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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Alibaba Cloud looks to drive its technology ecosystem with startup innovation contest

  Alibaba Cloud is hosting its next Create@Alibaba contest as it looks for innovative products from startups

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Southeast Asia playbook

  Alibaba Cloud is working closely with local customers in joint innovation projects, and has started to launch new services for Chinese and international customers simultaneously to narrow the service gap

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  Government launches G-Cloud 10

  The 10th iteration of G-Cloud is now live, with more than 3,500 suppliers awarded a place on the procurement framework

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  New deals bolster IBM’s European cloud business

  IBM has signed up a number of new customers for its European cloud, focusing on the platform and software services in the IBM public cloud

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Google courts Hollywood creative community with Los Angeles cloud datacentre region

  Google is making a concerted effort to win over the media and entertainment industry with its cloud offerings by pairing the opening of a new datacentre region with services tailored towards Hollywood creatives

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  UK tech startup wants businesses to share their surplus compute capacity to run its cloud

  UK-based startup DADI is taking on the hyperscale giants in a bid to “democratise” the cloud and create an internet that is majority owned by the public

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

  Microsoft is introducing two new datacentre regions in Norway and is targeting the oil and gas industry with its Azure services

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Barclays banks on DevOps to support 'all-in' move to AWS public cloud

  Barclays Bank reveals details of its plans to go all-in on the AWS public cloud through adopting the principles of DevOps

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

  A shortage of power availability in Amsterdam might make businesses look elsewhere in the Netherlands to site datacentres

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  UKCloud invests £25m in building secure cloud platform for top secret government data

  Public sector-focused cloud provider has launched a standalone division, dubbed UKCloudX, to oversee its efforts to aid in the fight against cybe rcrime through the roll-out of its cloud platform

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over past relationship with fellow employee

  Intel confirms interim successor for Krzanich, who played a pivotal role in the company’s multi-year efforts to offset the declining demand for PC chips by courting the datacentre community

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Visa reveals 'rare' datacentre switch fault as root cause of June 2018 outage

  Visa has offered a retrospective analysis of what went wrong in its datacentre during its UK-wide outage on Friday 1 June, in response to a request from the Treasury Select Committee for more detail about the downtime

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Public cloud giants' use of ODM datacentre kit continues to soar, Synergy Research shows

  Latest quarterly tracker by Synergy Research highlights just how the ODM community now dominates the public cloud giant's datacentre investments

• June 15, 2018 15 Jun'18

  Datacentre industry must stop doing itself down on sustainability, says EUDCA board member

  In a panel debate at the Datacloud Europe Congress in Monaco, the datacentre industry was urged to start celebrating and stop chastising itself over its sustainability practices

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Datacentre DIY: Can the hyperscale cloud giants afford to ditch their colocation partners?

  With the hyperscale cloud giants showing a growing willingness to build and own their own datacentres, where does this leave the colocation community? Panellists at Datacloud Europe 2018 give their verdict