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June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20
Macquarie eyes government contracts with new Canberra datacentre

New Macquarie datacentre in the Australian capital designed to achieve Tier 4 datacentre standards will deliver 1.5MW of capacity by December 2020
June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20
How the RHS overcame Covid-19 to create first online-only Chelsea Flower Show in just eight weeks

The technology and digital teams at The Royal Horticultural Society discuss the work that went on behind the scenes to transform the Chelsea Flower Show into a virtual event with just weeks to plan
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
Global colocation demand holds firm in Q1 in face of Covid-19

First-quarter global market data from Synergy Research Group shows demand for colocation capacity from hyperscalers and edge compute providers is holding up, despite the pandemic
June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20
Alibaba Cloud follows up datacentre investment pledge with global tech talent recruitment drive

Chinese public cloud giant Alibaba to hit the recruitment trail in hot pursuit of tech talent to support its datacentre revamp plans

June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20
IBM Cloud users demand further clarity over cause of global outage

Multi-hour cloud outage leaves IBM users calling on Big Blue for further information on what caused it
June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20
Google partners with WWF Sweden to dig even deeper into fashion industry's sustainability habits

Google is doubling down on its efforts to support the fashion industry in cleaning up the environmental friendliness of its supply chains through its partnership with WWF Sweden
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
Poorly-secured AWS buckets used to launch Magecart attacks

Cyber criminals are exploiting misconfigured AWS S3 buckets to run credit card fraud and malvertising campaigns, according to new data
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
Kao Data courts hyperscale tenants for Harlow-based mega-datacentre

Kao Data rolls out ‘built-to-suit’ service for prospective hyperscale clients, that it claims will speed up the time it takes to bring online new datacentre capacity in a cost-effective way
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
Australia’s AGL to move most systems to Azure cloud

Energy supplier is moving more than 200 applications and most systems to Azure in a three-year deal with Microsoft

June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20
OVHcloud brings healthcare-focused private cloud offering to UK market

French infrastructure-as-a-service provider OVHcloud is making its sector-specific portfolio of private cloud and bare metal services available to UK-based healthcare providers
June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20
Interxion cuts energy cooling costs by 20% in West London datacentre through EkkoSense deployment

Digital Realty-owned Interxion said deployment’s success will pave the way for similar roll-outs of EkkoSense technology in other facilities within its portfolio across Europe
June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20
Google Cloud eyes public sector push after signing MoU with UK government procurement chiefs

Google Cloud follows in the footsteps of Microsoft and Oracle by signing MoU with the UK government, which should pave the way for broader adoption of its technology by public sector
June 03, 2020 03 Jun'20
How Australia’s Shockbyte scales with cloud

Australian game server provider Shockbyte uses bare metal servers on the cloud to meet the needs of demanding gaming applications and to grow its global footprint
June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20
VMware vulnerability leaves private clouds open to takeover

Ethical hackers from Citadelo uncovered a vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director that left private cloud owners open to takeover
June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20
How to succeed at site reliability engineering

Adoption of site reliability engineering is growing in Asia-Pacific, but organisations need to have the right organisational structure and culture to succeed
June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20
Inside India: The world’s IT powerhouse

The Covid-19 pandemic is turning out to be a big fork in the road for many companies. But what about the industry that keeps the lights on for them?
May 27, 2020 27 May'20
Enterprise clouds hammered by cyber attacks during pandemic

Remote workers logging onto enterprise cloud service accounts are an easy access point for attackers, says McAfee
May 26, 2020 26 May'20
MoD cuts through competition barriers to sign direct private cloud deal with Microsoft

The Ministry of Defence has justified its decision to directly award Microsoft a 23-month private cloud deal by stating the firm is the only one able to meet its precise technical and data protection needs
May 19, 2020 19 May'20
TRC Companies pairs cloud-first push with Druva-infused data backup revamp

US-based engineering consultancy TRC Companies scooped the prize for Best Cloud Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards with its story of how a long-overdue revamp of its data backup systems ties in with its hybrid cloud push
May 18, 2020 18 May'20
Swedish mining firm LKAB revamps data backup setup to support downtime avoidance goals

State-owned Swedish mining company LKAB scooped the prize for Best Data Security and Data Protection Project at the Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards. Here we run through what the project involved
May 13, 2020 13 May'20
Coronavirus: APAC organisations find scalability with cloud

Australia’s NSW Health and Indonesia’s HaloDoc are among a growing crop of Asia-Pacific organisations that are relying on cloud scalability to extend digital services to more users and customers
May 12, 2020 12 May'20
Australia’s Kmart gears up for mainframe migration

Retailer is lifting and shifting some old Cobol code to AWS while rebuilding others into microservices in its mainframe migration move
May 11, 2020 11 May'20
AWS vs Microsoft: US JEDI contract dispute develops into war of words between tech giants

Amazon and Microsoft are embroiled in a ‘battle of the blogs’ over the former’s continued efforts to get its claims that it lost out on a major US cloud contract due to ‘significant political interference’ fully investigated
May 11, 2020 11 May'20
Micro Focus sees growth in mainframe migration business

Lifting and shifting Cobol code from mainframes to public cloud has been a growth driver for Micro Focus in the Asia-Pacific region, even as the software supplier continues to diversify its business
May 07, 2020 07 May'20
Amazon and Microsoft dominate European cloud infrastructure market, shows Synergy Research

Such is the hold that Amazon and Microsoft have on the cloud infrastructure market across Europe, other smaller players will struggle to get a look in, claims IT analyst house Synergy Research Group
May 06, 2020 06 May'20
Sustainability credentials of underground datacentre in Norway lure green investment fund

Norway’s Lefdal Mining Datacenter has designs on becoming Europe's largest server farm, and its green credentials have secured further investment to help it reach its goal
May 04, 2020 04 May'20
Xen Orchestra latest victim of Salt cryptojackers

More victims of cyber criminals exploiting two critical Salt vulnerabilities are coming forward
May 04, 2020 04 May'20
Blogging platform Ghost hacked through Salt vulnerability

Publishing service’s network was taken over by illicit cryptominers after failing to patch a critical vulnerability
May 04, 2020 04 May'20
Digital Realty doubles down on sustainability with pledge to cut carbon emissions by 2030

Colocation giant Digital Realty is embarking on a 10-year, business-wide carbon emissions reduction quest, led by climate science
May 01, 2020 01 May'20
University of Oxford embarks on cloud-fuelled AI research push with AWS

University collaborates with Amazon Web Services to accelerate the pace of technology innovation in a range of artificial intelligence-related fields with the help of cloud
May 01, 2020 01 May'20
Amazon commits to reinvesting $4bn of projected second-quarter profit into coronavirus response

Online retail giant Amazon sees revenue surge, but profits drop during first quarter of 2020 following surge in reinvestment to ready its business for Covid-19-induced uptick in consumer demand for online orders
April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20
Coronavirus: UKCloud and VMware join forces to meet public sector demand for remote desktops

Public sector-focused IaaS provider UKCloud forges closer ties with VMware to meet the public sector demand for “government-grade” remote desktop technology
April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20
Critical SaltStack vulnerability affects thousands of datacentres

Critical vulnerabilities in the Salt remote task and configuration framework enable hackers to take control of cloud servers and must be patched right away
April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20
UK government secures Microsoft Azure discounts for public sector

Procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service have secured an addendum to a long-standing Microsoft preferential pricing deal that now includes Azure public cloud services
April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20
Zoom chooses Oracle IaaS as core cloud infrastructure provider

Zoom has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to deliver its online video meetings service as usage has spiked due to the Covid-19 coronavirus public health crisis
April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20
Google chief suggests post-coronavirus cloud boost

Google’s GCP platform has seen increased demand during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, and the company’s CEO believes economic recovery may lead to fewer on-premise datacentres
April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20
Australian researchers tap cloud to save the Tasmanian devil

Researchers at the University of Sydney are using Amazon Web Services to speed up genomics research in one of Australia’s wildlife conservation programmes
April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20
AWS expands beyond edge connectivity in Italy with datacentre region opening

Amazon Web Services says opening a datacentre region in Covid-19-hit Italy indicates its commitment to delivering cloud services to communities that need them most
April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20
IBM celebrates quantum cloud fourth anniversary with coding challenge

IBM has set four tasks for programmers to try out on its cloud-based quantum computer, in a bid to widen quantum coding skills
April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20
APAC edge computing market set to grow

China and Japan will account for the lion’s share of Asia-Pacific’s edge computing market as more organisations in the region look to streamline processes and improve productivity
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Datacentre M&A closed deal values exceed last year’s total just three months into 2020

Latest market tracker data shows rebound in datacentre M&A deal values as enterprises look to outsource more of their IT and move to the cloud
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Remote workers air long-term productivity concerns over home-working tech

Research from managed service provider Atlas Cloud highlights concerns from remote workers that their work-from-home tech kit might not be up to the job in the long term
April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20
Google creates datacentre task scheduler to limit non-urgent work to peak renewable energy periods

Google lifts lid on how it is using forecast data to ensure non-urgent compute workloads within its datacentres are carried out at peak supply times for renewable energy
April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20
How DBS is reaping the dividends of digital transformation

At DBS Bank, the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the value of technology and the investments it made over the past decade to modernise its technology stack
April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20
IBM results reveal hybrid emphasis and virtual garages

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is leading to businesses rethinking their strategy, with IBM leaning on virtual teams to support hybrid computing projects
April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20
UK challenger stockbroker Freetrade backs Google Cloud to make investing more inclusive

The CTO and co-founders of UK challenger stockbroking app provider, Freetrade, discuss how Google Cloud has helped them diversify their service offering as user numbers have increased
April 17, 2020 17 Apr'20
AWS slams lack of White House cooperation in JEDI cloud contract investigation

The Department of Defense claims the Inspector General's report into the controversial JEDI cloud contract should nullify a number of allegations pertaining to the deal, but Amazon Web Services seems to disagree
April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Round-up of free cloud infrastructure services to support enterprises through Covid-19

Amazon, Google, Alibaba and OVHcloud are among public cloud providers offering enterprises, researchers and healthcare free access to services to support them through the coronavirus pandemic
April 07, 2020 07 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Microsoft Azure suffers datacentre capacity shortages in Europe

Microsoft is working to “expedite” additional datacentre capacity after reports of users struggling to access resources due to coronavirus demand surge. But how easy will that be amid a global pandemic?
April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20
Coronavirus: Google Cloud CEO on how its tech is supporting the fight against Covid-19

From public sector organisations to retailers, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reveals details of how the firm's tech is helping enterprises in multiple verticals shore up their infrastructure and get on the front foot in the fight against coronavirus
April 01, 2020 01 Apr'20
GDS champions cross-functionality approach to cloud adoption in public sector guidance

Extensive research into cloud adoption trends in the public sector by Government Digital Service (GDS) results in guidance detailing how IT leaders can make the most of their off-premise investments
March 27, 2020 27 Mar'20
Huawei to boost Kunpeng ecosystem in cloud play

Chinese tech giant will shell out $200m this year to build an ecosystem around its Arm-based processor to bolster its position in the cloud computing market
March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20
AWS hits out at narrow scope of DoD’s planned re-evaluation of JEDI cloud contract

Details of Amazon’s response to the US Department of Defense’s planned re-evaluation of the controversial 10-year, $10bn JEDI cloud contract have emerged
March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20
DCMS creates datacentre-focused resiliency team to keep UK online during coronavirus outbreak

Tech trade body TechUK reveals further details of the work going on behind the scenes at government level to ensure datacentre operators have access to the resources they need to cope with the surge in businesses and consumers accessing online ...
March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20
Global spend on enterprise datacentre kit and private clouds down 1% in 2019

Market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals continued decline in spending on private datacentres, while investments in kit destined for use in public cloud facilities continues to soar
March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20
Hyperscale cloud firms ‘well-insulated from coronavirus crisis’, claims Synergy Research

With businesses and consumers increasingly turning to online and cloud-based services to access work and leisure resources, Synergy Research predicts the hyperscale datacentre operators should be well-positioned to “ride out” the coronavirus crisis
March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20
Coronavirus prompts cross-industry collaboration from datacentre operators to keep UK online

TechUK positioning document reveals datacentre operators are putting their competitive differences aside to share best practice on how to keep staff safe and keep the UK online during the coronavirus outbreak
March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20
Coronavirus: The cloud and datacentre management challenges facing CIOs as remote working soars

Ensuring their IT infrastructure is equipped to cope with the sudden surge in employees accessing on-premise and cloud applications from remote locations in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak is a challenge facing many CIOs right now
March 19, 2020 19 Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: ANZ firms to spend more on cyber security

Over half of respondents in Australia and New Zealand plan to invest more in cyber security, especially in key areas such as data loss prevention
March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20
Covid-19: Uptime Institute advises operators to suspend non-essential datacentre projects

Datacentre resiliency think-tank issues 18-page guidance to help operators protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic while keeping their facilities ticking over
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
Amazon to recruit 100,000 extra workers to cope with coronavirus-induced online shopping surge

Online retailer plans to focus its recruitment drive on providing jobs to hospitality and service industry workers who are out of work as coronavirus prompts city-wide shutdowns across the US
March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20
US Department of Defense requests time to re-evaluate section of AWS and Microsoft JEDI bids

The Department of Defense is to request a resubmission of information from Microsoft and Amazon Web Services about their JEDI bids, as the long-running US cloud procurement saga drags on
March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: Datacentres remain mainstay of enterprise IT, despite continued cloud creep

The 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget confirms enterprise datacentres remain the deployment site of choice for many workloads, but stepping up the use of cloud is a top investment plan for firms this year
March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20
Virtus confirms Q2 go-live date for next two datacentres, as expansion plans gather pace

Virtus Data Centres is making good on its datacentre expansion plans, which have been previously billed as among the biggest construction projects ever embarked upon by a colocation provider
March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20
APAC remains hotbed for digital transformation

Nearly half of organisations in the Asia-Pacific region see digital transformation as their top priority, followed by cloud infrastructure deployment and artificial intelligence, survey finds
March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: Digitisation drives IT modernisation growth

IT decision-makers realise that old applications restrict agility. As organisations digitise processes, application modernisation is key
March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20
VAT software supplier exposed data of millions

Eight million sales records belonging to UK and EU consumers left exposed due to misconfigured server
March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20
Lloyds Banking Group signs five-year Google Cloud deal

The retail bank has a multi-cloud strategy as part of its multi-billion digital transformation initiative
March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20
University of Hertfordshire and Goonhilly hail deep learning-led UK mapping data breakthrough

Tech tie-up paves the way for creation of UK mapping data that is free from cloud cover for the first time
March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20
Inside Oracle’s cloud strategy

Oracle may be late to the cloud infrastructure and platform game, but it believes it has what it takes to carve out a bigger slice of the Asia-Pacific’s cloud market
March 08, 2020 08 Mar'20
Google to open new cloud regions in India and Australia

New cloud regions in Delhi and Melbourne underscore Google’s resolve to carve out a bigger slice of Asia-Pacific’s cloud computing market
March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments
March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20
Australian government pulls plug on cloud certification programme

The Australian Signals Directorate is closing its cloud services certification programme to allow for more home-grown suppliers
February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20
Greenpeace urges AWS, Google and Microsoft to cut cloud ties with oil and gas customers

Environmental group wants three of the public cloud market’s biggest players to stop selling their technology to oil and gas companies – but will they?
February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20
Hidden cost of cloud puts brakes on migration projects

Lack of skills and complexities in rebuilding software for the cloud are among the main factors inhibiting cloud success
February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20
CBRE: Record colocation take-up will fuel growth of secondary European datacentre hubs

Latest quarterly colocation market tracker data shows take-up of colocation capacity across major European hubs continues to hit record levels, leading to overflow demand in other places too
February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20
IT Priorities 2020: ASEAN firms on the frontline of digital transformation

Southeast Asian companies plan to spend more on infrastructure and cyber security, but the growth in IT budgets appears to be slowing down
February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20
Cloud Snooper firewall bypass may be work of nation state

Cloud Snooper deploys a combination of specialised techniques to sneak past enterprise firewalls, warns Sophos
February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20
How tech suppliers are easing barriers to hybrid cloud adoption

The tech industry has risen to the challenge of helping enterprises ease their transition to hybrid cloud, but issues remain
February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20
Sports retailer Decathlon left employee data exposed

More than 123 million records were accidentally exposed on an unsecured ElasticSearch server
February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20
The Security Interviews: Gil Shwed’s 10-year vision for security

Check Point founder Gil Shwed discusses his new Infinity Next concept and how he plans to remodel the world of cyber security in the next 10 years
February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20
Cloud data leaks compounded by lack of automation tools

Data leaks caused by misconfigured clouds are being compounded because security teams lack appropriate automation and integration tools, according to a report
February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20
McAfee buys Light Point to enhance web browser protection

Acquisition of Light Point Security will extend the capabilities of multiple McAfee products
February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20
Cisco goes all-in on security integration with SecureX platform

CISOs are struggling to stitch together disparate cyber security products and services – Cisco believes its cloud-native SecureX platform will change their working lives for the better
February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20
Etsy confirms completion of two-year migration to Google Cloud

Etsy claims move from on-premise to public cloud has boosted its business agility, and is helping it achieve its sustainability goals too
February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20
Macquarie Cloud Services sets up Azure practice

Macquarie Telecom’s cloud division will deliver Azure managed services to new and existing customers, complementing its existing cloud, hosting, datacentre and telco businesses
February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20
Amazon employee activists dismiss Jeff Bezos’ $10bn pledge to combat climate change

Outspoken environmental activists working at Amazon dismiss CEO’s $10bn climate change pledge by pointing out firm’s ties to oil and gas market
February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20
AWS secures temporary halt to Microsoft’s work on $10bn US JEDI cloud contract

Restraining order prevents Microsoft doing any “substantial” work on the JEDI cloud contract as Amazon’s legal action against the US government gathers pace
February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20
Tencent Cloud gains multi-tier cloud security certification

China's Tencent Cloud joins major cloud suppliers in securing tier three of Singapore’s Multi-Tier Cloud Security standard in a bid to grow its presence in Asia
February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20
OVHcloud eyes Indian market in APAC expansion

French cloud infrastructure supplier OVHcloud is investing more in India over the next few quarters as part of its regional expansion plan
February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20
Google Cloud confirmed to be a $10bn revenue run rate business

Google parent Alphabet has separated out the contribution its cloud arm makes to its overall business for the first time in its fourth-quarter financial results
February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20
Record-breaking rise in global cloud infrastructure spend between Q3 and Q4

Synergy Research Group’s fourth-quarter look at the cloud infrastructure market reveals a huge jump in sequential spend since the third quarter
February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20
Brexit messes up IT project plans

With no firm plans for a managed departure from the Europe Union, the UK’s IT spending is set to be curbed, and CIOs will need to start cutting costs as IT budgets decline
January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20
Promotions for architects of IBM’s $34bn Red Hat deal

Former CEO of Red Hat and IBM’s cloud chief are now heading up Big Blue as it moves forward to a multicloud, hybrid computing future
January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20
AWS downplays risk of competitors threatening its public cloud dominance during Q4 results

Amazon Web Services posts fourth-quarter revenue of $9.95bn for the three months to 31 December 2019 as speculation persists about the rising threat from Microsoft
January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20
UKCloud moots multi-cloud as a way to speed up public sector cloud adoption

Contributors to UKCloud's public sector-focused State of Cloud Adoption report flag barriers to using off-premise technologies, but could adopting a multi-cloud strategy assist with overcoming them?
January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20
Microsoft contractor hit by health and safety violation claims at Israel datacentre building site

Microsoft declines to comment on a local media report that the site of its Israel datacentre campus has been subject to stoppage notices after two accidents there in two days
January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20
Inside DXC Technology’s APAC playbook

DXC Technology’s CTO for Asia-Pacific talks up efforts to support the region’s enterprises that are in varying stages of digital transformation
January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20
Oracle customers complain of cloud coercion

In December, Oracle won its day in court – but a poll reveals a sales tactic based on audit threats combined with heavy cloud discounts