust are top buying criteria

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  MongoDB grows Asian footprint through Alibaba Cloud

  MongoDB teams up with Alibaba Cloud to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific as it prepares to release a serverless variant of the open-source database

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  Coronavirus fails to dim digital transformation ambitions of enterprise IT leaders, research shows

  Research from managed service provider 2nd Watch highlights cloud challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, and how enterprises are responding to them

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  Google Cloud services outage hits Gmail users across Europe

  Several key parts of Google’s cloud-based productivity suite of products are experiencing technical difficulties, with users across Europe reporting issues

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Equinix confirms review under way into UPS failure at Docklands datacentre

  Colocation giant says it is undertaking a review into the power outage that blighted users of its Docklands facility to guard against it occurring again

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Zoom dials into Southeast Asia with Singapore datacentre

  Zoom’s new Singapore datacentre is expected to shore up the performance of its conferencing tool and phone service in the city-state

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  UK Biobank to build AWS-hosted data analysis platform with DNAnexus to speed research

  UK Biobank is looking to the cloud to help democratise access to its research data, and ensure the information it holds can be used by as broad a user base as possible

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  HPE signs 12-month hybrid cloud-focused MoU with UK government

  Hardware giant becomes the first non-cloud provider to sign preferential pricing deal with government’s Crown Commercial Service, as push to encourage public sector move to cloud accelerates

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Oracle takes aim at hyperscalers, eyes VMware workloads

  Oracle claims it is addressing the limitations of competing services by offering better security controls, consolidated billing and global availability

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  Comms startup Element helps support secure communications during pandemic

  With the huge increase in remote working, Element is using an open, decentralised network to give organisations more control over their communications

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Nissan Motor Company to migrate off-premise HPC workloads to Oracle Cloud

  Motor manufacturer is preparing to shift various latency-sensitive workloads off-premise and into the Oracle Cloud

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Beyond.pl plots Polish datacentre campus expansion to capitalise on growing continental cloud demand

  Polish colocation provider Beyond.pI says expansion plans are in direct response to growing demand for sustainably powered datacentre capacity in central Europe

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  NHS SBS spies £75m savings on IT purchases through new procurement framework

  NHS organisations and public sector bodies will be encouraged to use £500m procurement framework to acquire IT software and hardware in a more cost-effective way

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Equinix expands into India through $161m acquisition of two local datacentres

  Colocation giant looks set to tap into the huge demand for cloud and internet services from enterprises in India

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix Clusters on AWS debuts in 20 cloud regions

  In technical preview since 2019, Nutanix Clusters on AWS will enable unified operations across private and public clouds

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Coca-Cola European Partners signs multi-year hybrid cloud deal with IBM

  Coca-Cola European Partners is building on its past relationship with IBM to accelerate its cloud migration, and drive efficiencies within its business

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Gartner flags continued growth in global IaaS spend as enterprise demand for public cloud soars

  Global spend on IaaS continues to surge, with a growing competitive threat posed by Chinese providers

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Security teams struggle to keep pace with cloud threats

  Security professionals face challenges in keeping pace with cloud deployments and migrations, and the additional security threats they open up

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  CIO interview: DFS’s Russell Harte on the Google ecosystem

  The furniture retailer has standardised on G Suite and has bought into the Google Cloud Platform and Chrome OS devices

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  TikTok to open first European datacentre in Ireland during early 2022

  The CISO of TikTok has confirmed the social video company's plans to open its first European datacentre in early 2022, as its data security processes come under increased scrutiny from the US government

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Octopus Energy selects AWS as cloud provider to power its global expansion plans

  UK-based energy market challenger Octopus Energy has named Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider, as it gears up for further global expansion

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Atos signs £5m supercomputing deal to support Oxford University-led AI research push

  University-led push to accelerate the pace of machine learning and artificial intelligence research in UK enters new phase with the deployment of a second supercomputer

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward

  Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Questions raised over future datacentre energy and cooling requirements

  Datacentre consultants are concerned that electricity grids will be unable to cope with future power demand and that free air cooling is unlikely to be effective if the planet warms up

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Covid-19 lockdowns drive global Q2 surge in cloud infrastructure spending

  Latest market tracker data from IT analyst house Canalys reveals the impact the coronavirus crisis is having on cloud spending habits worldwide

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Amazon reports Q2 profit and revenue surge as Covid-19-induced uptick in online sales continues

  Amazon sees profit and revenue surge in the wake of the coronavirus, but growth of its cloud business slows as IT buyers re-prioritise investments because of pandemic

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Costs incurred by 'major' datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research shows

  The Uptime Institute's latest datacentre market survey reveals major outages are costing operators more to bounce back from

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  How analogue film will be the future of digital history

  The pandemic meant GitHub had to wait until July to store a 21TB snapshot of its code repositories, on special film that can last a thousand years

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Majority of organisations at risk of cloud data exposure

  Report casts doubt on the effectiveness of the shared responsibility model of cloud security

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  IBM joins Google, Microsoft and Oracle in signing preferential cloud pricing deal with UK government

  Public sector organisations set to reap the benefits of CCS's latest preferential pricing deal, in support of its push to accelerate the adoption of cloud across central government and the NHS

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

  Backblaze offers free transfer to its S3-based cloud storage – which it claims costs a fraction of AWS et al – as long as it’s more than 50TB and you commit to at least 12 months

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Orange and Google Cloud to create data platform to bolster edge computing offerings to enterprises

  Telco giant Orange is building on its long-standing technology collaboration with Google Cloud to bolster the range of edge computing services it can offer clients

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Vector and AWS team up on ‘new energy platform’

  New Zealand-based energy supplier Vector partners AWS to develop an IoT and analytics platform to speed up processing of smart meter data and to tailor products and pricing for customers

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  NGD’s mega-colocation campus in Wales acquired by Vantage Data Centers

  US-based colocation firm continues its European expansion by snapping up Next Generation Data’s Newport campus

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  Volkswagen Group to open up AWS-powered Industrial Cloud to third-party tech firms

  Car manufacturer Volkswagen Group has unveiled the next phase of its Industrial Cloud strategy, which includes the creation of an open ecosystem of supportive software partners

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  China doubles up on ‘new infrastructure’ investments

  China is shoring up investments in cloud computing, datacentres and the internet of things, among other areas, to ready itself for the post-Covid-19 world

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Covid-19 to prompt surge in public cloud spend on DaaS, says Gartner

  Shift to remote working has prompted CIOs to up their spending on cloud-based desktop offerings, with desktop as a service on course to become the fastest-growing part of the wider public cloud market this year

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  APAC firms in early stages of digital transformation

  More than three-quarters of APAC firms struggle to revise their financial plans amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with many still lacking agile systems and processes, a new study finds

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Microsoft targets diesel backup power to reduce emissions

  As it pushes towards becoming carbon neutral, Microsoft has started to look at how it can replace backup power generators in its datacentres

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Aramex ships in Rackspace Technology to accelerate datacentre downsizing and move to AWS cloud

  Dubai-based international shipping and logistics firm Aramex is in the midst of a cloud-focused digital transformation designed to tighten up its last-mile delivery operations with the help of Rackspace Technology

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

  Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Barnardo’s hails G Suite to offer continuity of care to vulnerable children during Covid-19

  Children's charity claims earlier move to off-premise cloud collaboration and communication platform is paying dividends during its teams’ response to the coronavirus

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  BMW Group signs six-year HPC contract with eco-friendly Swedish colocation firm

  Motor manufacturer agrees to double-down on its use of EcoDataCenter's environmentally friendly colocation facilities

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  IBM's Q2 tapered by pandemic business recovery

  Country-specific coronavirus responses directly correlate to IBM customer IT investments, with some contemplating dialling back cloud subscriptions

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  University graduates to Nutanix Files hyper-converged NAS

  The University of Reading had already deployed Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure so it made sense to add Nutanix Files when its ageing NAS boxes bit the dust

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Appetite for enterprise datacentre expansions dampens in face of Covid-19, research shows

  Survey featuring responses from 3,000 European datacentre professionals suggests enterprise appetities for in-house datacentre expansions have shrunk in the face of Covid-19

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  AWS HPC tech selected to help Ineos Team UK secure first British victory in the America’s Cup

  America's Cup hopeful Ineos Team UK has selected Amazon’s cloud-based High Performance Computing (HPC) technology to help it achieve its goal of becoming the first British competitor to win the tournament in its history

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  Gartner: Remote working shifts CIO priorities

  Business recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will lead to changes in the projects IT leaders focus on

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  How SingEx is bracing itself for disruption

  Singapore’s SingEx started its digital transformation journey a few years ago and has already pivoted its approach to cope with new challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Facebook iOS SDK flaw linked to onset of Spotify app outage blighting Apple device users

  Apple device users are reporting usability issues with the Spotify app, which coincides with the onset of a partial outage affecting the Facebook iOS SDK

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Renault signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to accelerate data-led digital transformation

  French motor manufacturer Renault has enlisted Google Cloud’s help to accelerate the development of its in-house data aggregation platform, and bolster the tech skills of its engineering teams

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Oracle fleshes out Cloud@Customer with public cloud services for use in customer datacentres

  Oracle has enhanced its Cloud@Customer service with capabilities derived from its recent raft of public cloud datacentres

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Tencent Cloud teams up with ADBC on banking services

  Singapore’s Asia Digital Bank Corporation could leverage Tencent Cloud’s financial cloud platform to provide banking services to small businesses

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Oracle ups ante in cloud wars with dedicated customer regions

  Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer will let enterprises run an entire cloud region in their own datacentres in a potentially game-changing move

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Succeeding with hybrid cloud deployments

  Where IT complexity is a given, a policy-driven approach and effective monitoring are vital for success

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Hyperscale datacentre build-outs hold firm in face of Covid-19

  Latest market tracker data from Synergy Research Group shows no evidence of Covid-19 dampening demand for hyperscale datacentre capacity across the globe

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Deutsche Bank commits to multi-year Google Cloud deal to accelerate move off-premise

  In support of its multi-cloud ambitions, Deutsche Bank commits to in-house digital transformation with Google Cloud, which will also see the pair collaborate on bringing new customer-facing services to market

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Nutanix claims growth in ASEAN amid growing cloud adoption

  Nutanix’s business in ASEAN grew by over 40% as the region’s enterprises warm to hybrid and multi-cloud services

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  CIO interview: David Allison, global head of IT, First Quantum Minerals

  For his first global CIO role, the IT chief had to tackle unusual challenges such as reliable networking and IT use in inhospitable mining environments in developing countries

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  CIO Interview: Amex Global Business Travel CTO on incident response

  American Express Global Business Travel adapted an existing incident response service to support staff and clients during the lockdown

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Lenovo, top-of-the-world Chinese supercomputer supplier, sweeps all markets

  Supercomputers are not just about computing power, they are a symbol of political ambition. Chinese supercomputer supplier Lenovo is now the dominant supplier across the world

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  How Propre eases its database management woes

  Japanese supplier of global real estate data switched to Oracle’s autonomous database to reduce database management costs as it expands its global footprint

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Economic slowdown will force CIOs to redress SaaS pricing

  Business will need to work more efficiently and spend less, which means CIOs will need to forge new value-based partnerships with IT suppliers

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Genomics England taps up AWS and Lifebit to create cloud-based Covid-19 research environment

  Genomics England is looking to open up collaboration on Covid-19 genome datasets with researchers across the globe with new cloud-based research environment, which will be based on AWS and Lifebit’s technologies

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Go lean and embrace partnerships to plot a path for recovery

  Starting with the lean principle of a minimum viable product, CIOs should aim to partner with outsourcers and IT suppliers to deliver business value

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Making the case for cloud-based security

  Cloud-based security tools can hasten threat detection and response, but adoption will depend on where an enterprise is on the cloud readiness scale

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  IHS Markit commits to three-year data and infrastructure migration to AWS cloud

  Global market research firm will downsize its datacentres and shift more of its infrastructure and applications to the AWS public cloud

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  UKCloud signs MoU with CCS to provide public sector with discounted cloud pricing

  Public sector-focused IaaS firm UKCloud has become the latest supplier to sign a discounted pricing deal with the UK government

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Kia Motors partners with Google Cloud to bring motorists AI-based paperless car manuals

  South Korean car manufacturer partners Google Cloud managed service provider Megazone to bring artificial intelligence-based app to market

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HPE aims to address non-cloud apps in hybrid IT

  Some applications are simply not a good fit for the public cloud. So while organisation may go cloud-native, they still need to support on-premise IT

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Google opens Jakarta cloud region amid Indonesia’s booming digital economy

  Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai lends weight to online launch event, underscoring cloud supplier’s resolve to carve out a bigger slice of the country’s fast-growing public cloud market

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  SoftIron aims at data too valuable for commodity storage

  UK array maker hopes to be the storage provider of choice for those that really value their data, with highly optimised Ceph-powered hardware aimed at HPC users and enterprises

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Enterprise cloud adoption accelerates in face of Covid-19, says research

  A global survey of IT leaders suggests the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic has contributed to a speeding up of the pace of cloud adoption, as enterprises embrace remote working

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  EU-backed bid to build data preservation cloud for European research community gathers pace

  The Archiver project, which aims to create a hybrid cloud-based data preservation environment for scientific researchers across Europe, has named the ICT suppliers in the running to deliver on its vision

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  US buildings firm saves big on HDDs with Nasuni cloud NAS

  APi Group dumps first-generation file sharing for Nasuni, which allowed it to save ‘hundreds of thousands of dollars’ with standard hardware deployments and cutting local storage

• June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20

  SAP sharpens vertical focus with Industry Cloud

  SAP partners will be able to design, build, test and validate their industry-specific offerings with a new business process and technology platform