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October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19
Singapore startup plugs AI skills gap with pre-trained microservices

Sentient.io is offering artificial intelligence microservices that developers can use to augment their applications with speech recognition and other AI capabilities
October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19
NordVPN enlists ethical hackers, launches bug bounty programme

Breached consumer VPN supplier details steps it is taking to shore up its cyber security posture after an unknown actor gained access to one of its servers
October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19
Why Singapore’s GovTech is building an IoT technology stack

Government Technology Agency has built an internet of things technology stack to level the playing field for smaller firms and drive innovation in public sector IoT projects
October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19
AWS 'surprised' over losing out on $10bn US JEDI cloud deal to Microsoft

Microsoft has emerged as the victor in the long-running battle with AWS over who would secure a decade-long cloud contract with the US Department of Defense worth $10bn

October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19
Defra sustainable ICT paper highlights datacentre water crisis

A new paper on sustainable ICT published by Defra in conjunction with the IT industry has identified the areas of e-waste that need urgent attention
October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19
How the DWP lifted two decades of outsourcing to adopt a cloud-first model

For the past four-and-a-half years, the Department for Work and Pensions has been evolving into a cloud-first organisation. We find out how it has been getting on
October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19
Cloud leaders invest in datacentres as public clouds expand

Microsoft and Amazon have posted strong results for Q3 2019. Both are investing heavily in cloud infrastructure to support cloud services
October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19
British Gas powers customer experience with third-party Salesforce app

Its parent company, Centrica, uses Salesforce to support Hive – now British Gas is using a third-party Salesforce app to improve customer experience
October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19
How Singtel and Dell are approaching digital transformation

Singtel employees are learning to create their own robotic process automation-powered bots while Dell has speeded up application development from months to weeks
October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19
Total saves £95,000 a year with Nutanix hyper-converged

Gas and electricity supplier struggled with ageing traditional infrastructure, but moved to hyper-converged for projects that include containers and DevOps deployments

October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19
Porsche selects HPE for five-year software-defined datacentre strategy

The IT business inside Porsche is deploying HPE servers and infrastructure on-demand as part of a hybrid environment
October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19
NordVPN blames datacentre provider for server breach

VPN provider insists no user data was compromised in a March 2018 server breach, and says its datacentre provider failed to inform it of the issue
October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19
Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre

The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built?
October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19
Trend Micro buys cloud security firm to broaden offering

Acquisition of Cloud Conformity will address often overlooked cloud security fundamentals
October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19
SAP cloud revenue boosted by Microsoft deal

New contract with Microsoft will see Azure become the preferred hosting platform for ECC to SAP S/4 Hana cloud migrations
October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19
Australia government moots cloud marketplace

The Digital Transformation Agency is planning a cloud marketplace for Australian government agencies to acquire a broader range of cloud services through a new procurement model
October 20, 2019 20 Oct'19
The lure of Google Cloud for Singapore’s Ninja Van

Regional logistics startup Ninja Van is consolidating all its compute resources on Google Cloud for cost savings and performance
October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19
Southeast Asian organisations warm to Anthos

Google Cloud sees pockets of interest in Anthos and could review its pricing strategy as adoption of the multi-cloud management platform grows
October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19
Government IT hosting providers fail to provide emissions data

Cloud computing is driving the government’s IT and sustainable tech strategy, but cloud and hosting providers are unable to divulge emissions data
October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19
OVH rebrand signals renewed push to become Europe’s alternative cloud provider of choice

French public cloud provider OVH has undergone a rebrand and doubled down on its pledge to offer European enterprises an alternative place to store their data
October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19
AI Singapore to set up on-premise HPC infrastructure

Singapore’s national AI programme is getting its own high-performance computing infrastructure to support more compute intensive workloads
October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19
Best of VMworld 2019 Europe Awards nominations now open until 25 October

Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination for this year’s awards
October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19
PDPC issues cross-border data transfer guidelines for cloud services

Singapore’s data protection watchdog issues advisory guidelines to help businesses and cloud suppliers stay on the right side of the law under the country’s data protection regime
October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19
How AWS is cracking the public sector cloud market

The public sector cloud business takes time and resources to build, but the rewards can be meaningful, as the founder of Amazon Web Service’s public sector division has found
October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19
How Goldman Sachs migrated to cloud native software development

Investment bank Goldman Sachs has selected GitLab as the platform to manage its software development life cycle, supporting 9,000 engineers
October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19
Inside Singapore Airlines’ cloud and DevOps journey

A team of engineers at Singapore’s flagship carrier shed light on how they are overcoming challenges in embracing cloud computing and DevOps
October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19
All change: How big data could shake up cloud strategies and fuel demand for edge environments

As enterprise data volumes continue to grow and grow, for cost and performance reasons, enterprises might find an all-in approach to public cloud may not be the way forward, according to several NetEvents panellists
October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19
Nadella sees Azure as the world’s computer

The Microsoft CEO wants organisations to consider Azure as a distributed cloud for next-generation AI applications
October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19
CIO interview: Matt Harris, head of IT, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

The IT chief at the world-leading Formula 1 team is focused on using technology to support and deliver marginal gains in performance for the team’s drivers
October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19
How APAC enterprises can keep pace with container security

For all the promises of containers, changes in architecture and practices associated with the technology bring new challenges and opportunities
October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19
Hype vs reality: Is the tech industry on the cusp of another ‘AI winter’?

Artificial intelligence is a hot topic for enterprise users, but will the technology fail to live up to the hype this time around, ponder panellists at the NetEvents Global IT Summit in San Jose
October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19
Interview: BHF on using cloud and big data to improve heart patient outcomes

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has set itself the lofty goal of eradicating the fear of developing heart and circulatory disease by 2030, with the help of cloud, big data and personalisation technologies
October 04, 2019 04 Oct'19
Red Hat: We’re a neutral broker

Red Hat remains agnostic in supporting organisations that are looking to run the same container orchestration platform in a hybrid and multicloud world
October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19
Southern Water embarks on £15m datacentre modernisation programme

Southern Water has enlisted the help of service provider MTI Technology to revamp its datacentres, with a greater emphasis on the use of software-defined processes and hyper-converged technologies
October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19
IR35 reforms will prompt Barclays to re-engage contractors on PAYE terms, 'leaked email' suggests

Barclays is understood to have notified line managers via email on 30 September 2019 of its plans to phase out use of limited company contractors, ahead of the IR35 private sector reforms coming into force in April 2020
September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19
Australia gets ready for open banking

Traditional banks and fintech firms alike will need to bite the bullet in the crucial startup period if Australia’s open banking regime is to succeed
September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19
German police seize darkweb servers from datacentre housed in ex-NATO bunker

Following a lengthy investigation, law enforcers in Germany have raided a datacentre in an ex-NATO bunker that is alleged to have been hosting illicit websites on the dark web
September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19
Chancellor Sajid Javid set to make £5bn investment commitment to improve UK broadband coverage

The Chancellor Sajid Javid is expected to take to the stage at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester later today, to set out the group’s “infrastructure revolution” plans, which include ramping up broadband coverage across the UK
September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19
HPE refurbishes legacy IT assets to make money for users

HPE Financial Services is giving old IT assets a new lease of life at its tech renewal site in Erskine, near Glasgow, as part of a promotion of the circular economy
September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19
How drones and machine learning can prevent crocodile attacks

Cloud-powered drones equipped with machine learning algorithms will soon be able to detect crocodiles lurking in the waters of Queensland, Australia
September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19
UK government reaffirms commitment to using Oracle tech with cloud MoU

Government procurement chiefs in the Crown Commercial Service sign new agreement with database giant aimed at making it easier and cheaper for public sector organisations to use its cloud
September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19
Can Oracle substantiate its cloud bluster?

Larry Ellison talks aggressively about having more datacentres than AWS and how Oracle’s cloud sales are growing – but it may have to provide legal proof
September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19
European enterprises 'waste' £24,000 a day on unused cloud services, says Insight research

The latest Insight Intelligent Technology Index report highlights the economic impacts of wasted cloud resources within European enterprises
September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19
Atom Bank CTO on ditching its datacentres and moving to the Google Cloud Platform

Atom Bank CTO Rana Bhattacharya describes what is behind the mobile-only challenger bank’s large-scale, cloud-focused reboot of its infrastructure setup
September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19
Enterprises exposed to data loss by cloud configuration errors

Only 1% of misconfigured cloud environments are spotted and attackers are capitalising on this, claims McAfee
September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19
Australia’s RMIT teams up with AWS on cloud skills training

Two new online courses will equip IT and business professionals with the skills to thrive in a cloud-first world
September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19
Amsterdam new-build datacentre ban is not an ‘attack’ on operators, says government

Dutch Data Center Association says a government official has offered written assurances that the temporary ban on new server farms in two areas of Amsterdam is just designed to spur adoption of sustainable growth habits
September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19
AWS G4 aims to lower cost of GPU-powered AI inference

Amazon Web Services seeks to cut the cost of running artificial intelligence inference engines with the introduction of a Nvida V100 GPU-based instance
September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19
Walt Disney Studios signs five-year cloud-focused deal with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft added to the host of “innovation partners” that Walt Disney Studios relies upon to ensure its creative teams have access to the latest and greatest technologies
September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19
The perfect storm for silicon photonics

By packaging optics with silicon chips, silicon photonics will enable datacentres to keep up with the exponential growth in demand for bandwidth