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• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Covid-19: TechUK urges government to tweak self-isolation policy for critical datacentre workers

  TechUK wants datacentre operators to be allowed to run their own "test and release" protocols for Covid-negative workers that have been told to self-isolate by NHS Track and Trace

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Covid-19: Lockdown lifting slows Amazon’s sales growth during Q2

  Amazon’s revenue growth rate hits a post-pandemic speed bump, as the lifting of lockdown restrictions in various countries sees fewer people shopping online

• July 29, 2021 29 Jul'21

  Olympic Broadcasting Services taps cloud for content delivery

  Live footages of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are being supplied to broadcasters through the public cloud for the first time

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Research: Cultural barriers hold enterprises back from building ‘high-performing’ DevOps teams

  The tenth annual State of DevOps report by configuration management software provider Puppet suggests many enterprises are struggling to reap the full benefits of taking an agile-like approach to software development

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Datacentre capacity demand remains strong, fuelling continued growth of secondary colo hubs in EMEA

  Latest quarterly datacentre market tracker report from DC Byte and Knight Frank shows demand for capacity across EMEA is holding firm and fuelling growth of secondary hubs

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Thomson Reuters fleshes out multicloud strategy with Oracle application migration deal

  Multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters has added Oracle to its roster of cloud suppliers, as it seeks to make part of its tax application portfolio cloud native

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  How IoT and machine learning are automating agriculture

  A new generation of farmers is tapping the internet of things and machine learning to operate self-sustaining urban farms with minimal supervision

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Fujitsu uses quantum-inspired algorithm to tackle space waste

  A UK Space Agency project is being used to showcase how a quantum-inspired algorithm can work out the best way to manage space debris

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  SAP invests €250m in UK economy

  Investment includes a new, UK-based cloud service, two new offices, and a beefing up of SAP’s apprenticeship and internship programmes

• July 19, 2021 19 Jul'21

  Kao Data claims UK first with push to ditch diesel for biofuel in datacentre backup generators

  Harlow-based colocation player claims its on course to become the first datacentre operator in the UK to ditch diesel in favour of biofuel in its backup power generators

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Financial services sector’s cloud use set for more regulatory scrutiny on resilience grounds

  Financial stability report by Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee raises red flag about banks’ growing reliance on a small number of cloud service providers

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Digital Realty retains EMEA colocation market leader status in H1 2021

  Half-yearly datacentre market tracker data from Cloudscene confirms Digital Realty remains the operator to beat in EMEA, but its nearest rival, Equinix, leads the market in several other regions

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Google Cloud ties up with AI Singapore on skills training

  Google Cloud is working with Singapore’s national AI programme to build up the country’s talent pool in machine learning and AI

• July 03, 2021 03 Jul'21

  Berlin court finds EncroChat intercept evidence cannot be used in criminal trials

  In a major setback for police hacking operations, Berlin’s regional court has decided that intercepted data from the EncroChat phone network should not be used in criminal prosecutions

• June 30, 2021 30 Jun'21

  Putting cloud repatriation into perspective

  Moving public cloud workloads back on-premise is among the decisions that organisations have to make as they straddle between public and private cloud environments

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Swisscom embarks on public cloud migration with AWS to power 5G innovation

  Switzerland-based telco Swisscom has named AWS its preferred public cloud partner to power its digital transformation plans

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  Gartner: IaaS growth boosted during pandemic

  Many organisations have had to expand their use of public cloud services during the global crisis

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  UKCloud becomes first UK tech firm to secure top-level social value accreditation

  Public sector-focused IT supplier UKCloud has had its commitment to ensuring its customers are procuring services from a socially conscious provider verified by the publication of an independent report

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  Apple seeks five-year extension to planning permission deadline for Irish datacentre site

  Tech giant Apple has requested a five-year extension to the planning permission deadline for its abandoned datacentre in Ireland, as politicians call for the mothballed site to be put to use

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  Reliance Jio teams up with Google on 5G and retail

  India’s biggest telco will use Google Cloud to manage its 5G network and grow its commerce business

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Gousto uses Sisense Fusion to broaden analytics across business

  AWS-based Sisense platform enables meal-kit company to provide more of its employees with data and create custom dashboards

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Oracle signs multi-year database modernisation deal with Deutsche Bank to support its cloud plans

  Database software giant signs a deal with Deutsche Bank to support the financial services company’s ongoing hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation plans

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Sizing up Australia’s vibrant cloud market

  Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  Salomon selects on-demand GreenLake to support flexible business

  Sportswear business Salomon turns to HPE for flexible storage and computer infrastructure to run virtualised and containerised workloads

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Oracle debuts Support Rewards programme to accelerate enterprise cloud migrations

  Software giant offers financial incentives to longstanding on-premise software customers that opt to move more of their workloads to its cloud platform

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Ireland’s datacentre industry to plant 1,000 orchards by 2022 as pro-pollinator plan gathers pace

  The Host in Ireland-backed effort to get the Irish datacentre community to throw its weight behind growing the country’s population of bees and other pollinators has entered a new phase

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Axiata doubles down on Google Cloud

  The regional telecoms group plans to use Google Cloud’s compute, storage and networking services across the six telcos under its fold

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  IBM Financial Services for Cloud initiative wins support of more than 100 collaborators

  IBM’s bid to build a sector-specific cloud platform to accelerate the adoption of off-premise technologies among financial services companies continues to gather pace

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Travelport makes AWS preferred cloud supplier to oversee its public cloud migration

  Travel retail company Travelport has turned to AWS to help bolster the performance and scalability of its flagship holiday booking platform

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Bupa goes deeper into Microsoft Azure cloud for personalised healthcare push

  International private healthcare provider is on a multi-year, cloud-led digital transformation push with the help of long-time tech collaborator Microsoft

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  Equinix secures additional funding for global hyperscale datacentre builds

  Colocation giant Equinix is embarking on a series of limited liability partnerships with long-standing investment partner GIC to ramp up the number of hyperscale datacentres in its global portfolio

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  How Ubisoft is embracing the cloud

  Game developer Ubisoft has been tapping cloud computing to overcome the constraints of game development and create gaming experiences that live on for years to come

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Covid-19: AWS research points to pandemic-induced ‘shortcomings’ in enterprise IT strategies

  Amazon Web Services research shines a light on the toll that the pandemic has taken on European enterprises and their digital transformation plans

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Alibaba Cloud sets foot in the Philippines

  Alibaba Cloud will open its first datacentre in the Philippines by the end of this year ahead of global rivals, as it expands its footprint in Southeast Asia

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  QTS acquired in $10bn datacentre deal

  Investment firm, Blackstone, is hedging its bets on the growth in data processing capacity that will be brought about by digitisation

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Oracle and Crown Commercial Service renew MoU to continue cloud use

  Oracle and the UK government’s Crown Commercial Service have renewed a memorandum of understanding for the continued use of the supplier’s cloud infrastructure and applications

• June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

  India’s public cloud spending on a roll

  Software as a service made up the lion’s share of overall public cloud spending in India last year, followed by cloud-based infrastructure and platforms as organisations look to build digital agility amid the pandemic

• June 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  Whirlpool deepens Google Cloud partnership with SAP off-premise migration plan

  Home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool is expanding beyond simply using Google Cloud’s productivity tools as its digital transformation plans continue apace

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Tencent Cloud grows APAC footprint

  Tencent Cloud has launched new tier-three datacentres in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo as it ramps up investments to capitalise on the region’s burgeoning cloud market

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Oracle debuts low-cost Arm compute instances

  Oracle is offering Arm instances powered by Ampere’s Altra processors at one cent per core hour as enterprises look to deploy more Arm-based workloads

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  SA-based MSP shuns HCI for Nebulon cloud-defined storage

  SYSDBA needed to refresh its HPE 3PAR arrays, and so looked at hyper-converged but decided on cloud-defined storage from Nebulon that marries local storage with a cloud control plane

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  HPE latest quarterly filing hints at ProLiant shift

  Installed base of ProLiant server customers on a path to consumption-based, as-a-service subscription for hardware modernisation

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Mulberry bags Google Cloud support for data-driven sales push during Covid-19

  Public cloud giant adds Mulberry to its roll-call of retail customers

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  How Kao Data used digital twin technology to build UK’s first free-cooled wholesale colo datacentre

  Harlow-based firm claims to be the first UK wholesale colocation provider to build a free-cooled facility, with the help of digital twin and computational fluid dynamics technology

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Homeware retailer vidaXL signs three-year Google Cloud deal to enable SAP systems migration

  Netherlands-based international homeware retailer vidaXL taps up Google Cloud for SAP systems migration

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Melbourne taps AI to ease traffic congestion

  University of Melbourne has teamed up with public and private sector organisations to build an AI application that can predict traffic congestion up to three hours ahead

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  NHS Education for Scotland defends 'decade-long' public cloud deal with AWS

  The training arm of NHS Scotland has come under fire from members of the public sector IT supplier community over its decision to award a 10-year cloud contract to AWS

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  GDPR-readiness of EU Cloud Code of Conduct wins backing of European data protection authorities

  The EU Cloud Code of Conduct, which aims to help IT buyers source GDPR-compliant cloud services, has found favour with the European Data Protection Board

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Record colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed power supply concerns

  The latest quarterly tracker data from real estate consultancy CBRE confirms colocation operators in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris saw another record period of growth during Q1 2021

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Google to shift cloud compute tasks between datacentres based on green power availability

  Internet giant Google debuts capability that makes it possible to shift compute workloads between datacentres based on the regional availability of renewable, carbon-free power sources

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  AWS sets out plans to expand re/Start cloud skills programme across more of the UK and Ireland

  Hot on the heels of Amazon’s pledge to create 10,000 jobs across the UK in 2021, its cloud division is planning to expand the geographical coverage of its long-standing skills builder programme

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  How M1 is striving to be a digital telco

  Singapore’s M1 is dialling up its digital chops by monetising its data, building more personalised services for subscribers, and going beyond connectivity as it evolves into a digital telco

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Amazon to create 10,000 new UK jobs in 2021 across online retail and cloud computing divisions

  Online retail giant goes public with plans to create 10,000 new jobs in UK and embark on a retraining plan for existing staff who may want to pursue employment opportunities outside the company later down the line

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  PayPal expands multi-year Google Cloud partnership as Covid-19 prompts spike in online payments

  Payment platform app provider publicly commits to moving more of its workloads to the Google Cloud Platform as consumer demand for online payment options soar

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Financial and technical obstacles hit Danish datacentre heat recycling plan

  A datacentre project in Denmark is grappling with the challenges of reusing waste heat in local central heating systems

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  VMware names Raghu Raghuram as CEO to guide company through Dell Technologies spin-off

  Several months on from the departure of ex-VMware chief Pat Gelsinger, the virtualisation giant names Raghu Raghuram as his permanent successor

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Equinix shines light on changing post-pandemic investment priorities for UK IT decision-makers

  Colocation giant Equinix’s latest Tech Trends Survey takes a look at how the IT spending priorities of IT leaders across the globe have shifted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Irish datacentre industry urged to throw its weight behind country’s greener electricity grid push

  Host in Ireland tells industry players to work with the government and other stakeholders to boost the sustainability of the country’s electricity grid for the sake of the sector’s continued growth

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  How a cloud engineer at DBS Bank charted his career

  A cloud engineering leader at DBS Bank offers a glimpse into the tasks and challenges of a cloud professional and how his team is organised to support the bank’s public and private cloud infrastructure

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  AWS, Microsoft and Google secure spots on £750m UK government Cloud Compute framework

  Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle are among the suppliers to secure a place on the four-year CCS Cloud Compute framework

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  IBM doubles down on AI and hybrid cloud

  IBM is beefing up its core technology capabilities in artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud to speed up application modernisation and improve AI adoption

• May 10, 2021 10 May'21

  Server-side licensing leads to hike in public cloud prices

  Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams is starting to impact public cloud managed service costs

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Premier League promotes football analytics with Oracle Cloud

  From season 2021-22, the Premier League will provide in-match statistics and analysis for fans, made possible by Oracle Cloud

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Dell Technologies World: Amex CEO on how Covid-19 has accelerated consumer adoption of e-commerce

  American Express CEO Stephen Squeri was among the commentators called upon during this year's Dell Technologies World keynote to discuss how the world of work and IT has changed during the pandemic

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Vodafone and Google Cloud expand big data platform collaboration with new six-year deal

  Vodafone and Google Cloud have signed a six-year deal to build on their efforts to create a big data platform that will help the telco deliver a more personalised service to businesses and consumers across the world

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  How Transport for NSW is tapping machine learning

  Transport agency in New South Wales taps machine learning to restore public confidence in the state’s transportation network amid the pandemic

• 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 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

  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 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 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 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

  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

  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 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

• 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

  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: 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