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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• August 16, 2024 16 Aug'24

  Vacancy rates in major European datacentre hubs hit all-time low, CBRE data finds

  CBRE’s latest quarterly market figures suggest the major European datacentre hubs could be reaching a crisis point, as demand for new capacity outstrips supply

• August 15, 2024 15 Aug'24

  Dublin confirmed as world’s third-largest hyperscale datacentre hub

  Data from Synergy Research Group confirms the majority of the world’s 20 biggest hyperscale datacentre hubs are in the US, but Europe is holding its own with Dublin

• August 14, 2024 14 Aug'24

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals deploys patient records and data sharing on Azure

  In-house patient records system has been migrated to the Microsoft public cloud, opening up the potential for greater data sharing

• August 13, 2024 13 Aug'24

  Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads

  Exascale is multitenant architecture for Oracle Database that promises performance equal to dedicated infrastructure and savings compared with existing products, with AI workloads in mind

• August 09, 2024 09 Aug'24

  The Security Interviews: Google’s take on confidential computing

  We speak to Google’s Nelly Porter about the company’s approach to keeping data as safe as possible on Google Cloud

• August 02, 2024 02 Aug'24

  AWS profits and revenue rise as public cloud giant plots AI infrastructure investments

  Amazon’s public cloud arm reports its second-quarter results, and states that the second half of this year will see an uptick in infrastructure investments to support the growing demand for AI

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  Natural History Museum partners with AWS to restore and protect urban nature

  The Natural History Museum said it expects to collect and analyse 20 terabytes of species data in year one with help from AWS

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  Norway’s datacentre builders focus on energy efficiency

  Datacentre developers in Norway are shifting their focus to energy efficiency, with expected increases in taxation for those who fall short

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS

  Accenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  CMA cloud licensing: Microsoft accuses Google and AWS of ‘muddying’ anti-trust debate

  Microsoft's response to the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into its cloud licensing practices sees it hit out at cloud rivals for claiming its tactics are anti-competitive

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  AI surge spurs shift from cloud to local data control

  The rise of AI is driving organisations to move data control locally to prevent external use of their data while maintaining cloud compatibility, says Cloudian CEO

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Digital Catapult confirms participants for AI-focused startup accelerator for the creative industry

  Digital Catapult is offering each participant in its latest accelerator programme access to £50,000 in funding so they can use their AI prowess to revamp how the creative industry and economy works

• July 23, 2024 23 Jul'24

  Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023

  Huawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads

• July 22, 2024 22 Jul'24

  CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’

  The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous

• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  Derby City Council eyes £12.25m annual savings with AI and chatbot deployments

  East Midlands-based council has identified 261 tasks where officials believe AI can make improvements and efficiencies to the way it works

• July 19, 2024 19 Jul'24

  Cloud sustainability: Amazon employees question firm’s renewable energy claims

  The contents of Amazon’s annual sustainability report has come in for criticism from both past and present employees of the company, as well as independent IT sustainability experts

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Police Digital Service CEO Ian Bell resigns as company director following news of staff arrests

  Two weeks after news emerged that two employees of the Police Digital Service had been arrested on suspicion of bribery, fraud and misconduct, Companies House confirms PDS CEO Ian Bell has resigned as company director

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  AWS, Microsoft and Google urge datacentre kit suppliers to improve Scope 3 data collection

  AWS, Microsoft and Google put their names to an open letter, calling on third-party datacentre construction and equipment providers to do a better job with helping calculate Scope 3 emissions of cloud platforms

• July 11, 2024 11 Jul'24

  Microsoft and CISPE’s settlement in long-running cloud antitrust dispute proves controversial

  Microsoft and trade body CISPE have reportedly reached a $22m settlement in their long-running antitrust dispute, but cloud market stakeholders are not happy with the outcome

• July 10, 2024 10 Jul'24

  Datacentre market supports Labour government’s review of blocked server farm builds

  New government has wasted no time in lowering planning permission barriers to new datacentre builds, with its disclosure that two previously denied projects are being placed under review

• July 09, 2024 09 Jul'24

  Microsoft and Google’s GHG emissions gains call viability of net-zero targets into question

  Microsoft and Google cite expansion of their datacentres due to demand for AI services for their greenhouse gas emissions increasing. What does this mean for their 2030 carbon reduction commitments?

• July 03, 2024 03 Jul'24

  Police Digital Service employees arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct

  The Police Digital Service has confirmed an internal review of its processes will be undertaken in the wake of staff arrests

• June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

  How FWD is driving its digital strategy

  FWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Halo Trust partners with AWS to accelerate AI-led landmine clearance in Ukraine

  Landmine clearance organisation Halo Trust is drawing on AWS’s AI expertise to see if the technology can accelerate the pace of its work in Ukraine

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  Gulf Edge to operate Google Distributed Cloud in Thailand

  The Gulf Energy subsidiary will offer Google’s sovereign cloud service in Thailand with a focus on air-gapped configurations

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  European Commission declares Microsoft’s bundling of Teams with M365 anti-competitive

  The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that selling Microsoft Teams bundled in with its Office 365 suite is anti-competitive

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  UK government’s M365 use under scrutiny after Microsoft’s ‘no guarantee of sovereignty’ disclosure

  Microsoft’s hold on government IT is under scrutiny, following a disclosure to a Scottish policing body that saw the software giant advise that it cannot guarantee data sovereignty in its cloud-based Microsoft 365 suite

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Macquarie Cloud debuts Australia-first hybrid offering

  Macquarie Flex brings Azure services to a broader set of workloads that are not suited to run natively on public cloud

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Digging into the Labour Party’s election manifesto datacentre planning reform pledge

  The Labour Party is promising to reform the planning rules that govern whether new datacentre builds can proceed or not, but stakeholders warn the sector’s growth must not come at the expense of the environment

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  CMA working paper outlines concerns about Microsoft’s competitive hold on UK cloud market

  Microsoft has dismissed the idea its cloud licensing practices are affecting its two biggest competitors, but stakeholders claim the CMA's latest working paper could signify a day of reckoning over its pricing strategy

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Nuclear waste body cuts energy use by 20% as Pure replaces HPE

  French nuclear waste agency Andra has cut storage energy use by 20% and strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by deploying Pure Storage and 10-year controller upgrades

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Driving customer experience through cloud and AI

  Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers

  Australian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery

• June 03, 2024 03 Jun'24

  Dell launches PowerStore Prime and hints at PowerScale AI boost

  Array range launched at Dell World 2024 in Las Vegas as PowerScale gets OS upgrade and new Intel Xeon CPUs, while Dell CEO hints at acceleration for PowerScale NAS

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  CMA slammed for excluding public sector from UK cloud market antitrust user research

  The Competition and Markets Authority is under fire for instructing the firm overseeing the user research part of its antitrust probe into the UK cloud infrastructure services market not to include public sector buyers

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  FWD teams up with AWS on cloud

  The pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services

• May 26, 2024 26 May'24

  Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

  Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

• May 23, 2024 23 May'24

  CMA: AWS and Microsoft deny cloud discounts have anti-competitive effect on market

  The CMA finds that IT buyers do not see the anti-competitive impact that discounts can have on the UK cloud market, despite acknowledging that preferential pricing can dictate their choice of cloud provider

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  G-Cloud 14: Overseas suppliers risk non-compliance as CCS changes stance on UK VAT requirements

  After assuring overseas suppliers multiple times during the G-Cloud clarification period that they did not need a UK VAT number to participate in the framework, government procurement chiefs have now backtracked on this guidance by telling non-UK ...

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum

  The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to step down in June 2024

  After three years heading up the world’s biggest public cloud company, Adam Selipsky is stepping down to be replaced by long-time Amazon staffer Matt Garman

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  CMA to double spend with AWS while overseeing anti-trust probe into cloud giant

  The CMA has reignited concerns about how its use of AWS could constitute a conflict of interest, given the public cloud giant is the subject of an anti-trust probe by the watchdog

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

  SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  Executive interview: AWS’s GenAI innovation opportunity

  We speak to the head of the GenAI Innovation Center for Amazon Web Services about AI, tech innovation and IT challenges

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

  Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Microsoft hit by fresh round of cloud-focused anti-competitive behaviour complaints

  A Spanish trade association has filed a complaint with the country's competition watchdog over accusations Microsoft’s ‘anti-competitive’ behaviour is harmful to startups

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit

  Cubbit’s distributed object storage turns on-site capacity into a sovereign and secure cloud. CloudReso.com uses it to supply its customers and save on fees from big cloud providers

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  AWS to invest S$12bn in Singapore cloud infrastructure

  The latest investment from AWS will bring the hyperscaler’s total planned investment in its Singapore cloud region to over S$23bn by 2028

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  Google Cloud accelerates asteroid discovery for US-based non-profit

  Google Cloud opens up about the work it is doing with a US-based planetary science non-profit to help map the solar system

• May 01, 2024 01 May'24

  AWS results see public cloud giant tap into surging GenAI demand

  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims AWS has turned a corner where its customers’ worries about cloud cost optimisation are concerned