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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlights importance of sharing the wealth of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, the company CEO Satya Nadella talked up the importance of ensuring the spoils of digital transformation are spread far and wide in society

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Microsoft commits $40m to five-year push to explore 'AI for human good' use cases

  Microsoft wants to encourage non-government organisations and humanitarian groups to help it explore potential use cases for artificial intelligence during times of natural disasters

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Alibaba Cloud and Intel team up on IoT

  The Joint Edge Computing Platform lets enterprises train AI models at the edge of a network to support real-time decision-making

• September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

  Shell mines Microsoft Azure for AI to digitally transform upstream and downstream operations

  Multi-national oil and gas company Shell is embarking on an artificial intelligence-led digital transformation of its business with the help of Microsoft Azure and C3 IoT

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  EU-backed bid to cap idle energy use by datacentre servers moves closer

  Move to improve the energy efficiency of datacentres by capping idle energy use by servers by 2020 comes one step closer, despite opposition from IBM, HPE and Dell-EMC

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Leeds Beckett University asks Alexa for help cutting Clearing admin

  Dougal Scaife, head of digital experience and engagement at Leeds Beckett University, opens up about how combining chatbots with Amazon Alexa is helping update the Clearing process for the 21st century

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Lenovo cements deal with NetApp to strengthen datacentre foundation

  Lenovo wants to become more customer-centric. A tie-up with NetApp takes its datacentre strategy to the next phase. We investigate

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Gartner claims pure-play IaaS providers could be sidelined as enterprise attitudes to cloud mature

  Gartner's latest public cloud services market tracker shows demand for IaaS is booming among enterprises, but providers whose cloud proposition does not feature a PaaS component may lose out in future

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  Enterprise investments in datacentre infrastructure rebound as component shortage price hikes hit

  Enterprises are spending more on datacentre infrastructure, as demand for private and hybrid cloud environments increase, and price hikes from component shortages drive up average cost of hardware

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Public cloud use surges among DDoS attackers, research shows

  According to data accrued by DDoS mitigation firm, Link11, the number of attackers that rely on public cloud services soared during the 12 months to June 2018

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma to step down in 2019

  The executive chairman of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba is planning a year-long departure, as he prepares to hand over the company reins to CEO Daniel Zhang

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Slow cloud take-up among IT execs limits joined-up customer experience

  Cloud computing promises to declutter IT and link systems easily. Despite the benefits, adoption of the cloud for customer engagement remains low

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Amazon becomes second publicly traded company to hit $1tn market cap

  Retail giant Amazon follows Apple's lead to become second company in history to achieve a $1tn market cap, with analysts predicting that its market value could double by 2020

• August 31, 2018 31 Aug'18

  Met Police begins move to Microsoft Azure as cloud-first push gathers pace

  The Metropolitan Police has enlisted the help of G-Cloud supplier New Signature to support its cloud-first ambitions, as it pushes ahead with plans to migrate applications and its on-premise server capacity to Azure

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Cabinet Office extends private cloud deal with UKFast to safeguard emergency communications

  The Manchester-based hosting provider has seen its two-year private cloud contract with the Cabinet Office extended