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• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  Government gets updated powers to intervene on tech-related M&A deals on national security grounds

  The National Security and Investment Bill has secured royal assent, giving the government the legislative support it needs to intervene on business transactions in a variety of tech-related industries on national security grounds

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  Amazon posts profit and revenue growth as Q1 results highlight impact of Covid-19 on its business

  Online retail giant and its cloud arm have benefited from Covid-19-induced changes to consumer and enterprise buying patterns

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Public sector organisations ‘in the dark’ about where their data is, suggests UKCloud survey

  Response to a poll of public sector IT and business leaders suggests few have any idea if their data is stored in the cloud or on-premise, claims UKCloud

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Walt Disney Company confirms AWS as preferred cloud partner for Disney+ streaming service

  Company lifts the veil on the cloud tech powering the global expansion of its popular Disney+ streaming service

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  JEDI cloud contract: US court refuses to dismiss Amazon’s ‘political interference’ allegations

  The long-running JEDI cloud contract row rumbles on as US Court of Federal Claims refuses to dismiss Amazon’s allegations that the Trump administration interfered with contract’s outcome

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

  Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Google Cloud reports $1bn operating loss, but Alphabet remains committed

  Company has extended the life of its servers from three to four years, netting $625m more revenue

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Red Hat eyes edge computing workloads

  Open-source juggernaut has enriched its enterprise Linux and OpenShift offerings to support edge computing workloads better

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Scality launches Artesca container-native object storage

  Object storage specialist gets on a burgeoning container object storage market with Artesca, which runs from Kubernetes to provide persistent storage for containerised applications

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Startup targets PC gamers to build decentralised supercomputer

  US-based Salad Technologies has been tapping up PC gamers to donate their surplus capacity for cryptocurrency mining for several years now, but it is now turning its attention to diversifying its workloads

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Wipro and Google Cloud deepen partnership

  Wipro earns application development specialisation from Google Cloud following an earlier move to migrate SAP workloads to Google Cloud Platform

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Papa John’s embarks on ‘multi-phase’ move to Google Cloud

  Papa John’s International has set out plans to shutter its datacentres and revamp its customer experience to include a move towards real-time tracking data for its deliveries

• April 26, 2021 26 Apr'21

  How Toffs is seizing Asia’s CDN market

  Toffs Technologies is eyeing second- and third-tier cities in Asia as it bolsters its infrastructure and experiments with the use of home networks as content delivery networks

• April 23, 2021 23 Apr'21

  Intel quarterly results reveal tactics to address ARM in the datacentre

  The chipmaker aims to make use of standard chip libraries and offer its customers different ways to package and optimise Intel silicon

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Met Office prepares for 1.5 million processor, 60 petaflop supercomputer

  Azure, Cray supercomputers and Epyc core are the key ingredients inside weather forecasting service’s latest development to improve data

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Ireland’s datacentre industry launches pro-pollinator plan to boost bee population

  Host In Ireland leads efforts to encourage datacentre operators to help boost biodiversity at their sites by making them more hospitable to bees and other pollinators

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  How AWS is supporting Asia’s battle with Covid-19

  Public sector organisations and startups across the region have been tapping AWS cloud services to speed up and enable a range of pandemic-related initiatives

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Anti-food-waste app Karma taps up Google Cloud to power global expansion plans

  Swedish startup Karma is on a mission to help consumers and businesses across the globe fight food waste, and it has enlisted the Google Cloud Platform to help it achieve its goal

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  UK government renews cloud discount pricing MoU with Microsoft

  Three-year deal ensures eligible public sector organisations can continue to access discounted pricing on a range of the tech giant's cloud software and infrastructure offerings

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Winemaker racks Pure all-NVMe all-flash for rapid SAP response

  Concha Y Toro also pocketed a 35% saving in storage costs following a move from as-a-service storage provision to Pure Storage FlashArray//X all-flash hardware

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Microsoft to open Malaysia cloud region

  Microsoft’s new cloud region located in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area is part of a broader move to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Inside a Microsoft Azure datacentre: Cloud giant invites users on server farm virtual tour

  Software giant wants to give users a ‘tangible view’ of the inner workings of its public cloud through a newly launched virtual tour experience

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Uptime Institute: Networking issues to overtake power problems as main cause of datacentre outages

  The Uptime Institute's third annual datacentre outage analysis report suggests downturn in number of downtime incidents over the past 12 months due to the pandemic, with networking issues fast-emerging as main source of technical difficulties

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Closing the cloud skills gap could bring more women back to the global labour force, claims AWS

  Could the provision of cloud skills programmes help reverse the decline in the number of women in the global labour force?

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Online storage startup GoodCloud seeks to shake up file sync and share market for charities

  Third-sector-focused online storage startup GoodCloud has set its sights on disrupting the file sync and share market by making the technology far more accessible for charities and their volunteers

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Informatica streamlines APAC operations amid growing cloud business

  Informatica has consolidated its operations in four key Asia-Pacific markets in a move that will enable it to better meet the demand for cloud-based data management software

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC

  The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Dutch accuse UK of ‘damaging confidence’ by disclosing details of EncroChat police collaboration

  The Dutch Public Prosecution Service claims Britain has damaged confidence by disclosing details of an international investigation into the EncroChat encrypted phone network to the courts

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Google launches multimillion-dollar cloud tech push to boost Covid-19 vaccine distribution

  Tech giant Google is ploughing millions of dollars into initiatives to bolster the availability of Covid-19 vaccines and make it easier for people to access information about immunisation programmes

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  VMware CTO: The days of enterprises going ‘all-in’ on one public cloud provider ‘are dead’

  VMware-hosted panel debate about enterprise public cloud adoption trends charts the apparent demise of CIOs plotting large-scale, multi-year moves to a single supplier’s public cloud environment

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Dell spins off VMware to fuel post-pandemic PC growth opportunities

  Five years after completing the purchase of EMC and gaining a software-defined powerhouse, Dell is now offloading VMware

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Nvidia targets datacentre memory bottleneck

  The graphics processing unit (GPU) chipmaker has introduced its first datacentre chip, named after computer pioneer, Grace Hopper

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  AWS debuts next phase of $20m push to provide cloud tools to Covid-19 research teams

  With the pandemic now into its second year, public cloud giant AWS has unveiled the next phase of its bid to provide research organisations with access to the cloud resources they need to fight back against coronavirus

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Ctera KubeFiler to bring Kubernetes storage to its cloud gateways

  KubeFiler uses the container storage interface to allow Kubernetes to access persistent storage as if it were from a local NAS device, and while keeping existing access profiles

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Tencent Cloud opens Indonesia datacentre

  Tencent’s Indonesian datacentre is expected to reduce network latency for local enterprises while providing backbone access for Indonesian and global internet service providers

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  HMRC signs reworked, three-year public cloud deal with AWS worth £94m

  HMRC has ripped up and replaced its deal with AWS several months after signing it to tap into cost-savings on Amazon cloud services via the One Government Value Agreement

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  The OVHCloud fire: Assessing the after-effects on datacentre operators and cloud users

  One month on from the OVHCloud datacentre fire, it is time to assess the lasting impact the event might have on the way server farm operators run their facilities, and cloud users approach disaster recovery

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  IBM Cloud for Financial Services goes on general release

  IBM Cloud’s push to provide sector-specific public cloud services to financial services firms enters a new phase

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  Inside Microsoft’s industry cloud strategy

  Microsoft dives deeper into its industry cloud strategy and what it means for enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Digital Realty expands Singapore footprint

  Digital Realty opens its third and largest datacentre in Singapore to meet the needs of local and multinational companies that are looking to deploy critical infrastructure and scale their digital business

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  VMware to ease hybrid cloud deployments

  VMware is combining VMware Cloud Foundation and its Tanzu portfolio into a single software stack to simplify hybrid and multicloud deployment and management

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Bank BJB Syariah taps DevOps

  Indonesia’s Bank Jabar Banten Syariah is adopting DevOps and microservices to speed up delivery of applications

• April 05, 2021 05 Apr'21

  How Lenovo is tackling HCI workloads

  Lenovo has teamed up with AMD to address mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases as APAC organisations look beyond VDI in their hyperconverged infrastructure deployments

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  EncroChat hearings delayed as lawyers seek disclosure on police hacking

  Court hearings precipitated by police cracking the EncroChat secure mobile phone network have been delayed after defence lawyers request further disclosures on police decryption capabilities

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Australian firms slow to wean off the mainframe

  Australian companies tend to have a wait-and-see mindset that is slowing down mainframe modernisation initiatives, says Accenture expert

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Bitfrost subsea cable to boost APAC connectivity

  A subsea cable system linking Southeast Asia and North America will be built by 2024 to meet the growing demand for bandwidth in the Asia-Pacific region

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  Backup survey: UK councils’ downtimes five times longer than average

  Backup product supplier Veeam’s freedom of information request finds councils’ average downtime is seven hours and that backup and disaster recovery testing is not done frequently

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: How DBS is transforming credit processes

  DBS Bank’s credit architecture programme has digitised and reimagined credit processes through a unified platform that has improved the productivity and efficiency of its credit teams

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency

  Australia’s biggest loyalty platform takes 12-month journey towards the cloud, slashing time to deliver customised offers to less than 45 minutes, among other outcomes