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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  John Lewis Partnership taps Google Cloud for AI expertise to bolster customer experience

  The John Lewis Partnership is building on its earlier forays into the Google Cloud by tapping into its artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise to deliver on its omnichannel business ambitions

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Businesses still struggling to reap benefits of cloud, study shows

  Research by global IT firm Unisys shines a light on reasons why some firms are still struggling to reap the benefits of using cloud

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  APAC has one of highest variations in cloud performance

  The network performance of public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region has greater variability than elsewhere, new study finds

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

  Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Businesses move key applications off public cloud to save costs

  A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Docker restructure sees enterprise platform business sold to open source cloud firm Mirantis

  Docker, the company credited with popularising the notion of container technologies, sells off its enterprise arm as part of a wider business restructure

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Shared responsibility model key to solving 5G security problem

  Both buyers and sellers need to cooperate to solve the thorny issues around 5G security

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  IBM drums up quantum computing future

  IBM’s head honcho, Ginni Rometty, welcomes Australia’s Woodside Energy to the quantum computing fold through a partnership to harness the technology to shore up cyber security and plant operations

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  A buyer’s guide to hybrid cloud management tools

  As more Asia-Pacific enterprises gear up for the hybrid cloud, a slew of tools has emerged to help organisations manage the lifecycle of cloud applications in a heterogeneous IT environment

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  OpenStack to get standardisation boost in China

  New standards are being developed by the OpenStack Foundation and a standards body to improve the interoperability of OpenStack distributions in China

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Chinese companies fuelling OpenStack adoption in APAC

  Led by Chinese tech giants such as Tencent and China Mobile, the Asia-Pacific region will account for a third of the global OpenStack market by 2023

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Government review of cloud-first policy concludes guidance should remain unchanged

  A review into the continued relevance of the UK government’s six-year-old cloud-first policy has concluded its ‘brand recognition’ is too strong for it to be scrapped, according to GDS

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  JEDI mind tricks: Did White House interference affect the outcome of $10bn US gov cloud contract?

  Microsoft's triumph over Amazon Web Services (AWS) in securing a $10bn cloud contract with the US Department of Defense has led to questions being asked about whether White House pressure changed the course of the procurement

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones steps down amid sexual misconduct allegations

  CEO of Manchester-based cloud computing firm denies allegations of misconduct, and is taking a leave of absence while the claims are investigated