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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres

  The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  How Singapore Airlines is flying the digital skies

  Top Asian carrier Singapore Airlines has been building a digital foundation to fend off potential disruption, but it is not just the IT team that is leading the charge

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene to be replaced by ex-Oracle president Thomas Kurian in early 2019

  Having spent three years overseeing Google Cloud's push to become a credible enterprise cloud provider, Diane Greene is leaving the firm in January 2019 to focus on her philanthropic work

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019

  Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  UK leads the way in multi-cloud deployments

  Public cloud users in the UK are happy with the service they get, but a hybrid approach may offer greater flexibility, according to a Vanson Bourne survey

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  OpenStack Foundation hails innovation benefits of open and inclusive software development

  OpenStack CIO Mark Collier predicts the next five to 10 years will see more software development conducted in open, transparent and collaborative ways, as enterprises strive to speed up digital transformation efforts

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  OpenStack Foundation will tackle infrastructure barriers to enterprise AI adoption

  OpenStack supporting community will help enterprises to overcome infrastructure barriers to adopting artificial intelligence technologies in 2019 as demand for GPU and FPGA-based set-ups grows

• November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

  OpenStack restates commitment to core cloud platform as 'open infrastructure' push gathers pace

  OpenStack Foundation executive chairman Jonathan Bryce used the opening keynote of its user summit to flesh out its open infrastructure proposition, while reinforcing its commitment to creating open source clouds

• November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy confirms Oracle data warehouse switch-off at Amazon

  Months after Oracle CTO Larry Ellison cited Amazon's use of its database tech as proof of its superiority, AWS CEO confirms its parent company is now migrating off it

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Nationwide Building Society banks on AWS and DevOps for customer-led digital revamp

  Nationwide Building Society is in the throes of a cloud and DevOps-focused effort to re-platform its digital banking and mortgage services, its director of mobile and digital, James Smith, tells Computer Weekly

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Australia needs better cloud and data management capabilities

  Usage of cloud services is soaring in Australia, but the lack of cloud management skills is holding back enterprises from reaping the full benefits of the technology

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Google AI Hub aims to accelerate artificial intelligence project development in enterprises

  Google debuts AI Hub to help enterprises get their artificial intelligence projects off the ground faster, as its bid to make the technology accessible to everyone gathers pace

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  AWS cloud network architecture could put users at heightened risk of disruption, study claims

  A comparison study of AWS, Google and Microsoft's network architectures reveals stark differences in how they process user traffic, ThousandEyes report shows

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital has capacity to spare after HSCN upgrade

  University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is unleashing the potential of digital for health after fixing up its internet connectivity with an upgrade to the new Health and Social Care Network

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Uber backs hybrid cloud as route to business and geographical expansion

  Ride-hailing app Uber is rapidly expanding its business interests, which requires an IT infrastructure that can scale just as quickly as its ambitions, according to the company’s head of compute, Dean Nelson